SECURITY

• Signature-based Anti-Virus: Proofpoint provides multi-layered antivirus protection in the cloud with sophisticated antivirus engines that are highly accurate, effective, and fast. It blocks all known viruses, while heuristic scanning discovers and protects against emerging threats.
• Spam Filtering: Powered by the patented MLX machine-learning technology, Proofpoint spam and phishing technology efficiently analyzes hundreds of attributes in every email. This advanced scanning accurately filters emails by examining envelope headers and structure, content, email sender reputation, images and more, to prevent spam emails, malware, other malicious email and attachment-based spam from reaching inboxes. Each user has access to a consolidated user quarantine digest email with per-email options to “release”, “release and approve” to whitelist sender, or “block” to block sender going forward.
• Zero-hour Outbreak Protection: Instantly protects users against new, never-before-seen email threats as soon as they arise, so customers know that their inbox is always secure. This fully automated solution defends against new outbreaks before most Antivirus vendors can issue updates.
• Content Filtering: Intelligent email content filtering service enables organizations to use a flexible rules engine to enforce email communication policies. The content filter scans the header, subject, and body, and detect a large variety of attachments, including Microsoft Office, PDFs, compressed file types, executable files (.exe), and all major media types.
• Outbound Filtering: Ensures all email sent through the Essentials platform is free from viruses, malware and other malicious content. Message trace functionality lets the sender know whether the message has been delivered, bounced, delayed, or rejected. Organizations can also add a disclaimer to all outbound mail.
• URL Defense: Leveraging the advanced power of Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection, URL Defense stops and blocks malicious URLs using predictive analysis, advanced malware detection, and real-time dynamic analysis.
• Attachment Defense: This helps small to mid-sized enterprises detect malicious attachments by leveraging the power of Targeted Attack Protection, the industry’s most effective defense against advanced threats. Intelligence gathered by dynamic malware analysis is used to identify and block malicious attachments that are designed to evade traditional security solutions.
• Email Data Loss Protection (DLP): Email DLP helps organizations to protect confidential and proprietary information and comply with regulations. DLP dictionaries and smart identifiers provide automatically updateable policies for lowest administrative cost and highest accuracy, while custom policies can be easily created and deployed.
• Email Encryption: This helps organizations to reduce the potential negative impacts of data loss by automatically encrypting email. End users can trigger encryption by using a pre-defined tag in the email subject line or by installing an Outlook plug-in that provides access to a “send securely” button. Internal users, including the original sender and internal recipients, can compose, read and respond to all encrypted emails in their inbox. External users use Secure Mail (a web-based interface) to read and respond to encrypted emails they’ve received.
• Social Media Account Protection: Providing advanced protection for social media accounts, this feature automates the content and security moderation process and controls the applications that can access and publish content across an organization’s social media networks.

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