Proofpoint Email Protection Primary Use Case
Proofpoint is used as an email security gateway for big enterprises, primarily for their on-premises servers. Many customers also use it alongside Office 365.
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Erman Sen
Manager, IT Director at Cakmak Avukatlik Ortakligi
Email security is the primary use case for which our clients mainly used Proofpoint Email Protection.
We have used it for email security.
View full review »We use it for user queries. For example, if a user flags that they're not receiving emails from a particular sender, we investigate where it got blocked in Proofpoint, if it was delivered successfully, or if it was quarantined.
We also onboard new domains, adding SPF and DKIM records to the DNS records so that all incoming mail is processed by Proofpoint before reaching the internal network.
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Proofpoint Email Protection
June 2025

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I am an administrator. I manage it as an admin for each and every inbound and outbound email.
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I use Proofpoint Email Protection to filter and scan doubtful emails. The solution screens emails, quarantines suspicious ones, and only sends through legitimate emails.
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The product serves as my company's enterprise email security platform. Everything related to the emails in my company comes through Proofpoint Email Protection.
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Security Presales Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use the solution to stop email attacks, such as credential phishing, impersonation, and some forms of spear phishing. It also helps prevent attacks that bypass email authentication protocols like SPF and DMARC.
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Enayat-Galsulkar
Senior Information Security Consultant at Dimah Capital
The solution is used for email protection. It protects us from malicious attacks. It has sandboxing, archiving, email retrieval, and quarantine features.
View full review »I use the product for email protection and staff awareness training.
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Virgilio Vensamoye
Network Manager at ALACHUA COUNTY ITS
Our main use case for the solution is email protection. It filters incoming emails, particularly those from spammy origins. While it's not perfect, it effectively filters out about 99.5% of all spam, making it a great product for us.
View full review »I use Proofpoint Email Protection as an email protection system.
We use most of Proofpoint Email Protection's features including email phishing protection, TAP (Targeted Attack Protection), TRAP (Threat Response Auto-Pull), URL rewrites, and sandboxing. It is currently used in a hybrid environment and we have just deployed a patch for the latest version.
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Senior Information Security Analyst at a healthcare company with 1-10 employees
Our organization is large and has multiple entities that use the solution.
Our department includes two senior information security analysts and two network analysts. We use the solution and as our main security filter for 90% of emails. Emails come into the domain, hit the gateway firsthand, and the solution filters for spam, phishing, malware, and virus attachments.
The TAP service integrates with the PPS API connection and analyzes every bit of email that goes through the system. Troublesome domains are blocked automatically without needing to be analyzed. If a specific email address is not blocked, the email gets released. TAP still analyzes the email, identifies whether it is a threat, and details its attributes such as the IP address, subject and content, and URL name.
All metadata for a threat email is sent from TAP to TRAP which goes back to the user's mailbox and automatically pulls the email so that it disappears. TRAP also identifies if the email has been distributed, even to 10,000 users, and attempts to pull back all instances. TRAP can pull internal emails but not external emails because it does not have access to external systems.
View full review »It serves as an added layer above your email gateway.
View full review »The product looks at the emails that we receive. If there are any suspicious emails with attachments or strange content, it will detect that and give us an alert on a dashboard. From there, we can pick up the alert, and then we can review and take action to mitigate any risk.
View full review »I have been using Proofpoint Email Protection for the emails that we receive to determine if there is any suspicious attachment or content. It will detect and give us an alert on our dashboard. From there we can pick up the alerts and review and take action to mitigate the risk.
View full review »I am using Proofpoint Email Protection for blocking out spam and malware from the emails. Proofpoint Email Protection is linked to our Microsoft Office365
View full review »We use the solution to filter out spam from our end users, block malicious attacks, and add banners to the emails if they're from suspicious senders.
If there's a suspicious link, we'll have a URL to open it in a browser.
The primary use case of Proofpoint Email Protection is to ensure email security for both incoming and outgoing emails.
View full review »We use Proofpoint Email Protection mostly for email filtering, spam, and phishing.
View full review »The solution protects our mailboxes from phishing and scanning.
View full review »The solution is primarily used for email protection. However, it is not as good as EDR. It is good at handling privacy.
View full review »I use the solution to protect email. It's primarily used for security purposes.
View full review »Proofpoint Email Protection is used as an email security platform to detect all kinds of malware, viruses, and unethical acts being done through email solicitations.
View full review »Proofpoint Email Protection is used to protect your entire email.
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Sheikh Rehan
Data Security Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Our primary use case is the encryption tooling of email security. Emails sent externally are automatically encrypted as is all the information included. There are some DLP related options available in Proofpoint, which we enabled with the help of classifying the emails, like internal, external, private, public, sharing. That's our main use. We are customers of Proofpoint.
View full review »We use it for our email flow. We use it for our daily operations. For example, it helps in dropping spam and phishing emails.
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Chawapat Kongdumrongkiat
Product Consultant at M.Tech
Most customers interested in Proofpoint Email Protection have problems with spam, or their email security solution cannot detect phishing or spam, so they want to replace it with Proofpoint Email Protection.
View full review »Proofpoint Email Protection is used for email security.
View full review »Our primary use case of Proofpoint Email Protection is focused around data loss prevention (DLP). To protect against spam, viruses, incoming and outgoing mail.
View full review »My primary use case for this solution is for email security.
View full review »I am the CIO, I have consultants.
We use Proofpoint Email Protection to filter out malicious emails.
View full review »We use it as a corporate or as an exchange email filter to protect, to stop any executables from coming through email, and to halt phishing scams. Basically, the product is for email security. We use it for our network.
Also, if a user thinks that they didn't get an email, we can access the Proofpoint dashboard and go find missing mail that either people didn't get so we can rerelease it to them. Or if it did get quarantined, we can release and approve a sender.
You can blacklist and whitelist sender lists. If you are getting phishing scams that get through the filter, you can end up shutting those down. You can actually block the entire domain so that domain can never email you ever again.
If there is an external email outside of your network or your company, you can whitelist them if it's an unknown sender, so you don't ever have to worry about missing their emails.
View full review »We use this solution as a firewall for our email environment; it's basically a reputation-based service. It denies the connection from known bad sites. That's the biggest protection they have when you go to the antivirus and anti-spam modules. They even have an encryption piece in it.
Our primary use case for Proofpoint Email Protection is for email security, to secure all the inbound and outbound emails.
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Luis Brown
Chief Information Security Officer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use it in front of Office 365 for anti-phishing, anti-malware, and threat protection.
View full review »We primarily use the solution to block malicious email and spam in bulk.
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Chawapat Kongdumrongkiat
Product Consultant at M.Tech
Many customers in Thailand have issues with phishing. Most email security systems can detect spam and viruses, but not many can detect phishing as well as Proofpoint Email Protection does. Therefore, the main use case is to prevent phishing.
View full review »Our company uses the solution for a customer's email security.
Three years ago, the solution opened offices in Saudia Arabia. Previously, you could only deal with distributors.
We were introduced to the solution and conducted proof of value and concept for one customer. We implemented one year ago and the customer is happy with the solution.
Our customer has 5,000 users across a big company with many branches.
We primarily use the solution for a variety of services. It's mostly related to email.
View full review »We are service providers who recommend products for our customers. Our customer's license expired and we suggested Proofpoint Email Protection.
Our customers are enterprise companies.
View full review »Proofpoint is number one in terms of market share worldwide. We recommend it to clients because of its rich features. It offers a lot of choices. We primarily use the solution because of its rich features in email protection. It also provides protection for the cloud. It provides backup targeted attack protection features as well.
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Ken Wottge
Information Security Officer at UC San Diego Health System
We use Proofpoint for advanced email protection from a number of threats, including phishing and account spoofing.
View full review »We primarily use the solution for email protection.
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LeticiaLezama
General contador at Dicofra
We use Proofpoint Email Protection for machine learning and artificial intelligence engine.
View full review »We are system integrators and this is a product that we implement for our customers.
View full review »When we define keywords, the solution evaluates the keywords, generates reports, and gathers the information
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Proofpoint Email Protection
June 2025

Learn what your peers think about Proofpoint Email Protection. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: June 2025.
861,170 professionals have used our research since 2012.