I have been working with Proofpoint Email Protection for the last five years.

Proofpoint Email Protection has an email protection module that ensures email hygiene from a user and recipient filtering point of view. It blocks senders and receivers while safeguarding digital assets through attachment scanning and ensuring there is no malware or URL rewrites. Proofpoint provides URL defense and attachment defense capabilities and ensures the organization's brand identity is protected through SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records.

The information protection module ensures content is safeguarded by filtering sensitive information or flagging it as spam or moving it to the quarantine folder. These modules effectively filter and work as anti-spam agents and can filter up to 99% of spam and phishing attacks.

I also worked on TRAP, which stands for Threat Response Auto-Pull. This is an efficient way to deal with threats on a reactive and proactive basis. If any email with spam or phishing content enters a mailbox, TRAP will automatically access those mailboxes and delete that content across the organization. TRAP performs very efficiently and can work as forensics to identify which computer the threat started from and provide all relevant cyber details.

Overall, these modules safeguard the infrastructure effectively as anti-spam and anti-phishing agents with malware protection, URL and attachment defense capabilities, and they filter many file types. From an authentication and anti-spoofing point of view with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, Proofpoint provides business email compromise protection that effectively safeguards executive emails and eliminates imposter attacks. The sophisticated dashboard helps analyze which users or recipients are targeted most, protects against vendor fraud, and uses machine learning detection. Based on user behavior patterns, the system automatically identifies and can block or filter certain content.

From an information protection or data loss prevention point of view, Proofpoint detects sensitive information including PAN cards, HIPAA-related data, PCI information, financial data, credit card information, and fraud-related content. Based on AI and ML algorithms, it automatically flags these as spam. Marketing emails are also marked, and external emails can be labeled with cautions to end users.

Proofpoint provides encryption capabilities including TLS enforcement and Proofpoint Secure Email for attachment sharing. For large organizations, Proofpoint Secure Mail is a very secure way to transmit content or files. Policy-based rules and encryptions can be defined as well.

From an integration point of view, Proofpoint integrates with all Microsoft online solutions, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, and Entra ID. It also integrates with on-premises Exchange and can perform scanning on all on-premises mailboxes. Additional API capabilities are available, and Proofpoint Journaling and SIEM integration support exporting logs for analysis.

Logging and reporting capabilities provide audit trails showing who performed which action and end user navigation features. End users can release spam, mark emails as spam, or report suspicious emails or attachments. Incident investigation features help identify why emails are not being delivered or provide message tracking for blocked or quarantined messages. If spam mail is delivered as a false positive, tracking logs help fine-tune the system to understand why it was delivered when it should have been blocked.

For a large enterprise organization, we were receiving approximately 100 spam and mail flow issues per month. After implementing Proofpoint Email Protection, this reduced to 60 plus issues, representing a 40% reduction. Proofpoint blocked unnecessary content, marketing spam emails, campaign emails, fraud-related emails, and attachments with suspicious links before they generated issues. Proofpoint validates sender and sender domains for all authentication protocols and properly validates user mail flow related issues from internal to external communications.

The dashboard helped us identify the most attacked users and enroll them for education sessions so they would not click suspicious links or cause additional issues or incidents within the organization. Proofpoint automatically resolved some issues by default through blocking and quarantining emails. The statistics helped us proactively safeguard and reduce the number of issues being reported.

We leverage the PCSC portal or support portal to log in and raise incidents, or we can directly engage through email. We engage with the Proofpoint TAM or account manager based on the support model (Gold, Bronze, Diamond) for 24/5 or 24/7 support depending on priority. Generally, we refer to the knowledge base and support portal to raise support tickets and inform the TAM for any critical incidents to engage with. Proofpoint provides good support with well-maintained ETAs and approachable representatives.

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I am managing the entire Proofpoint Email Protection Email Security applications for one of the largest healthcare industries. The organization uses this tool to protect their entire infrastructure based on email security. Proofpoint Email Protection is one of the leading tools for email security protection, utilizing advanced AI-driven and machine learning technology to review all emails.

Proofpoint Email Protection performs very deep investigation on all incoming emails. It scans through multiple Proofpoint cloud applications such as TAP, TRAP, Email Fraud Defense, a customer support portal, and Proofpoint Security Awareness tool, supporting six to seven applications total. All these applications are cooperated and cloud-native, working together to determine whether an email is actually malicious or not. It is very easy to perform sandboxing of the incoming email, conduct investigations, and run checks on multiple sender intelligence and email firewall rules to easily identify incoming emails. Based on the decision, emails can be allowed, sent, or quarantined at the gateway level.

Proofpoint Email Protection can easily integrate with Office 365 cloud application and should be easy to integrate with Exchange on-prem as well, with both working simultaneously. User sync is easy, SSO configuration is straightforward, and managing all incoming domains on the Proofpoint cluster is simple. Most organizations are moving forward with Proofpoint Email Protection because of these capabilities as it is one solution for many problems.

We generally use this service directly from the vendor. We discuss the requirement and enterprise level design, considering how large, small, or medium the organization is. Based on that assessment, any customer decides whether to go ahead with licensing all features or limited functionality. For big or broader organizations, Proofpoint Email Protection is really helpful because they can utilize all applications for protecting emails. However, for low-size or mid-level organizations, it can be challenging in terms of cost, management, and resource utilization, which could be a problem for low-level enterprises.

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We are currently planning to purchase Proofpoint Email Protection further for TRAP and endpoint security, as we already have TAP implemented.

In my company, I primarily use Proofpoint Email Protection for advanced protection against today's threats. This includes email filtering for malicious content, email encryption, threat protection, and filtering out spam and phishing emails. Additionally, I conduct security simulations for employees and sometimes conduct IT security training.

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I pretty much summarize and cover everything about my main use case or how I use Proofpoint Email Protection.

If I look at the statistics of our daily inbound email, I can gladly say that one of the best features Proofpoint Email Protection offers is that approximately 60 to 65% of the emails that are being targeted to my organization are being blocked. All of the spam, the junk, the bulk, the low reputation, the unwanted emails, and those that have bad intention with viruses are all stopped at the gate. I think this is one of the best use cases that I can call out with Proofpoint Email Protection. The subsequent best use case would be Clear and TRAP, which helps to reduce the time we spend on investigating every email that gets reported from the end user. Lastly, TAP ATO gives us a bit of peace of mind to monitor logins and tell us when there is a suspicious login that we should be aware of.

Before, what would happen in the past is every single email that gets reported, we would have to reply and triage those emails individually. I would look at the email and then have to reply to the reporter and tell them whether this is good or bad, and why. The entire process was manual. With TRAP and Clear working hand in hand together, I have automated analysis. If there is a manual review required, we have pre-configured workflows on Proofpoint Email Protection. All we have to do is trigger the workflow based on what we feel the classification of the reported email is. The percentage is still not up to par. We were expecting more automated classification or automated dispositions from Proofpoint Email Protection. Nevertheless, the good thing is we are not triaging every single email individually and not typing out the reply individually as well. That is a good feature to call out, but I would expect a little more enhancement from Proofpoint Email Protection in the future.

We have seen a reduction in phishing incidents with Proofpoint Email Protection, but not fully. It is not 100%. There are still cracks within the walls of Proofpoint Email Protection that let this type of email in for various reasons. Either the content is sitting behind a password protected page or document. We do see a reduction. I unfortunately cannot put a statistic to it yet, but there is reduction, and this could even be a little better.

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I initially brought Proofpoint Email Protection in to stop spam back in the early days when it was mostly just an annoying thing. As the threat landscape expanded to include malware and phishing campaigns, I rode along with their expanded services for those. It covers basically anything email protection related that is used by bad actors as initial access brokers. They have also expanded their services to include URL protection and sandboxing of attachments.

They have expanded their areas in the back end like threat response, pulling emails out that are bad, and giving our security operations centers more insights into what is going on in the email. They have expanded from their initial footprint of email into a broader space for cybersecurity.

Currently, I have Proofpoint Email Protection deployed primarily in the cloud with POD, Proofpoint on Demand. Most organizations where I have been working have it in their POD on Demand, which is a cloud service. They also have other services related to that which are in various places such as AWS. They do not hide the fact that these are cloud and SaaS services, but that is where most of this work is done.

In my organization, the approximate number of users using Proofpoint Email Protection includes 300,000 users from one major organization I retired from, and now I am working with another organization that has about 4,000 users.

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I use Proofpoint Email Protection as a standard solution that offers email protection primarily to block phishing and check for malware that might be contained within emails or other suspicious content, which is clarified and categorized. Suspicious content inside the emails does not necessarily have to be attachments but can include links that have been fired in a sandbox. There has been protection in the background about spoofing and some spoofed domains. Mostly, we have not directly used the authentication because it is a recent addition. We are using a different vendor now, but we have been preparing for DMARC, DKIM, SPF, and such cases. No AI analysis has been implemented; primarily, we are handling the email protection itself.

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I last used Proofpoint Email Protection in February of 2025. I have been working in my current field with Proofpoint Email Protection for approximately two to three years. I use Proofpoint Email Protection as an email protection service. In my previous company, we used several other email protection services including Viper email security, Mimecast email security, and Zix protection. However, based on my opinion and feedback, I really love Proofpoint Email Protection. Proofpoint Email Protection is intuitive for administrative people and is easier to handle than other services. It is stronger than other services and is easier to configure and apply settings for anti-spam, anti-spoofing, and other tools that the service offers. In my opinion, it was an awesome tool and my favorite to use with the multiple customers that I had in the past.

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I have been using Proofpoint Email Protection for over three years. When I joined the company, they were in the process of switching their appliances from Sophos, which was coming to end of life. Our team evaluated different vendors for email security and selected Proofpoint.

Proofpoint Email Protection has many use cases. It filters all inbound and outbound email. Anything deemed malicious, phishing-related, spam-related, or containing viruses is automatically detected and blocked so it does not get delivered to users' inboxes. The same applies to outbound email—Proofpoint ensures that users in our organization are not sending anything malicious, confidential data, or spam-related content.

Another use case is our secure messages feature. When someone from our environment needs to send important documents for a customer to sign, we have our own portal where they can send those documents securely with full encryption. This works both ways, enabling secure back-and-forth communication. The main use cases are email filtering and our secure message appliance.

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My main use case for Proofpoint Email Protection is to detect phishing emails or suspicious spam emails incoming to our organization. I will do this with the help of the event names or SPF, DKIM, or DMARC protocols.

When we receive a phishing email, there are two things to check. When I try to ingest the logs from the email gateway, Proofpoint, to Splunk or any SIEM tool that we are using, most of the phishing-related events will be categorized under TI mail data, which is Threat Intel Mail Data. That is the specific event name that I will be looking for. There are some other fields such as spam score and phish score. The higher the spam and phish score, the greater the phishing activity or spam activity may be happening in a user's email inbox. Based on these conditions or fields, I usually try to adjust the use case to detect phishing and spam.

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Proofpoint Email Protection

Proofpoint Email Protection provides advanced email security by protecting organizations against phishing, spoofing, malware, ransomware, and other email-based threats.

All incoming emails are first analyzed by Proofpoint's threat detection engine before reaching the user's mailbox. It inspects email content, attachments, embedded URLs, sender reputation, and suspicious behavior patterns to identify and block malicious messages.

The solution helps reduce the risk of cyberattacks, improves email security posture, and ensures that users receive only legitimate and safe emails in their inboxes

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My usual use cases for Proofpoint Email Protection involve my day-to-day email protection and DLP. Proofpoint Email Protection has DLP built-in, and we use the encryption side. Additionally, Proofpoint Email Protection has a large file send feature, which we use as well.

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We monitor false positive and false negative cases, and we work on disclaimer, external tagging, TRAP Recall, and TRAP Dashboards.

The best features in Proofpoint Email Protection that I prefer are TRAP Recall, mainly for handling TRAP-related issues.

Email protection and spam detection, along with allow lists, block lists, and whitelisting legitimate domains, are additional features we utilize.

We handle both on-premises and cloud deployments.

We work with SOC analysts on internal infrastructure that depends upon people-centered threats such as phishing, malware, and credential theft. We use behavior-based intelligence to stop malicious content from reaching users. Proofpoint Email Protection reduces noise and improves high-fidelity alerts, prioritizing threat response quickly through integration with SOAR and SIEM tools. This provides better visibility and automated response, allowing analysts to focus on manual email threats.

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I work for a company that provides email services to our client, so we act as a mediator. We mostly deal with threat emails that are flagged up. The architecture is layered, so we also use Microsoft Defender and Azure Sentinel. Whenever any malicious email is delivered to our client's email box, an alert is triggered and comes to our Proofpoint console. We perform all analysis based on the alert triggered and then provide the root cause analysis on that.

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In our environment, we are using Proofpoint Email Protection for inbound email protection as a primary gateway, while Microsoft 365 serves as the secondary gateway. In the primary gateway, it scans both inbound and outbound emails. We are using multiple products in Proofpoint, including email protection, DLP, TRAP, TAP, email fraud defense, and many others in our environment.

I am working in the cloud for Proofpoint Email Protection.

We are using AWS as our cloud provider for Proofpoint Email Protection.

We purchased Proofpoint Email Protection directly from the Proofpoint vendor, not through the AWS Marketplace.

We used Microsoft 365 by default before adopting Proofpoint Email Protection.

We are utilizing messaging and security for protection across cloud apps and file sharing services in Proofpoint Email Protection, as well as using Proofpoint DLP.

Overall, using Proofpoint Email Protection has positively impacted our security posture. We are using multiple products in Proofpoint, including DLP and email protection, and the real-time experience has us very satisfied.

For end users, Proofpoint Email Protection provides the option to submit suspicious emails, and they receive a proper investigation report from Proofpoint. If any known emails get quarantined, the user will receive a notification allowing them to release it automatically without needing admin assistance. These two features enable end users to learn about phishing, malware, and what to look for in suspicious emails, supported by numerous training materials available.

The initial setup of Proofpoint Email Protection is straightforward. Compared to other tools, configuring it is easy. I find Proofpoint Email Protection to be very simple and user-friendly, with many learning portals for admins. I recommend Proofpoint Email Protection as a tool due to its ease of use.

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As a customer of Proofpoint Email Protection, my company uses it. Many of the use cases for Proofpoint Email Protection involve thwarting a lot of email threats, such as phishing, smishing, and many other variants. Proofpoint Email Protection is very email-based, and recently we started doing a lot of custom blocks on it where we implement some YARA rules or other custom patterns to block suspicious payloads from getting into our environment, so our use case is heavily on the email side.

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Proofpoint Email Protection serves as an email firewall and email filtering tool to handle both inbound and outbound traffic. For inbound messages, I check SPF, DKIM, DMARC and some file types, along with spam filtering, throttling, black scattering, and other security measures. When sending out emails, I apply minimal restrictions beyond file size limitations.

In a specific example of how I used Proofpoint Email Protection in my day-to-day work, there was one use case where it identified a significant threat. The sender was attempting to send a connection request to Proofpoint Email Protection SMTP server, but the connection was going idle, and emails were being delayed, sometimes never being delivered. After identifying the logs, I found that all connections made by the sending server were idle connections, which appeared to be legitimate emails, and users were very concerned about email delays, but they were not actually legitimate emails. Proofpoint Email Protection helped me terminate the connections by identifying the idle connections; if it had not done so, it might have caused the services to hang up.

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From a solution architect perspective, I do not have day-to-day operational exposure to Proofpoint Email Protection, but I have conducted multiple demos, design discussions, and solution evaluations focused on email threat protection.

I primarily work with the SaaS deployment model, typically procured through authorized vendors rather than directly from Proofpoint. The environments I support range from 20,000 to 70,000 users, where Proofpoint integrates tightly with SOC operations.

When integrated with a SOC, Proofpoint provides consolidated phishing alerts that are easy for L1 analysts to understand and act upon. Analysts can quickly validate indicators (e.g., via VirusTotal), enrich alerts, and build SOAR automations around phishing response.

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Our main use case for Proofpoint Email Protection is using the whole suite of services, including CASB, DLP, URL protection, email security, and other components.

I have configured 365 email to filter all emails through Proofpoint Email Security, and we have alerts set up for any critical or high severity incidents, receiving alerts for business email compromise and phishing attacks. We also conduct phishing training, which are some of the day-to-day tasks that we use it for.

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I started working with Proofpoint Email Protection one year ago. Before that, I was working as a DLP guy in Data Loss Prevention. When I changed my companies, my current company is more focused towards Proofpoint Email Security. I got to know about email security and started learning. Now I am in a state where I am able to implement the tool, and I know how the policies are being processed and how it is getting done.

Proofpoint Email Protection has certain two modes. The first one is Core Email Protection. I am currently using the P0 bundle, which is offering Core Email Protection with SEG, which is Secure Email Gateway. Apart from that, TAP, which is Targeted Attack Protection, includes URL Defense and Attachment Defense. Apart from that, we have Threat Protection and Cloud Threat Protection. These certain things I have been using.

I am using Core Email Protection.

Proofpoint is for the enterprise customer, and they are focused only on the cloud solution. Some of the solutions are providing on-premises as well, but for email security, they specifically work on the cloud portals.

Our company is working rigorously with Proofpoint as a partner, where we are pitching this solution to the customers that we are handling, positioning the product of email security from Proofpoint. That is why we are more into it.

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As a security engineer, I use Proofpoint Email Protection because it has been implemented for one of our larger customers. I work for an MSP, and we have a large customer, a major European airline, whose entire email security is currently managed with Proofpoint Email Protection. We are subscribed to multiple products including Email Protection, EFD, and Threat Protection. The use case is mainly to control mail flow to and out of the domain. The majority of the use case is to prevent malicious emails from getting through emails by filtering emails using latest threat intel and sender reputation. As a daily breakdown, we fine-tune rules and release emails from quarantine using Targeted Attack Prevention or other Threat Intelligence.

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Proofpoint Email Protection serves as our email security solution. The entire SOC team uses Proofpoint Email Protection. The granularity in admin access is different, so each team has their own access to Proofpoint Email Protection. SOC people and four admins with complete access to Proofpoint Email Protection use the system, so overall, only the SOC and email security team have access to it.

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We are the integrator for Proofpoint Email Protection, and for one of our customers, we support the solution. As my organization has a large customer base, we support our clients widely, working as a consultant and integrator for Proofpoint Email Protection products. We assist customers in adapting Proofpoint Email Protection solutions, including email protection and authentication aspects, with email protection being the primary solution. We perform all end-to-end deployments for our customers.

The usual use cases for Proofpoint Email Protection that I work with mostly include defining inbound and outbound policies and fine-tuning email protection rules. We focus on email hygiene, mail delivery issues, defining mail policies, and creating rules based on specific conditions. We also address URL Defense, Attachment Defense, anti-spam, anti-phishing capabilities, and ATP features, while troubleshooting issues such as malware definitions and URL rewrite options, particularly related to Business Email Compromise. Additionally, we work with email authentication protocols such as SPF, DKIM, DMARC, DLP scenarios, and email encryption modules, as all aspects present in Proofpoint Email Protection on Demand instance are addressed.

Customers usually prefer the deployment of Proofpoint Email Protection on cloud solutions, specifically, Proofpoint Email Protection on Demand instance, which is easy to access and administer. However, for certain features such as TRAP, an on-premises solution may be necessary, as it reduces administrative overhead.

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In our organization, we use Proofpoint Email Protection as an email gateway that tracks all external emails coming to our organization. In this way, we are protecting our organization from cyberattacks and all suspicious emails coming from external senders.

We have had situations where we monitored logs in which suspicious emails came from spoofed senders. For example, an email appeared to be from axis.com, but it was a spoofed email. When it came into our organization, it was initially quarantined at Proofpoint Email Protection gateway, so the user did not receive it. When we checked the log, we found the actual case. We identified the spoofed sender and blocked it in Proofpoint Email Protection console. Once we blocked it in the console, that sender and domain will never get past Proofpoint Email Protection gateway.

In day-to-day operations, we mainly use Proofpoint Email Protection to protect our organization from external senders. We developed a ZAP policy, a spam detection policy, and several other policies in Proofpoint Email Protection gateway. By using these policies, we are running the business very smoothly and maintaining and providing very safe email communication to our clients. We received considerable appreciation from Proofpoint team for this.

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Proofpoint Email Protection serves multiple purposes for our organization. We use it as an antispam solution, and while I am a user with some insight into the configuration rather than the administrator, my team helps the admins configure it to function as an antispam system. However, we primarily use it for detecting malicious emails that pass through the antispam layer.

The antispam layer is realized through the Email Protection section. We use the TAP dashboard extensively, along with the Threat Response part and the Report Suspicious Email button, which is a complementary product of Proofpoint known as the phishing button. We utilize all of these tools together.

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Proofpoint Email Protection is strictly used for email protection in our organization. Approximately 2,500 users are using Proofpoint Email Protection. The usage varies across our environment since we have users who share computers in our stores as well as corporate users, so Proofpoint Email Protection is deployed across multiple different environments within the company.

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My use cases for Proofpoint Email Protection revolve around its design for email protection and information protection, especially if you want to implement DLP policies. Proofpoint Email Protection is an excellent tool for identifying spammers and phishing emails. Depending on purchasing power, Proofpoint Email Protection offers various protection levels, such as basic, advanced, and very advanced options. As per customer requirements, Proofpoint Email Protection is customizable, providing features such as email authentication, email defense, and spam detection. Email administrators can analyze and enhance their security measures using Proofpoint Email Protection.

In terms of email protection, my experience is primarily with Proofpoint Email Protection, while I have also used Microsoft Defender and earlier utilized Mimecast. I have expertise in both Mimecast and Microsoft Defender but considerably more experience with Proofpoint Email Protection.

I do not use file sharing with Proofpoint Email Protection; my focus is solely on email protection and DLP policy for information protection.

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In my environment, I am using Proofpoint Email Protection for advanced email threat protection. For malware, spam, and virus protection, we are using their email protection module and security module. I determine all policy routes, and all DKIM, DNS, and DMARC records are being managed by Proofpoint for us at the moment. Proofpoint Email Protection is our primary email server gateway for inbound and outbound communication. The MX is pointing to Proofpoint, and Proofpoint Email Protection is acting as the first point of contact for anything coming from outside to our internal users.

I purchased Proofpoint Email Protection through marketplaces. For a couple of years, I completely relying on Microsoft Exchange before adopting Proofpoint Email Protection. After that, I conducted many POCs with Proofpoint and then we recognized Proofpoint and started with Proofpoint on-premise, then I moved to Proofpoint on Demand, and I secured their TAP module, which is the advanced threat protection module. I then moved on to their threat response auto-pull module, and I also opted for the email fraud defense module. I currently have Proofpoint secure email relay, which we are using, and we gradually purchased their license for approximately 3,000 users for their security education platform, which is the Zen-Guide platform. All their modules are connected to each other and communicate very nicely with each other. If a threat is detected after it is delivered to the user's mailbox, Proofpoint Email Protection will still be able to detect it and the threat response will auto-pull it from the user's mailbox, which is a unique feature that I found absent in Microsoft. I have had a very good relationship with Proofpoint Email Protection over the last four years using almost all their available modules and products, and I am talking about using their adaptive email DLP in the future.

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Proofpoint Email Protection is used for the email gateway for spam filtering, malware filtering, malicious email handling, and the secure email relay platform.

Proofpoint Email Protection has a different component called the TAP alert, which has two parts: malicious message defense and URL defense. This component is utilized to check if any URL delivered to users' mailboxes is legitimate or not based on the Proofpoint Email Protection TAP component. When a URL is received, Proofpoint checks it in their sandbox and attempts to execute those URLs. If there is anything malicious, Proofpoint informs us, and based on that, we can act by whitelisting or blacklisting depending upon the Proofpoint Email Protection component.

Proofpoint Email Protection is used with a secure email relay feature that has been purchased. Secure email relay allows external email relay using Proofpoint with authentication, ensuring that no malicious email or flood of spam reaches users' mailboxes.

When receiving lots of emails from a particular vendor or mailing list, quarantine and deliver is used. The mails are delivered, but the copy is quarantined. The quarantine mail in a quarantine folder is available for analysis, where message header analysis and source analysis can be performed, as well as hash checks against static and dynamic malware engines. This approach does not disturb users from getting the emails while also evaluating those emails if any kind of malicious emails are being generated and delivered to users' mailboxes. Quarantine is a great feature.

Proofpoint Email Protection has a smart send feature with an offensive word and dictionary feature. In the dictionary, you can stop the imposter attack to your organization for the VIP users.

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Proofpoint Email Protection is used for email security, threat protection, and email fraud defense, including SPF, DKIM, and DMARC protection.

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I use Proofpoint Email Protection as an email gateway, and we mainly use this for the email gateway only.

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My main use case for Proofpoint Email Protection is for protecting email and email security to prevent business email compromise and malicious email from reaching our users. Proofpoint Email Protection helps in stopping malicious emails from getting to our users, such as phishing emails and emails with malicious attachments. Proofpoint Email Protection does quarantine multiple malicious emails in our environment, and an example would be an email recently with a malicious website asking the user to log in; Proofpoint was able to detect that the URL was malicious and block and discard the email.

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My use case with Proofpoint Email Protection was primarily as a secure email gateway, and all of those sound like they describe the same thing. I know Proofpoint Email Protection has a big product portfolio, and we had other products that filled some of the other services that they also offered.

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My main use case for Proofpoint Email Protection is to protect our company emails from suspicious attacks as it serves as an email security gateway. View full review »

My main use case for Proofpoint Email Protection is email defense. A specific example of how I use Proofpoint Email Protection for email defense is through malicious email detection, phishing detection, and malicious email removal.

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My main use case for Proofpoint Email Protection is to block malicious or suspicious emails as per my role. Proofpoint Email Protection is our email filtering tool and we do our DMARC using Proofpoint Email Protection as well. So basically it's our email security tool overall.

I use Proofpoint Email Protection almost every day. As a security analyst, I'm responsible for investigating suspicious emails that the staff report. Once I investigate the email and determine that the sender is suspicious or malicious, I take their email address, or even the domain and block it in Proofpoint Email Protection so that they cannot send any further email.

For me that's my main use case, my day-to-day thing.

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My main use case for Proofpoint Email Protection is working as an anti-spam and phishing analyst, where I need to protect the organization and public users from spam and phishing.

In my daily work, I use Proofpoint Email Protection based on ML models that score each email based on sender reputation, IP reputations, and certain AI ML technologies, allowing us to decide whether an email is phishing, spam, or legitimate.

While Proofpoint is better, I find Abnormal to be much more effective because it uses an advanced AI engine to detect email spams and phishing. In Proofpoint, we observe a false positive rate of ten percent, where out of one thousand users, ten users will be improperly scored, causing their emails to move into spam or junk while occasionally, junk emails mistakenly reach the inbox.

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My main use case for Proofpoint Email Protection is corporate email protection.

For corporate email protection, we are using Proofpoint Email Protection by having email on the cloud through Azure and we are using the solution to protect our email so that we are not receiving malicious emails.

I have concerns mostly related to ransomware attacks in addition to my previous use case.

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My main use case for Proofpoint Email Protection is stopping phishing emails.

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Proofpoint Email Protection is primarily used for anti-spam purposes. As other companies receive a lot of malware, phishing emails, and unwanted bulk email, Proofpoint Email Protection stops unwanted email from getting through to mailboxes.

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My main use case for Proofpoint Email Protection is to monitor our email gateway and apply the necessary spam filters and virus protection, as well as controls on phishing-related emails.

Proofpoint Email Protection helps to control the large volume of spam and phishing-related emails that come through the gateway, allowing us as human analysts to see through and cut through the noise.

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Proofpoint Email Protection is used to set up filters to review and filter out threats from emails, managing security posture and inbox security.

Additionally, it helps create rules and policies to filter out potentially malicious emails, thus defending the environment and reducing risks to users.

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My main use case for Proofpoint Email Protection is email filtering; we use it for TRAP and Clear, and I use it for Zen Guide.

I use Proofpoint Email Protection for email filtering by using Zen Guide for simulated phishing campaigns, and I use email protection to see where people have reported spam or phishing emails and have a look at those messages to see what people are reporting.

Regarding my main use case with Proofpoint Email Protection, I just use it to see what people are reporting, and people in my team then use it for investigation.

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My main use case for Proofpoint Email Protection is as the SEG. I use Proofpoint Email Protection as the main gateway for our organization, serving as the main email gateway.

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I have about three years of experience with Proofpoint products.

I gained experience with this product while working in the retail industry.

We deploy it in the cloud.

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My main use case for Proofpoint Email Protection is email security to help achieve better results compared to what we currently have with Microsoft Defender.

A specific example of how I use Proofpoint Email Protection for email security compared to Microsoft Defender is that we were finding many false positives with Microsoft Defender and inconsistent results where it would let one email through and mark another email as spam or phishing. It was quite inconsistent. With Proofpoint Email Protection, it was very consistent and blocked the email for all recipients, unlike Defender.

In addition to my main use case with Proofpoint Email Protection, we also use the report phishing button from Proofpoint Email Protection, and it has been great.

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My main use case for Proofpoint Email Protection is email protection and policy setup. For email protection and setting up policies, especially for encryption, we use encrypted emails to send out and the URL Defense feature. These are policies that we set up, along with safe attachments for any attachment protection.

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My main use case for Proofpoint Email Protection is DMARC and DKIM, which assists me in ensuring that emails are delivered and not tampered with.

I have been using Proofpoint Email Protection for multiple years, predominantly for DKIM and DMARC.

At this stage, I do not have anything else to add about my main use case or how I use Proofpoint Email Protection.

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My main use case for Proofpoint Email Protection is analyzing incidents when users in the company report suspicious emails and determining the appropriate next action.

I use Proofpoint Email Protection in situations involving spam emails or real phishing emails, which allows me to categorize and quarantine those emails from the user's inbox so that the user cannot receive the same type of email or any emails from the same sender in the future.

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My use case for Proofpoint Email Protection is email security and threat protection.

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My main use case for Proofpoint Email Protection is to protect the mailbox.

A specific example of how I'm using Proofpoint Email Protection to protect users' mailboxes is that when users click malicious links, if it goes through, then Proofpoint TRAP will take it out, which addresses those types of threats.

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My main use case for Proofpoint Email Protection is that I work at an MSP, providing end-user support as the SMEs for Proofpoint for a customer, primarily focused on mail security.

A specific example of how I use Proofpoint Email Protection for mail security includes whitelisting, whitelisting URLs, and whitelisting email domains.

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Proofpoint Email Protection is used as the first line of defense for the email gateway. It protects the infrastructure from various attacks such as spam, malicious viruses, ransomware, imposter attacks, and Active Directory harvesting attacks. It safeguards users' emails by filtering offensive words, scanning for viruses and malware, and controlling SMTP rates.

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My main use case for Proofpoint Email Protection is to handle phishing emails.

When an email comes from a spoofed email or domain, we get alerted, and we check the domain and attachments flowing from that email. Proofpoint directly redirects any suspicious emails to us as an alert, allowing us to check the authentication paths such as SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, and we also analyze the suspicious IPs or domains.

Another use case with Proofpoint TAP involves checking if the URL in the email is blocked or re-injected by Proofpoint. If blocked, it redirects to a sandbox environment to keep users safe from attacks. Re-injected URLs mean the user is protected when they unknowingly click on malicious content.

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My main use case for Proofpoint Email Protection is email defense, monitoring of malware, and protection. I use Proofpoint Email Protection for monitoring malware or protecting patient information to analyze incoming mail, and I also use it for its DMARC capability.

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Email security is the primary use case for which our clients mainly used Proofpoint Email Protection.

We have used it for email security.

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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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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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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. 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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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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I use the product for email protection and staff awareness training. 

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The solution is used for email protection. It protects us from malicious attacks. It has sandboxing, archiving, email retrieval, and quarantine features.

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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.

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The primary use case of Proofpoint Email Protection is to ensure email security for both incoming and outgoing emails.

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I use Proofpoint Email Protection as an email protection system.

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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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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. 

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It serves as an added layer above your email gateway.

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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.

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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.

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I am using Proofpoint Email Protection for blocking out spam and malware from the emails. Proofpoint Email Protection is linked to our Microsoft Office365

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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.

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We use Proofpoint Email Protection mostly for email filtering, spam, and phishing.

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The solution is primarily used for email protection. However, it is not as good as EDR. It is good at handling privacy.

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I use the solution to protect email. It's primarily used for security purposes. 

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The solution protects our mailboxes from phishing and scanning.

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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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Proofpoint Email Protection is used for email security.

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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.

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Proofpoint Email Protection is used to protect your entire email.

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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.

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I am the CIO, I have consultants.

We use Proofpoint Email Protection to filter out malicious emails.

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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. 

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We use it in front of Office 365 for anti-phishing, anti-malware, and threat protection.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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We primarily use the solution for email protection. 

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Our primary use case of Proofpoint Email Protection is focused around data loss prevention (DLP). To protect against spam, viruses, incoming and outgoing mail.

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My primary use case for this solution is for email security.

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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.

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Our primary use case for Proofpoint Email Protection is for email security, to secure all the inbound and outbound emails.

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We primarily use the solution for a variety of services. It's mostly related to email. 

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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.

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We are system integrators and this is a product that we implement for our customers.

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We primarily use the solution to block malicious email and spam in bulk.

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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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We use Proofpoint for advanced email protection from a number of threats, including phishing and account spoofing.

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When we define keywords, the solution evaluates the keywords, generates reports, and gathers the information

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We use Proofpoint Email Protection for machine learning and artificial intelligence engine.

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