Proofpoint helps organizations protect, manage, and control their business-critical enterprise messaging systems. Learn how a rapidly growing number of leading global enterprises, universities, and government agencies rely on Proofpoint security solutions for blocking spam and viruses, comply with email-related regulations and prevent confidential information from leaking via email and other network messaging systems. Looking for more Proofpoint case studies? Find the latest in the Proofpoint Resource Center.
easyJet | Airline
Europe's leading low-fares airline, uses Proofpoint’s cloud-based email security solution, Proofpoint ENTERPRISE™, to protect approximately 7000 employee inboxes from spam, viruses, phishing attacks and other email-borne threats. The airline chose Proofpoint ENTERPRISE over competing solutions because of its highly configurable, modular approach, unrivalled anti-spam effectiveness and built-in reporting capabilities. easyJet's IT services manager says, "Proofpoint’s solution has reduced the administrative strains placed on the team while still retaining complete control over our email environment. Anti-spam and anti-virus performance has been excellent, resulting in a greatly improved experience for our email users." Read the press release »
Kaiser Permanente | Healthcare
America's leading integrated health care program selected Proofpoint Protection Server software to stem a growing influx of spam email and block undesired messages. Over time, the company has migrated to Proofpoint appliances to protect both inbound and outbound email. Proofpoint's email security solutions maintain a high degree of accuracy while allowing legitimate healthcare communications to flow freely between providers and patients. Proofpoint MLX machine learning technology intelligently differentiates between spam and valid messages, even if they contain common spam terms such as "Viagra." Proofpoint also helps keep Kaiser's outbound email stream HIPAA compliant with the Proofpoint Regulatory Compliance and Proofpoint Secure Messaging modules. In this video, Kaiser's Glen Sitz talks about the company's longtime relationship with Proofpoint and the email security policies they enforce:
Hitachi Data System | High Technology Only Proofpoint met Hitachi's demanding requirements for an enterprise anti-spam solution with high-effectiveness and zero false positives. Find out why Hitachi calls Proofpoint "a real lifesaver." Read the complete case study.
HCA (Hospital Corporation of America) | Healthcare
America's leading provider of healthcare services relies on Proofpoint's security solution to protect both inbound and outbound message streams.
Burlington Coat Factory | Retail Retailer Burlington Coat Factory protects thousands of employees from harmful viruses and spam using Proofpoint's messaging security solution. Matt Marchione, IT security for Burlington Coat Factory, said, “With Proofpoint, we are happy with the level of protection the software provides against many existing and emerging messaging threats, while ensuring that important emails always get through to their intended recipients.” Read the press release. Read the case study.
LifeLink Foundation | Healthcare
LifeLink foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the recovery of organs and tissue for transplantation therapy, uses Proofpoint Protection Server software for blocking spam and viruses while also protecting confidential healthcare information. Learn more about LifeLink’s mission at www.lifelinkfound.org Read the press release.
Mary Kay Inc. | Personal Care & Cosmetics
Mary Kay uses Proofpoint's appliance to protect 3600 employees and 600,000 independent sales reps from spam and viruses. Mary Kay compared Proofpoint to a variety of competing competing anti-spam products and found the Messaging Security Gateway to be the best fit. "We really put each solution to the test and evaluated them extensively... Proofpoint struck a balance between having the best features and being easy to administer. It met all of our criteria," says Mary Kay's email engineer. Read the complete case study.
Tyson Foods, Inc. | Manufacturing
Tyson Foods is the world's largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef and pork and the second largest food company in the Fortune 500. Proofpoint enterprise anti-spam software enables Tyson Foods to eliminate spam, boost employee productivity, and improve system performance. "Proofpoint’s next-generation solution will help us secure our data and meet regulatory requirements in addition to providing continued protection against spam, viruses and message-borne threats,” says Tyson's senior system administrator. Read the complete case study.
National Instruments | Manufacturing
Virtual instrumentation leader National Instruments depends on Proofpoint's security solution to protect more than 3500 mailboxes of employees in 44 countries... with 99% effectiveness. "We couldn't be happier with the Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway," says National Instruments' messaging manager. Read the complete case study.
Hofstra University | Higher Education
How do you protect 13,000 students, faculty and staff from spam and viruses with "absolutely no administration?" Learn how Proofpoint's security solution made the grade at Hofstra University. Read the complete case study.
University of Texas Medical Branch | Healthcare / Higher Ed “The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) has more than 12,000 employees. UTMB also records more than a half million visits and more than 35,000 inpatient admissions a year. So, we really need to know what’s going on within our organization when it comes to inbound and outbound content. In addition, the 2005 HIPAA deadline is driving us to look at new compliance solutions to identify and secure non-public information, such as credit card and patient healthcare information. We are excited about Proofpoint 3.0 because it is a solution that will help us meet both HIPAA and financial privacy requirements,” says UTMB's lead security analyst. Read the complete case study.
DeKalb Medical Center | Healthcare
This Atlanta hospital system uses Proofpoint for both inbound and outbound email security—blocking spam while protecting personal healthcare information in the email system. "The transition to Proofpoint has been seamless for our employees. They don't need to do anything differently, yet our patient information is much more secure as a result," says DeKalb's information security administrator. Read the complete case study.
South Nassau Communities Hospital | Healthcare
This Long Island acute care facility uses Proofpoint for both inbound and outbound email security—blocking spam with a high level of accuracy while protecting personal healthcare information in the email system. "We looked at solutions from both CipherTrust and SurfControl, but both of them lacked the pre-defined dictionaries of medical treatment codes, disease names and other medical information that Proofpoint includes with the Regulatory Compliance module," says SNCH's network systems manager. Read the complete case study.
Community Medical Centers | Healthcare
California hospital system Community Medical Centers chose the Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway over a variety of competing enterprise anti-spam products because it's more effective and easier to maintain. "We like Proofpoint because it stops spam dead in its tracks before it hits the Exchange servers. From a network administration standpoint, Proofpoint is amazing," says Community's network admin team. Read the complete case study.
Urban Outfitters | Retail
Fast-growing lifestyle brand Urban Outfitters found Proofpoint to be the coolest security solution for blocking spam and viruses while ensuring messaging security. URBN's busy IT team has better things to do than battling spam and finds that "Proofpoint is truly a 'hands off' product" that "does everything we expected." Read the complete case study.
Sonic Corporation | Food & Beverage America's largest drive-in restaurant chain—known for fast and personal service—found the perfect messaging security solution with Proofpoint. "The Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway is exactly what we needed to tackle this costly issue," says the Sonic IT team. "Our IT staff is freed up, our employees are more productive and ultimately our customers are better served." Read the complete case study.
Outback Steakhouse | Food & Beverage
Restaurant chain Outback Steakhouse needed a fast and easy-to-maintain solution for blocking spam and viruses and found it in the Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway appliance. "Set up was ridiculously easy," raves the Outback messaging team. Read the complete case study.
Pacific Sunwear | Retail
Pacific Sunwear is a leading apparel retailer, operating 933 stores in all 50 U.S. states and Puerto Rico and uses Proofpoint for blocking spam and offensive email. "It was an amazing experience—Proofpoint trapped 95% of the spam messages... with no training," says PacSun's IT director. Read the complete case study.
U-Haul International, Inc. | Transportation Services U-Haul has served the do-it-yourself household-moving customer for more than 58 years through more than 14,000 independent dealers and 1,300 company-operated moving and storage center locations across North America. “Proofpoint has already eradicated spam and viruses from our network, and we believe the new outbound email features will provide us with an even greater level of messaging security,” says U-Haul's web team director. Read the complete case study.
DecisionOne | IT Services
"Proofpoint Protection Server was one of the simplest product implementations of recent years and has virtually eliminated spam with no measurable level of false positives. In more than 30 years in this business I've never received as many 'thank you' notes from the field as I did with this implementation," says DecisionOne's chief of technology. Proofpoint's enterprise anti-spam software keeps more than 5000 inboxes safe for this IT services provider. Read the complete case study.
Schnuck Markets, Inc. | Retail Schnuck Markets currently operates 100 stores and 93 pharmacies in Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Tennessee, and Mississippi. With minimal tuning of the Proofpoint solution, Schnucks reduced the amount of spam received daily in more than 1,300 email inboxes by 98%, with negligible false positives. Read the complete case study.
Monterey Bay Internet | Internet Services Monterey Bay Internet (MBAY) is a California based Internet Service Provider (ISP) with more than 10,000 subscribers. Monterey Bay Internet keeps subscribers happy by blocking spam and viruses with Proofpoint. Read the complete case study.
J.E. Dunn Group | Construction
The J.E. Dunn Group, the 8th largest builder in the US, eliminates spam and increases productivity using Proofpoint's enterprise anti-spam solution. Read the complete case study.
Municipality of Anchorage | State & Local Government
Alaska's largest city depends on Proofpoint's anti-spam appliance to protect thousands of municipal employees from unsolicited email. Proofpoint's true "zero administration" security solution won Anchorage over. "There isn't any maintenance or monitoring required with Proofpoint," says Anchorage. Read the complete case study.
City of Topeka, Kansas | State and Local Government The City of Topeka maintains more than 1300 employee email boxes, and was able to eradicate spam and ensure that valid email gets delivered with the Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway appliance. Read the complete case study.
Coen Company | Distribution Proofpoint helps Coen Company, specializing in the design, manufacture, servicing, and maintenance of burner equipment and combustion systems, to successfully protect its messaging infrastructure. Read the complete case study.
TBC Corporation | Automotive/Distribution
TBC, one of the nation's largest marketers of automotive replacement tires with over $1 billion in revenues, relies on Proofpoint Protection Server for comprehensive messaging protection, effectively blocking spam above the 98% level and dramatically reducing their email server load by 60%. Read the press release.
Prince William County Schools | Public Sector
The third largest school system in Virginia turned to Proofpoint's enterprise anti-spam solution to eliminate unsolicited and obscene spam email from inboxes across 75 county schools. Prince William County Schools also uses Proofpoint's content compliance features to keep sensitive or inappropriate content out of outbound email messages. Read the complete case study.
St. Johns County, Florida | Public Sector Located in northeastern Florida and home to nearly 125,000 people, St. Johns County selected the Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway to eradicate spam, increase employee productivity, reduce legal liability and conserve computing resources. Read the complete case study.
