Compliance Solutions that Reduce the Risks Associated with Email Communications

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Financial services firms are increasingly pressured to improve services while lowering costs and managing risk. These companies must ensure their messaging security infrastructures in delivering secure and accurate real-time information, while complying with a widening scope of regulatory requirements.

Proofpoint provides banks, brokerages, and insurance providers with compliance solutions that protect their messaging security systems from email-borne threats including spam, viruses, phishing attacks and SMTP-level attacks while preventing breaches of privacy regulations and leaks of confidential information.

Eliminate Email-Borne Threats

Proofpoint protects organizations from the threats and attacks that are a growing reality of doing business through email communications. The Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway and Proofpoint Protection Server stop inbound spam and virus attacks at the gateway—before they overload users' inboxes or system resources—reducing the threat of downtime or failure.

Ensure Regulatory and Email Compliance with Less Effort

Proofpoint provides financial services companies with comprehensive content filtering, monitoring and policy enforcement capabilities for a complete compliance solution. The Proofpoint Regulatory Compliance module is the most effective way to ensure that outbound messages comply with privacy and data security regulations such as GLBA (Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act).

The optional Proofpoint Regulatory Compliance module automatically detects non-public information (NPI) and personal financial information (PFI) such as social security numbers, account numbers, and credit card numbers ensuring email compliance.
Flexible message disposition options and easy-to-define rules allow messages to be encrypted, rerouted, quarantined or otherwise processed as appropriate.
Rules are easily modified through a point-and-click interface. Administrators can easily create dictionaries including terms such as "guarantee" to enforce company policies.
Messages destined for business partners that require secure communication can be automatically encrypted.
Graphical reports show the number of hits of a specific NPI policy or dictionary, providing a tool that the organization can use to train and educate employees, and reduce overall risk exposure and breaches over time.