Sunnyvale, Calif. – February 14, 2008 – Proofpoint, Inc., the leading provider of unified email security and data loss prevention solutions, today announced that Leesport Financial Corp. is using the Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway™ appliance to protect its inbound and outbound messaging streams. Proofpoint protects the company’s customers by preventing their personal financial information from being improperly leaked via email, and it protects Leesport Financial employees by preventing spam and viruses from reaching their inboxes. The Proofpoint appliance made it easy for Leesport Financial to follow best practices for data protection and to comply with data security regulations, such as the Gramm-Leach Bliley Act (GLBA).

Leesport Financial Corp is a diversified financial services company headquartered in Berks County, Pa. The company has approximately 400 employees across 26 locations. Customer privacy is of paramount importance to Leesport Financial, so the company wanted to deploy technology that would protect its customer’s data. In addition, any solution would need to help Leesport Financial comply with industry regulations that require protection of sensitive data—including social security numbers, bank account numbers and credit card numbers—but without a large amount of system configuration and ongoing maintenance requirements.

After evaluating several solutions, including a solution from Symantec, Leesport Financial deployed the Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway. In addition to meeting all of the company’s key criteria for data loss prevention, Proofpoint was also able to provide extremely accurate spam and virus detection for inbound email.

“Our customers are top of mind for us. We can’t put a price on our customers’ confidence—if we were to have a data breach, we’d be done,” said Jack McLaine, vice president, Management Information Systems for Leesport Financial Corp. “Among all the solutions we looked at, Proofpoint was not only the most technically advanced, but it also provided superior support. It met all of our requirements.”

Leesport Financial uses the Proofpoint Digital Asset Security™, Proofpoint Regulatory Compliance™ and Proofpoint Secure Messaging™ modules for outbound email protection and GLBA compliance. The Proofpoint appliance continually monitors all outbound email and automatically encrypts those that contain sensitive information, such as customer account numbers and social security numbers, before they are transmitted.

Leesport Financial also uses the Proofpoint Spam Detection™ and Proofpoint Virus Protection™ modules for inbound email protection. Powered by Proofpoint MLX™ machine learning technology, Proofpoint Spam Detection delivers near-perfect defense against all forms of spam, including hard-to-detect image-based spam, PDF spam and other forms of attachment-based spam.

The company has also deployed the Proofpoint Smart Search™ appliance, which provides advanced message tracing, forensics and log analysis capabilities to trace inbound and outbound emails and understand how they were handled by the Proofpoint system.

“For financial institutions like Leesport Financial, their reputation hinges on how they serve their customers. Thus, it’s critical for them to safeguard all private customer information,” said Sandra Vaughan, senior vice president of products and marketing for Proofpoint. “By providing companies with a unified platform for inbound and outbound email security, Proofpoint makes it easy for financial services companies to follow best practices for protecting their customer’s data, comply with data protection regulations and keep employee inboxes free of spam and virus-infected email.”

Learn More about Proofpoint’s Industry Leading Email Security and Data Loss Prevention Solutions

To learn more about Proofpoint, register to attend an upcoming Web-based demonstration of Proofpoint’s advanced email security and data loss prevention features. Proofpoint product experts demonstrate how advanced Proofpoint MLX technology defends against inbound threats—such as spam, viruses and phishing attacks—while also preventing leaks of private information and intellectual property.

To register, please visit:

http://www.proofpoint.com/livedemoQ108

About Proofpoint, Inc. Proofpoint provides unified email security and data loss prevention solutions for enterprises, universities, government organizations and ISPs to defend against inbound threats such as spam and viruses, prevent leaks of confidential and private information across all protocols, and encrypt sensitive emails. Proofpoint’s products are controlled by a single management and policy console and are powered by Proofpoint MLX™ technology, an advanced machine learning system developed by Proofpoint scientists and engineers. Proofpoint provides the most scalable and flexible deployment model including: hardware appliance, virtual appliance, hosted services and software. For more information, please visit http://www.proofpoint.com.

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