Proofpoint on Demand Proofpoint on Demand™ delivers Proofpoint's unified email security and data loss prevention features as a cost-effective, easy-to-adopt and easy-to-manage hosted service. It's the industry's most complete and effective security for enterprise messaging infrastructures. Based on the same enterprise-proven platform that powers Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway™ appliances and Proofpoint Protection Server® software, Proofpoint on Demand offers the industry's most effective protection against both inbound and outbound email-borne threats, without requiring the installation of on-premise hardware or software.
"As we evaluated new email security solutions, Proofpoint offered clearly superior technology and an extremely polished administrative interface combined with great end-user controls. Being able to access these features as an on-demand service that keeps spam and viruses from ever entering our network made Proofpoint on Demand the ideal solution for the university." - Anthony Schroeder, Director of Network Services, Hamline University
Enterprise-class Email Security… On-demandOn-demand email security doesn't have to be "one size fits all." The Proofpoint on Demand hosted service provides comprehensive protection against both inbound email threats and outbound content security risks — without requiring any on-premise hardware or software. Proofpoint on Demand is a highly-configurable, cost-effective anti-spam service that can be deployed with any combination of Proofpoint's email security and data loss prevention modules. Enterprises that prefer the convenience of hosted email security can now benefit from Proofpoint's unrivalled anti-spam effectiveness, comprehensive DLP features and unparalleled ease-of-use. For organizations that want a cost-effective Proofpoint on Demand uniquely combines the power and customizability of Proofpoint's enterprise-proven email security platform with the cost-effective convenience of the hosted delivery model. Defend Against Inbound ThreatsProofpoint on Demand blocks all types of undesirable inbound email messages, ensuring that enterprises receive only a clean, safe stream of valid email. All of Proofpoint's modular email security features—including anti-spam, anti-virus, anti-phishing, bounce management and acceptable use policy enforcement—are available. Advanced Spam Detection, Powered by Proofpoint MLX™Powered by patent-pending Proofpoint MLX machine learning technology, the Proofpoint Spam Detection™ module examines hundreds of thousands of attributes in every email-including message envelope headers and structure, image properties, sender reputation data as well as unstructured content in the body of messages-to block the most spam, image-based spam and phishing attacks, while automatically adapting to new attacks as they appear. Proofpoint on Demand automatically keeps your spam protection up-to-date, ensuring maximum effectiveness at all times. Individually controllable spam and adult content scores allow you to enforce zero-tolerance policies against pornographic spam. Anti-phishing features stop the spread of phish and other identity-theft attacks from stealing personal information from employees. Proofpoint Spam Detection is multi-lingual and offers outstanding accuracy against spam in any language-including hard-to-analyze, multi-byte character languages such as Japanese and Chinese. Anti-spam protection policies can be customized at the global, group and end-user levels with full integration to LDAP or Active Directory to streamline ongoing administration. Proofpoint on Demand also takes advantage of Proofpoint's innovative connection management features to block spam and virus from malicious IP addresses with extremely high efficiency. It tests numerous connection-level data points including DNS, MX record verification, SPF, recipient verification and data from Proofpoint's netMLX machine learning-powered reputation service. Virus Protection and Zero-Hour Anti-Virus DefensesThrough strategic partnerships with leading anti-virus vendors, Proofpoint Virus Protection™ provides complete virus scanning functionality. Virus engines are deeply integrated with Proofpoint's platform, providing convenient, centralized administration of anti-virus policies from the same interface used to manage spam and content policies. Messages are efficiently scanned for viruses in parallel with spam and message content, protecting end users from viruses, worms and other malicious code. Additionally, the Proofpoint Zero-Hour Anti-Virus™ module protects against emerging viruses in the earliest stages of their proliferation — stopping them hours before competing solutions even begin to react Comprehensive Data Loss PreventionIn addition to delivering the industry's most effective virus and spam protection. Proofpoint on Demand is also the easiest and most cost-effective way for organizations to prevent leaks of sensitive data via email. Proofpoint's modular data leak prevention features can be deployed as a completely hosted solution, or in Proofpoint's unique hybrid configuration where outbound data loss prevention features are deployed on-premises while inbound email security features are hosted "in the cloud". In either case, data loss prevention features are managed through the same easy-to-use, web-based policy management interface. Easy Enforcement of Acceptable Use PoliciesProofpoint on Demand gives customers vastly more flexibility than competing solutions for defining and enforcing email acceptable use policies for message content and attachments. The included Proofpoint Content Compliance™ module simplifies the process of defining complex rules related to file types, message size, and message content. These features can be used to identify and prevent a wide variety of inbound and outbound policy violations-including offensive language, harassment, file sharing and violations of external regulations. Regulatory Compliance: Keep Personal Financial Information and Private Data SecureMore than ever, enterprises need to safeguard the privacy and security of customer and employee data. The Proofpoint Regulatory Compliance™ module enforces best practices for securing private data and protects your organization from liabilities associated with privacy and data security regulations (such as HIPAA, GLBA, PCI, SEC rules and others). Customizable rules, managed dictionaries and "smart identifiers" are used to automatically scan for non-public information-such as protected health information and personal financial information-and reject or encrypt messages as appropriate. Proofpoint's smart identifiers are more sophisticated than simple regular expressions. They not only look for the correct number of digits or characters, but also perform complex algorithmic processing to minimize false positives, ensure high detection accuracy and protect personal financial information and protected health information. Digital Asset Security: Protect Confidential DocumentsAs email, webmail and other messaging systems have become the most important communication channels, they've also become a conduit for the exposure of sensitive or confidential information. The Proofpoint Digital Asset Security™ module keeps valuable corporate assets and confidential data from leaking outside your organization via email. Powerful MLX machine learning technology analyzes and classifies your confidential documents and then monitors for that information (or parts of that information) in the outbound message stream — stopping content security breaches before they happen. Automatically Encrypt Sensitive InformationThe Proofpoint Secure Messaging™ module adds powerful, content-aware encryption capabilities to a Proofpoint on Demand deployment, automatically encrypting outbound messages based on customizable policies. It automatically and consistently applies encryption policies, without requiring end-users to take any special actions. Voltage IBE (identity based encryption) technology provides powerful, easy-to-use encryption without the key and certificate management hassles of other solutions. Optimize Your Messaging InfrastructureExtend your Proofpoint on Demand deployment with a variety of enhancements that improve the usability and manageability of your email infrastructure. Proofpoint Smart Search™ enhances Proofpoint’s built-in logging and reporting features with advanced message tracing, forensics and log analysis capabilities—offering easy, real-time visibility into message flows across your entire messaging infrastructure. Search, analyze and export message logs from one convenient, easy-to-use GUI—even across globally distributed Proofpoint deployments. Proofpoint Secure File Transfer™ adds secure, large file transfer capabilities to your Proofpoint deployment. It lets end users send large files (or files that require enhanced security) quickly and easily—while minimizing the impact of large attachments on your email infrastructure. The on-demand Proofpoint Email Archiving™ solution addresses email storage management, legal discovery and regulatory compliance challenges without the overhead of managing an in-house email archive. Web-Based Policy Management and AdministrationProofpoint on Demand's web-based administration interface to Proofpoint's unified policy management framework, ensuring consistent application of corporate messaging policies. The administration console makes it easy to monitor and control all Proofpoint modules and define messaging policies. Different policies can even be defined for different groups of end-users. The Ajax-based interface gives you "drag and drop" customization of the reports, status information, RSS feeds and other components displayed. Even create "mashups" of information from external sources. Proofpoint's outstanding ease-of-use extends to end-users as well. Easy-to-understand reports and controls, such as Proofpoint's end-user digest, web-based quarantine and personalized safe- and block-lists, give users complete control over their own spam preferences. Learn more about spam protection and Proofpoint's anti-spam service. Next Generation on Demand ArchitectureProofpoint on Demand is powered by the Proofpoint Flexible Managed Services Architecture, which was designed to meet any enterprise deployment strategy-from fully hosted to hybrid installations. It offers mid-sized and large-sized enterprises an ideal solution for:
Unlike other on-demand services, Proofpoint on Demand's next-generation hosting platform provides each customer with a fully-compartmentalized, dedicated instance of Proofpoint's service, ensuring complete security of customer data and complete flexibility in system configuration. Administrators have total control over their email security preferences, policies, enabled modules, end-user features, alerts and reporting. Hosted in Proofpoint's world-class datacenters, Proofpoint on Demand offers enterprise-grade performance, reliability and five-nines availability. Proofpoint MLX™ TechnologyAdvanced Machine LearningThe power behind Proofpoint's enterprise messaging security solutions-Proofpoint MLX-is an advanced, patent-pending machine learning system developed by the scientists at the Proofpoint Attack Response Center. Based on advanced statistical techniques including logistic regression and information gain analysis, Proofpoint MLX enables the accurate classification and identification of unstructured content, as found in email and other documents. Unparalleled accuracyProofpoint MLX is the basis for the unrivalled anti-spam accuracy delivered by the Proofpoint Spam Detection module. Using MLX, Proofpoint analyzes hundreds of thousands of structural, image, content and reputation attributes to accurately differentiate between spam and valid messages. Traditional anti-spam solutions evaluate only a limited number of attributes and are unable to decisively classify spam, leading to low effectiveness and a high rate of false positives. Futureproof intelligenceProofpoint's intelligent anti-spam technology continually updates itself to defend against new forms of spam. Ongoing self-training and new techniques developed by Proofpoint scientists allow MLX to predict and adapt to new forms of spam as they appear. MLX updates are automatically delivered to all customers several times per day. As a result, Proofpoint MLX offers 99.8% or higher effectiveness—even against the most difficult forms of image-based spam, attachment-based spam, spam "backscatter" and foreign language spam. Unlike other anti-spam solutions, Proofpoint's ability to defend against spam attacks does not degrade over time-and updates to the MLX anti-spam engine are automatically delivered to your enterprise on a regular basis. Proofpoint MLX is constantly evolving to counter emerging threats, ensuring that your messaging infrastructure is secure against tomorrow's spammers as well as today's. Proofpoint MLX also powers the advanced content security features of the Proofpoint Digital Asset Security module and the intelligent perimeter security features of the Proofpoint Email Firewall and Dynamic Reputation service. Proofpoint is the only vendor to apply these powerful machine learning techniques to email security and data loss prevention. On-demand Email Security for Today's EnterpriseDesigned specifically to meet the needs of mid- and large-sized enterprises, Proofpoint on Demand—Enterprise Edition is the first hosted email security solution to offer the level of flexibility, security and control that larger organizations require. On-demand email security doesn't have to be "one size fits all." Proofpoint on Demand—Enterprise can be configured with nearly any combination of Proofpoint's modular email security, data loss prevention and email infrastructure optimization features. For small- and medium-sized organizations that demand powerful spam blocking, virus protection and content filtering capabilities, but don't require the advanced customization or data loss prevention (DLP) features of Proofpoint on Demand—Enterprise, we also offer Proofpoint on Demand—Standard Edition. Proofpoint on Demand—Standard Edition is an easy-to-use, lower-cost version that offers SMB-friendly pricing—as well as simplified configuration and administration—coupled with Proofpoint’s unrivalled anti-spam, anti-virus and content filtering accuracy. Proofpoint on Demand uniquely delivers:
Flexible Deployment OptionsProofpoint's email security and data loss prevention solutions are offered in a variety of form factors for maximum deployment flexibility:
Hamline UniversityHamline University (Saint Paul, Minnesota) uses Proofpoint on Demand™ to keep its 10,000 email accounts free from incoming spam and viruses. With the Proofpoint on Demand hosted service, Hamline University benefits from the effectiveness of Proofpoint’s enterprise-proven email security platform, as well as ease-of-management and flexible end user controls, without the overhead of on-premise hardware or software. Hamline's director of network services says that Proofpoint on Demand delivers, "the same level of control and customization as with Proofpoint’s appliance or software, but Proofpoint manages everything else." Barbados Shipping and TradingThe largest conglomerate in Barbados, with 2,800 employees spread across 15 companies, switched to Proofpoint on Demand™ from a competing SaaS email security solution, finding that Proofpoint offered higher effectiveness and lower total cost of ownership. "With Proofpoint on Demand, we get a more flexible and effective messaging security solution, and for less money, which made the decision to switch pretty straightforward. Proofpoint on Demand also has a very slick administrative interface that makes it simple to customize reports and controls, which is an added bonus,” says BS&T's IT specialist. Opechee Construction CorporationThis New England construction firm uses Proofpoint on Demand—Standard Edition to defend against all types of inbound spam, viruses, worms and other malware. Opechee's IT manager says that Proofpoint on Demand "completely solved our spam problems... the difference is like night and day from our previous solution." Find many more Proofpoint case studies in the Proofpoint Resource Center |
 Proofpoint PlatformsHosted Service:Appliance:Virtual Appliance:Messaging Security Gateway — Virtual Edition Software:Modular DefensesDefend against inbound threats:Spam Detection Virus Protection Prevent leaks of confidential information:Optimize your email infrastructure:Encrypt sensitive information:
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