Defend against inbound threats and eliminate spam at the gateway, upstream of the email server.

Hundreds of thousands of attributes in every email are examined, including message envelope headers and structure, image properties, sender reputation data as well as unstructured content in the body of messages. This blocks most spam, image-based spam and phishing attacks, while automatically adapting to new attacks as they appear.

The Dynamic Update Service 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.

Prevent leaks of information across multiple protocols.

Advanced data loss prevention features are deployed to protect outbound email as well as additional message streams including web-based email, blog postings, message board postings and other HTTP or FTP based activities.

Powerful MLX machine learning technology analyses 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.

Encrypt your sensitive information.

Proofpoint Secure Messaging adds powerful, content-aware encryption capabilities, automatically encrypts messages based on your organization's policies. It automatically and consistently applies your 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. Proofpoint's hardware and virtual appliances also support digital certificates and enable gateway-to-gateway secure transfer and receipt of email using Transport Layer Security (TLS).