Proofpoint Essentials:

Cybersecurity and Compliance for Small & Medium Businesses 

Small and Medium businesses get hit by the same advanced attacks that target large organizations. You need a security solution that is just as effective. Proofpoint Essentials packages security controls into a single interface. Get more security and less management overhead.

Proofpoint Essentials can protect organizations from email threats including phishing, malware, spam, and other forms of objectionable or dangerous content by leveraging the leading technologies in a suite designed for small business. This cloud based enterprise-class Email Security, Continuity & Archiving product is designed specifically for SMEs and backed by Proofpoint’s enterprise class security & infrastructure, the same technology that protects some of the largest and most security conscious companies in the world.

Key Features and Benefits:

Enterprise Security for small and medium-sized businesses

Harness the finest enterprise security technology and infrastructure, which is used by some of the world’s largest and most security conscious companies. Essentials blends Proofpoint’s expert knowledge of today’s threats with a deep understanding of your needs as a small or mediumenterprise.

You get:

Enhanced security with spam and phishing detection

• Dynamic analysis of URLs and attachments
• Social media account protection
• Policy-enforced encryption and data loss prevention

 

Simple to Manage with Granular Control

Proofpoint cloud-based platform gives you the ultimate control and flexibility. You have no hardware or software to install; updates are automatic. By filtering mail before it even reaches your network, Essentials frees up administrative time, bandwidth, the drudgery of end-user filtering, and even disk space on servers.

We know time is valuable. That’s why Proofpoint Essentials provides unmatched technology without the management and deployment headaches. Administrators simply login to the online console and manage all users and account settings from a single, secure platform.

You get:

• Accurate email classification
• Content control for social-media accounts
• Robust filter rules engine
• Per-user controls and quarantine access

 

Business Continuity

You rely heavily on email to do business. You might manage a few minutes without email—but what about a few hours or a few days? Unfortunately, small and medium enterprises can rarely justify the cost of building a highly redundant messaging infrastructure. Proofpoint Essentials continuity ensures that your critical email gets through at all times, even during a partial network failure.

You will get:

• 24×7 Emergency Inbox to provide users email access when the normal mail environment is unavailable
• Instant Replay sends (or resends) messages to your messaging server for 30 days
• Email spooling and failover

 

Email Archive

Stay secure using a 10-year cloud archive. Essentials helps you manage your data, and maintain easy access for discovery purposes. And it does this while reducing costs and freeing you from storage limits.

With Essentials Email Archive you can:

• Import historical email
• Automatically preserve all emails and attachments
• Allow users to search their own archived email and forward emails to their mailbox
• Perform complex searches across the entire archive
• Export for search results

 

Proofpoint Essentials for Office 365

More than 90% of targeted attacks start with email, and these threats are always evolving. Your security for Office 365 email must keep up. Proofpoint Essentials offers key differentiators that complement O365 by:

• Protecting against malware and non-malware threats with industry leading efficacy.
• Preventing impostor email threats with dynamic classification.
• Analyzing malicious URLs and attachments.