Secure Email for EDU Communications

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Within the educational environment—whether a publicly funded state university, a private college, or the K-12 school—Internet-based messaging plays a significant role in facilitating communications among faculty, staff, and students. This diverse group of constituents presents unique considerations in implementing an effective messaging security system.

• Education IT departments often serve large and geographically dispersed email users—so easy configuration and maintenance are paramount. Desktop-based anti-spam, anti-virus, or email security solutions are difficult to deploy, administer, and enforce consistently.
• Different groups within universities often require very different anti-spam policies and security settings—which must be easily defined and enforced.
• Universities are often also lending institutions, subject to a growing number of privacy regulations that govern outbound email. Outgoing emails must comply with regulations surrounding privacy and confidentiality of financial information.
• Universities are also often healthcare providers. Student clinics and teaching hospitals must comply with HIPAA regulations and protect the privacy of personal health information (PHI).

Proofpoint provides educational institutions with secure email communications, both inbound and outbound, protecting the institution from email-borne threats such as spam, viruses, and network attacks while helping comply with regulations.

Stop Spam with Confidence

Proofpoint protects organizations from the productivity-draining threats and attacks that are an unfortunate reality of today's email messaging systems. Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway appliance and Proofpoint Protection Server software stop inbound spam and virus attacks at the gateway, while reducing the risk of false positives and giving users total control over their email boxes. Proofpoint's unrivalled anti-spam effectiveness is delivered by Proofpoint MLX machine learning technology, an advanced content filtering system developed by Proofpoint scientists and engineers.

Secure Email that is Easy to Manage and Administer

Staff, faculty, students, and researchers require very different message processing policies. Proofpoint allows you to create policies at a global, group, or individual basis. The policies you create can be very flexible, which lets you allow users to decide how strongly blocked they want their spam or questionable email. The Proofpoint Messaging Security Console provides a centralized, 100% web-based administration interface to Proofpoint's unified policy management framework, making it easy to monitor and control your messaging infrastructure, and define and enforce messaging policies.

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