Best Security Solutions of 2009
SC Magazine | 12-11-2009
A recognition of products and services selected by Technology Editor Peter Stephenson and his SC Lab team in 2009 as Best Buy, Recommended and SC Lab Approved.

Make E-mail Encryption Effortless
Baseline | 12-08-2009
Proofpoint customers Domino's and Merit Resources are included in this Baseline article about email encryption. Jeff Caracci, vice president of IT and facilities management at Merit Resources emphasizes Proofpoint's ease of use. “A recipient gets an e-mail with an embedded Web link that they click on to read the message,” he explains. “There are no key management headaches, and if someone forgets their password to decrypt the message, they can automatically change it on their next login attempt, as long as they remember their password reset question.”

Effortless Email Encryption
ITWorld | 12-01-2009
Proofpoint Encryption and other leading email encryption solutions are reviewed. "Proofpoint encrypts each message using a separate symmetric key pair, and the keys are maintained in the cloud as part of their service offering. This means more work on their end to keep each message straight, but it also means that an administrator has more flexibility when it comes time to search for particular messages. They also have put a lot of work into their DLP features, as you can see in the associated screen shot that shows some of their rules around detecting Social Security numbers."

Perceptions About Cloud Computing
Messaging News | 12-01-2009
Earlier this month results were announced from an August survey, conducted by Osterman Research and Proofpoint, Inc., which concluded that cloud computing confusion continues. It seems that the confusion still stems from the fact that “cloud” means different things depending on definitions and perceptions assigned to the term. The contention of the survey is that this confusion may be stalling enterprise adoption of cloud computing technologies.