Essentials: Medium and Small Business Cybersecurity

Advanced Email Security

Proofpoint Essentials uses the same AI-powered detection technology that secures more than 75% of Fortune 100 businesses to protect your greatest security risk: your people.

Essentials enterprise-class protection stops the threats targeting small businesses. These include spam, phishing, business email compromise (BEC) and imposter emails, ransomware, and malware.

With Essentials, you get:

• Multilayered anti-spam and anti-virus security
• Advanced protection against malicious URLs and attachments through dynamic sandboxing
• Intelligent BEC detection for non-payload threats, such as supplier fraud and account compromise

Complete Information Protection

Losing information and exposing customers to potential data breaches can be incredibly costly and damage your company’s public image. Proofpoint Essentials reduces the risk, severity, and total number of data loss incidents for SMBs.

Proofpoint Essentials data loss prevention (DLP) and email encryption keeps your information secure from internal and external threats.

• Detect outbound data exfiltration and automate compliance and remediation
• Implement policy filters that immediately identify and encrypt sensitive content
• Compose and respond to encrypted emails without leaving your inbox
• Access pre-built dictionaries and SmartSearch identifiers that include PII, PHI, Financial, and GDPR terms

Security Awareness Training

Creating a culture of cybersecurity awareness is crucial for organisations of all sizes.

Proofpoint Essentials Security Awareness Training does more than train your users. It helps them identify, resist, and report threats before the damage is done. This makes them a strong last line of defence against attackers.

• Simulate phishing attacks with customisable email templates based on real-world examples curated by our Threat Intelligence team
• Deploy engaging training content, created for small business cybersecurity, in more than 40 languages
• Understand your risk with in-depth visibility into employee interactions with simulated attacks and assignments

User-friendly Platform

Manage your medium and small-business cybersecurity software from a single, cloud-based admin console that provides ultimate control and flexibility.

Proofpoint Essentials reduces overall complexity for administrators. At the same time, it gives you the visibility you need to understand your unique threat landscape. This helps you make better cybersecurity decisions.

• An intuitive interface gives detailed visibility into specific threats targeting your organisation
• Fully cloud hosted: updates are automatic with no hardware to install
• Manage all users from a single portal with per-user controls and quarantine access
• Includes robust filter rules engine for inbound and outbound mail flow