Email Fraud Defense
Email Security and Protection
Proofpoint Email Fraud Defense helps secure your email channel and restore trust to business communications. By simplifying DMARC authentication, it helps stop email fraud and safeguard your trusted domain. And it goes beyond DMARC to give you insight into fraud risks posed by suppliers.
Email is today’s most important business communications channel. It’s also organisations’ No. 1 threat vector. Keep it secure with Email Fraud Defense.
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Proofpoint Email Fraud Defense Demo
Learn how Email Fraud Defense gives you the visibility, tools and services you need to authorise legitimate email. And when combined with our industry-leading email gateway, it blocks fraudulent messages before they reach the inbox.
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Simplify your DMARC journey without blocking legitimate mail flow
Streamline your DMARC deployment
Dedicated consultants guide you through each step of your rollout. We start with a customisable project plan with guided workflows. Our consultants help:
- Identify all your legitimate senders and ensure they authenticate properly
- Recommend and prioritise tasks based on your needs
- Publish DMARC reject policy that doesn’t block valid email
Getting Started with DMARC
Fully protect your organisations’ reputation
Common business email compromise (BEC) attack tactics include:
- Domain spoofing: "Company <person@company.com"
- Lookalike domain spoofing: "Company <person@c0rnpany.com"
We help you prevent fraudsters from sending emails that use your trusted domains—and domains designed to mimic them. Our solution helps you:
- Get 360-degree visibility across your ecosystem, including emails destined for business gateways and your own gateway
- Dynamically identify lookalikes of your domains registered by people outside of your organisation
- See which of your domains attackers have attempted to hijack
- Proactively address malicious lookalikes of your domain with our Virtual Takedown Service
Get visibility into supplier risks
With our solution, you can go beyond DMARC and get visibility into your supplier risk with Supplier Risk Explorer. We help you:
- Automatically identify your suppliers
- See message volume and the email delivered from malicious lookalikes of your suppliers’ domain
- Assess and prioritise the risk suppliers pose to your organisation, including impostor threats, phishing, malware and spam
Hosted Authentication Services
Streamlined management of your SPF records and DKIM keys with Hosted Authentication Services
Hosted SPF
- Helps you overcome the traditional DNS lookup limit of 10
- Reduces overhead of updating SPF record
- Updates records in real-time
- Improves SPF security
Host DKIM
- Simplifies configuration and management of DKIM selectors and keys
- Provides flexible DKIM selector hosting options
- Supports DNSSEC
- Creates geographically distributed and fault tolerant services
- Allows simple import of DKIM selectors and public keys
Integrate with email gateway
We are the only security vendor that provides a true integration between email authentication and our industry-leading secure email gateway. This integration helps you:
- Mitigate risks of impostor threats by enforcing DMARC on inbound traffic
- Verify DMARC reputation of a specific domain, reducing the risk of blocking legitimate email
- Create override policies for valid email without compromising your security posture
Secure Email Relay
Proofpoint Secure Email Relay is a related solution that secures your application email and accelerates your DMARC implementation. This hosted solution helps you:
- Secure application email from internal applications and third-party SaaS providers, such as ServiceNow, Salesforce, and Workday, that send on your behalf
- Includes anti-virus/anti-spam scanning as well as DKIM signing of relayed messages to better support DMARC compliance
- Secure your trusted domain from being abused by vulnerable email service providers
- Protect sensitive data in application email with payload encryption and DLP
- Increase your deliverability performance