Overview

Messaging and collaboration threats put your business at risk

Work now happens across messaging, collaboration, and social platforms—not just email. Attackers follow, using malicious URLs to target users where traditional security has blind spots. Messaging Protection extends Proofpoint’s industry-leading threat intelligence to these channels, delivering real-time URL blocking and unified threat visibility wherever people communicate.

1K%
Increase in URL threats delivered by SMS (2021 – 2024)
1%
Increase in URL threats delivered by email (2021 – 2024)
$1M
Global average cost of a single data breach (2024)
Benefits

Experience the benefits of Messaging Protection

Reduces Breach Risk With Deep URL Intelligence

Real-time URL inspection powered by Proofpoint intelligence from over 20T URLs analyzed annually across 2.7M+ customers, giving unmatched detection effectiveness and fewer false positives

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App-Agnostic Protection Across All Collaboration Channels

Secures Teams, Slack, Zoom, social platforms, and any new messaging apps automatically — reducing IT overhead and ensuring users stay protected wherever they collaborate.

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Accelerate threat response with unified visibility

Gain a consolidated view of malicious activity across email, messaging, collaboration, and social channels to shorten investigations and reduce analyst workload.

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Key Features

Key features of our
Proofpoint Messaging Protection

Real-time URL inspection and analysis

Powered by Proofpoint’s industry-leading threat intelligence, Messaging Protection stops malicious links across all channels before users engage — reducing breaches and credential theft.

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Native integration with Proofpoint Prime

Works seamlessly with the broader Prime Threat Protection stack to correlate identity, threat, and behavioral signals — improving risk reduction and simplifying administration.

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Messaging and Collaboration Threat Forensics

Provides real-time insights into who clicked, where the attack originated, and how threats spread across channels—all with integrated forensics.

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Products

Power Products

Learn more about the products and tools powering our solutions

Core Email Protection SEG

Stop more threats with continuous end-to-end detection, pre- and post-delivery and click-time protection

Core Email Protection API

Stop more threats, including internal phishing, with a fully integrated layer of behavioral AI

Impersonation Protection

Holistic brand and supplier defense that stops 100% of domain spoofing

ZenGuide

Unlock full user risk visibility and drive behavior change

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Learn how our integrated platform helps you:

  • Stop cyberattacks

  • Prevent data loss

  • Reduce human risk across your environment

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