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About Proofpoint

Proofpoint, Inc. (NASDAQ: PFPT) is a leading cybersecurity company that protects organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: their people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions that mitigate their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web. More information is available at www.proofpoint.com.

5 Billion+

Emails secured daily

10 Million+

Cloud accounts protected daily

100 Billion+

Data points analyzed daily

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What are the #critical must-haves of a one-stop information #security solution? Attackers are even able to coordinate intelligent #attacks to bypass multi-factor authentication #MFA. Learn more about #cloud with @Frost_Sullivan and Proofpoint: https://t.co/hm38JtCUxD https://t.co/W9wiqTh81h

3 hours ago

After over a year of remote work, we are beginning the return to “normalcy” in many places. What happens as the workforce shifts to a hybrid model of partial in-person & partial remote work?
How do you keep users safe from cyber attacks like #ransomware? https://t.co/F9InjUpx73 https://t.co/5VWisnTvL8

7 hours ago

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July 29, 2021

Proofpoint Announces Second Quarter 2021 Financial Results

Proofpoint, Inc. (NASDAQ: PFPT), a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2021.

July 23, 2021

Proofpoint Stockholders Approve Acquisition by Thoma Bravo

Proofpoint, Inc. (NASDAQ: PFPT), a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, today announced that its stockholders voted to approve the acquisition of Proofpoint by Thoma Bravo, a leading software investment firm.

June 14, 2021

Proofpoint Announces Cancellation of its 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders

Proofpoint, Inc. (NASDAQ: PFPT), a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, today announced its Board of Directors has cancelled the 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders scheduled for June 15, 2021.

June 10, 2021

Proofpoint Announces Expiration of “Go-Shop” Period

Proofpoint, Inc. (NASDAQ: PFPT), a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, today announced the expiration of the 45-day “go-shop” period under the terms of the previously announced definitive agreement, pursuant to which Thoma Bravo, a leading private equity investment firm focused on the software and technology-enabled services sector, will acquire Proofpoint in an all-cash transaction that values Proofpoint at approximately $12.3 billion. The “go-shop” period expired at 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Time) on June 9, 2021.

June 08, 2021

Proofpoint Launches Industry’s First Cloud Native Information Protection and Cloud Security Platform

Proofpoint, Inc. (NASDAQ: PFPT), a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, today announced several people-centric innovations across its three flagship platforms: Threat Protection, Compliance, and the new Information Protection and Cloud Security.

June 03, 2021

Proofpoint Delivers Advanced Data Loss Prevention for Microsoft Teams

Proofpoint, Inc., (NASDAQ: PFPT), a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, today announced Proofpoint Cloud App Security Broker (Proofpoint CASB) is now a certified data loss prevention (DLP) partner for Microsoft Teams. Available as part of Proofpoint’s Information Protection platform, organizations worldwide can now ensure real-time data security and compliance while millions of users collaborate in Teams.

May 24, 2021

New Ponemon Institute Study Reveals Cloud Account Compromises Cost Organizations Over $6 Million Annually

Over two-thirds of surveyed IT professionals believe cloud account takeovers are a significant risk to their organizations

May 17, 2021

Proofpoint Introduces NexusAI for Compliance

Proofpoint, Inc., (NASDAQ: PFPT), a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, today announced the launch of NexusAI for Compliance, a new machine learning module for Proofpoint Enterprise Archive customers seeking to enhance supervisory review for regulatory compliance.

May 12, 2021

Proofpoint’s Voice of the CISO 2021 Report Reveals Two-Thirds of Global CISOs Feel Unprepared to Cope with a Cyberattack

Proofpoint, Inc. (NASDAQ: PFPT), a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, today released its inaugural 2021 Voice of the CISO report which explores key challenges facing chief information security officers (CISOs) after an unprecedented twelve months. Sixty-six percent of CISOs feel their organization is unprepared to handle a cyberattack and 58% consider human error to be their biggest cyber vulnerability, proving that the work-from-home model necessitated by the pandemic has tested CISOs like never before.

May 11, 2021

Proofpoint Wins Best Email Security Solution at 2021 SC Awards

Proofpoint, Inc., (NASDAQ: PFPT), a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, today announced Proofpoint Threat Protection Platform won Best Email Security Solution in the Trust Awards category at the 2021 SC Awards. Powered by NexusAI, Proofpoint’s advanced machine learning technology, the award-winning Proofpoint Threat Protection Platform detects and blocks threats that others miss.

Best Cloud Computing Security Solution (Proofpoint Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)

Browser Isolation (Proofpoint Browser Isolation)

Anti-Phishing (Proofpoint Email Security)

Cyber Threat Intelligence (Proofpoint Nexus Threat Graph)

Best Cybersecurity Education Provider

Most Innovative Cybersecurity Company

2020 Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Award

Pittsburgh Business Times: Best Places to Work

CISO Choice Awards Names Proofpoint the Premier Security Company

2020 Best Overall Enterprise Email Security Solution Provider of the Year

2020 Espresa Award for Culture Benefits® Innovation and Excellence

One of The Software Report's "Top 100 Software Companies of 2020"

Best Enterprise Security Solution (Proofpoint Advanced Email Protection)

Fraud Prevention (Proofpoint Fraud Defense)

Best Email Security Solution (Proofpoint Email Protection)

One of CRN's 20 Coolest Cloud Security Companies of 2020

One of CRN's 20 Coolest Web, Email and Application Security Vendors of 2020

2020 Most Innovative Cybersecurity Company

2020 Best Cybersecurity Education Provider

2020 Data-centric Security (Proofpoint Information Protection)

2020 Information Archiving (Proofpoint Enterprise Archive)

2020 Insider Threat Solution (ObserveIT, a Proofpoint Company)

2020 Incident Response (Proofpoint Threat Response)

2020 Security Education (Proofpoint Security Awareness Training)

2020 Security Education Platform (Proofpoint Security Education Platform)

Insider Threat Solution (Proofpoint Insider Threat Management)

Best Cloud Automation Solution

Proofpoint Information Protection Best Data Leak Prevention (DLP) Solution

SC Awards 2021: Best Email Security Solution

Social Media Security (Proofpoint Digital Risk Protection)

Information Archiving (Proofpoint Enterprise Archive)

eDiscovery (Proofpoint Enterprise Archive, E-Discovery Analytics)

Data Governance (Proofpoint Information Protection, Archive, and Compliance)

Compliance Solution (Proofpoint Compliance Solutions)

Zero Trust Security (Proofpoint Meta)

User and Entity Behavior Analytics (Proofpoint Insider Threat Management)

Security Monitoring (Proofpoint Insider Threat Management)

Security Investigation (Proofpoint Insider Threat Management)

2020 Ransomware Protection (Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection)

Hybrid Cloud Security (Proofpoint CASB, SaaS Isolation, and Meta)

Google Cloud Security (Proofpoint CASB)

Forensics (Proofpoint Insider Threat Management)

Endpoint Security (Proofpoint Insider Threat Management)

Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) (Proofpoint CASB)

Azure Cloud Security (Proofpoint CASB)

AWS Cloud Security (Proofpoint Cloud App Security Broker (CASB))

Security Education Platform (Proofpoint Security Awareness Training)

Security Education (Proofpoint Security Awareness Training)

Security Awareness Program (Proofpoint Security Awareness Training)

Phishing Detection and Response (Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP))

2017 SC Media Awards - Best Regulatory Compliance Solution

2019 Email Security (Proofpoint Email Protection)

2019 Threat Detection, Intelligence and Response (Proofpoint Threat Response)

Most Important Cybersecurity Companies of the Last 30 Years

2018 Best Email Security / Loss Management Solution - Platinum Winner

2018 Best Threat Intelligence Solution - Platinum Winner

2018 SC Magazine Awards Europe - Best SME Solution

CRN’s 2018 Security 100: 20 Coolest Web, Email And Application Security Vendors

CRN’s Top 20 Coolest Cloud Vendors

CRN’s 2017 Security 100: 20 Coolest Web, Email And Application Security Vendors

CRN’s 2017 Mobility 100: 30 Coolest Mobile Security And Device Management Vendors

2017 Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™

2017 SC Media Awards - Best Email Security Solution

2019 Data Leakage Prevention (DLP) (Proofpoint Information Protection)

2017 SC Magazine Awards Europe - Best Fraud Prevention Solution

2017 SC Magazine Awards Europe - Best SME Solution

2016 Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™

2016 SC Magazine Awards - Best Email Security Solution

CRN’s 2016 Security 100: 20 Coolest Web, Email And Application Security Vendors

2015 Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™

2015 SC Magazine Awards - Best Customer Service

2014 Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™

2014 SC Magazine Awards Europe - Best Email Security Solution

2014 SC Magazine Awards - Best Email Security Solution

2013 Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™

2019 Proofpoint Security Awareness Training

2020 Social Media Security (Proofpoint Digital Risk Protection)

2020 Fraud Prevention (Proofpoint Digital Risk Protection)

2020 Data Governance (Proofpoint Information Protection, Archive, and Compliance)

2020 Data Leakage Prevention (DLP) (Proofpoint Information Protection)

2020 eDiscovery (Proofpoint e-Discovery Analytics)

2020 Cloud Security (Proofpoint Cloud App Security)

2020 Compliance Solution (Proofpoint Information Protection, Archive, and Compliance)

2020 Email Security (Proofpoint Email Security)

2020 Threat Detection, Intelligence and Response (Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection and Threat Response)

2019 Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Award

2019 SC Awards Europe

2019 Proofpoint Essentials

2012 Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™

2019 Best Cybersecurity Education Provider (between 1,000 to 4,999 employees)

2019 Most Innovative Cybersecurity Company (between 1,000 to 4,999 employees)

2019 Compliance Solution (Proofpoint Information Protection, Archive, and Compliance)

2019 Data Governance (Proofpoint Information Protection, Archive, and Compliance)

2019 Data-centric Security (Proofpoint Information Protection)

2019 eDiscovery (Proofpoint E-discovery Analytics)

2019 Incident Response (Proofpoint Threat Response)

2019 Information Archiving (Proofpoint Enterprise Archive)

2019 Social Media Security (Proofpoint Digital Risk Protection)

2019 Best Cybersecurity Company (between 1,000 to 4,999 employees)

2019 Cloud Security (Proofpoint Cloud App Security)

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