Email Protection

Proofpoint Advanced BEC Defense powered by NexusAI is designed to stop a wide variety of email fraud. This includes payment redirect and supplier invoicing fraud from compromised accounts. For these types of threats, you need a more sophisticated detection technique, since there’s often no malicious payload to detect.

With Advanced BEC Defense, you get a detection engine that’s powered by AI and machine learning. And it’s specifically designed to find and stop BEC attacks. It analyzes multiple message attributes, such as:

• Message header data
• Sender’s IP address (x-originating IP and reputation)
• Message body for urgency and words/phrases, and more

It then determines whether that message is a BEC threat. And it detects various attacker tactics, such as reply-to pivots, use of malicious IPs, and use of impersonated supplier domains.

Advanced BEC Defense also gives you granular visibility into BEC threat details. It provides the BEC theme (e.g., supplier invoicing, gift card, payroll redirect), observations about why the message was suspicious, and message samples. These key details help your security team better understand and communicate about the attack.

We use multilayered detection techniques, including reputation and content analysis, to help you defend against constantly evolving threats. With Email Protection, you get dynamic classification of a wide variety of emails. These include phishing, malware, impostor threats, bulk email, spam and more.

You can automatically tag suspicious email. This reduces the risk of potential compromise by making your end users more cautious of uncertain email.

Pinpoint hard-to-find log data based on dozens of search criteria. You can also swiftly trace where emails come from and go to.

Identify graymail (e.g., newsletters and bulk mail) with our granular email filtering. And give your users individual control over their low-priority emails. This also helps to reduce your IT overhead.