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Impersonation Protection

Holistic brand and supplier defense 
that stops 100% of spoofing

Overview

Impersonation puts your business at risk

Attacks that spoof trusted domains, executives, suppliers and applications can result in customer mistrust, brand damage, and significant financial losses.

1%
of organizations receive an attack from a compromised supplier every month
1K
imposter domains were registered by attackers in a massive phishing campaign
$1B
worth of losses due to BEC since 2013
Benefits

Holistic impersonation protection, simplified

Our holistic impersonation protection defends your business communications from brand abuse and detects compromised supplier accounts.

Simplified Authentication
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Simplified email authentication that protects your business from domain abuse
Supplier Account Defense
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Supplier account defense that uses behavioral AI, machine learning and threat intelligence to protect you from compromised suppliers
Lookalike Domain Detection and Takedown
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Malicious lookalike domain detection and remediation to reduce their impact to your brand reputation

Experience the benefits of our impersonation protection

We stop 100% of
domain spoofing

Our experts help you authenticate your email and guide you through each stage of a DMARC rollout so attackers can’t pose as you. And we integrate your domain protection with our Threat Protection solution, so you can ensure protection without blocking legitimate mail, reducing your team’s workload.

Spoofed Domain Summary

Secure email deliverability

Proofpoint secures email deliverability for both your outbound user email and application email. While your competitors may end up in the spam folder due to unauthenticated application email, we keep you in compliance with major email service providers like Google and Yahoo.

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Defend against compromised suppliers

Our impersonation protection can help you detect and defend against risky suppliers using behavioral AI, machine learning and threat intelligence. Our adaptive controls mitigate your exposure and integrate with our threat protection solution to provide context around sender-recipient relationships and streamline third party incident response and investigation.

Defend against compromised suppliers

Prevent hijacked application email

Application emails sent “as you” like password resets, order confirmations, appointment reminders and service updates are critical. We ensure those emails are authenticated and secure, relieving the burden on your security team and ensuring seamless business operations.

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The best lookalike domain defense

To help protect your brand reputation, we provide continuous monitoring for malicious lookalikes of your domains and provide access to a team of highly skilled professionals that can assist in getting them taken down.

Comprehensive solution

Our holistic impersonation protection approach empowers your team with total visibility into all impersonation risks including domain spoofing, malicious lookalike domains and compromised supplier accounts. And we reveal all emails being sent as you, including 3rd parties and applications. Instead of juggling multiple vendors tackling different pieces of the impersonation problem, you can simplify with a single vendor to tackle the whole problem.

Key Features

Key features of our Impersonation Protection

Adaptive controls to mitigate risk

We allow customers to apply adaptive controls, such as automatic isolation of URLs from compromised supplier accounts without disrupting your business. Other email impersonation protection solutions cannot give you adaptive controls to mitigate risk.

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Uncover compromised supplier accounts

We correlate our email impersonation protection with behavioral AI, machine learning and threat intelligence to proactively uncover compromised supplier accounts. And we integrate with our threat protection solution provide sender-recipient context to streamline your response.

Supplier Eval

Dynamic detection and remediation for malicious lookalike domains

We dynamically detect malicious lookalike domains that pose a threat to your brand reputation and can work on your behalf to get them taken down. We also uncover malicious lookalike domains of your suppliers, revealing the messaging volume and messages delivered from those malicious lookalikes. No other vendor can provide that kind of visibility.

Lookalike Domain Alert

DMARC implementation, simplified

DMARC implementation can be complex. Our expert consultants will guide you through each step of your DMARC rollout. With us, you’ll get comprehensive visibility into email authentication for all of your emails —including authorized 3rd parties, user and application email.

Industry-leading detection stack

We apply our industry-leading threat detection stack to all your application email sent as you to ensure your outbound email traffic is clean and secure.

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