Insider Threat Management
Detect motive and risky behavior across endpoint, chat, AI, email, cloud, and web to accelerate investigations and prevent harm.
OVERVIEW
Insider threat management helps security teams detect and understand risky behavior, investigate suspicious activity, and prevent security incidents across channels. By combining behavioral insights, user activity, data context, and adaptive controls, it empowers teams to identify insider risk earlier and respond to security incidents faster.
Focus on the users most likely to cause harm by combining motive, behavior, and data signals.
Understand what happened with user story timelines, intelligent sentiment analysis, and forensic evidence.
Detect threats while respecting user privacy with behavior-based monitoring anonymization.
PRODUCT DETAILS
Proofpoint Insider Threat Management solutions identifies high-risk users by combining behavioral insights, user activity, data movement, and human risk signals across endpoints, browsers, cloud, email, and web channels. Real-time adaptive risk monitoring helps security teams focus on the activity most likely to lead to security incidents.
Instantly see user behavior and activity in real time across endpoints, browsers, cloud, and email without an alert queue.
Understand motive by analyzing workplace communications for early risk signals.
Start fast with out-of-the-box alert libraries, prebuilt insider threat scenarios, and customizable detection rules.
Elevate monitoring when users take risky actions. Combine behavior, identity, data, and motive to prevent harm.
Bring user activity, behavioral context, and forensic evidence into a unified investigation workflow. Security teams can validate insider risk faster, understand user sentiment more clearly, and share actionable evidence with HR, legal, and compliance stakeholders during incident response.
View activity before, during, and after insider incidents in a unified investigation workflow.
Capture screenshots and activity context to validate careless or malicious behavior.
Share forensic evidence and investigation context with your HR, legal, and compliance teams.
Protect your users' privacy with data anonymization, masking, and role-based access controls.
Use adaptive controls and dynamic policies to prevent risky data movement across endpoints, cloud apps, web activity, and GenAI tools. Security teams can block high-risk actions, apply policy-based protections, and guide users with in-the-moment coaching without disrupting productivity.
Block risky transfers involving USB devices, cloud sync apps, web uploads, and GenAI tools.
Adjust controls automatically based on user behavior and insider risk indicators.
Help users learn safe data handling and rethink risky actions with customizable notifications.
Integrate with SIEM and SOAR workflows through APIs and webhooks.
Strengthen your ITM program with expert guidance, operational support, and insights that help your team reduce risk faster.
WHY ORGANIZATIONS CHOOSE PROOFPOINT
| Capability | Static Insider Threat Monitoring | Proofpoint ITM |
|---|---|---|
| Adaptive monitoring | Requires manual policy updates as user risk changes | Adjusts monitoring in real time based on user behavior and risk signals |
| Behavioral context | Reviews individual events with limited behavioral context | Combines behavior, communications, and data activity to reveal user sentiment |
| Cross-channel visibility | Provides visibility across fewer activity sources | Unifies insights across email, cloud, web, endpoints, and data movement |
| Human risk prioritization | Prioritizes alerts rather than correlated human risk | Prioritizes users by combining behavior, identity, data, and motive |
| Investigation context | Requires investigators to piece together evidence across events | Combines timelines, forensic evidence, and activity context to speed investigations |
| Privacy-by-design | Relies on administrative controls to manage investigator access | Protects privacy with anonymization, data masking, and role-based access |
| Adaptive data protection | Applies static controls that do not auto-adjust to changing risk | Applies dynamic policies, real-time controls, and user coaching to help prevent data loss |
Combine ITM with Enterprise DLP, Adaptive Email DLP, and Email DLP and Encryption to identify risky users, protect sensitive data, and accelerate investigations.
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