Email Fraud Defense
Secure your trusted business communications, prevent email and domain spoofing, and enforce DMARC safely with expert guidance.
Complete Email Fraud Solution
Control who can send email on your behalf, stop domain spoofing and impersonation, and protect your brand and customers with a complete email fraud defense solution. By combining expert-led DMARC implementation with continuous authentication management, you'll reach enforcement faster and maintain protection over time.
Enforce DMARC with expert guidance
Get to p=reject faster with highly skilled consultants who guide every step of your DMARC journey without disrupting legitimate email.
Stop domain impersonation and email fraud
Prevent attackers from spoofing your domain and detect lookalike domains used in phishing and business email compromise (BEC) attacks.
Maintain protection beyond DMARC
Manage SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and BIMI with hosted services that reduce complexity and support long-term email authentication and brand trust.
Sender Control Challenges
To gain control, you need full visibility into every internal app, cloud service, and supplier sending email on your behalf. Native email authentication tools provide only partial visibility, which makes it difficult to safely enforce Domain-Based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC). As a result, DMARC enforcement is often delayed or incomplete, leaving your domain exposed to email spoofing, phishing, and business email compromise (BEC).
DMARC Enforcement
Proofpoint Email Fraud Defense helps you implement and enforce DMARC email authentication with confidence. Dedicated experts guide your DMARC journey, helping you identify all senders, validate email authentication protocols, and safely move to a reject policy without disrupting legitimate email.
Comprehensive Sender Discovery
Identify all authorized senders across internal systems, cloud services, and third-party platforms sending on your behalf.
Safe Policy Enforcement
Move to a DMARC reject policy (p=reject) using validation checks and controls that prevent disruption to legitimate email.
Integrated Email Gateway Enforcement
Extend DMARC enforcement to inbound email, validate sender reputation, and apply policies without blocking legitimate messages.
Impersonation Prevention
Attackers use domain spoofing and lookalike domains to impersonate your organization. Email Fraud Defense provides continuous visibility into these threats and helps you take action before they impact your business, customers, or partners.
Lookalike Domain Detection
Continuously monitor more than 650 million domains using global intelligence to detect domains that mimic your brand.
Ecosystem-Wide Threat Visibility
Track impersonation attempts, attack patterns, and targeted domains across your internal and external email environment.
Expert Hosted Services
Managing email authentication across a complex environment takes time, effort, and specialized expertise. Email Fraud Defense simplifies this with hosted services for SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and BIMI, helping you maintain strong authentication, reduce operational overhead, and support brand trust over time.
Automated Updates and Reliability
Ensure accurate records with near real-time updates and resilient, globally distributed infrastructure.
Secure Email Relay
Internal apps and third-party SaaS send email on your behalf, not just people. Secure your application-based email, support DMARC compliance, and prevent domain abuse by untrusted senders with Secure Email Relay.
Why Proofpoint
| Capability | Native Email Authentication Tools | Proofpoint Email Fraud Defense |
|---|---|---|
| DMARC deployment | Leave implementation, sender discovery, and policy rollout to internal teams | Provides guided DMARC implementation through a combination of AI guidance and subject matter experts |
| Sender visibility | Focus on managed mail sources, requiring extra effort to identify all authorized senders | Discovers authorized senders across internal systems, consumer mailboxes, cloud services, SaaS apps, and suppliers |
| Safe enforcement | Provide policy controls but limited guidance for validating every sender before enforcement | Validates authentication before moving to a DMARC reject policy, reducing disruption |
| Brand protection | Focus on domain authentication rather than broader impersonation threats | Detects domain spoofing, lookalike domains, and impersonation threats beyond DMARC |
| Supplier visibility | Provide limited visibility into supplier authentication and third-party email risk | Identifies suppliers and surfaces associated risks through threat intelligence |
| Hosted authentication | Require organizations to manage authentication records and infrastructure themselves | Simplifies SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and BIMI management though hosted authentication services |
| Integrated enforcement | Authentication and email security enforcement are managed separately | Combines DMARC intelligence with email gateway enforcement as a signal to help ensure delivery of legitimate inbound mail from your domains |
Email Fraud Defense delivers integrated domain spoofing and impersonation protection as a core component of Proofpoint Collaboration Security Prime. This unified platform extends that protection beyond email to messaging and collaboration tools, cloud apps, and the supply chain to secure trusted communications across your organization.
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DMARC is difficult to implement because most organizations lack visibility into all email senders using their domain. Without identifying internal systems and third-party services, enforcing DMARC can block legitimate messages. This is why many organizations rely on expert guidance to safely reach enforcement and avoid disruption.
If you enforce DMARC without full visibility into your senders, legitimate email can be quarantined or rejected. This can disrupt business operations as well as customer communications. It also creates risk and reduces trust, especially when critical messages fail to reach customers or partners, which is why organizations often delay enforcement.
Proofpoint Email Fraud Defense combines expert guidance with full visibility into all senders. It helps you validate authentication, safely enforce DMARC, and move to a reject policy without disrupting legitimate email. This approach reduces risk and accelerates time to enforcement.
Native email authentication tools often provide limited visibility into third-party senders and lack guidance for safe enforcement. They also do not address broader risks like domain impersonation and supplier risk exposure. This leaves gaps that attackers can exploit.
DMARC helps stop domain spoofing by blocking unauthorized senders from using your domain. However, it does not stop lookalike domains or all impersonation attacks. Additional protection is needed to detect lookalike domains, monitor impersonation attempts, and assess risk across your supplier ecosystem so you can identify and stop threats early.