State and Local Government
Reduce risk across email, people, and data while protecting the services your community depends on.
Cross-Channel Protection
State and local government agencies depend on secure digital communications to deliver critical services and protect sensitive data. As human-targeted attacks become more sophisticated, agencies need a security strategy that secures email, people, and data across today's digital environment.
Build and maintain public trust
Protect trusted channels and help ensure residents' confidence in the services your agency provides.
Strengthen operational resilience
Reduce disruption from human-targeted attacks so your agency can maintain critical operations.
Do more with limited resources
Help your team prioritize the biggest risks, respond faster, and make the most of constrained budgets and staff.
The Continuity Challenge
Email remains the top entry point for cyberattacks, but attackers now use AI and trusted channels, including collaboration tools, cloud apps, suppliers, and AI assistants, to scale impersonation and social engineering.
Agencies must protect more sensitive data and digital services, often with few resources. To meet this challenge, security teams need one connected view of people, communications, and data that helps them make faster, more informed decisions.
Advanced Threat Protection
Keep trusted government communications flowing with advanced email security that protects employees from today's sophisticated attacks. Proofpoint helps state and local government agencies stop phishing, ransomware, and other email-based threats before they put sensitive information at risk.
Protect against advanced email threats with layered detection powered by AI and real-time threat intelligence.
Authenticate government email to stop domain spoofing and impersonation that erode public trust.
Prevent misdirected emails, wrong attachments, and other risky messages before sensitive data is shared.
Identify high-risk users, deliver adaptive security awareness training, and reduce risky behavior over time.
Data Security and Governance
Government data is distributed across clouds, endpoints, AI apps, and collaboration tools like Microsoft 365. Proofpoint helps agencies discover sensitive information, understand who has access to it, prevent data loss, and strengthen governance across the data lifecycle.
Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)
Discover, classify, and prioritize sensitive data across cloud and hybrid environments.
Enterprise Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
Prevent unauthorized sharing of citizen, employee, and agency data across channels with deep behavioral insights.
Enable secure AI adoption with visibility into prompts, uploads, and data exposure across approved and shadow AI tools.
Detect risky user behavior early and investigate potential insider threats before they lead to data loss.
Digital Communications Governance
Capture and preserve digital communications to support compliance, eDiscovery, and investigations.
Why Proofpoint
| Capability | Point Solutions | Proofpoint |
|---|---|---|
| Cyberthreat protection | Protect individual attack vectors with separate tools and investigations | Protects people across email, data, and digital channels with shared intelligence |
| Data security | Protect separate stages of the data lifecycle with different tools and workflows | Discovers and protects sensitive data wherever it lives |
| Digital governance | Require separate archiving, governance, and investigation tools | Preserves digital communications for compliance, investigations, and eDiscovery |
| Risk prioritization | Require analysts to manually connect insights across multiple tools | Prioritizes the highest risks across people, email, data, and cloud activity |
| SecOps efficiency | Increase operational overhead with multiple consoles, policies, and workflows | Helps security teams work faster with one integrated platform |
Customer Stories
"The unified platform helps save us time. Helps save us energy."
Rich Blea
CISO, City & County of Denver, Colorado
"Proofpoint has reduced the time we need to respond to e-discovery requests by more than 50 percent."
Michael Pantin
CIO, Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services
"Our support time and effort has dropped dramatically from where it had been before."
Mal Duncan
Manager of ICT, City of Melville, South Australia
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Government email supports essential public services and connects agencies with residents, employees, contractors, and partner organizations. That makes it a primary target for phishing, impersonation, and ransomware. Modern government email security protects those trusted communications while helping prevent accidental and malicious data loss.
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State and local governments can't protect every threat equally. The most effective approach is to focus on the people, communications, and data that support essential public services. An integrated cybersecurity platform helps security teams prioritize risk, reduce manual work, and respond faster without adding more point solutions.
Government data now lives across Microsoft 365, cloud services, collaboration tools, and AI applications. Protecting it requires visibility into where sensitive data is stored, who can access it, and how it moves across your environment. Modern data security combines discovery, access controls, data loss prevention, and governance to reduce risk without slowing the delivery of public services.
Government agencies rely on trusted communications to deliver public services, share sensitive information, and coordinate with employees, residents, and partner organizations. Proofpoint helps protect those communications with advanced email security, email fraud defense, adaptive email DLP, and human risk management. Together, these solutions help stop phishing, impersonation, accidental data loss, and other threats before they disrupt operations or erode public trust.
State and local governments must keep essential public services running while protecting sensitive constituent data. They also face strict public sector regulations and often work with limited staff and budgets. That means security decisions are measured not only by the attacks they stop, but also by how well they help agencies continue serving the public.
