Proofpoint Essentials + Packages Overview

According to the FBI’s most recent IC3 report, Business Email Compromise (BEC) cost U.S. organizations $2.9B in 2023. Small businesses must be particularly cautious about the risk of BEC, as they are often targeted by cybercriminals due to their lack of tough security measures. You can take proactive steps to protect from BEC attacks by implementing stronger email security protocols.

What’s new?

To better secure your users and prevent these types of costly, advanced email threats, we are excited to introduce new features available in our new plus packages: Business +, Advanced +, and Professional +.

These new packages are available immediately and add features like Advanced BEC Defense, Email Warning Tags, Predictive URL Defense, and One-Click Message Pull to our comprehensive email security and security awareness platform.
 

What’s the benefit?

These new features work together to improve overall protection, which reduces the time spent on user requests for email remediation and potential future incident response, incorporating Proofpoint’s award winning, AI-powered detection technology.

Advanced BEC Defense - Identifies and stops hard to detect business email compromise (BEC) and social engineering attacks common in payment redirect scams, supplier invoicing fraud, and targeted phishing campaigns. Proofpoint observed 3X detection improvement for BEC in preliminary testing.

These types of threats require a more sophisticated detection technique since there’s often no malicious payload to detect. Advanced BEC Defense is powered by Supernova, our latest behavioral AI engine, which analyzes multiple message attributes such as message header data, sender IP address and message body for sentiment analysis.

Email Warning Tags - Reduces risk by making customers more aware and cautious of potentially dangerous messages. The Email Warning Tag feature automatically identifies suspicious messages and inserts banners into the message body, offering a short description of the risk associated with that email.

These tags are customizable, mobile responsive, and easily understandable for users. Knowing more about where and who an email is coming from helps them make better in-the-moment security decisions.

Predictive URL Defense - Keeps users protected by discovering malicious URLs used in phishing campaigns and advanced ransomware attacks more quickly. Predictive URL Defense runs continuously, automatically sandboxing suspicious links based on smart triggers and email traffic patterns.

This added layer of defense blocks compromised messages before they land in a user’s inbox. No human interaction needed.

One-Click Message Pull - Improves time to message remediation for administrators controlling mail flow in Microsoft 365 accounts. This feature gives admins an easy path through Email Logs to remove or restore a delivered message with a single click. This drastically improves efficiency and time spent on mail management.