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Watch what you send, post, tweet about your company; The boss may be watching: It probably goes without saying that you should be careful about what you send in e-mail, post on Facebook or write in a tweet.Â It could get you into hot water with the boss or, worse yet, sent straight to the unemployment line. Case in point: the...; Tags: Leak, Proofpoint Inc., Company Information, E-mail, Online Communications, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2009-08-10
HIPAA and Beyond: An Update on Healthcare Security Regulations for Email: Judging from both the HITECH Act included in the stimulus bill and the FTC's multi-million dollar penalty against CVS, this much is clear: the U.S. federal government has gotten serious about enforcing HIPAA security regulations. At the same time, state governments are demonstrating their own fervor for data security by...; Tags: Health Care, Lapse, Proofpoint Inc., E-mail, Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Security, Healthcare, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures; White papers 2009-08-01
Outbound Email and Data Loss Prevention in Today's Enterprise, 2009: This paper summarizes the findings of Proofpoint's sixth annual survey of enterprise attitudes about outbound email, content security and data protection. Its goal is to "take the pulse" of IT decision-makers with respect to outbound messaging and data loss issues and to help raise awareness of the policy, technology and...; Tags: Data Protection, Data Loss, Proofpoint Inc., E-mail, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Online Communications, Data Management; White papers 2009-08-01
The Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Stops Patient Data Leaks With Proofpoint: Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's key healthcare trusts. The challenge was an email encryption solution that integrated easily into current Exchange deployment as well as the back end IT infrastructure. Southend University selected the Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway appliance to protect over 6000 employee...; Tags: Patient, Hospital, Proofpoint Inc., Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, E-mail, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Online Communications, Human Resources; Case studies 2009-03-01
Email Security and Compliance Risks: Video Webcast: The presenter of this webcast discusses the current state of the secure email gateway market and the primary criteria organizations should consider when evaluating solutions. The presenter of this webcast speaks about the email risks that are driving enterprises to re-evaluate their current solutions and how Proofpoint can help address...; Tags: Webcast, Compliance, E-mail Security, Video, Proofpoint Inc., E-mail, Cyberthreats, Online Communications, Security; Webcasts 2009-01-01

Minimal IT Budget?: Maximize ROI With Email Security in the Cloud: The attendee of this webcast will learn how "In the cloud" email security solutions can greatly reduce up-front investments, minimize ongoing administration costs and minimize time-to-value. The presenter will discuss how in-the-cloud and new hybrid email security solutions can deliver more value than purely on-premises solutions. The presenter also explains...; Tags: Information Technology, E-mail Security, ROI, Proofpoint Inc., E-mail, Cyberthreats, Online Communications, Security; Webcasts 2009-01-01
Advances in SaaS Email Security: Data Loss Prevention and Beyond: Until recently, selecting a SaaS solution for email security meant limiting the email security capabilities to spam and virus protection. Functions such as regulatory compliance, encryption and archiving were reserved for on-premise solutions due to security, trust and control issues. IT and security professionals were not ready to bet their...; Tags: Software-as-a-service, E-mail Security, Proofpoint Inc., Software As A Service (SaaS), Cyberthreats, Managed Hosting, E-mail, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Security, Online Communications; Webcasts 2009-01-01
The Great Email Security Debate: Based on "Real world" examples from Proofpoint's customer base, this web seminar replay discusses the critical factors that one should consider when evaluating email security deployment scenarios for the organization. The attendee will hear how to keep messaging infrastructure safe from spam and viruses, or prevent leaks of the organization's...; Tags: E-mail Security, Proofpoint Inc., Cyberthreats, E-mail, Security, Online Communications; Webcasts 2009-01-01
Stop Spam, Gain ROI With Virtual Appliances: The presenter of this webcast will discusses how Proofpoint's breakthrough virtual appliance for messaging security delivers the industry's most advanced defense against spam, viruses and content security breaches - combined with the many benefits of virtualization. The latest spam and virus trends are also discussed.; Tags: ROI, Proofpoint Inc., Virus, Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing; Webcasts 2009-01-01
Customer Case Study Webinar: Cincinnati Bell Benefits From Proofpoint's Virtual Appliance for Messaging Security: Virtual appliances are changing the traditional software distribution model. Independent software vendors can now package their application with the most appropriate operating system into a fully configured virtual machine, thus eliminating the set-up and configuration hurdles of new software deployment. IT organizations can now run these secure and reliable virtual...; Tags: Appliance, Cincinnati Bell, Webinar, Benefit, Messaging, Proofpoint Inc., Instant Messaging, Tools & Techniques, Groupware, Security, Internet, Online Communications, Management, Enterprise Software, Software; Webcasts 2009-01-01
No Summer Vacation From Spam: The presenter will discuss the latest email threats-including new spam techniques, phishing scams and blended threats- and how one can protect the organization, email system and end users this summer.; Tags: Proofpoint Inc., E-mail, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing; Webcasts 2009-01-01
Is It Time to Bench Your Anti-Spam Solution?: The attendee of this webcast will learn how to address the threats facing the school and easily lower the Total Cost of Ownership TCO of the email security solution. The attende will see why schools such as City University of New York, Kent State, Oakland Unified School District, Prince William...; Tags: Anti-spam, Proofpoint Inc., Roi/Tco, Spam, Cyberthreats, E-mail, Viruses And Worms, Security, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications; Webcasts 2009-01-01
Spam in Your Stocking: Malicious Holiday Email... and How to Stop It: Offers for holiday sales, charitable solicitations and free shipping may very well be cleverly disguised attacks by phishers attempting to obtain personal identity and financial information. Spammers and virus writers also use these tactics during the holiday season to enable them to create ever-larger botnets that can be used to...; Tags: Proofpoint Inc., E-mail, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing; Webcasts 2009-01-01
Leveraging Next-Generation Cloud Computing for Email Security and Archiving: Want maximum control - managing custom policies, actions, users and reports? Or prefer a "Lights out" operation, which frees the administrators from ever having to spend time with the system? With the latest innovations, email security and archiving in the cloud can provide increased flexibility, control and security over traditional...; Tags: Archiving, E-mail Security, Proofpoint Inc., E-mail, Business Intelligence, Cyberthreats, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Security; Webcasts 2009-01-01
Is Now the Time to Deploy Email Encryption?: According to a September 2009 Proofpoint/Osterman Research survey, 77% of enterprises IT professionals say that they have, or intend to, deploy email encryption, but 21% aren't sure when? With an escalating number of large fines being levied against corporations that don't comply with data protection regulations - and the constant...; Tags: Data Protection, Proofpoint Inc., Encryption, E-mail, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Online Communications, Data Management; Webcasts 2009-01-01
Regulations Shift Focus on Outbound Email Security: The Impact of HIPAA, PCI, PIIG, and Other New Government and Industry Guidelines on Email Security Policies: Email is the lingua franca of business today. It is the conduit that allows employees to share information, companies to work with partners, and increasingly, provides a way for companies and their customers to interact. Enterprises today deal with an ever-increasing number of email-related threats. Most are familiar with the...; Tags: HIPAA, E-mail Security, PCI, Government, Regulation, Proofpoint Inc., E-mail, Cyberthreats, Online Communications, Security; White papers 2007-11-02
Proofpoint MLX Whitepaper: Machine Learning to Beat Spam Today... and Tomorrow: As spammers employ increasingly sophisticated techniques to avoid detection by the antispam rules and heuristics currently in widespread use, these simplistic anti-spam solutions have become less and less effective. Once again, users' email inboxes are flooded with spam and critical emails are being inadvertently discarded or simply lost in the...; Tags: Anti-spam, Proofpoint Inc., E-mail, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing; White papers 2007-07-01
Outback Steakhouse Grills Spam With Proofpoint: Like most companies today, Outback Steakhouse was plagued by unsolicited email. Roughly 80% of Outback Steakhouse's total inbound email was spam, which upset employees by limiting their productivity and exposing them to inappropriate content, while also putting pressure on IT infrastructure such as mail servers, severely straining IT resources. Outback...; Tags: Proofpoint Inc., Cyberthreats, Spam, E-mail, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications; Case studies 2007-01-01
Outback Secures Outbound Email With Proofpoint: A longtime Proofpoint customer, Outback Steakhouse is an Australian steakhouse concept restaurant with nearly 1,000 locations in the U.S. and abroad. Outback needed a solution that could automatically detect the presence of sensitive financial information in outbound email and block or encrypt those messages before transmission. Outback had already been...; Tags: Proofpoint Inc., Outback, Proofpoint Regulatory Compliance Module, E-mail, Online Communications; Case studies 2007-01-01
USAID Uses Proofpoint to Rid Network of Spam and Viruses: The United States Agency for International Development USAID is an independent federal agency that administers economic and humanitarian assistance programs to foreign countries. Employees at the USAID were being inundated with spam, receiving hundreds of unsolicited emails each day. As a result the agency began a search for a messaging...; Tags: Network, Proofpoint Inc., Virus, Proofpoint Spam Detection Module, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing; Case studies 2007-01-01