Sunnyvale, Calif. – April 3, 2008 – Proofpoint, Inc., the leading provider of unified email security and data loss prevention solutions, today announced that Barbados Shipping & Trading (BS&T), the largest conglomerate in Barbados with 2,800 employees spread across 15 companies, has deployed Proofpoint on Demand™ to assist in the elimination of incoming spam and viruses with greater cost-effectiveness than BS&T’s previous email security solution. With Proofpoint, employees of BS&T are adequately protected from the latest spam attacks, including PDF and image-based spam, freeing its mailboxes from unwanted messages, with no instances of false positives.

Prior to deploying Proofpoint on Demand, BS&T was using another hosted email security service, but wanted a more cost-effective alternative to keep spam and viruses from entering its network. The company evaluated Proofpoint on Demand and was impressed with the solution’s Web-based interface, reporting functionality and overall ease of use.

“Proofpoint is just a better fit for our organization,” said Jason Downey, IT specialist for Barbados Shipping and Trading. “With Proofpoint on Demand, we get a more flexible and effective messaging security solution, and for less money, which made the decision to switch pretty straightforward. Proofpoint on Demand also has a very slick administrative interface that makes it simple to customize reports and controls, which is an added bonus.”

BS&T required a hosted messaging security solution as the large volume of incoming spam messages was consuming critical network bandwidth. With Proofpoint on Demand, BS&T now receives only legitimate messages, improving network performance and easing IT management burdens in the process.

Proofpoint on Demand provides superior protection against all types of inbound spam, even as spammers experiment with new, sophisticated distribution tactics and continue to rapidly switch techniques. BS&T has been very satisfied with Proofpoint on Demand’s performance against image-based spam. Powered by Proofpoint MLX™ machine learning technology, Proofpoint on Demand’s anti-spam engine inspects hundreds of thousands of attributes in incoming email messages, eliminating image-based spam with higher than 99 percent effectiveness.

Proofpoint on Demand is also designed to protect end users from viruses, worms and other malicious code. With Proofpoint on Demand, companies such as BS&T can manage anti-virus, anti-spam and even data loss prevention policies from the same convenient, Web-based administrative interface, making it easy to monitor, control and define messaging policies for all Proofpoint features.

“With many of today’s messaging security vendors being swallowed up through mergers and acquisitions, organizations are turning to Proofpoint for reliable customer service and support and an unwavering focus on delivering the most comprehensive messaging security solutions for organizations of all sizes,” said Sandra Vaughan, senior vice president of products and marketing for Proofpoint. “We continue to provide organizations with robust, innovative, easy-to-manage protection that blocks never-before-seen spam attacks and accurately identifies malicious network-level connections.”

To learn more about how the Proofpoint on Demand email security and data loss prevention service provides complete protection from both inbound and outbound message-borne threats, view Proofpoint’s web seminar, “Reaping the Benefits of Hosted Email Security.” To register, please visit:

http://www.proofpoint.com/id/podwebinar031108/index.php?id=4.


About Proofpoint, Inc.

Proofpoint provides unified email security and data loss prevention solutions for enterprises, universities, government organizations and ISPs to defend against inbound threats such as spam and viruses, prevent leaks of confidential and private information across all protocols, and encrypt sensitive emails. Proofpoint’s products are controlled by a single management and policy console and are powered by Proofpoint MLX™ technology, an advanced machine learning system developed by Proofpoint scientists and engineers. Proofpoint provides the most scalable and flexible deployment model including: hardware appliance, virtual appliance, hosted services and software. For more information, please visit http://www.proofpoint.com.

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