Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway The Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway™ delivers the industry’s most complete and effective secure messaging infrastructure for the enterprise. It combines a robust, enterprise-class MTA with perimeter security, anti-spam, anti-virus, secure messaging and outbound content security capabilities in an easy-to-deploy, hardened appliance. Proofpoint’s anti-spam appliances are available for both large enterprises and small- and medium-sized businesses. The Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway is also available in a Virtual Edition that offers all of the same features as Proofpoint’s hardware appliances as an easy-to-deploy “virtual appliance” for VMware’s virtualization products.
“The Proofpoint anti-spam appliance is truly plug and play. It literally took five minutes out of the box to get it working.” - Bill Stephens, Electronic Communications Manager, City of Topeka, Kansas
Defend, Prevent, Encrypt, OptimizeWhy purchase yet another point solution? Proofpoint's unified email security and data loss prevention platform provides comprehensive protection against both inbound threats and outbound content security risks–and Proofpoint's modular architecture lets you easily deploy new defenses as your needs change. All Proofpoint features—including anti-spam, anti-virus, anti-phishing, multi-protocol content security, policy-based encryption, secure file transfer and reporting features—are managed centrally from a single administrative GUI and deployed on a unified appliance architecture. Features can be deployed in nearly any configuration, to meet your organization's unique requirements. Whether your deployment involves a single Proofpoint server or multiple, globally distributed appliances, all policy management and administration tasks are controlled via Proofpoint's centralized, web-based administration console. Solution Suites Simplify Email SecurityThe Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway email security appliance is typically deployed with inbound and/or outbound solution suites that deliver all of the most common inbound threat protection, outbound data loss prevention and email encryption features that enterprises require:
Optimize Your Messaging InfrastructureExtend your Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway deployment with a variety of enhancements that improve the usability and manageability of your email infrastructure. Proofpoint Smart Search™ enhances Proofpoint’s built-in logging and reporting features with advanced message tracing, forensics and log analysis capabilities—offering easy, real-time visibility into message flows across your entire messaging infrastructure. Search, analyze and export message logs from one convenient, easy-to-use GUI—even across globally distributed Proofpoint deployments. Proofpoint Secure File Transfer™ adds secure, large file transfer capabilities to your Proofpoint deployment. It lets end users send large files (or files that require enhanced security) quickly and easily—while minimizing the impact of large attachments on your email infrastructure. The on-demand Proofpoint ARCHIVE™ solution addresses email storage management, legal discovery and regulatory compliance challenges without the overhead of managing an in-house email archive. High-performance, Easy Deployment, Optimal ScalabilityThe Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway and Proofpoint Protection Server were designed to meet the unique needs of large enterprises, ISPs, universities and government organizations. They offer all of the performance, flexibility, scalability, customization and end-user control features needed in large-scale deployments. Each and every component of the Proofpoint system is engineered to meet the rigorous demands of enterprise performance. From the hardened, messaging-optimized OS used in Proofpoint appliances, to Proofpoint's unique, queue-less architecture that allows all message scanning functions to be performed in memory, Proofpoint provides the high performance required in even the most sophisticated deployments. Proofpoint appliances and software scale indefinitely to support many millions of messages per day. They can easily be deployed in multiple-appliance, master/agent configurations to support complex or geographically distributed data centers—offering the security of 100% redundancy combined with the convenience of a single administrative interface. Proofpoint even supports hybrid deployments such as combining on-premises appliances with our SaaS solutions (including Proofpoint ENTERPRISE, Proofpoint PROTECT and Proofpoint SHIELD) or mixing and matching both hardware and virtual appliances. Proofpoint's optimal scalability architecture lets you manage all agent servers from a single master console. Automatic configuration propagation, a centralized message quarantine and centralized reporting simplify maintenance and reduce total cost of ownership. Proofpoint further reduces total cost of ownership by easily integrating with any IT infrastructure, no matter how distributed. A GUI-based LDAP command console and Microsoft Active Directory® support make directory server integration easy. Proofpoint is also compatible with—and minimizes the burden on—overtaxed email server solutions such as Microsoft Exchange® and Lotus Notes®. View Chart: See the anti-spam effectiveness for Proofpoint Spam Detection over the last 190 days Proofpoint MLX™ TechnologyAdvanced Machine LearningThe power behind Proofpoint's enterprise messaging security solutions—Proofpoint MLX—is an advanced, patent-pending machine learning system developed by the scientists at the Proofpoint Attack Response Center. Based on advanced statistical techniques including logistic regression and information gain analysis, Proofpoint MLX enables the accurate classification and identification of unstructured content, as found in email and other documents. Unparalleled accuracyProofpoint MLX is the basis for the unrivalled anti-spam accuracy delivered by the Proofpoint Spam Detection module. Using MLX, Proofpoint analyzes hundreds of thousands of structural, image, content and reputation attributes to accurately differentiate between spam and valid messages. Traditional anti-spam solutions evaluate only a limited number of attributes and are unable to decisively classify spam, leading to low effectiveness and a high rate of false positives. Futureproof intelligenceProofpoint's intelligent anti-spam technology continually updates itself to defend against new forms of spam. Ongoing self-training and new techniques developed by Proofpoint scientists allow MLX to predict and adapt to new forms of spam as they appear. MLX updates are automatically delivered to all customers several times per day. As a result, Proofpoint MLX offers effectiveness of 99.8% and higher–even against the most difficult forms of spam including image-based, PDF, attachment, “backscatter” and foreign language spam. View a real-time chart of Proofpoint's anti-spam effectiveness for the last 190 days » Unlike other anti-spam solutions, Proofpoint's ability to defend against spam attacks does not degrade over time–and updates to the MLX anti-spam engine are automatically delivered to your enterprise on a regular basis. Proofpoint MLX is constantly evolving to counter emerging threats, ensuring that your messaging infrastructure is secure against tomorrow's spammers as well as today's. Proofpoint MLX also powers the advanced content security features of the Proofpoint Digital Asset Security module and the intelligent perimeter security features of the Proofpoint Email Firewall and Dynamic Reputation service. Proofpoint is the only vendor to apply these powerful machine learning techniques to email security and data loss prevention. Proofpoint Messaging Security Console™Unified Policy Management, Administration and End-user ControlsThe Proofpoint Messaging Security Console provides a centralized, 100% web-based administration interface to Proofpoint's unified policy management framework, ensuring consistent application of corporate messaging policies. The Console makes it easy to monitor and control your messaging infrastructure and define messaging policies. You can even define and enforce different policies for different groups of end-users. As additional Proofpoint modules are added to your deployment, the same convenient interface is used for policy management. The Ajax-based interface gives you "drag and drop" customization of the reports, status information, RSS feeds and other components displayed. Even create "mashups" of information from external sources. Proofpoint's outstanding ease-of-use extends to end-users as well. Easy-to-understand reports and controls, such as Proofpoint's end-user digest, web-based quarantine and personalized safe- and block-lists, give users complete control over their own spam preferences. Robust ReportingThe Console also provides access to more than 60 real-time, graphical reports and alerts that give total visibility into the state of your enterprise messaging system. Reports can be easily emailed or posted as HTML/XML. Proofpoint's "active" reports deliver key information, but also allow administrators to take immediate action (e.g., simply click a link to block an abusive sender). Proofpoint Speaks Your LanguageIn addition to delivering outstanding anti-spam performance against spam in any language, Proofpoint’s policy and content scanning engines detect and “understand” text in any language, including multi-byte languages. Data loss prevention policies can match non-English keywords and dictionary terms written in international character sets including Japanese, Chinese and Cyrillic. Administrators can create policies that are triggered based on the language detected in the content of an email. For example, attach language-specific disclaimers to an outbound message depending upon the language in which it was written. End-user interfaces for message digests, and web-based quarantine are available in Chinese, Dutch, English, German, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. Proofpoint’s administrative GUI, product documentation and online help are currently available in both English and Japanese versions. As with Proofpoint’s end-user interfaces, administrators can set their language preferences on an individual basis. Proofpoint Dynamic Update Service™Always up-to-date protection, maximum ease-of-administrationAutomatic installation and notification of updated components makes ongoing administration simple. The Proofpoint Dynamic Update Service ensures that your network always has the highest level of protection from message-borne threats. It provides continuous updates for every component of your Proofpoint software or appliance deployment, including the hardened operating system and MTA, spam and virus engines, lexicons (such as the dictionaries used by the Proofpoint Regulatory Compliance module), application components and customized hot fixes. Current Email Security Appliance Models (November 2009)To meet the email security needs of any size organization, Proofpoint's P-Series enterprise email security appliance is available in a variety of configurations–and is compatible with any email server solution.
* Performance measurements based on Proofpoint lab testing simulating typical deployment environments with all modules installed. Maximum performance may vary in field deployments. Additional Proofpoint Deployment OptionsProofpoint's email security and data loss prevention solutions are offered in a variety of form factors for maximum deployment flexibility:
Outback SteakhouseRestaurant chain Outback Steakhouse grills spam and viruses with the Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway anti-spam appliance. Outback also protects sensitive customer information in outbound email using Proofpoint's Regulatory Compliance and Secure Messaging modules. Mary Kay Inc.One of the world's largest cosmetics manufacturers protects 3600 employee and 600,000 sales representative inboxes from spam and viruses with the Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway. Learn how Proofpoint's superior anti-spam, anti-virus, message handling and throttling capabilities provided the perfect solution. Grand Valley State UniversityGVSU's previous anti-spam appliance wasn't making the grade, so they switched to Proofpoint to protect more than 20,000 faculty, staff and student mailboxes from spam and viruses. GVSU's email admins say that Proofpoint is "miles ahead" and saves "a ton of administration time." National InstrumentsTest and measurement technology leader National Instruments uses the Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway anti-spam appliance to protect thousands of end-user mailboxes–in more than 44 countries worldwide–from both spam and viruses with 99% effectiveness. Find many more Proofpoint appliance case studies in the Proofpoint Resource Center. |
 Proofpoint SolutionsSaaS Email Security Solutions:Proofpoint ENTERPRISE & PROTECT Hybrid Protection for any Appliance:SaaS Email Archiving Solution:Appliance:Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway Virtual Appliance:Messaging Security Gateway — Virtual Edition Software:Modular DefensesDefend against inbound threats:Spam Detection Virus Protection Prevent leaks of confidential information:Optimize your email infrastructure:Encrypt sensitive information:
  |
Webinar: 
White Paper: 
