Proofpoint | Email Security, Archiving and Data Loss Prevention
Proofpoint, Inc. provides SaaS and on-premises solutions for email security, email archiving, email encryption and data loss prevention.
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Phish/Malware Sighting: "Facebook Updated Account Agreement", "Facebook Update Tool", "Facebook New Login System" Attacks
6 November 2009, 1:52 pm
Video: What to Look for when Buying SaaS/Cloud-based Solutions for the Enterprise
5 November 2009, 9:55 am
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Proofpoint | Email Security, Archiving and Data Loss Prevention Email accounts not protected by Proofpoint may be seeing a lot of new phish and malware emails spoofing Facebook notifications encouraging users to "update their accounts." Some have malware attachments, some include malicous URLs. Don't be fooled... Samples in the Proofpoint Email Security blog.

Source: blog.proofpoint.com
Email security blog from the email security experts at Proofpoint, Inc. Covering email security, email archiving, data loss prevention and related topics. Join the conversation.
Proofpoint | Email Security, Archiving and Data Loss Prevention

Proofpoint | Email Security, Archiving and Data Loss Prevention What should enterprises look for when buying SaaS or cloud computing-based solutions? Proofpoint's Dave Champine gives tips on how enterprises should select cloud solutions, particularly when buying security services. How buying enterprise SaaS solutions is different from buying consumer SaaS solutions and some suggested questions to ask your vendors.

Proofpoint | Email Security, Archiving and Data Loss Prevention

Proofpoint | Email Security, Archiving and Data Loss Prevention In case you missed it: Terrifying tales of email horror. Happy Halloween!

Source: blog.proofpoint.com
It wouldn't be Halloween without a few spooky stories now, would it? People seem to love our regular round-ups of email blunders, so just in time for Halloween, Proofpoint put together some of the "scariest" email-related blunders, mishaps and threats from the past few months.
Proofpoint | Email Security, Archiving and Data Loss Prevention

Proofpoint | Email Security, Archiving and Data Loss Prevention
Moving security and other IT features “to the cloud,” using SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) solutions holds the promise of greatly reducing total cost of ownership and radically simplifying infrastructure-intensive perimeter security environments. But, according to a recent survey, at least 50% of IT professionals still h...ave concerns about the security of cloud-based solutions—ranging from questions about the security of data in transit and the privacy of data stored in the cloud, to related availability and scalability issues.

Attend Cloud Computing Confusion to learn about the pros and cons of Security-as-a-Service and how next-generation SaaS solutions can actually deliver superior security, better performance and lower costs compared to on-premises approaches.

Register at: http://www.proofpoint.com/id/cloudconfusion/index.php?id=4
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Proofpoint | Email Security, Archiving and Data Loss Prevention Security reporter Byron Acohido explains the high volume phishing attacks targeting Facebook and Twitter.

Source: lastwatchdog.com
How quaint seem the days when naïve hacker wannabes phished PayPal logons, then posted them on IRC chat channels, to try to make a few bucks -- but mostly for
Proofpoint | Email Security, Archiving and Data Loss Prevention

Proofpoint | Email Security, Archiving and Data Loss Prevention This is a great new podcast that covers social media security risks. In the latest episode, there's a great discussion of Facebook friend request phishing attempts. Worth checking out if you are into such things!

Source: socialmediasecurity.com
This is the third episode of the Social Media Security Podcast recorded October 23, 2009. This episode was hosted by Scott Wright, Tom Eston and Kevin Johnson. Below are the show notes, links to articles and news mentioned in the podcast:
Proofpoint | Email Security, Archiving and Data Loss Prevention

Proofpoint | Email Security, Archiving and Data Loss Prevention 20 Years of IT Security: Proofpoint CEO Gary Steele interviewed for SC Magazine's 20th anniversary issue. Gary shares some thoughts about the past and future of email security threats.

Source: www.scmagazineus.com
Though it seems inevitable now, the first spam emails (whether you consider 1978's DECSYSTEM announcement or 1994's Green Card lawyer spam to be the first) were certainly shocking to email users at the time and created the spam industry and, ultimately, the email security market.
Proofpoint | Email Security, Archiving and Data Loss Prevention

Proofpoint | Email Security, Archiving and Data Loss Prevention Our thanks to all Proofpoint customers, partners and fans - new and old - who've been part of our remarkable journey: Q3 2009 was Proofpoint's strongest quarter to date. Press release highlights record business, record traction with F1000 companies and our largest deployment to date. (And we hit 200 FB "fans" today...)

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SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - October 19, 2009) - Proofpoint, Inc. (http://www.proofpoint.com), the leading provider of SaaS email security, email archiving and data loss prevention solutions, today reported ...
Proofpoint | Email Security, Archiving and Data Loss Prevention

Proofpoint | Email Security, Archiving and Data Loss Prevention Brazilian bots, new spam and phish techniques and much more revealed: The latest Internet Threats Trend Report for the third quarter of 2009 is now available. Worth a read if you like to keep up on the latest techniques being used in spam distribution, phishing attacks, virus distribution and other malicious Internet activity. Courtesy of Proofpoint and our zero-hour anti-virus partner Commtouch.

Source: www.proofpoint.com
This free report from Proofpoint and Commtouch reviews trends in spam, phishing, blended threats and more during the third quarter of 2009. Internet Threats Trend Report, Q309.
Proofpoint | Email Security, Archiving and Data Loss Prevention

Proofpoint | Email Security, Archiving and Data Loss Prevention Proofpoint product marketing manager Ken Liao gives a quick overview of our new SaaS-powered, policy-based encryption solution, Proofpoint Encryption and the Proofpoint Hosted Key Service. This new feature of Proofpoint 6 will be available for our SaaS, appliance, virtual appliance and software email security/DLP solutions in November 2009.

Proofpoint | Email Security, Archiving and Data Loss Prevention

Proofpoint | Email Security, Archiving and Data Loss Prevention We announced our next-generation email security and DLP platform, Proofpoint 6, today. One of the highlights is a new email encryption solution, Proofpoint Encryption. Learn more about our new SaaS-powered, policy-based email encryption features with this new whitepaper.

Source: www.proofpoint.com
Email encryption: Free whitepaper from Proofpoint explains how Proofpoint Encryption simplifies email encryption and makes email encryption easy to deploy, use and maintain. Register for this whitepaper ...
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Proofpoint | Email Security, Archiving and Data Loss Prevention
According to a September 2009 Proofpoint/Osterman Research survey, 77% of enterprise 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 stream of news stories about companies that fail to properly protect private data—now might be right the time to deploy data loss prevention and email encryption in your organization.

Attend the live Proofpoint web seminar, Is Now the Time to Deploy Email Encryption?, to learn about changes in the regulatory environment and technology breakthroughs that are driving adoption of email encryption technology.

Register at: http://www.proofpoint.com/id/email-encryption1009/index.php?id=4
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Live Proofpoint Webinar
Time:11:00AM Wednesday, October 21st
Proofpoint | Email Security, Archiving and Data Loss Prevention

Proofpoint | Email Security, Archiving and Data Loss Prevention Proofpoint's VP of product management for email archiving is giving a presentation at next week's Computer Forensics Show in Santa Clara, CA on "eDiscovery in the Cloud: Policy, Technology and Security Requirements for SaaS Email Archiving."

Source: www.computerforensicshow.com
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Proofpoint | Email Security, Archiving and Data Loss Prevention

Proofpoint | Email Security, Archiving and Data Loss Prevention Proofpoint CEO Gary Steele discusses the latest email security threats, email compliance trends and solutions (including data loss prevention and email archiving) in this new TechTarget video (Bitpipe registration required):

Source: searchsecurity.bitpipe.com
Proofpoint | Email Security, Archiving and Data Loss Prevention

Proofpoint | Email Security, Archiving and Data Loss Prevention In this excerpt from Proofpoint's webinar, "Make the Case for Email Archiving," Steven Heller, CTO of law firm Graubard Miller, discusses his firm's use of Proofpoint ARCHIVE and how it has saved them hundreds of thousands of dollars in email storage and eDiscovery. For the full webinar replay, please visit http://www.proofpoint.com/id/archiving0909/index.php