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Small to medium-sized businesses interested in a powerful cybersecurity solution
About Proofpoint Essentials
Proofpoint Essentials delivers a cost-effective and easy-to-manage cybersecurity solution specifically designed for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Essentials protects your organization from a comprehensive range of advanced security threats by including additional benefits, such as security awareness training, data loss prevention, email continuity, archiving and social media protection.
Our simple and intuitive interface reduces your administrative workload and integrates seamlessly with your existing Microsoft 365 environment.
Proofpoint Essentials uses the same AI-powered detection technology that secures more than 75% of Fortune 100 businesses to protect your greatest security risk: your people.
Essentials enterprise-class protection stops the threats targeting SMBs. These include spam, phishing, business email compromise (BEC) and imposter emails, ransomware and malware.
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Founded: 2002
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