Proofpoint Mobile Archive: Now Available for Android!

From the "you asked for it, you got it" department: Previously available only on the Apple iOS (iPhone, iPad) platform, our Proofpoint Mobile Archive app is now available for Android devices.

The Proofpoint Mobile Archive app lets users of Proofpoint Enterprise Archive (our cloud-based email archiving solution) access their archived email from anywhere, at any time. The app lets you search your entire email archive from your iPhone or Android device, allowing you to quickly find messages, view message details, and retrieve messages to your inbox. 

 The new Android version of this app is part of the latest release of the Proofpoint Enterprise platform (announced today in our press release here).

Mobility is a big theme of this new release and, in addition to the Android version of the Mobile Archive app, the release includes enhancements to Proofpoint's support for mobile email encryption and decryption (which were already very strong). The enhanced mobile decryption user interface takes advantage of the latest smartphone and tablet technologies to display a web interface that looks and feels like a native application, making it even easier for Proofpoint Encryption users (and any recipient of a Proofpoint-encrypted email message) to decrypt, read, and respond from mobile devices.

This video overview demonstrates the iPhone/iOS version of the Proofpoint Mobile Archive app, and how it enables anytime/anywhere access to archived messages:

This next video demonstrates the previous version of the "decrypt assist" features of Proofpoint Encryption, which allows any email recipients on any mobile smartphone or tablet with a web browser (including Android, BlackBerry, iPhone and Windows 7 Phone) to easily decrypt and respond to messages encrypted with Proofpoint Encryption:

And while it's not part of today's announcement, I wanted to remind Proofpoint Enterprise administrators that our Proofpoint Mobile Dashboard app (currently available for Apple iOS devices) gives you access to global spam stats, the status of your support tickets and other information on your Proofpoint Enterprise deployments:

Learn more about the latest features of Proofpoint Enterprise in today's press release, "Proofpoint Extends Mobile Enterprise Offerings."

Making Office 365 More Secure and Compliant: New Whitepaper from Proofpoint and Osterman Research

We recently published a new report with Osterman Research, Making Office 365 More Secure and Compliant.

In this report, Osterman describes the various security, compliance and governance features of Microsoft Office 365, and identifies areas where those features may not meet the specialized requirements of organizations in highly-regulated industries or those enterprises with special security requirements.

There is also a good discussion of why the email archiving capabilities of Office 365, while useful, may not be sufficient to satisfy many of the common eDiscovery and regulatory obligations faced by large enterprises.

To download a complimentary copy of this report, follow this link, or simply fill out the mini-form below.

Complete this form to access a PDF copy of Making Office 365 More Secure and Compliant: 

New Customer Videos: Leaders in Healthcare, Financial Services, Retail and More Describe Why they Use Proofpoint

At our recent "Proofpoint Inner Circle" customer events, we had a great opportunity to interview several of our enterprise customers about how and why they use Proofpoint Enterprise solutions for email security, data loss prevention, email encryption, regulatory compliance, archiving and electronic discovery.

I've collected several of them in this YouTube playlist. In these videos, representatives from Amalgamated, Liberty Health, PETCO, Graubard Miller, MED3000, Zions Bank and Scottsdale Healthcare share some of the reasons they rely on Proofpoint.

Thanks again to all of our terrific customers who took the time to share their stories with us... And you can find a lot more Proofpoint video content in our YouTube channel at http://www.proofpoint.com/youtube.

Proofpoint Enterprise is a Finalist for the 2012 SC Awards "Best Email Content Management"

Proofpoint Enterprise Protection and Proofpoint Enteprise Privacy, our SaaS-based email security and data loss prevention suites were named as a finalist in the SC Magazine Awards 2012, in the category Best Email Content Management. 

You can read more about this category and find the complete list of best email content management finalists here, "Best Email Content Management and Best Email Security."

The winners of the SC Awards are revealed annually at the RSA Conference which, this year, will be held at San Francisco's Moscone Center, February 27 - March 2, 2012. Check out my earlier blog post to learn how you can get a free pass to RSA Expo 2012 (the exhibits part of the RSA conference).

Thanks again to our friends at SC Magazine for recognizing Proofpoint Enterprise!

 

 

 

 

 

Check Out the Updated Proofpoint Corporate Website and Our New Brand Video

As regular Proofpoint watchers will no doubt have already realized, last week we launched an updated version of the www.proofpoint.com website featuring a new look and feel, completely revised product content, a refreshed resource center (where you can find a wide variety of datasheets, whitepapers and other collateral) and much more. 

A few updated features are still coming, including an updated look for this blog and the return of our "Security, Compliance and the Cloud News" service.  Stay tuned! If you're a recent or frequent visitor to the site, you may need to clear your browser's cache (or shift-click your browser's refresh button) to force your browser to download the very latest versions of files used and display the new site properly.

One of the most interesting new assets on the site is right on the home page:

Proofpoint's new brand video, "Defending the Ever-Changing Now" is a short, evocative (and cool-looking!) spot that explores the theme of how Proofpoint's solutions defend the "ever-changing now" — keeping enterprises safe from inbound threats (such as spam, phish, viruses, malware); guarding against leaks of private and confidential information; archiving information for legal readiness, governance, investigations, compliance and eDiscovery; and securely encrypting email communication.

You can watch it right here... and feel free to share it with your friends and colleagues.

Free RSA® Security Expo 2012 Passes, Courtesy of Proofpoint: Use Code EC12PRF

Wow, is it almost the end of 2011? Looking forward to 2012 for a moment, once again Proofpoint will be exhibiting at the RSA Conference 2012, to be held February 27 thru March 2, 2012 at Moscone Center in San Francisco.

If you'd like to attend the RSA Conference 2012 expo (exhibits), you can get a free exhibits-only pass (which RSA calls an "Expo Pass") courtesy of Proofpoint by using code EC12PRF when you register.

To register for your free RSA exhibits pass, please visit the following URL and enter code EC12PRF during the registration process:

https://ae.rsaconference.com/US12/portal/login.ww

We look forward to seeing you there! Proofpoint will be exhibiting at booth #850, demonstrating our latest SaaS-based threat management (email security), compliance (data loss prevention, email encryption), archiving & governance, and secure communication solutions.

 

How Does Proofpoint Compare as a Google Message Security (aka Postini) Alternative? Read Our New Comparison Guide

We continue to see many enterprises re-evaluating their email security stances and, in the SaaS email security world, Proofpoint has come across many customers of Google Message Security (the service formerly known as Postini) that are considering alternatives.

In the past year, there have been quite a few large enterprises that have switched from Google's solution to Proofpoint.

If your organization is curious about how these solutions compare—in areas including anti-spam effectiveness, support for outbound spam and virus scanning, data loss prevention and email encryption—you'll find our newest comparison guide useful.

In addition to a feature comparison, this paper also provides some useful advice on what email security capabilities enterprises should consider when evaluating any new solution.

Visit our registration page to download Comparison Guide: Proofpoint Enterprise Vs. Google Message Security (Postini) or simply complete the following form to access this whitepaper immediately:

Proofpoint and VMware Team-up to Bring Enhanced Email Security and Compliance to VMware Zimbra Users

Today's Proofpoint press release (see, "Proofpoint Delivers Enhanced Security and Compliance for VMware Zimbra Email and Collaboration Solution") announces some exciting new work with VMware in which we've integrated the Proofpoint Enterprise Protection email security and Proofpoint Enterprise Privacy data loss prevention suites with the VMware Zimbra Collaboration Server.

If you're not familar with Zimbra, it's a leading open source email and collaboration solution that offers a collaboration hub for email, contacts, calendars, documents, file sharing, tasks, social media and enterprise applications. The integration offers VMware Zimbra users a whole host of best-in-class email security, regulatory compliance, email encryption, anti-phishing, data privacy and data loss prevention capabilities.

Proofpoint worked with the VMware Zimbra team to create a version of Proofpoint Enterprise that is custom-engineered to integrate to the Zimbra platform. Some of the Zimbra-specific enhancements include: A new secure-send "Zimlet" (Zimlets are new end-user functionality created through a set of open APIs) that allows users to send encrypted messages using Proofpoint Encryption. (This new Zimlet will be available in the next couple of weeks.) And features that automatically quarantine spam by learning from actions taken by end-users.

Special Introductory Offer

As part of this launch, Proofpoint is offering qualified users of the VMware Zimbra Collaboration Server virtual appliance a fully functional, 60-day trial of  Proofpoint Enterprise Protection and Proofpoint Enterprise Privacy. Qualified trial users that purchase a license for Zimbra Collaboration Server can have the trial of Proofpoint Enterprise Protection extended for additional 12 months.

(Yep, you read that right, up to a year of Proofpoint's outstanding email security capabilities for free. And, nope, we've never made this sort of offer available before.)

To register for the free 60-day trial, visit http://www.proofpoint.com/zimbra.

We're looking forward to continuing to work with the VMware Zimbra team. The team-up with Proofpoint is just one of many examples of how Zimbra is workingwith partners to deliver integrated solutions that work with the Zimbra Collaboration Server platform. You can see more in the the Zimbra Gallery and Zimbra Community (currently with more than 45,000 members). Check it out!

Email Encryption: New Osterman Research Whitepaper Says Encryption Investments "Pay for Themselves"

Our friends at Osterman Research recently published a new white paper - How Encrypting Content in Transit and at Rest Reduces Liabilities and Costs for any Organization- about email encryption and similar topics. You can get a free copy, compliments of Proofpoint, by following the link or by filling out the form at the bottom of this post.

In this new report, Osterman Research notes that investments in encryption "pay for themselves" through a number of different avenues. As regular readers of this blog are aware, encryption technologies can play a crucial role in regulatory compliance and regulatory fine avoidance. But email encryption and other types of encryption can also enable secure business and deliver other forms of business value, as described in this new paper.

If you're looking for help in creating a business case for deploying an encryption solution (such as the Proofpoint Encryption email encryption solution), this 15-page report can be extremely helpful. It includes a good summary of the various US state laws that govern security breach notification (or that may require or imply encryption) as well as the many US and international regulatory obligations (such as GLBA, PCI-DSS, FINRA, HIPAA, the UK DPA, Canada's PIPEDA) that imply similar requirements.

To read a copy of the complete Osterman Research report, register at the following link — How Encrypting Content in Transit and at Rest Reduces Liabilities and Costs for any Organization — or simply complete the form below:

 

Proofpoint Customers: Don't Miss Our Exclusive, Customers-Only Event, Coming to SF, Chicago, NY!

Proofpoint's annual "Inner Circle" event, our free "customers-only" event is coming to San Francisco, Chicago and New York this October.

Proofpoint Inner Circle 2011 is your opportunity to meet with Proofpoint executives, learn about industry trends, get a preview of upcoming product releases, and share best practices with the Proofpoint user community.

These events are completely free, but space is limited, so reserve your spot today by sending us an email to innercircle@proofpoint.com. Our customer event team will send you complete information and register you for the event of your choice. 

This year's agenda includes:

• Discussions on the state of email today, featuring the latest developments in email-borne threats, content security, email archiving and regulatory compliance

• A review of the latest regulations and the critical need for DLP, encryption and archiving

• Proofpoint customers sharing the unique ways they are protecting their email infrastructures, meeting compliance requirements and reducing costs

• A sneak preview of future innovations from Proofpoint labs, and interactive sessions on Proofpoint’s technology roadmap

• Your opportunity to speak with Proofpoint executives and provide direct input into product direction

We look forward to meeting you in person at one of these exciting events! Reserve your spot right now... email us at innercircle@proofpoint.com.