Proofpoint, September 16,2025
The Rhythm Of Resilience: Mitigating Insider Risk Without Silos
Insider Threat Awareness Month is a good time to reflect: are your security teams operating in silos, or are they reinforcing one another?
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Proofpoint, September 15,2025
Proofpoint Unveils First Agentic AI Solution For Human Communications Intelligence
Breakthrough innovation transforms enterprise communications into actionable intelligence, mitigating misconduct, regulatory risk, and insider threats in real time
more → Proofpoint, Tuesday, September 9th, 2025
Insider Threats Unfold In Two Ways - With Impact Or Intervention
Every insider threat has a cause, whether it's a lapse in judgment or rushed mistake, growing resentment, a change in ideology, or desire for personal gain. Left unchecked, these small cracks can widen into corporate crises that make headlines.
more → Proofpoint, Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025
Not Safe For Work: Tracking And Investigating Stealerium And Phantom Infostealers
Threat actors are increasingly turning to information stealers in malware delivery, and Proofpoint threat researchers have observed an increase in the variety of commodity information stealers regularly used by cybercriminal threat actors.
more → Proofpoint, Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025
Strengthen Human Resilience During Cybersecurity Awareness Month - And All Year Long
Modern cyberattacks don't just exploit technology-they exploit people. While email remains the primary attack vector, cybercriminals are expanding their tactics and exploiting additional channels, like Microsoft Teams, Slack, Zoom, LinkedIn, and WhatsApp.
more → Proofpoint, Tuesday, August 26th, 2025
Proofpoint's 2025 Voice of the CISO Report Reveals Heightened AI Risk, Record CISO Burnout, and the Persistent People Problem in Cybersecurity
76% of CISOs anticipate a material cyberattack in the next year, with human risk and GenAI-driven data loss topping their concerns
more → Proofpoint, Wednesday, August 20th, 2025
Cybercriminals Abuse AI Website Creation App For Phishing
We are often asked about the impact of AI on the threat landscape. While we have observed that large language model (LLM) generated emails or scripts have so far had little impact, some AI tools are lowering the barrier for entry for digital crime. Take, for example, services that can create websites in minutes with the help of AI.
more → Proofpoint, Monday, August 11th, 2025
From Panic To Protection: A Smarter Way To Replace Your Symantec Seg
While Broadcom has not announced an official end-of-life for Symantec Email Security.cloud, many organizations have reported challenges with the solution since its 2019 acquisition by Broadcom, including perceived declines in service quality due to reduced investment and portfolio consolidation.
more → Proofpoint, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Insider Incident Of The Month: The Growing Risk Of Sensitive Data Sent To Unauthorized Email Accounts
The Insider Incident of the Month blog series sheds light on the growing problem of email exfiltration of sensitive data to unauthorized accounts. It also examines how Proofpoint helps protect against these serious data loss events. Stories in this blog series are anonymized.   
more → Proofpoint, Thursday, July 31st, 2025
Microsoft OAuth App Impersonation Campaign Leads to MFA Phishing
Proofpoint has identified a cluster of activity using Microsoft OAuth application creation and redirects that lead to malicious URLs enabling credential phishing. The fake Microsoft 365 applications impersonate various companies including RingCentral, SharePoint, Adobe, and DocuSign. Proofpoint first observed this activity in early 2025 and remains ongoing.
more → Proofpoint, Wednesday, July 30th, 2025
Exploiting Direct Send: Attackers Abuse Microsoft 365 To Deliver Internal Phishing Attacks
Proofpoint identified an active phishing campaign exploiting Microsoft 365 Direct Send, which delivered spoofed messages that appeared as internal emails.
more → Proofpoint, Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025
Cybersecurity Stop Of The Month: Detecting And Responding To An Account Takeover
The Cybersecurity Stop of the Month blog series explores the ever-evolving tactics of today's cybercriminals and how Proofpoint helps organizations better fortify their defenses to protect people against today's emerging threats.
more → Proofpoint, Monday, July 21st, 2025
NET RFQ: Request for Quote Scammers Casting Wide Net to Steal Real Goods
In this report, Proofpoint threat researchers take a deep dive into a widespread Request for Quote (RFQ) scam that involves leveraging common Net financing options (Net 15, 30, 45) to steal a variety of high value electronics and goods. Net financing of 15-90 days is the most common payment terms used by businesses.
more → Proofpoint, July 3,2025
Strengthening Data Security in the Age of AI: ESG Validates Proofpoint DSPM
As organizations continue to embrace digital transformation, they are also struggling to manage rapidly expanding data footprints. Modern enterprises are seeing their data grow in both volume and complexity across cloud and on-premises environments.
more → Proofpoint, July 2,2025
Phish-Proofing Your Inbox With Proofpoint
In June 2025 Gartner published 'Overcome AI-Powered Attacks by Leveling Up Your Email Security Platform' by Nikul Patel, Deepak Mishra and Max Taggett.
more → Proofpoint, June 30,2025
AI And Data Privacy: Ensuring Compliance In The Age Of AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing how organizations use and understand data. AI can process huge amounts of information to deliver insights that drive value. But these benefits come with serious risks-especially to data privacy.
more → Proofpoint, June 26,2025
Cybersecurity Stop Of The Month: Adversary-In-The-Middle Attacks That Target Microsoft 365
The Cybersecurity Stop of the Month blog series explores the ever-evolving tactics of today's cybercriminals and how Proofpoint helps organizations better fortify their email defenses to protect people against today's emerging threats.
more → Proofpoint, June 25,2025
See The Human Risk, Shape The Outcome: Introducing Proofpoint Human Risk Explorer
At Proofpoint, we've spent the last decade building a multilayered cybersecurity platform around one profoundly significant shift: in the modern digital workspace, people are the new perimeter. Today, users-not infrastructure-are the primary targets of cyber threats.
more → Proofpoint, June 25,2025
6 Ways Api-Deployed Email Security Cuts Complexity For Msps
Today's email threats are getting faster, more convincing and harder to stop. Because of this, they remain the most common way that scammers attack small businesses.
more → Proofpoint, Tuesday, June 17th, 2025
To Defend Your Data, Protect Your People Not Just Your Devices
Identifying and protecting all the devices that access your data is an unbounded problem-in other words, you never know when it is complete.
more → Proofpoint, Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025
Unlock Real-Time Data Security With Snowflake Openflow And Proofpoint DSPM
The Snowflake cloud-based data platform has transformed how organizations manage big data workloads in the AI era. Snowflake helps businesses collect, store and analyze vast amounts of data more cost effectively. But its flexibility and scale also bring challenges for managing data movement and classification.
more → Proofpoint, Tuesday, May 27th, 2025
Introducing the New Proofpoint Government Threat Protection Packages
Proofpoint understands that government agencies have unique challenges when choosing the right cybersecurity solutions. These challenges include meeting regulatory guidelines, following procurement standards and working with limited resources.
more → Proofpoint, Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
Proofpoint Acquires Nuclei for Enhanced Communications Capture and Archiving Across Modern Workspace
Combined offering will boost compliance archiving while unlocking insights from conversational data across 100+ connected collaboration tools
more → Proofpoint , May 15,2025
Proofpoint Signs Definitive Agreement To Acquire Hornetsecurity
Strategic acquisition marks significant milestone in advancing Proofpoint's mission to deliver human-centric security solutions to businesses of all sizes across the globe
more → Proofpoint , May 12,2025
Proofpoint Launches Next-Gen Digital Communications Governance Offering With Enhanced Capture, Archiving And Supervision Innovations
New AI-powered capabilities offer intelligent search, advanced global archiving, ML-driven supervision, and industry-leading compliance capabilities for today's complex regulatory landscape
more → Proofpoint News, Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025
Proofpoint Debuts Unified Data Security Protection Across Data Exfiltration, Exposure and Insider Threats
Agent-powered solution bridges the gap between data discovery, classification and real-time enforcement-eliminating manual bottlenecks and unlocking scalable data security
more → Proofpoint News, Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025
Proofpoint Unveils Industry's First and Only Unified Solution to Reduce Costs and Cyber Risk Across the Expanding Workspace
Agent-powered solution bridges the gap between data discovery, classification and real-time enforcement-eliminating manual bottlenecks and unlocking scalable data security
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