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Proofpoint, Friday, October 31st, 2025
The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is a tiered cybersecurity program mandated by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Contractors and vendors must adopt CMMC to protect sensitive defense data on their systems.
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Proofpoint, Tuesday, October 28th, 2025
In recent weeks, organizations have been reminded that even the world's most trusted cloud platforms can experience disruption. When those moments occur, the true measure of a security provider isn't how they perform on a normal day; it's how they continue protecting customers when the unexpected happens.
more → Proofpoint, Thursday, October 23rd, 2025
The PDF format is widely used by threat actors to kickstart malicious activity. In email campaigns, Proofpoint researchers observe PDFs distributed in many ways.
more → Proofpoint, Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025
Sensitive data loss has long been an issue for organizations of all sizes. From phishing and ransomware to advanced threats, there is a long and growing list of ways that data can find itself outside your defenses.
more → Proofpoint, Tuesday, October 21st, 2025
Cloud account takeover (ATO) attacks have become a significant concern in recent years, with cybercriminals and state-sponsored actors increasingly adopting malicious OAuth applications as a means to gain persistent access within compromised environments.
more → Proofpoint, Thursday, October 16th, 2025
Microsoft Direct Send is a method in Microsoft 365's Exchange Online service that allows devices, applications, or on-premises systems to send email through Microsoft's Exchange Online servers without using a user mailbox or credentials.
more → Proofpoint, October 3,2025
It has never been more challenging to build and maintain a security awareness program. Not only are security teams expected to reach a global, diverse workforce with limited time, skills, and resources-but they're also supposed to prove that the program makes a measurable impact.
more → Proofpoint, October 1,2025
Proofpoint, in the weeks and months ahead, is readying a raft of sets of artificial intelligence (AI) agents that promise to both automate tasks and provide more robust data security.
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Proofpoint, Friday, September 26th, 2025
Industry frameworks play a critical role in cybersecurity. For one, they help security teams assess their controls against a common, industry-proven framework.
more → Proofpoint, Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
In the agentic workspace, data security is paramount. That's because AI agents face similar risks as humans-from social and prompt engineering attacks to intentional or accidental disclosure of sensitive information. AI agents are only as secure as the data they have access to.
more → Proofpoint, Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
AI is transforming the workplace into an agentic workspace. AI agents facilitate human work by automating tasks, generating data insights and enabling frictionless collaboration. As this shift accelerates, however, it introduces a plethora of new, potentially disruptive risks that security teams must address.
more → Proofpoint, Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
Across industries, the digital workspace is fast becoming the agentic workspace, where people and agents collaborate.
more → Proofpoint, Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
Just as digital transformation created the digital workspace, AI transformation is ushering in the agentic workspace.
more → Proofpoint, Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
AI is transforming the digital workspace and giving rise to the agentic workspace, where collaboration is no longer just between people, but also between people and AI agents. In this environment, every collaboration, whether by a human or an AI agent or assistant, introduces new risks to data.
more → Proofpoint, Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
Cybersecurity firm Proofpoint Inc. today announced four major innovations at its annual Protect 2025 conference that are designed to secure the agentic workpsace.
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Proofpoint, Monday, September 22nd, 2025
When we hire someone in good faith to work for our company, we assume they'll respect our organization, policies, and sensitive business data. But sadly, we don't yet live in this utopia.
more → Proofpoint, Monday, September 22nd, 2025
Proofpoint Protect 2025, our flagship annual event, brought together cybersecurity leaders and innovators in Nashville, Tennessee-and it also served as the stage for honoring our valued partners.
more → Proofpoint, September 18,2025
Organizations are increasingly struggling to protect business-critical information such as intellectual property (IP) and trade secrets.
more → Proofpoint, September 16,2025
Insider Threat Awareness Month is a good time to reflect: are your security teams operating in silos, or are they reinforcing one another?
more → Proofpoint, September 15,2025
Breakthrough innovation transforms enterprise communications into actionable intelligence, mitigating misconduct, regulatory risk, and insider threats in real time
more → Proofpoint, Tuesday, September 9th, 2025
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Combined offering will boost compliance archiving while unlocking insights from conversational data across 100+ connected collaboration tools
more → Proofpoint , May 15,2025
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
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
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
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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