Proofpoint, Inc., a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, introduced industry-first innovations that address the top risks organizations face from business email compromise (BEC), the leading cause of financial loss for organizations, to ransomware and data exfiltration. The unified solutions, announced at Proofpoint Protect 2023, span the company’s Aegis Threat Protection, Identity Threat Defense and Sigma Information Protection platforms to thwart threats across the most critical stages of the attack chain. Fueled by trillions of detected threat activities sourced from one of the most comprehensive data sets in the industry, Proofpoint’s new AI- and ML-powered innovations equip security practitioners with unmatched visibility, flexibility, and depth to detect and disrupt sophisticated adversaries across their organizations’ attack surfaces.
“The critical parts of the attack chain can’t be effectively combatted without taking a people-centric approach,” said Ryan Kalember, executive vice president, cybersecurity strategy, Proofpoint. “We analyze more human communications than any other cybersecurity company, allowing us to deliver industry-first innovations that disrupt the threat actor’s playbook across the attack chain for email fraud, ransomware, data theft, and other risks that matter.”
AI and ML require robust detection models and a high-fidelity data pipeline to yield accurate detection rates, operational efficiencies, and automated protection. Proofpoint customers benefit from one of the largest and most diverse global cybersecurity data pipelines across email, the cloud, and mobile computing. Every year, Proofpoint analyzes an unparalleled amount of data sourced from more than 2.8 trillion scanned email messages, 17 trillion scanned URLs, 1.3 trillion scanned SMS and MMS, and 46 million DLP end users.
Preventing Initial Compromise
Email is the number one attack vector leading to successful compromise. Proofpoint’s Aegis Platform is the only AI/ML-powered, cloud-based threat protection platform that disarms advanced attacks, including email fraud (BEC), ransomware, weaponized URLs, multifactor authentication (MFA) bypass for credential phishing, and more. New enhancements and features in Aegis include:
Industry-first LLM-based Pre-delivery Threat Detection: Through Proofpoint’s implementation of the BERT large language model (LLM) within Proofpoint’s CLEAR solution, the company is pioneering industry-first, pre-delivery protection against social engineering attacks before they can do harm.
Pre-delivery protection is so critical because, based on Proofpoint’s telemetry across more than 230,000 organizations around the world, post-delivery detections are frequently too late. Nearly one in seven malicious URL clicks occur within one minute of the email’s arrival, and more than one-third of BEC replies happen in less than five minutes. These narrow timeframes, during which a user can fall prey to an attack,
SOURCE: PRNewswire