Proofpoint

Proofpoint Inc. is a prominent cybersecurity and compliance company that specializes in cloud-based solutions designed to safeguard modern work environments. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Proofpoint offers a comprehensive suite of services, including email security, encryption, archiving, data loss prevention, and incident response. Its solutions are tailored for mid and large-sized organizations, enabling them to protect users from advanced threats across various channels such as email, social media, and mobile applications. With a client base that includes over 3,000 enterprise-level accounts, including global corporations, universities, and government agencies, Proofpoint aims to enhance organizational security and ensure regulatory compliance while facilitating secure communication and data governance.

Satya Jena

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Normalyze

Acquisition in 2024
Normalyze is a pioneering provider of cloud data security solutions helping customers secure their data, applications, identities, and infrastructure across public clouds.

Tessian

Acquisition in 2023
Tessian’s mission is to secure the human layer. Using machine learning technology, Tessian automatically stops data breaches and security threats caused by human error - like data exfiltration, accidental data loss, business email compromise, and phishing attacks - with minimal disruption to employees' workflow. As a result, employees are empowered to do their best work, without security getting in their way. Founded in 2013, Tessian is backed by renowned investors like Sequoia, Accel, March Capital, and Balderton, and has offices in San Francisco and London.

Illusive

Acquisition in 2022
Illusive Networks Ltd. specializes in developing cybersecurity solutions focused on deception technology to prevent cyber attacks on enterprise systems. By creating a deceptive environment within existing networks, Illusive effectively identifies attackers, disrupts their activities, and provides actionable forensic insights. The company's offerings include compliance support, insider threat defense, and cloud security services, along with a comprehensive management platform that integrates various modular components for centralized cybersecurity management. Its Active Defense technology enhances security by removing vulnerable connections and replacing them with deceptive alternatives, allowing organizations to detect advanced persistent threats and prevent lateral movement by attackers. Founded in 2014 and based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, with an additional office in New York, Illusive serves clients across several industries, including finance, healthcare, legal, manufacturing, retail, and technology. The company, spun out from the venture group Team8, leverages expertise from veterans of Israel’s military intelligence to support its innovative approach to cybersecurity.

Dathena Science

Acquisition in 2022
Dathena Science Pte. Ltd., founded in 2016 and based in Singapore, specializes in data security and privacy management software solutions. The company provides a range of services, including data protection maturity assessments, sensitive data inventory, risk assessments, and advanced classification and tagging of files. Utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, Dathena enables organizations to identify, classify, and manage sensitive data effectively. Their platform also detects anomalies related to access control and user risks, facilitating proactive risk management through notifications and workflows. Additionally, Dathena aids clients in meeting regulatory requirements regarding data retention and protection. With additional offices in Bangkok, Lausanne, Geneva, Paris, and New York, Dathena Science aims to enhance the data security landscape for enterprises facing increasing privacy protection challenges.

InteliSecure

Acquisition in 2021
InteliSecure is a Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) to challenge the status quo in cybersecurity by delivering a hybrid application of expert human intelligence with a proven Critical Asset Protection Program methodology. These innovative Managed services are supported by Consulting, Technical, Incident Response, and Security Assessment services that prevent data loss, protect the privacy, and safeguard critical assets. InteliSecure focuses on business outcomes by providing data and reports that make sense to business and security executives alike. They make data security and compliance easy by providing effective data protection at a lower cost, eliminating the strain on IT organizations, and reducing the risk of confidential information getting into the wrong hands. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colorado, United States.

The Defence Works

Acquisition in 2020
The Defence Works provide security awareness training and simulated phishing that finally delivers a positive security culture by focusing on what matters most - your employees. No more tedious security awareness training videos, pointless interactions or tick-box questions. Instead, The Defence Works delivers brand-new content each and every month - providing employees with interactive, immersive, real-life scenarios (based on recent, real world events) to finally help them understand cyber and data security in an engaging, entertaining and relevant way.

ObserveIT

Acquisition in 2019
ObserveIT LTD. specializes in insider threat management software solutions aimed at helping organizations identify and mitigate insider threats. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with additional offices in London and Tel Aviv, the company provides a comprehensive platform that includes insider threat detection, investigation, and prevention tools. Its services encompass data loss detection, user activity monitoring, incident response, and compliance solutions. By offering full playback of security incidents, ObserveIT enables security teams to reduce investigation times significantly and enhance response efficiency. The company's solutions are utilized by over 1,600 global customers across various industries, including financial services, technology, and manufacturing, to secure remote workers and protect against data loss. ObserveIT operates as a subsidiary of Proofpoint, Inc.

Meta Networks

Acquisition in 2019
With applications, storage and workloads migrating to the cloud, and employees on the move, the conventional LAN/WAN paradigm is breaking down. Enterprise networks are increasingly fragmented, vulnerable, and expensive to operate. Meta Networks is rebuilding the enterprise WAN for the cloud age, with a new paradigm that is secure, simple and cloud-native. Now, forward-leaning IT organizations can connect employees, private clouds, data centers, SaaS applications and offices over a secure, zero-trust network that provides the agility and performance you need.

Wombat Security Technologies

Acquisition in 2018
Wombat Security Technologies, Inc. specializes in interactive software solutions aimed at enhancing cyber security awareness and compliance among employees. The company offers a comprehensive Security Education Platform that includes knowledge assessments, a library of simulated attacks, and interactive training modules designed to significantly reduce the success rate of phishing attacks and malware infections. Key products include PhishPatrol, an anti-phishing email filter; PhishAlarm Analyzer, which assists in identifying reported phishing emails; CyberStrength, an assessment tool for evaluating employee cyber security knowledge; and various simulation services such as USBGuru and SmishGuru that train employees on memory device and text message phishing attacks respectively. Wombat serves a diverse clientele, including Fortune 1000 companies in sectors such as finance, healthcare, and technology. Founded in 2008 and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with an additional office in the United Kingdom, Wombat operates as a subsidiary of Proofpoint, Inc.

Wombat Security Technologies

Acquisition in 2018
Wombat Security Technologies, Inc. specializes in interactive software solutions aimed at enhancing cyber security awareness and compliance among employees. The company offers a comprehensive Security Education Platform that includes knowledge assessments, a library of simulated attacks, and interactive training modules designed to significantly reduce the success rate of phishing attacks and malware infections. Key products include PhishPatrol, an anti-phishing email filter; PhishAlarm Analyzer, which assists in identifying reported phishing emails; CyberStrength, an assessment tool for evaluating employee cyber security knowledge; and various simulation services such as USBGuru and SmishGuru that train employees on memory device and text message phishing attacks respectively. Wombat serves a diverse clientele, including Fortune 1000 companies in sectors such as finance, healthcare, and technology. Founded in 2008 and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with an additional office in the United Kingdom, Wombat operates as a subsidiary of Proofpoint, Inc.

Cloudmark

Acquisition in 2017
Cloudmark Inc. specializes in messaging security software that safeguards communications service provider networks and their subscribers from various messaging threats, including spam, phishing, and malware. The company offers a comprehensive suite of solutions, including the Cloudmark Security Platform, which provides security against network threats across email, SMS, MMS, and DNS. It features tools such as Cloudmark Authority, a content filtering engine, and Cloudmark Trident, which protects against targeted spear phishing attacks. Additionally, Cloudmark's global threat network leverages threat intelligence and behavioral context to deliver predictive defenses against data breaches. With a client base of over 120 tier-one customers worldwide, including major companies like AT&T and Verizon, Cloudmark aims to enhance user safety, protect revenue, and maintain brand integrity, all while streamlining infrastructure and reducing operational costs. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Cloudmark also has offices in the United Kingdom, Paris, and Tokyo. As of November 2017, it operates as a subsidiary of Proofpoint, Inc.

FireLayers

Acquisition in 2016
FireLayers, Inc., a subsidiary of Proofpoint, Inc., specializes in enterprise security software designed to safeguard cloud applications through a rule-based policy framework. The company focuses on enabling IT departments to proactively protect cloud application usage while ensuring compliance with security standards. FireLayers' platform supports organizations in identifying users, applications, and actions, thereby facilitating secure user identification, data retrieval, and request fulfillment. By adding an extra layer of monitoring and protection, FireLayers helps organizations maintain enterprise-level security and governance across their cloud environments.

Socialware

Acquisition in 2015
Socialware, Inc. is a company based in Austin, Texas, that offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform designed for managing social media within enterprises. Founded in 2008, Socialware provides a range of modules tailored to meet the specific needs of various departments, including risk management, sales, marketing, compliance, and IT. The platform enables organizations to utilize public social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter as secure and efficient channels for communication and collaboration. Key features include social media compliance, access control, archiving, publishing, content recommendation, and brand protection. Socialware aims to enhance how companies and their employees engage with clients and partners while ensuring adherence to compliance requirements. As of November 2015, Socialware operates as a subsidiary of Proofpoint, Inc.

Emerging Threats

Acquisition in 2015
Emerging Threats is a cybersecurity research organization focused on advancing the detection and protection capabilities against emerging threats. The company develops innovative products, including rulesets for network intrusion detection systems such as Suricata and Snort, along with IP reputation data feeds. By leveraging its research community, Emerging Threats aims to provide comprehensive and rapid coverage to its users, addressing the evolving challenges in cybersecurity and enhancing the effectiveness of threat and malware technology.

Nexgate

Acquisition in 2014
Nexgate specializes in providing security and compliance solutions for businesses navigating the complexities of social media. With a team of experienced professionals in digital media, web infrastructure, and software as a service, Nexgate focuses on helping organizations protect their brand and ensure compliance while leveraging the opportunities presented by social platforms. The company offers a comprehensive suite of tools that includes content management, social account management, and actionable metrics, enabling businesses to better understand their social presence and its impact on their networks. By facilitating the mobilization of stakeholders and influencers, Nexgate aims to transform organizations' social networks into productive advocates that drive business growth.

NetCitadel

Acquisition in 2014
NetCitadel is a provider of next-generation security solutions that enhance the analysis and management of security events for organizations. Its ThreatOptics Threat Management Platform enriches security alerts with contextual data and threat analytics, allowing security teams to prioritize their responses and effectively mitigate potential incidents without requiring coding expertise. By integrating information from cloud and virtualization environments, NetCitadel helps customers minimize their security risk exposure while enhancing operational efficiency and response times. The company is privately held and based in Mountain View, California.

Sendmail

Acquisition in 2013
Sendmail simplifies business email complexity and reduces IT infrastructure costs for large enterprises. The company’s solutions ensure global email connectivity, routing, and message delivery between people, systems, and applications located on-premises, in-cloud or on mobile devices. The Sentrion Email Infrastructure Platform performs intelligent email policy and message inspection ensuring all critical communications and content are integrated with business policies, applications and processes.

Armorize Technologies

Acquisition in 2013
Armorize Technologies offers comprehensive security solutions designed to protect enterprises from cyber threats targeting vulnerable web applications. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with a research and development center in Taipei, Taiwan, the company specializes in cloud-based anti-malware products. Armorize develops advanced technologies to defend against various cyber attacks, including Advanced Persistent Threats, targeted email attacks, and website intrusions. The Armorize Appsec Suite is built on the foundation of innovative research projects, which have been recognized in prestigious academic venues and cited by leading organizations. The company has also received accolades for its technological advancements and business practices, including recognition in the Red Herring Asia Top 100 and Red Herring Global Top 10 Innovators.

Abaca Technology

Acquisition in 2013
Abaca Technology Corporation specializes in developing and marketing email protection and messaging security solutions aimed at enterprise, government, and small to medium-sized business customers. The company offers a suite of email security services designed to safeguard messaging environments, ensuring high levels of accuracy and reliability. Abaca is recognized for its engineering expertise and advanced technical capabilities, particularly in email filtering and protection algorithms, which enhance the security of its clients' communications.

eDynamics LLC

Acquisition in 2013
Acquired in July 2013 eDynamics provides SaaS solutions that help organizations in regulated industry verticals to meet the regulatory requirements. Our solutions, Archive for Chatter and Archive for Yammer, enable regulated organizations to leverage Salesforce.com Chatter and Microsoft Yammer while maintaining regulatory compliance. Chatter and Yammer content is integrated with the existing archiving and retention solution that regulated organizations already have in place; thereby eliminating the need for an addition archive.

MailDistiller

Acquisition in 2013
MailDistiller is the company provided a hosted service for comprehensive e-mail security by blocking viruses and junk (spam) e-mail before they threaten an organisation network.

NextPage

Acquisition in 2012
NextPage, a leading innovator in Compliance and Information Risk Solutions, delivers the only Information Tracking Platform that mitigates enterprise risk, increases document policy compliance and reduces the cost of eDiscovery by tracking and managing documents no matter where they are located – hard drives, USBs, servers, or email attachments. With patent pending technology, NextPage Digital Thread™ software, NextPage proactively tackles the risk by tracking, classifying, executing policy, and reporting on the compliance of all documents across the enterprise.

Everyone.net

Acquisition in 2009
Everyone.net transforms how users and small businesses communicate, share and protect their data while increasing their agility, security and performance. With a commitment to innovation and simplicity, the company delivers reliable, secure, hosted business email and collaboration solutions for service providers and businesses. Everyone.net's customizable hosted email solutions are built on a dynamic network infrastructure, encompassing advanced services such as IMAP and push email for mobile devices, and its integrated world-class security includes comprehensive anti-spam and virus protection. Since 1998, Everyone.net has been a leader in Software as a Service (SaaS) email and messaging, managing more than 6 billion message connections each month and over 300,000 domains worldwide.

Secure Data in Motion

Acquisition in 2008
Secure Data In Motion, Inc., doing business as Sigaba, provides security infrastructure solutions that enable industry and government to exchange information securely with their colleagues, customers, partners, and constituents. Its products include Sigaba Secure Email, which provides secure information sharing with various business partners, customers, and affiliates based on their existing email infrastructures; Sigaba Secure IM, an enterprise instant messaging and presence solution; Sigaba Secure Paging, which enables doctors, nurses, first responders, and other emergency care providers to receive critical information; and Sigaba Secure Messaging for Mobile Devices, which delivers end-to-end security for enabling protected information sharing within communities of interest; and Sigaba Secure Statements, which helps organizations in electronic document delivery. The company also offers authentication, installation and custom configuration, architecture review and design, custom system development, and branding services. It serves federal, state, and local governments, as well as companies operating in financial services and healthcare sectors. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in San Mateo, California. As of August, 2008, Secure Data In Motion, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Proofpoint, Inc.

Fortiva

Acquisition in 2008
Fortiva provides an on-demand email archiving solution that addresses three key challenges – email storage management, legal discovery and regulatory compliance – without the headaches of managing an archive in-house. As a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution, the Fortiva Archiving Suite™ can be up and running in days, with minimal upfront capital costs and planning requirements.
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