Beginner Package

Provides next generation email security for organizations on a budget through a reliable core filtering service and basic email continuity features. The service is backed by Proofpoint’s best-of-breed security & infrastructure and provided at a price that delivers value and cost-savings. 

• Purpose-built for the SME

As a 100% cloud-based solution, there’s no hardware or software to install or to worry about

updating. By filtering mail at the Internet level before it reaches the network, Proofpoint Essentials can

save organizations considerable amounts on administrative tasks, bandwidth, end-user filtering, and

even disk space on servers. We know time is valuable, so Proofpoint Essentials offers market leading

technology without the management and deployment headaches. Administrators can simply login to

the online console and manage all users and account settings from one single secure platform.

• Multi Layered Anti-virus Scanning

The Proofpoint Essentials advanced threat detection technology enables our anti-virus engines to

provide clients with an unrivalled protection from viruses and other email-borne threats. All messages

are meticulously scanned by our sophisticated virus engines, operating at the highest levels of accuracy,

performance and effectiveness ensuring all known viruses are captured and blocked. For increased

protection, Proofpoint Essentials additionally employs heuristics scanning technology to discover email

threats currently unknown to the system and protects against these in real time.

• Proofpoint MLXTM Machine Learning Technology

Powered by Proofpoint MLX technology, Proofpoint Essentials spam and phishing detection offers

maximum protection against email threats. It examines hundreds of thousands of attributes in

every email to accurately detect text, image and attachment-based spam or phishing emails, while

automatically adapting to new threats as they appear. Proofpoint MLX Technology delivers the

industry’s highest level of effectiveness at 99% against all types of spam email, using the latest

advances in reputation and content-based analysis.

• Never Miss an Email with Proofpoint Essentials Continuity

Smaller organizations rely heavily on email to do business but cannot justify the cost of building a

highly redundant messaging infrastructure. A few minutes without email may be manageable but what

about a few hours or a few days? According the recent survey conducted with Proofpoint Essentials

customers, 74% of respondents said that email downtime would result in customer contact disruption

affecting customer satisfaction. Keeping business email running as normal even when disaster hits is 

crucial to the smaller enterprise.