The company Proofpoint has announced the global availability of Proofpoint Prime Threat Protection. This is a comprehensive cybersecurity solution centered on people in the industry, bringing together critical defense capabilities against previously disparate threats into a single integrated solution. Designed to protect individuals wherever and however they work, Proofpoint Prime helps foster long-term resilience against current emerging attacks while reducing cyber risk and operational costs for organizations.
As organizations face an overwhelming variety of fragmented, isolated, and reactive cybersecurity tools, Proofpoint Prime is the only integrated solution in the industry that unifies threat defense and human risk management in seamless workflows that span the entire attack chain. Proofpoint Prime consolidates real-time threat detection, response, and behavior-based guidance across communication and digital channels to reduce costs and operational expenses, accelerate response times, and prepare security teams for a future driven by AI-based security automation.
In the current expanding digital workspace, where 90% of breaches involve the human element, threat actors exploit individuals regardless of how they work: through email, cloud applications, messaging, browsers, file sharing, collaboration tools, and social media. In addition to targeting multiple channels, they also use a variety of techniques that include social engineering, malicious links, phishing, and compromised accounts to evade traditional and fragmented defenses as part of their multi-stage attacks. For example, the ransomware group Black Basta has used email subscription bombing followed by messages in Microsoft Teams to impersonate technical support and compromise organizations.
To defend against these multi-stage, multi-channel attacks, companies currently use an average of 45 or more disconnected cybersecurity tools, each with different workflows, interfaces, and integrations. Most also rely on standalone security awareness platforms that are disconnected from actual threat activity, resulting in minimal behavior change and poor operational efficiency for security teams. Organizations spend millions managing these silos, while critical tasks like incident triage, threat remediation, and user remediation are often delayed or overlooked due to complexity and staffing shortages.
Unlike disparate tools that treat threats and human behaviors as separate challenges, Proofpoint Prime shifts this dynamic by bringing them together in intelligent workflows, transforming signals into actionable risk intelligence, optimizing operations, and providing scalable protection. The result: improved threat prevention, reduced costs, faster response times, and lasting human resilience. Organizations that unify their defenses with a single people-centric security solution have saved an average of $2.7 million in reduced risk exposure and avoided $390,000 in operational costs. Proofpoint Prime simplifies deployment with pre-built integrations and efficiencies in bidding, offering an unparalleled economic model for modern security teams.
“The most damaging attacks continue to target people, and security teams are overwhelmed with isolated software, dispersed threat signals, and rising costs,” says Darren Lee, executive vice president and general manager of the Threat Protection Group at Proofpoint. “The current collaboration landscape demands an adaptable approach. With Proofpoint Prime, organizations no longer need to piece together dozens of disconnected detection, response, and employee education tools. It integrates protection across multiple channels and stages of attack, providing organizations with a level of protection and peace of mind that is unmatched in the industry.”
Proofpoint Prime Threat Protection: A Unified Response to Fragmented Defenses
To simplify threat defense for organizations, Proofpoint Prime brings together four critical capabilities in a single integrated solution:
Multi-Channel Defense with Nexus AI: Defends against threats across email, cloud applications, collaboration tools, messaging, browsers, and social platforms. Nexus AI applies consistent threat detection across all digital channels to eliminate blind spots and ensure comprehensive surface protection.
Protection Against Multi-Stage Attacks: Identifies and remediates account compromises, lateral movements, and supply chain attacks through a unified detection and response workflow. Proofpoint Prime provides security operations (SecOps) teams with full visibility and the ability to investigate and act more rapidly.
Guidance and Insights Based on Human Risk: Provides employees with real-time, risk-based guidance and education tailored to their behavior, while equipping security teams with adaptive intelligence to enforce dynamic policies and train at-risk employees.
- Comprehensive Anti-Phishing Protection: Combines email authentication, brand protection, and threat removal services into a single system that protects trusted domains against domain spoofing and malicious impersonators.
Designed for Today and Prepared for Tomorrow’s Agentic AI
Proofpoint Prime Threat Protection is designed for today’s cyber risks and the intelligent automation of tomorrow. Its architecture is built to support agentic AI, allowing organizations to automate tasks like threat research, spam email classification, and forensic investigations in collaboration tools. Proofpoint will continue to enhance its functionalities and capabilities.