Proofpoint is a cybersecurity company founded in 2002 that employs over 5,000 people. Its work centres on protecting organisations against threats that target people rather than infrastructure - operating on the premise that human behaviour represents the most significant point of vulnerability in modern security environments.
The company's technical focus spans several interconnected domains:
- Email and phishing security
- Cloud application and data security
- Social channel and social engineering threats
- Human behaviour analysis and security awareness
- Employee decision support to reduce human-introduced risk
Its products address three broad problems: blocking phishing attacks, securing sensitive data across cloud environments, and helping employees make better security decisions through training and behavioural interventions. The underlying approach ties these together - defences are designed around understanding how attackers exploit human behaviour, and how that behaviour can be shaped to reduce exposure.
Proofpoint's stated mission is to enable organisations to adopt technology without fear of the consequences when things go wrong. The company positions its model as adaptive, with teams focused on tracking attacker behaviour as the threat landscape evolves.