What is Proofpoint?
Proofpoint is an e-mail filtering system designed to protect staff and students from phishing attempts and malware attacks. It is designed as a daily agenda showing alerts of possible malware being quarantined to prevent users from being accessing malicious links and attachments. This product inspects over 200,000 message attributes and currently has a good reputation of a high success of detecting spam.
Types of potentially malicious emails - SPAM, Phishing, Spear Phishing, Virus Hoax, Vishing, Smishing, Whaling, and Extortion/Sextortion.