Proofpoint Essentials — Business Email Security

Proofpoint Essentials — Enterprise-Grade Email Security for Australian Businesses

Email is the number one attack vector for cybercriminals. Proofpoint Essentials brings enterprise-grade email security to small and mid-sized businesses — filtering threats before they reach your inbox.

What It Blocks

Spam, phishing emails, malicious attachments, dangerous links, spoofed senders, and impersonation attacks in real time. Advanced machine learning trained on billions of daily threat signals catches attacks that bypass standard Microsoft 365 defences.

Key Features

Advanced spam and phishing filtering, URL defence that checks links in real time at the moment of click, attachment sandboxing, BEC protection, email continuity during Microsoft 365 outages, and 30-day email archive.

🇦🇺 Supplied and managed by TechAuthority — Australian email security specialists. We deploy and manage Proofpoint Essentials for Australian businesses across Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and all states. Full setup including DNS configuration, policy tuning and ongoing management. Free trial available — contact us.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Doesn't Microsoft 365 already include spam filtering?

Microsoft 365 includes basic spam filtering but is not designed to stop sophisticated targeted attacks. Proofpoint adds a far more powerful layer that catches advanced phishing, BEC, and malicious URLs that regularly bypass Microsoft's built-in defences.

What is business email compromise (BEC) and how does Proofpoint stop it?

BEC attacks impersonate your CEO or suppliers to trick staff into transferring money. Proofpoint analyses sender behaviour, domain reputation, and email headers to flag impersonation attempts before they reach your staff.

Will Proofpoint block legitimate emails by mistake?

Proofpoint has extremely low false-positive rates. Legitimate emails that are flagged can be released from quarantine easily and senders can be whitelisted.

Does Proofpoint work with Microsoft 365?

Yes. It sits in front of your Microsoft 365 mailboxes as an additional filtering layer via a simple DNS change.

What is URL defence and why does it matter?

URL Defence rewrites every link in incoming emails and checks the destination in real time when the user clicks — blocking malicious sites even if the link was clean when it arrived.

Can TechAuthority set up Proofpoint for us?

Yes. Full deployment including DNS configuration, policy setup, and user training. We offer a free trial configured in your environment before you commit.