Proofpoint Establishes Global Strategic Alliance with Microsoft
Proofpoint Inc., a leading
cybersecurity and compliance company, announced an expanded global partnership
with Microsoft that leverages Microsoft Azure’s robust AI capabilities and
trusted cloud infrastructure to host Proofpoint’s future innovations and scale
AI-powered threat and data protection. With Azure as a foundation, the
companies will be able to provide organizations worldwide with stronger threat
protection, enhanced data security, and greater operational efficiency. This
expanded partnership drives scalable innovation and provides mutual customers
with human-centric security capabilities to proactively detect and mitigate a
wide array of threats that target people and the data they work with.
Last year, the majority of
publicly reported data breaches were due to human-centric compromises; of
these, email, data loss, mis-delivery, malicious insider, and misconfiguration
accounted for 90% of the underlying causes.
“Human-centric security is about
enabling the digital workspace. And for most of our enterprise customers, that
digital workspace is Microsoft,” said Darren Lee, Executive Vice President and
General Manager, Threat Protection Group at Proofpoint. “Built on top of
Microsoft Azure, we’re delivering advanced, preventive protection for the most
important layer in the cybersecurity ecosystem —the human layer. We’re
equipping organizations with the capabilities they need to reduce human risk at
scale and thrive in their digital workspace.”
“Microsoft Azure is the cloud
platform of choice for security vendors across the industry,” said Kathleen
Brown, Corporate Vice President, Americas Enterprise at Microsoft. “Today’s
announcement is a great example of how Azure provides powerful cloud
infrastructure to help Microsoft and our partners meet our mutual customers’ evolving
security requirements.”
Driving Scalable Innovation with Microsoft Azure
With Azure as an engine for
innovation, Proofpoint plans to accelerate the growth of new features across
its human-centric security platform, ensuring enhanced protection for mutual
customers—including faster threat detection, reduced operational complexity,
and more effective risk mitigation.
As part of this alliance,
Proofpoint plans to host its human-centric platform and services on Azure,
including its Nexus intelligence technologies, which bring together
sophisticated AI models, behavior analysis, and unparalleled threat
intelligence to proactively detect and neutralize risks, by the end of Q2 2025.
Fortifying Protection for Customers with Seamless API-Driven Security
By bringing Proofpoint's
human-centric platform to Azure and integrating into Microsoft 365, customers
gain more robust, scalable, and proactive solutions to combat modern threats
while maintaining the agility needed for today’s dynamic digital environments.
With Proofpoint’s frictionless API integration, organizations can strengthen
their Microsoft security while reducing complexity and improving their security
posture with:
Advanced email security without
disruptions, delivering comprehensive protection against phishing, business
email compromise, ransomware, and other targeted attacks;
Enhanced data protection across
Microsoft 365;
Lower operational costs and
improved efficiency; and
Protection against emerging data
risks from GenAI tools.
Seamless Advanced Threat Defense
As the cyber landscape continues to evolve at a rapid pace, Proofpoint and Microsoft will continue to support interoperable solutions that further strengthen their mutual customers’ ability to detect and combat cyber risks. Security teams can move from a reactive security stance to a proactive, automated threat defense model with additional layers of defense, response workflow automation and acceleration, and data-driven security decision-making.
A key component planned for this collaboration will be incorporating Proofpoint’s Nexus threat intelligence into Microsoft Sentinel via Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP) SIEM APIs. This will allow Sentinel customers to seamlessly integrate Proofpoint’s threat intelligence and data into their analytics and extended detection and response (XDR) workflows. Security teams will gain richer insights, faster incident response, and greater visibility into emerging threats. Proofpoint on Demand Email Security for Microsoft Sentinel will enable the ingestion of Proofpoint on Demand Email Protection data and activity logs for monitoring email activity, events and threats in an organization. This effort builds on existing collaborations, including Proofpoint Adaptive Email DLP and Microsoft Purview, which provide stronger email data loss prevention, and Proofpoint TAP with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, which extends advanced threat protection ac
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