Proofpoint is the University's email security gateway, providing additional malware, phishing, spam, and targeted attack protection. Proofpoint offers additional email threat protection features to end users like Personal Email Quarantine and URL Defense.
This article compiles a list of frequently asked questions about Proofpoint.
This article provides instructions for you to to manage emails that get caught in your personal quarantine.
This article provides instructions for you to manage your safe or blocked senders lists. Adding senders to your safe senders list allows all future email sent from an address to bypass your personal quarantine and flow directly into your inbox regardless of whether Proofpoint evaluates the email as spam or low priority.
This article provides instructions for you to release quarantine emails, adjust your filtering settings, and requesting on-demand digests
One of the features provided by Proofpoint is URL Defense. This works by rewriting URLs (i.e. web addresses and links) in emails as they pass through our Proofpoint gateway on their way to your inbox. By rewriting URLs, Proofpoint is able to send all “clicks” of a URL to an isolated sandbox and scan the destination website to ensure it’s safe before you visit.
Proofpoint's personal quarantine serves as an additional layer of defense while still providing users with the control to manage the emails that Proofpoint is filtering