Proofpoint Security Awareness Training
Profile checked & reviewed: Oct 15, 2026
Factual Product Summary
Proofpoint Security Awareness Training from Proofpoint focuses on user security training and phishing simulation. It is security awareness technology or service used for improving how employees recognize and handle security risks. Capabilities - Phishing simulations: Creates controlled exercises to assess how users handle realistic phishing scenarios. - Security training content: Provides learning material intended to improve security knowledge and decision-making. - Adaptive learning: Adjusts the training experience using the learner context described by the product. - User risk insights: Helps teams understand which user behaviors or exposures deserve additional attention. - Program reporting: Provides information for monitoring participation, outcomes and the progress of the awareness program. - Security coaching: Connects security learning with user behavior or the moment at which guidance is needed. Use and operational context Proofpoint's training entry addresses employee awareness and phishing readiness. Evaluate learning content, simulation administration and the reporting needed by the awareness team, including how the program turns observed user behavior into relevant follow-up education. Deployment and evaluation Before adoption, review training relevance, simulation design, reporting methods and the treatment of employee information. Assign an owner for administration, document required permissions and identify how the product or service will fit the existing operating process. Buyer questions - What is the main purpose? Proofpoint Security Awareness Training focuses on improving how employees recognize and handle security risks. - What should a proof of concept establish? Test the listed capabilities against representative assets and workflows, record useful results and unresolved gaps, and confirm who handles follow-up work. - What should be confirmed before purchase? Ask the vendor which edition or service scope includes the required features, which dependencies must be configured and what licensing or contract terms apply. Pricing has not been verified for this catalog.
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About the Vendor
Proofpoint offers a portfolio covering protecting or governing business messaging, understanding sensitive information and controlling its exposure and improving how employees recognize and handle security risks. The entries in this catalog include Email Protection, Proofpoint Information Protection, Proofpoint Insider Threat Management and Proofpoint Security Awareness Training. Email Protection focuses on email filtering and targeted attack protection. Proofpoint Information Protection focuses on sensitive data monitoring and loss prevention. Proofpoint Insider Threat Management focuses on insider activity visibility and investigation. When reviewing Proofpoint, compare the named products individually: a platform family, a specific module and a managed service can have different scopes and purchasing requirements. Selection should account for mail routing or API permissions, incident handling, legitimate-message delivery and the exact services included in the license. Portfolio detail - Email Protection: the catalog lists Phishing detection, Business email compromise detection, Account takeover detection. - Proofpoint Information Protection: the catalog lists Data loss prevention, Insider risk investigation. - Proofpoint Insider Threat Management: the catalog lists Sensitive data discovery, Data classification, Data access visibility. - Proofpoint Security Awareness Training: the catalog lists Phishing simulations, Security training content, Adaptive learning. For procurement, map each required capability to a named offering and confirm the edition, dependencies and delivery responsibility with the vendor. Product-level entries below provide the operational context and evaluation questions for that comparison.