TAP in my own perspective as a user
Its use as our email protection defense for phishing emails. Another layer of protection is malicious emails are not blocked. When URLs …
Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP)
Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP)
Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP)
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What is Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP)?
Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP) helps organizations efficiently detect, mitigate and respond to known and unknown advanced threats that target people and VIPs through email. TAP provides unparalleled effectiveness in stopping targeted attacks that use polymorphic malware, weaponized documents and...
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What is Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP)?
Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP) helps organizations efficiently detect, mitigate and respond to known and unknown advanced threats that target people and VIPs through email. TAP provides unparalleled effectiveness in stopping targeted attacks that use polymorphic malware, weaponized documents and credential-stealing phishing techniques to obtain sensitive information. TAP seamlessly integrates with the Proofpoint secure email gateway (Proofpoint Email Protection) to deliver best-in-class email security in a way that is cost effective and easy to use. TAP leverages the cloud to scale deployment, adapt analysis and protect people on any network or device.
With Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP), you can:
- Provide sophisticated analysis to prevent threats from getting to a user's inbox.
- Detect known and unknown threats using adaptable analysis capabilities.
- Provide security teams detailed analysis and visibility about threats and threat campaigns.
- Provide visibility into threats targeting the Very Attacked People (VAP) in an organization.
Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP) Features
- Supported: Provide sophisticated analysis to prevent threats from getting to users inbox.
- Supported: Detect known and unknown threats using adaptable analysis capabilities.
- Supported: Provide security teams detailed analysis and visibility about threats and threat campaigns.
- Supported: Provide visibility into threats targeting the Very Attacked People (VAP’s) in an organization
Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP) Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application | No |
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November 20, 2021
TAP in my own perspective as a user
Score 9 out of 10
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Its use as our email protection defense for phishing emails. Another layer of protection is malicious emails are not blocked. When URLs are rewritten and clicked by the user, we get an alert and actioned accordingly. Use in the whole organization. Sometimes it creates a lot of False Positives and too much noise.
- Rewrite URL
- Blocked malicious URL
- Reporting
- Alerted for possible compromise
- Reduce false positive for impostor alerts
- I have noticed that if the URL is long, sometimes it's not being rewritten so the layer of protection is not there
- More proactive approach rather reactive to avoid possible compromise
November 11, 2021
Great product!
Currently, at my organization, Proofpoint Target Attack Protection, also known as TAP, is used by the SOC and also our Threat Intelligence team. The SOC uses it by researching emails that they get alerted on, and the cyber threat intelligence team uses it to research campaigns that target our organization.
- Details on specific malicious email campaigns
- Details on the users that are targeted by those campaigns
- Use of API's to be used with other cyber tools your company has
- Insight on the types of malware and types of campaigns
- Better user import capabilities
- MITRE alignment
- Stronger campaign capture
September 05, 2021
Spam/Phishing emails reduced significantly
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
We utilize Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection for Email as our email security solution for our entire organization. We receive over 96 million emails per year and Proofpoint has blocked over 22 million identified as spam/phishing and over 55 thousand infected attachments.
- Spam/phishing protection
- Sandbox attachment detonation
- Better reporting
- Screenshot of emails
April 01, 2021
Proofpoint TAP a product that just works!
Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection is a rock solid application that just works.
- Anti Spam
- Anti Malware
- Upgrades on the on-premise version can sometimes fail to install
November 21, 2020
TAP away those threats!
Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection is used across our entire company covering all email domains.
- URL rewrite feature is extremely useful for finding users at risk
- Very attacked people is great for end user awareness targeted training
- The dashboard is very intuitive and has useful data for reporting efficacy
- Small issue but it would be great if they got on board with SAML 2.0 authentication for the dashboard
- Would be nice to combine PPS and TAP dashboards into one view for reporting
January 23, 2020
Proofpoint TAP is powerful but expensive
Proofpoint TAP is used on a shared service mail gateway cluster by our outsourcing services clients. The URL protection prevents users from open websites with malware content. The attachment analyzer is able to detect malware in email content before the mail enters the client's environment and before the standard antispam engine checks the attachment.
- URL protection with a cloud-based Proofpoint database.
- Attachment analysis and removal of potentially dangerous content.
- Support for different languages in international environments for URL protection functions.
November 29, 2019
Email threat protection for loosely connected devices
Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection is being used across the entire organization for both inbound and outbound email protection. We currently have TAP integrated with PPS and the Threat Response product form Proofpoint. This system has drastically reduced our mean time to detect and respond to email-related attacks. Our previous tool for this effort was O365 ATP. Proofpoint TAP is far superior at detection and response than what O365 ATP provides.
- Detecting post-delivery weaponization of URLs.
- Attachment inspection and detection.
- Email retrieval once an incident is detected.
- Select the treatment of VIP users that allows for enhanced protection.
- Proofpoint TAP provides great insight into attack campaigns.
- It allows for faster response to zero-day attacks.
- User-interface could use improvement.
- Better details on detonation information emails from my own organization. Show me exactly what email and path from the sandbox.
November 29, 2019
Proofpoint Targeted Attack Review
We have Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP) deployed across the entire organization. We rolled out Proofpoint TAP to detect malicious email attachments and URLs to malicious websites and websites attempting to steal employee credentials.
- Proofpoint TAP does a good job of tracking malicious campaigns and providing a portal where my team can confirm which employees were targeted by each campaign.
- Proofpoint TAP does a good job of detecting malicious attachments.
- Proofpoint TAP does a good job of continually updating its threat intelligence so if we were targeted early in a campaign before it had been detected it will send us a notification if there is a match between emails we have already received that threat intelligence now classifies as malicious.
- While Proofpoint TAP does perform URL protection it has room for improvement on how it detects URLs going to credential-stealing websites. Our employees report emails with credential-stealing URLs on a daily basis that were not blocked by Proofpoint TAP.
- While Proofpoint TAP does provide basic reports of files it analyzes, the reports do not provide enough information to understand what the malicious file activity was. in contrast, publicly available sandboxes provide that information for free.
- While Proofpoint TAP does provide a dashboard that allows us to view the emails associated with threat campaigns, the dashboard views and reports have significant limitations on the timeframe we can search by. Some of the dashboards/views/reports are limited to 14 days. We need to report findings based on monthly and quarterly trends which are not possible with the current timeframe limitations.
November 21, 2019
Proofpoint is AWESOME!
POD TAP is used for email protection. We greatly appreciate the added security and safe feeling it gives us. We are very happy with the product and the protection it provides. Proofpoint support is amazing, and the training that we were given is second to none. We had an on-prem trainer come in and teach us about the product and how to configure and use it.
- It keeps us secure.
- It prevents possible hacks.
- It makes us feel more secure.
- The product has covered all of our needs. There is really no room for improvement other than that I wish that the training was on the specific version of the product we are on.
We use Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection for our entire organization. Our security team uses it every day to look into/analyze different threats that we are seeing coming into our network via email. We have the alerts set up to get us looking into the "critical" events, but we can use the data in the platform every day. It helps us realize how well Proofpoint Email Security is doing, and provides great stats/numbers for us to give to management to show what has been accomplished.
- Usability - The product is very easy to use, and begins giving a lot of valuable information immediately.
- Detail - The amount of detail for each threat is great, and helps us with "proving" there may be a problem somewhere.
- Defense - The URL rewrite function and sandbox function are great, and we saw immediate return from just those.
- Sandboxing can be slow at times, but that is understandable, but hard to explain to end users.
- URL rewrite takes time for the users to get used to the fact that every URL now looks "phishy".
November 12, 2019
Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection - TAP'in out email threats
Targeted Attack Protection for Email is deployed globally protecting my entire organization. It works in conjunction with other Proofpoint services to help protect my organization from email threats such a malware, phish, and other nefarious email threats. It helps provide security of a primary communications platform, email.
- Identify malware
- Identify targeted employees
- Provide details of threats targeting recipients
- Ability to correlate threat actors with my organization's listing of threat actors
- Whitelist sources of safe senders
- Reporting on VIP-targeted threats
November 06, 2019
Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection - it works pretty well!
Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection is used across our entire organization worldwide, which includes 15 global offices. It provides next-gen email security for Advent.
- Messages with malicious URLs are blocked/quarantined and kept out of end-users mailboxes
- Sometimes you'll get a TAP warning that messages with malicious content were already delivered to users mailboxes BEFORE the Proofpoint algorithm detected them as malicious.
Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection is used to scan incoming email attachments for malicious
code using Proofpoint’s email attachment sandboxing technology.
- Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection detects malicious attachments very well.
- In three years of use we had less then a 0.001% false positive rate with the product.
- When the product experiences technical issues your team will have to manually review attachments for malicious threats.
- The scanning process delays email messages with attachments between 3-5 minutes during scanning.
October 29, 2019
Proofpoint is at next level
We are using Proofpoint currently for email security and this is for our global level implementation. We have also integrated it with our firewall Palo Alto too.
- We have been observing TAP is working well and also the integration with Palo Alto is working great.
- Having a very good experience with Proofpoint support and very super support from them. However we have not been notified of any new updates. Not sure, if these updates have already been sent to procurement team, but not the Allegis support group.
- We do see the TAP dashboard also has a URL for rewriting details and email alerts too, which will help us to identify the actual threats and also we can report them if the attack is a false positive as well.
- In the search pane, we could have more detailed information and which may useful while validating the incoming email for the engineers.
- I do agree no product is able to block any sort of new malware/phishing attacks, but I have been observing unless we are reporting it Proofpoint is unable to identify a threat in some cases (and after the virus engines have been updated). This could be improved.
- Also in few cases, the email might get blocked if we add the IP to our blacklist policy route. However there is no sign of email activity from that source. We should at least be able to see that info.
TAP helps mitigate targeted attacks, and also helps with researching what was attempted, and helps identify people who are more at risk (ie, if they clicked a link, etc)
- Concise threat context
- URL rewriting
- I don't find the TAP portion of the product to be deficient. I think it's easy to use and is extremely helpful.
October 22, 2019
Proofpoint just works
Proofpoint's TAP product rewrites all URLs contained in emails that come to all of our email domains. The rewritten URL is substituted in place of the original link so that when the user clicks on it, instead of automatically taking the user to where the link points, it opens that site in a sandbox on a Proofpoint server before it approves or denies the destination based on anaylsys of what happens in the sandbox. Uusually they catch malicious URLs immediately although sometimes it takes them a few minutes or even a couple of hours, but eventually they notice nearly all of them, preventing my end users from infecting our PCs by clicking.
- Rewrites URLs in all our emails and very rarely misses one
- it works very well to protect our users from themselves and their bad habits
- Their admin web GUI is cumbersome and unclear in many ways. The learning curve is steep so you have to stay up on things yourself whenever a new feature or service is added.
- They sometimes add a feature to their toolbox without informing their customers. This is true even when the feature added does not cost extra.
September 11, 2019
TAP has saved us multiple times against post malware threats.
Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection for Email (TAP) is being used by our entire organization as a second defense against email malware. If email malware does initially get by Proofpoint Secure email, TAP catches it and notifies us of the breach and goes further to protect us with rewritten URLs.
- We receive email TAP alerts when malicious email gets past the Proofpoint Secure Email product.
- TAP provides very a detailed analysis of the any email malware that potentially reaches our end users.
- The overall reporting from TAP is very beneficial, especially the way it will compare our organization to similar organizations.
- I have not found a way to automate emailing me custom reports like I can do with Proofpoint Secure email.
- Sometimes you have to click through multiple links to get to the details of a malware email.
September 10, 2019
Ahead of its time!
TAP is used strictly by our Information Security department. It is very beneficial to us in two ways. Phishing attacks and our VAPs. The way that TAP seamlessly integrates with our company is unparalleled to any other product. We are able to train our users better with the knowledge we gain from TAP.
- The best software for gaining better cyber awareness of your company!
- Intelligence like no other!
- Allows faster response and more efficient workflow!
- When an alert is made sometimes some information is lacking.
- Other than that, no complaints.
August 30, 2019
Proofpoint TAP will solve your phishing crisis
TAP has been deployed as a global solution to filter malicious emails from exploiting the network. TAP has significantly reduced the number of machines that we have rebuilt due to malware related to phishing links and attachments.
- Plug and play with little effort.
- Blocks a majority of malicious email.
- URL re-write allows links that may have slipped through to be analyzed in real-time.
- Improved analytics could improve automated blocking features and lead to fewer patient zero cases.
August 29, 2019
TAP for Protection
Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection for Email is being used across our entire organization. It helps protect our users from emails that may contact malicious code in an attachment or a link that may take them to a site where their credentials can be compromised. Ultimately it protects our customers' information in turn.
- Stopping attachments, bad URLs, and embedded malicious code.
- Sometimes there is a delay in detecting the threat, and by that time it has been delivered to a mailbox and the user may have clicked on a URL or opened an attachment.
- Added functionality is in separate add-on modules at a cost.
- TAP dashboard could be made easier to navigate to gather details of the threat.
August 26, 2019
Couldn't survive without it!
Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP) is used across the entire organization. This solution provides for URL rewrites and safe attachments. With email critical to our business (like everyone else) this extra level of protection is absolutely necessary given the phishing attacks that are at an all-time high. We are notified of any actions that result in a user clicking something that is later determined to be malware or phishing.
- URL defense.
- Safe attachments.
- Detection and incident response.
- The administrative user interface could be a bit more intuitive.
- Notifications are still somewhat cryptic when an event is identified.
- This feature is a separate cost from standard email protection.
Proofpoint TAP is being used by our entire organisation, which is a multi-national company with offices in central Europe. With TAP, we are able to see malicious attachments & links that are being sent to our organisation. It gives us excellent insights into our users and what sort of attacks we are seeing come in.
- URL rewriting. TAP can rewrite URLs to obfuscate potentially harmful links. And if it is harmful, then we can see this in the dashboard and respond appropriately.
- Attachment defense is particularly impressive. We see 99% of attachments which are potentially malicious being blocked.
- Reporting. The reporting in TAP is fantastic and provides great insight into our organisation. It's the sort of reports the senior management are interested in.
- The dashboard can be a bit tricky to understand. There is a lot of info, and it can be confusing at first to figure out what certain phrases mean.
- Drilling down into attack dashboards, I would expect some items to be clickable to get more info. But they are not which means I have to search around for the information I want.
- Again, the effectiveness dashboard does not have a lot of clickable elements, but they look like they should be which is frustrating.
August 15, 2019
Peace of mind at a reasonable price
We are using Proofpoint to scan and inspect all inbound mail and it is at the forefront of protecting all of our end-users from email-based attacks. We also utilize their encrypted mail features for sending secure mail to customers. I have had to work with other products in this space, such as Barracuda and Cisco IronPort, all of which are great products; however, I would rank my experience with Proofpoint (so far) above any of them in its effectiveness and support.
- URL re-writing and sandboxing is very effective.
- Need to find a solution to e-mails with links to cloud-based documents with malicious payloads.
August 14, 2019
TAP Review
Whole organization. Helps with phishing emails.
- Blocks malicious emails.
- Detects ransomware.
- Rewrites URLs.
- Better logging solutions.
August 13, 2019
Happy with Proofpoint TAP.
The whole group is using Proofpoint TAP inherently. It is part of the email protection solution package. The TAP part works great with the TRAP appliance at the moment a malicious email was found later. But utilizing the API, TAP can notify TRAP to auto pull the message from the user mailbox. Though there is a bug in it at the current version, making this not work for maybe 10% of the messages, it does work great for most messages.
- Finding threats.
- Reporting.
- Insight into the threats (sandbox results).
- Solve the bug with the TRAP integration.
- Have consistent look & feel with the other Proofpoint products.