Bytes Software Services

Proofpoint Advanced Package

Proofpoint's Advanced package adds Email Fraud Defence, Secure Email Relay, Supplier Threat Protection, Email DLP & Encryption, Misdirected Email & Email Exfiltration to the Core package offerings. bssgc

Features

• full visibility and control of email sent from your organization.
• Implement email authentication quickly and confidently on domains and gateway.
• Extend protection to your customers and partners.
• Stop email fraud targeting your employees, customers, and partners.
• Maintain the trust people place on your email communications.
• complete view into all email in and out your organization.
• Stop email fraud and phishing attacks before reaching the inbox.
• Detect data exfiltration
• Identify Risky lateral data movement
• Identify Privilege abuse

Benefits

• Replaces on-premises relays with a secure, cloud-based alternative
• Automate the identification of legitimate email sent on your behalf.
• Understand reasons behind—learn how to fix—each authentication failure.
• Get ongoing guidance and support from our professional services team.
• to deploy email authentication efficiently on your domains and gateway
• Prevent BEC and phishing attacks that target your employees.
• Account for email to your organization with visibility and control.
• Authorize for email to your organization with visibility and control.

£40.60 a user

• Education pricing available
• Free trial available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

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Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

839484516926640

Contact

Chris Swani
+44 (0) 7951 326815
tenders@bytes.co.uk

Service scope

• Software add-on or extension: Yes, but can also be used as a standalone service
• What software services is the service an extension to: Extension to messaging platform services – eg On Premise Exchange, Office 365, Google Apps
• Cloud deployment model: Community cloud
• Service constraints: See Service Level Agreement
• System requirements:
  • Existing mail server
  • Exchange
  • O365
  • Zimbra
  • Lotus Notes

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: Dependant on Service Level Purchased; Support Portal - All Levels; Telephone Support Business Hours; Telephone Support 365x24x7
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: None or don’t know
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support: No
• Onsite support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support levels: Self-Service, Platinum, Premium & Global; Self-Service: primary access via portal, phone support limited to business hours P1 issues, 2 authorised support contacts; Platinum: access via portal and phone, phone support for all priorities during business hours plus P1 issues 24x7, 4 authorised support contacts; Premium: access via portal and phone, phone support for all priorities during business hours plus P1 issues 24x7, 6 authorised support contacts, assigned Technical Account Manager ; Global: available to Platinum and Premium only. phone access for all cases, all priorities 24x7x365, 12 authorised support contacts
• Support available to third parties: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: Installation and training / knowledge share available with dedicated engineer
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
• End-of-contract data extraction: Data extraction tools driven by customer.
• End-of-contract process: Services cease to function.

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Supported browsers:
  • Internet Explorer 11
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
• Application to install: Yes
• Compatible operating systems:
  • Android
  • IOS
  • MacOS
  • Windows
  • Windows Phone
  • Other
• Designed for use on mobile devices: Yes
• Differences between the mobile and desktop service: N/A
• Service interface: No
• User support accessibility: None or don’t know
• API: Yes
• What users can and can't do using the API: Utilisation of a reporting dashboard - eg Palo Alto
• API documentation: Yes
• API documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
• API sandbox or test environment: No
• Customisation available: No

Scaling

• Independence of resources: All Proofpoint SaaS systems are actively monitored with local agents collecting hundreds of metrics specific to hardware, networking, and OS. All metrics are measured against a baseline compiled from historical data. Acceptable thresholds are defined based on a combination of optimal performance targets and historical baselines.

Analytics

• Service usage metrics: Yes
• Metrics types: Granular Reporting of message flow, deep analysis into threats
• Reporting types:
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request

Resellers

• Supplier type: Reseller providing extra support
• Organisation whose services are being resold: Proofpoint

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
• Government security clearance: Up to Security Clearance (SC)

Asset protection

• Knowledge of data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Data storage and processing locations:
  • United Kingdom
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
• User control over data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Datacentre security standards: Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
• Penetration testing frequency: At least once a year
• Penetration testing approach: Another external penetration testing organisation
• Protecting data at rest: Other
• Other data at rest protection approach: Access to the Proofpoint production environment, where services are hosted, is granted based on role and occurs via a 2FA encrypted VPN.
• Data sanitisation process: Yes
• Data sanitisation type:
  • Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
  • Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
• Equipment disposal approach: In-house destruction process

Data importing and exporting

• Data export approach: Data extraction tools driven by customer.
• Data export formats: Other
• Other data export formats: N/A
• Data import formats: Other
• Other data import formats: N/A

Data-in-transit protection

• Data protection between buyer and supplier networks:
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
  • Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)
  • Other
• Other protection between networks: Proofpoint has documented information security program consisting of policies, procedures and standards that aligns with the requirements of NIST 800-53 and ISO 27001. The program is owned by the Proofpoint Global Information Security group, and includes a continuous monitoring program consisting of monthly and quarterly evidence collection and review, and an annual SOC 2 Type II audit of the program.
• Data protection within supplier network:
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • Other
• Other protection within supplier network: Policies, procedures, and standards comprising the Proofpoint information security program are reviewed and updated annually by the Proofpoint Global Information Security group and approved by the Proofpoint CFO.

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: https://www.proofpoint.com/sites/default/files/general_terms_hosted_services_sla_-_mar_2016.pdf
• Approach to resilience: The services run in active/active mode between a pair of gegraphically-diverse co-location facilities.
• Outage reporting: https://www.proofpoint.com/sites/default/files/general_terms_hosted_services_sla_-_mar_2016.pdf

Identity and authentication

• User authentication needed: Yes
• User authentication:
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Username or password
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: All access to the Proofpoint production environment, where services are hosted, is via a 2FA encrypted VPN and granted based on role.
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least once a year
• Management access authentication:
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Username or password
  • Other
• Description of management access authentication: All access to the Proofpoint production environment, where services are hosted, is via a 2FA encrypted VPN and granted based on role.

Audit information for users

• Access to user activity audit information: Users have access to real-time audit information
• How long user audit data is stored for: Less than 1 month
• Access to supplier activity audit information: You control when users can access audit information
• How long supplier audit data is stored for: User-defined
• How long system logs are stored for: User-defined

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: No
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: No
• Cyber essentials plus: No
• Other security certifications: Yes
• Any other security certifications: SOC 2 Type II audit report, available here: https://go.proofpoint.com/soc2_report_request.html

Security governance

• Named board-level person responsible for service security: No
• Security governance certified: No
• Security governance approach: N/A
• Information security policies and processes: NIST 800-53

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Supplier-defined controls
• Configuration and change management approach: Proofpoint has a documented change management policy that includes requirements around documented change tickets and review and approval by the Change Review Board.
• Vulnerability management type: Supplier-defined controls
• Vulnerability management approach: Proofpoint performs internal and external vulnerability scanning and remediates applicable findings in line with the Proofpoint patch management policy.
• Protective monitoring type: Supplier-defined controls
• Protective monitoring approach: Proofpoint has distributed monitoring in place for availability, performance, capacity and security. Alerts are directed to a 24x7 NOC or SOC for review, remediation and/or escalation.
• Incident management type: Supplier-defined controls
• Incident management approach: Proofpoint has a documented Incident Response Plan that includes procedures to detect, investigate, remediate and communicate security incidents. A trained IRT team is responsible for the maintenance of the program.

Secure development

• Approach to secure software development best practice: Supplier-defined process

Public sector networks

• Connection to public sector networks: No

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  Fighting climate change

  Fighting climate change

  We take our environmental management and the impact we have on the environment very seriously. We have environmental policies in place and hold the ISO14001 accreditation. Our environmental assessments are conducted annually by an external Lead ESOS Assessor; they are signed-off by the board and compliance reported to the regulator (the Environment Agency). Our environmental policy is published on our website at https://www.bytes.co.uk/company/sustainability/environmental.; Bytes achieved carbon net zero in March 2022 through approved carbon offsetting schemes. We are always seeking to reduce our impact on the environment. We aim to minimise waste, reduce pollutants and use renewable materials. Our offices have recycling facilities for cans, plastic and paper. We aim to reduce our office printing to zero within the next few years. ; An Environmental Steering Committee has been established to coordinate environmental activities and drive change.; To drastically reduce our emissions, we have switched to renewable energy. Our Head Office has reached our first milestone of using a specialist 100% renewable electricity provider. We are also exploring options to install solar panels on our Headquarters building.; Other environmental initiatives include installing electric vehicle charging points and encouraging staff to commute to work without the car (setting up a car share network and installing secure cycle parking).; We produce a SECR (Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting) report that details the companies energy consumption and carbon emissions. This report is produced annually by an independent assessor. ; This report provides details of our emissions in Scope 1, 2 and 3 categories. It details the activities previously taken to reduce emissions and also recommendations for further improvements.; For scope 1,2 and 3 emissions we aim to reduce these by 50% by 2025-2026 from our 2021 baseline.; We aim to be Net Zero by 2040, covering our own operational emissions.

Pricing

• Price: £40.60 a user
• Discount for educational organisations: Yes
• Free trial available: Yes
• Description of free trial: Provided by a Proofpoint Engineer once requirements are confirmed.

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at tenders@bytes.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.