"Gradian’s experience and knowledge of the messaging market is unrivalled," said Oliver Carter, Channel Director of Proofpoint EMEA. "We have a strong relationship with the team and are looking forward to vastly increasing our market share with them."

Proofpoint delivers the industry’s only solution for defending against inbound spam and viruses, preventing leaks of confidential and private data, encrypting sensitive information and analysing messaging infrastructures—all on a single, unified platform. Its unique architecture allows customers to radically reduce costs and complexity while improving the overall effectiveness of messaging security infrastructures. Proofpoint offers customers the widest array of deployment options and is the only email security vendor to deliver its solutions in hardware appliance, virtual appliance, software and hosted service formats.

Proofpoint delivers 99% or higher effectiveness against all types of spam email using the latest advances in reputation and content-based anti-spam technology. Powered by patent-pending Proofpoint MLX™ machine learning technology, the Proofpoint Spam Detection™ module examines hundreds of thousands of attributes in every email, including; message envelope headers and structure, image properties, sender reputation data as well as unstructured content in the body of messages. This blocks the most spam, attachment-based spam (including image-based, PDF-based and Excel-based spam) and phishing attacks, while automatically adapting to new attacks as they appear.

About Proofpoint, Inc. Proofpoint provides unified email security and data loss prevention solutions for enterprises, universities, government organisations and ISPs to defend against inbound threats such as spam and viruses, prevent leaks of confidential and private information across all protocols, and encrypt sensitive emails. Proofpoint’s products are controlled by a single management and policy console and are powered by Proofpoint MLX™ technology, an advanced machine learning system developed by Proofpoint scientists and engineers. Proofpoint provides the most scalable and flexible deployment model including: hardware appliance, virtual appliance, hosted services and software

For more information, please visit www.proofpoint.com.

About Gradian Systems LtdGradian is one of the United Kingdom’s premier enterprise security solutions companies specialising in the messaging market that provide real results. It has over 150 customers through the UK and into Europe with a great Customer loyalty and retention rate due to its unrivalled support and service offerings.

Gradian sells knowledge, technology and services to solve problems and reduce risks associated with email security, instant messaging, encryption, and Governance. It works with global firms focused on mitigating IP, governance, compliance, and data security risks associated with the proliferation of mobile devices, users and applications.