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Phishers are impersonating Proofpoint, the cybersecurity firm, in an attempt to make off with victims' Microsoft Office 365 and Google email credentials. "The email claimed to contain a secure file sent via Proofpoint as a link," they explained in a posting on Thursday.

Lemarié, the San Francisco jury found, then went on to share those trade secrets with his new employer, French email security firm Vade Secure. Of 20 trade secrets Proofpoint said Lemarié and Vade had used unlawfully, the jury agreed that 15 had been misappropriated by Vade Secure in a "Wilful and malicious" way, according to the final verdict form [PDF].

Proofpoint announced several people-centric innovations across its three flagship platforms: Threat Protection, Compliance, and the new Information Protection and Cloud Security. "Backed by Proofpoint's machine learning NexusAI and trillions of data points across all the digital channels that matter, our intelligence is unmatched in the industry. We are committed to developing security innovations that protect people from today's most damaging threats everywhere they work."

Proofpoint announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Thoma Bravo in an all-cash transaction that values Proofpoint at approximately $12.3 billion. Under the terms of the agreement, Proofpoint shareholders will receive $176.00 per share in cash, representing a premium of approximately 34 percent over Proofpoint's closing share price on April 23, 2021, the last full trading day prior to the transaction announcement, and a premium of approximately 36 percent over Proofpoint's three-month volume-weighted average closing share price through April 23, 2021.

Proofpoint has become the latest sizable tech vendor to succumb to private equity after Thoma Bravo succeeded in its $12.3bn grasp for the infosec giant. CEO Gary Steele said now was the time for Proofpoint, which IPOed in 2012, to return to private ownership.

Enterprise security vendor Proofpoint has agreed to be acquired by private equity firm Thoma Bravo in an all-cash transaction that values Proofpoint at approximately $12.3 billion. As part of the deal, Proofpoint will exit the public markets and become a private company within Thoma Bravo's growing stable of enterprise cybersecurity companies.

Proofpoint has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire InteliSecure. With this acquisition, Proofpoint looks to strengthen its cloud-based people-centric security platform by enhancing customers' ability to protect critical data in diverse environments.

IT security leaders say they are ill-prepared for a cyber attack and believe that human error and a lack of security awareness are major risk factors for their organisations, according to a series of reports and surveys from cybersecurity vendor Proofpoint. It's a dynamic attack landscape: in the DACH countries of Germany, Austria and Switzerland 67 per cent of IT security leaders say they have suffered at least one attack in the last 12 months, while in Benelux 72 per cent of respondents say their business has suffered at least one cyber attack in the same time period.

Proofpoint announced numerous enhancements to its award-winning Proofpoint Enterprise Archive solution to help customers streamline e-discovery and supervision processes and reduce related costs. Deployed by top organizations worldwide, Proofpoint Enterprise Archive is a proven, cloud-native, modern archiving solution that delivers unmatched search performance, supported by an industry-leading and financially backed service level agreement.

Proofpoint, the leader in people-centric cybersecurity, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ObserveIT, the leading insider threat management platform. Closing of the transaction is...