Proofpoint recently launched a new cloud-based e-mail security and compliance platform for enterprise users.

"Proofpoint CloudControl employs a three-tiered architecture that includes a secure infrastructure, shared cloud services and a series of enterprise application suites," SC Magazine reports.

"The three tiers include a secure infrastructure layer that offers cloud-based security and compliance applications with stringent service level agreements (SLAs); cloud services, such as threat detection, classification, encryption, search and analysis and policy enforcement; and applications to leverage the common secure infrastructure and shared cloud services," the article states.

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