Sumit Dhawan named CEO of cybersecurity firm Proofpoint
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Proofpoint, Inc. develops and operates software as a service that enables large and midsized organizations to defend, protect, archive, and govern their sensitive data. The company offers protection against advanced and targeted threats, such as malicious attachments, polymorphic threats, zero-day exploits, user-transparent drive-by downloads, malicious web links, hybrid threats, malware-free attacks, and other penetration tactics. It also provides integrated email security, cloud security, threat protection products, information protection and archiving, and digital risk protection products. Proofpoint, Inc. was formerly known as Extreme E-Mail, Inc. and changed its name to Proofpoint, Inc. in December 2002. The company was incorporated in 2002 and is based in Sunnyvale, California with additional locations across the globe.