Case Study: College of Medicine achieves 75% fewer email compromises and proactive incident response with Proofpoint

College of Medicine Implements Preventive Medicine Against Advanced Email Threats

The College of Medicine, a private health sciences university that provides care and conducts medical research, was a high-value target for attackers seeking PHI and proprietary research. The IT team had limited visibility into who clicked malicious links or opened infected attachments, was largely reactive—discovering compromises only after users reported issues or symptoms appeared—and needed a single solution to monitor Office 365 and other email environments.

The college deployed Proofpoint as its email gateway to sandbox attachments, rewrite URLs, enforce encryption via DLP tagging, and start automating incident response. That gave the team real-time visibility into malicious interactions, enabled faster containment and remediation, defended against advanced threats with no user impact, and reduced email compromises by about 75%.