Case Study: Pinnacle Financial Partners achieves 99% malicious-email detection and streamlined, proactive defenses with Proofpoint

Focusing on the Next Level Proactive, Correlated Defense Bank Takes the Offense Against Threats With Strategic Approach

Pinnacle Financial Partners, a rapidly growing regional bank, faced a surge in sophisticated email attacks and needed to move beyond basic compliance to a strategic, enterprise-wide security posture. Leadership demanded better visibility and correlation of threat data while the security team looked to streamline multiple tools and protect clients and data without expanding headcount.

The bank migrated Proofpoint Email Protection to the cloud, added Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection integrated with Palo Alto Networks Wildfire, moved to Office 365 with email continuity, and deployed email encryption and information protection. These measures delivered immediate visibility and correlation—Proofpoint blocked tens of thousands of malicious messages (31,500 in a month), TAP+Wildfire caught threats that would have evaded detection and achieved 99% malware coverage, synchronized findings thousands of times in 30 days, and saved the team dozens of hours weekly while enabling more proactive policies and training.

Pinnacle Financial Partners

Jeremy Hopwood

Chief Information Security Officer