Compare Adaptive Security vs. Proofpoint Essentials

Adaptive Security is OpenAI’s investment for AI cyber threats. The company was founded in 2024 by serial entrepreneurs Brian Long and Andrew Jones. Adaptive has raised $50M+ from investors like OpenAI, a16z and executives at Google Cloud, Fidelity, Plaid, Shopify, and other leading companies. Adaptive protects customers from AI-powered cyber threats like deepfakes, vishing, smishing, and email spear phishing with its next-generation security awareness training and AI phishing simulation platform. With Adaptive, security teams can prepare employees for advanced threats with incredible, highly customized training content that is personalized for employee role and access levels, features open-source intelligence about their company, and includes amazing deepfakes of their own executives. Customers can measure the success of their training program over time with AI-powered phishing simulations. Hyper-realistic deepfake, voice, SMS, and email phishing tests assess risk levels across all threat vectors. Adaptive simulations are powered by an AI open-source intelligence engine that gives clients visibility into how their company's digital footprint can be leveraged by cybercriminals. Today, Adaptive’s customers include leading global organizations like Figma, The Dallas Mavericks, BMC Software, and Stone Point Capital. The company has a world class NPS score of 94, among the highest in cybersecurity.

Proofpoint Essentials provides an affordable and user-friendly cybersecurity solution tailored for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). This service offers robust protection against a wide array of sophisticated security threats and comes with added features like security awareness training, data loss prevention, email continuity, archiving, and social media safeguarding. Its straightforward and intuitive interface minimizes the burden on administrators and integrates effortlessly with your current Microsoft 365 setup. Utilizing the same AI-driven detection technology that secures a significant portion of Fortune 100 companies, Proofpoint Essentials focuses on safeguarding your organization’s most vulnerable asset: its people. With enterprise-level protection, Essentials effectively mitigates various threats that target SMBs, including spam, phishing, business email compromise (BEC), impersonation emails, ransomware, and malware, ensuring a comprehensive defense against cyber risks. In an increasingly digital landscape, investing in such a solution is essential for maintaining the integrity and security of your business operations.