Proofpoint Gets Splunk Powered

Adding IT Search to Enterprise Messaging Security Products Gives System Administrators a 360-degree View

San Francisco – March 12, 2007 — Splunk, creators of the original IT Search engine, and Proofpoint, Inc., the leader in large-enterprise messaging security solutions, today announced an OEM partnership that will license Splunk's technology to power the new Proofpoint Smart SearchTM product. Splunk's IT search technology provides Proofpoint's customers intelligent, high-performance indexing and search capabilities for enterprise messaging security.

Splunk indexes and lets you search all your logs and IT data in real time. Messaging system administrators can quickly follow the maze of complex component interactions and email delivery problems and automate reporting and analysis of their overall messaging infrastructure behavior.

"Proofpoint's vision to empower their customers with a real-time, in-depth understanding of large-scale enterprise messaging environments is a great application of IT Search," said Michael Baum, Splunk's chief executive officer. "Email has become the lifeblood of the modern enterprise but messaging systems have a lot of moving parts. Figuring what's happening when problems occur or security threats loom is very difficult. Proofpoint is listening to their customers and together we’re easing the burden to messaging system administration. We’re psyched to have Proofpoint as our newest Splunk Powered partner."

Proofpoint's messaging security platform provides comprehensive defense against both inbound and outbound messaging threats. Proofpoint Smart Search will make it possible to trace both inbound and outbound messages anywhere in an enterprise's messaging infrastructure.

Powered by Splunk, Proofpoint Smart Search gives users a 360-degree view of message handling and disposition. Proofpoint Smart Search will offer customers:

• Real-time processing and indexing and search of all messaging systems logs
• Ability to trace messages across all messaging components in seconds
• Multiple reports and views on data: Summaries, Details and Raw log information

"Today's messaging infrastructures are complex and securing these systems generates an extremely large volume of logging data from multiple, globally-distributed sources," says Sandra Vaughan, senior vice president of products and marketing at Proofpoint. "Our partnership with Splunk will benefit our customers by reducing the amount of time they spend solving message delivery issues and by giving them a birds-eye view of message handling across their entire messaging infrastructure."

"We use Proofpoint to defend against inbound spam and virus threats while also reducing compliance risks associated with outbound email. Proofpoint Smart Search will be valuable in both areas," said Sharon Finney, information security administrator for DeKalb Medical Center. "Proofpoint Smart Search will empower our IT helpdesk staff to quickly answer the most common email troubleshooting and message tracing requests, without requiring any special training or access to our Proofpoint appliances. It will also help us in investigating compliance violations, identifying outbound email trends and complying with e-discovery rules."

About Proofpoint, Inc.

Proofpoint provides messaging security solutions for large enterprises to stop spam, protect against email viruses, ensure that outbound messages comply with both corporate policies and external regulations and prevent leaks of confidential information via email and other network protocols. The company's flagship products, the Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway™ and Proofpoint Protection Server® provide future-proof messaging security using Proofpoint MLX™ technology, an advanced machine learning system developed by Proofpoint scientists and engineers. Proofpoint was founded by technology visionary and former CTO of Netscape Communications, Eric Hahn. The Cupertino, California-based company is funded by investors including Benchmark Capital, Bridgescale Partners, Inventures Group, JAFCO Ventures, Meritech Capital, Mohr, Davidow Ventures, and RRE Ventures. For more information, please visit http://www.proofpoint.com.

About Splunk

Splunk is software that indexes, manages and enables you to search logs and IT data from any application, server or network device in real time. Splunk is easy to download, install and use and it's very powerful. Enterprises, government organizations, service providers and more than 75,000 users are achieving higher availability, investigating security incidents in record time and meeting compliance requirements at lower costs with Splunk. Check us out at www.splunk.com.