e92plus expands partnership with Proofpoint

e92plus has expanded its partnership with Proofpoint, a leading cybersecurity and compliance company. This agreement will see e92plus providing its VAR and MSP partner community in the UK with Proofpoint’s complete human-centric security platform and portfolio.

The cybersecurity market in 2025 will continue to evolve at speed, with an escalating AI cyber-arms race, and more complex attacks than ever before, while customers battle with the challenge of needing to do more with their budget. Proofpoint research shows that 73% of UK CISOs feel at risk of experiencing a material cyber attack in the next 12 months, and 87% are looking to deploy AI-powered capabilities to help protect against human error and advanced human-centred cyber threats.

In this evolving threat landscape, partners are looking to follow their customers in reducing the number of vendors they take to market and move towards platforms that integrate and share intelligence. A key part of that move is the opportunity to use the expertise and cybersecurity knowledge from distribution to help build effective offerings to address customer requirements rather than relying on disparate point solutions.
With Proofpoint, organisations can protect people and defend data using a human-centric approach. The Proofpoint human-centric platform provides best-of-breed solutions to solve four critical concerns—stopping threats, protecting information, guiding users and securing app/ID posture. It is the only modern security architecture that takes a comprehensive, adaptive and effective approach to protect an organisation’s greatest assets and biggest risks: its people.

“We’re incredibly excited to be expanding our relationship with Proofpoint and bringing their entire portfolio and platform to our partner community,” said Mukesh Gupta, CEO of e92plus. “Proofpoint has demonstrated clear leadership in the data, email and identity security markets, and our expanded partnership will provide an outstanding opportunity for our partners to help their customers transform their cybersecurity strategy and address the most complex threats. We are thrilled to have Proofpoint as part of our vendor portfolio to address the needs of both VARs and MSPs.”

The partnership will enable VARs and MSPs to help solve customer challenges with a human-centric approach to cybersecurity. This approach is built on Proofpoint’s focus to address the cyber risks targeting people wherever they work: securing all communications via email, collaboration apps, the web, and defending data.
Partners will also benefit from complete support from the e92plus technical services team for enablement and training, meaning they can then offer those services across pre-sales, consultancy, POC, installation and deployment, in addition to training to their customers. The opportunity to leverage the expertise of the e92plus team is essential, as organisations look for integrated solutions rather than disparate point solutions to help reduce gaps in their defences and secure the best ROI from their investments.

“Cybercriminals know that people can be exploited, either through negligence, compromised identity—or in some instances—malicious intent,” said Jerome Jullien, VP, channels and alliances, EMEA, Proofpoint. “From human-targeted threats such as business email compromise (BEC) and ransomware to sophisticated impersonation and supplier-related breaches, the array of attacks targeting organisations and their employees is diverse and ever-evolving. By extending our partnership with e92plus, we aim to provide more organisations in the UK with the human-centric tools they need to navigate today’s complex threat landscape successfully, protecting their people and defending their critical and sensitive data.”

“The focus by Proofpoint on ensuring its solution is mapped to both the evolving threat landscape and where customers need help is particularly beneficial for partners,” said Mukesh. “Identity security has seen huge attention in recent years, but despite more organisations delivering security training or deploying MFA, the weak links have remained the same. The investment in ITDR (Identity Threat Detection and Response) is allowing customers to address long-standing challenges like poor Active Directory security while also putting identity at the core of their cybersecurity posture and bringing IT teams together to defend proactively.”