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Berkshire HathawayBerkshire Hathaway Brings Email Threats onto Proofpoint
Berkshire Hathaway, a financials organization in the United States, uses Information Protection from Proofpoint to support email security for security and messaging teams.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Productivity | Fewer stalled items because inbound threat mail has a clear owner |
| Risk and compliance | Information Protection is the governed place security and messaging teams use for email security |
| Risk and compliance | New joiners can see how email security actually runs |
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Inside Berkshire Hathaway, email security used to depend on whoever still had the latest file. That pattern is common in financials groups working out of the United States. Security and messaging teams needed a system that would still make sense after the original project team moved on.
Berkshire Hathaway uses Information Protection from Proofpoint as the working layer for inbound threat mail. Proofpoint focuses on human-centric cybersecurity, especially email threat protection, data loss prevention, and awareness training. The practical change is simple: email security has a home, and reviews happen there instead of in a forwarded thread.
Nothing in this writeup invents a savings number. What Berkshire Hathaway gets from Proofpoint is a durable place to run email security and a way for security and messaging teams to see the same inbound threat mail at the same time.
