CLICO adds Proofpoint to Distribution portfolio

CLICO, a specialized value-added distributor that has been successfully introducing and promoting innovative cybersecurity, networking, and infrastructure solutions across Central and Eastern Europe since 1991, has signed a distribution agreement with Proofpoint, a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, further strengthening its cybersecurity portfolio with solutions focused on protecting users, business communications, sensitive data, and AI-enabled environments.

The partnership gives CLICO partners and customers access to Proofpoint’s comprehensive platform addressing today's most critical cybersecurity challenges—from securing email and collaboration tools, through preventing data loss, to supporting the secure adoption of artificial intelligence within organizations.

"Cybercriminals increasingly target people rather than infrastructure. Organizations therefore need security solutions that not only stop sophisticated attacks but also protect sensitive data and enable employees to safely adopt modern collaboration and AI technologies. Proofpoint combines all these capabilities within a single intelligence-driven platform and is consistently recognized as a market leader. We are excited to bring this technology to our partners across the region and help them address one of today's greatest cybersecurity challenges—protecting people," said Bartosz Winiarski, Sales Director, CLICO Group.

Recognized by leading industry analysts, Proofpoint is one of the key vendors featured in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Email Security and is also recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Email, Messaging, and Collaboration Security Solutions.

Its human- and agent-centric security platform secures how people, data, and AI agents connect across email, cloud, and collaboration tools. Supported by a global intelligence platform that analyzes more than 100 billion data points every day and 3.4 trillion emails every year, Proofpoint provides organizations with the visibility and insights needed to detect and stop advanced threats.

Proofpoint protects organizations across three complementary areas: collaboration, data, and AI security. The platform secures email and collaboration environments against phishing, business email compromise (BEC), malware, fraudulent messages, and account-takeover attempts. It also enables the secure delivery of transactional email sent from business applications and trusted third-party services while helping organizations strengthen employee resilience through the ZenGuide security awareness training platform.

Proofpoint provides comprehensive protection for sensitive information across email, cloud services, endpoints, and AI environments. Its capabilities help organizations prevent accidental and intentional data loss, monitor risky user behavior, discover and classify sensitive data across SaaS, cloud, and on-premises environments with integrated Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), and maintain governance over digital communications. The platform also enables organizations to monitor and help control sensitive information shared through both approved and shadow AI tools.

As organizations continue adopting artificial intelligence, Proofpoint extends these protections to AI-powered environments by enabling the secure use of AI applications, protecting enterprise AI agents, and providing visibility, authorization, and governance for Model Context Protocol (MCP) connections. Together, these capabilities help organizations strengthen cyber resilience, reduce the risk of data loss, improve visibility across modern collaboration environments, and securely adopt AI technologies.

Emile Abou Saleh, Vice President, Emerging Markets at Proofpoint added, “Organizations today are increasingly dependent on email and cloud platforms, in addition to AI environments, to operate and scale. Protecting people and the information they work with is critical to helping reduce cyber risk, regardless of platform. Through our partnership with CLICO, we are extending Proofpoint’s AI- and human-centric cybersecurity portfolio to organizations across the region, with a trusted local partner that brings strong technical expertise and market understanding. Together, we are helping organizations stop modern email threats, prevent data loss, and achieve stronger security outcomes.”

The agreement applies solely to the following countries in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia: Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

For more information about Proofpoint, please visit www.proofpoint.com