In 2015, the founding team at Avanan thought that email security was broken. We thought that securing email in the cloud required a cloud-first approach. We came to the conclusion that the only way to truly handle the deluge of email threats required the use of sophisticated AI.
This approach started a market movement, and it was validated by Check Point acquiring Avanan in 2021. Now called Harmony Email & Collaboration, our way off securing email has become the standard. Now, startups and legacy companies are deploying their email security via API, just like we did at the beginning. AI-first security has been the buzzword du jour. The market is coming around to our vision.
It’s why we feel such particular pride for today’s announcement. We have been named a Leader in the Forrester Wave for Enterprise Email Security.
The Forrester Wave process is quite thorough, requiring customer references, a detailed submission and a two-hour demo. It shows the analyst community our product in an in-depth way.
We are particularly proud of this Leadership position for a number of reasons. We’re thrilled with the high scores we received. Here are some of the many categories we received top marks in:
- Malicious Email Detection
- Content Analysis and Processing
- Antimalware and sandboxing
- Malicious URL detection and web content security
- Messaging and collaboration security
- Threat intelligence
- Incident Response
- Innovation
Further, being named a Leader as a first-time entrant is nearly unheard of. It speaks to the value and power of our solution.
This is a big moment for us, and we’re not stopping here.
You can read the report here and reach out to an HEC expert any time.