Email & Messaging Security · Foundational
Email Security / Anti-Phishing
Blocks phishing, BEC, and malicious email.
8 options listedTypical cost: $24-$72/user/yrPROTECT (PR) / DETECT (DE)
Overview
Email security filters spam, malware, phishing, and business-email-compromise across inbound and outbound mail. AI-driven, API-based tools now augment or replace legacy secure email gateways for cloud mailboxes. Licensed per mailbox/user. The top initial-access vector makes this near-universal.
Email is the number-one initial-access vector.
Advantages
- Abnormal AI strong on BEC
- Proofpoint/Mimecast mature
- Defender for O365 bundled
- blocks the top initial-access vector.
Trade-offs
- Layered cost on top of native M365/Google
- occasional false quarantines
- API vs gateway trade-offs
- some phishing still slips through.
Vendors & tools in this area
Sublime SecurityCommercial
Detection-as-code email security platform for teams that want to write/tune their own detection logic.
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