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Cloud Email Security (formerly Area 1)

Stop phishing attacks with Cloud Email Security (formerly Area 1) cloud-native email security service.
Available on paid plans

Phishing is the root cause of upwards of 90% of breaches that lead to financial loss and brand damage. Cloud Email Security (formerly Area 1) is a cloud-native service that stops phishing attacks across all threat vectors either at the edge or in the cloud.

With globally distributed sensors and comprehensive attack analytics, Cloud Email Security proactively identifies phishing campaigns, attacker infrastructure, and attack delivery mechanisms during the earliest stages of a phishing attack cycle. Using flexible enforcement platforms, the Cloud Email Security solution allows customers to take preemptive action against targeted phishing, including malware, spoofing attacks, payload-less Business Email Compromise attacks, supply chain phishing, and other advanced threats.


​​ Features

​​ Deployment

Cloud Email Security (formerly Area 1) provides two architectures to protect your organization: inline or API setup. Inline architecture evaluates email messages before they reach a user’s inbox. API architecture evaluates emails when they have already reached a user’s inbox.

​​ SSO integration

In addition to standard logins, Cloud Email Security (formerly Area 1) offers support for SAML based single sign-on (SSO) logins to your dashboard.

​​ Business email compromise

Attackers often try to impersonate executives within an organization when sending malicious emails. The Business email compromise (BEC) feature protects against these attacks.



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