2023 SC Awards Finalists: Best Email Security Solution 

Abnormal Inbound Email Security addresses the growing sophistication of email attacks. Traditional secure email gateways (SEGs) have struggled to keep up with evolving threats, but Abnormal’s behavioral AI offers a more effective product. By integrating with cloud email platforms, the service can detect and mitigate malicious emails within milliseconds. Abnormal baselines known-normal behavior to identify anomalies. The SaaS-based pricing model and easy deployment save customers time and money. Abnormal’s focus on continuous innovation ensures updates and feature enhancements are released quarterly, offering customers the latest defenses against email threats. As part of the growing global email security market, Abnormal has carved out its own segment as enterprises look for more effective products to address socially-engineered attacks. Abnormal does business with more than 10% of the Fortune 500.

Mimecast Email Security offers organizations AI-powered protection against email-based threats with two deployment options: Cloud Gateway and Cloud Integrated. Cloud Gateway has been geared for organizations requiring customizable policies and granular controls, while Cloud Integrated was designed for organizations looking to optimize protection for their Microsoft 365 environments with quick deployment and simplified administration. Mimecast Email Security blocks email-based threats, integrates seamlessly into all security environments, increases cyber resilience, and offers customization. As a fully cloud-based service, Mimecast Email Security requires no on-premises hardware or software and scales with customers’ needs. The service promises to reduce costs and complexity while increasing protection, allowing organizations to consolidate suppliers and achieve efficiencies. With a 12.2% market share, Mimecast aims to deliver comprehensive protection against email-borne threats.

Proofpoint Threat Protection Platform offers an integrated, multi-layered solution designed to address the market’s growing need for comprehensive email security. The platform analyzes more than 2.6 billion emails, 49 billion URLs, and 1.9 billion attachments daily, providing visibility into the threat landscape. With a focus on people-centric security, Proofpoint aims to protect users from phishing, BEC email fraud, malware, and ransomware by integrating controls across email, cloud, users, and suppliers. The platform achieves a low total cost of ownership through a scalable, cloud-based package that promises next-generation email security and enterprise-grade control. Proofpoint’s unique approach to understanding people risk, combined with its strong partner ecosystem, helps organizations reduce risk and improve operational effectiveness.

Trustwave MailMarshal addresses the growing threat of phishing attacks by delivering extensive policy control and layered protection against email-based threats. The product helps prevent data loss by inspecting outbound content, including encrypted emails and attachments, and offers a broad range of cybersecurity services. Trustwave MailMarshal inspects more email attachment file types, offering flexible policy engines for Data Loss Prevention, and providing access to the expertise of the SpiderLabs team. The product offers competitive licensing models, and security pros can integrate it with existing security stacks. With regular updates to its threat intelligence, Trustwave MailMarshal strives to ensure that customers remain protected as the threat landscape evolves. The product’s modular functionality allows for cost-effective protection and lets customers focus on core business activities. Trustwave MailMarshal has an installed base of more than  6,000 businesses worldwide, serving more than 4 million users.

Vade for M365, an email security application designed for Managed Service Providers (MSPs), addresses the growing threat of email-based cyberattacks targeting Microsoft 365 users. By leveraging its AI engine and protecting over 1.4 billion mailboxes, Vade has developed an  intelligent filter to detect and block malicious emails. The solution was designed for admins to use and use and manage easily, offering MSPs with a scalable managed security service, phishing awareness training, and multi-tenant incident response at no additional cost. Vade’s integrated approach simplifies setup and maintenance while providing post-delivery protection and automated incident response. With a transparent and affordable pricing model, Vade for M365 aims to help MSPs deploy the product quickly and start generating revenue. By reducing the workload on IT help-desks and minimizing end-user disruptions, Vade for M365 can help security teams save precious time reduce losses from downtime. The product currently holds a 3% market share.