Email Security Vendors

A list of email security vendors that provide email security solutions for businesses and MSPs that include advanced threat detection capabilities for blocking known and unknown threats.

The Importance of Email Security

If you want to protect your business from costly cyberattacks and data breaches, email security is the best place to start. Email is the No1 vector used in cyberattacks on businesses, with 9 out of 10 cyberattacks starting with a phishing email. Traditional email filtering technology is effective at blocking spam and known malware threats; however, the tactics, techniques, and procedures used by cyber actors are constantly changing and email security vendors have had to adapt to stay one step ahead.

Today, in addition to antivirus engines and the use of blacklists of malicious URLs, email security vendors incorporate URL scanning to identify phishing attacks, machine learning and artificial intelligence engines to predict new attacks, and extensive threat intelligence data gathered from worldwide networks of users.

Listed below are some of the leading email security vendors offering email security solutions for SMBs and managed service providers that can secure email environments and block threats to stop them from landing in inboxes.

Leading Email Security Vendors

There is an extensive choice of email security solutions for businesses and managed service providers and finding the right fit for your business can be a time-consuming process. To help you in your search, the leading email security vendors are listed below. All of these solutions are effective at protecting against email threats such as spam, phishing, spear-phishing, malware, ransomware, email impersonation, and scam emails. Pricing is included for product tiers that provide an equivalent level of protection and are based on 250 employees.

TitanHQ

Dublin, Ireland-based TitanHQ’s email security solution, SpamTitan, is provided as a cloud-based service but can be supplied as an on-premises virtual appliance. The solution has won 37 consecutive Virus Bulletin awards for malware protection and has industry-leading spam protection, blocking 99.99% of spam with a low false positive rate of 0.003%. Features include dual anti-virus engines, sandboxing, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, outbound scanning with DLP, advanced threat protection, and threat intelligence from more than 650 million endpoints worldwide. SpamTitan is consistently rated highly by users for threat protection, ease of setup, ease of use, ease of maintenance, customer service, and price. TitanHQ also offers separate email encryption, email archiving, web filtering, and security awareness platforms.

Ratings

  • G2 Crowd Rating: 4.6/5
  • Expert Insights Rating: 4.8/5
  • Capterra Rating: 4.6/5

Pricing

  • Price per user, per month: $1.08
  • Annual Price: $3,225

Barracuda Networks

Campbell, California-based Barracuda Networks’ email security solution for SMBs is Barracuda Email Security Gateway, which is delivered as a cloud-based service. This is an all-in-one email security solution that includes spam and threat protection, email continuity, encryption, with additional features provided as optional extras, such as archiving and O365 backups. The email security solution provides robust filtering against spam and email threats, real-time analysis, advanced threat protection, URL scanning, and outbound filtering with DLP. Multi-layered protection against phishing and BEC attacks is provided with the separate Sentinel package.

Ratings

  • G2 Crowd Rating: 4.3/5
  • Expert Insights Rating: 4/5
  • Capterra Rating: 4.5/5

Pricing

  • Price per user, per month: $2.66
  • Annual Price: $7,980

Mimecast

London, UK-based Mimecast is one of the world’s largest email security vendors and offers a suite of cloud-delivered security solutions, which includes the Mimecast Secure Email Gateway. This is a tiered product popular with enterprises but includes an SMB package with reduced features. The solution is fed threat intelligence from an extensive network of worldwide users, has robust spam protection that blocks 99% of spam emails with a low false-positive rate, advanced threat protection against emerging threats, attachment sandboxing, URL scanning, and self-service tools for end-users, with ample scope for customization.

Ratings

  • G2 Crowd Rating: 4.4/5
  • Expert Insights Rating: 4.8/5
  • Capterra Rating: 4.3/5

Pricing

  • Price per user, per month: $4.50
  • Annual Price: $13,500

Proofpoint

Sunnyvale, California-based Proofpoint is the world’s leading provider of email security solutions to businesses. The company’s SMB email security solution, Proofpoint Essentials, combines spam and malicious email filtering with encryption, archiving, and continuity, which are delivered through the same platform. While most email security vendors use third-party threat intelligence, Proofpoint’s comes from its extensive network of users that includes 100 million email accounts, 200 million social media accounts, and 7 million mobile apps. Features include advanced threat defense against malware and phishing, URL scanning and rewriting, sandboxing, and its NexusAI sender authentication technology.

Ratings

  • G2 Crowd Rating: 4/5
  • Expert Insights Rating: 5/5
  • Capterra Rating: 4.2/5

Pricing

  • Price per user, per month: $3.25
  • Annual Price: $9,750

Appriver

Gulf Breeze, Florida-based Appriver’s SMB email security offering, SecureTide, is a cloud-delivered email security solution for protecting against malware, ransomware, phishing, and BEC attacks. Appriver – now owned by Zix – is one of several email security vendors to focus on the managed service provider market. The email security solution has strong anti-spam protection, malware protection provided by 5 AV engines, machine learning technology for identifying novel phishing attacks, and is fed extensive threat intelligence. The solution has a strong focus on reporting and analytics.

Ratings

  • G2 Crowd Rating: 3.9/5
  • Expert Insights Rating: 3.5/5
  • Capterra Rating: 3.9/5

Pricing

  • Price per user, per month: $3.40
  • Annual Price: $10,200

Avanan

New York-based Avanan offers a cloud-based email security solution primarily for enterprise users. Avanan was one of the first email security vendors to implement machine learning and artificial intelligence into cloud email security and is the only API-based email security solution that can protect inline, preventing delivery of emails to inboxes rather than removing them after delivery. The solution includes malware and ransomware protection, collaborative security for Teams, post-delivery protection, internal email scanning, and checks for 300 phishing IoCs. The product incorporates machine learning to detect BEC attacks and has account takeover protection and data loss prevention capabilities.

Ratings

  • G2 Crowd Rating: 4.8/5
  • Expert Insights Rating: 4.7/5
  • Capterra Rating: 4.8/5

Pricing

  • Price per user, per month: $4.00
  • Annual Price: $14,400

IRONSCALES

Atlanta, Georgia-based IRONSCALES is a cloud-native, API-driven email security solution that includes a suite of artificial intelligence security tools that are combined with human intelligence for blocking advanced email threats such as phishing, spear phishing, business email compromise, and sophisticated social engineering attacks. The solution is self-learning, has malware protection powered by Check Point, and crowdsourced threat intelligence from its community of more than 5,000 customers. IRONSCALES also offers security awareness training and phishing simulations, with one-click reporting of phishing threats by end-users.

Ratings

  • G2 Crowd Rating: 4.9/5
  • Expert Insights Rating: 4.8/5
  • Capterra Rating: N/A

Pricing

  • Price per user, per month: $4.00
  • Annual Price: $12,000

Vade Secure

Lille, France-based Vade Secure offers a cloud-based email security service that provides post-delivery protection for inboxes. The solution is fed threat intelligence from a global network of 500 million mailboxes and provides real-time phishing protection and analysis of network communications. Vade Secure is self-learning and can detect anomalies in emails to protect against novel phishing attacks. The solution includes attachment scanning, outbound mail filtering with DLP, URL scanning, and has anti-malware and ransomware capabilities that can protect against polymorphic and zero-day malware attacks.

Ratings

  • G2 Crowd Rating: N/A
  • Expert Insights Rating: 4/5
  • Capterra Rating: N/A

Pricing

  • Price per user, per month: $2.27
  • Annual Price: $8,070