This much should be clear by now – we at Area 1 absolutely detest phish! But in some weird karmic way, we exist because phish exist…and we exist to quell each and every one of the attacks hitting our customers. Well, it just got a lot harder on those pesky creatures, and a lot better for our current — and future — customers.
Phish of the Week: The Phish Fight Gets Some New Muscle
Without You We’d Have no Phish to Catch
This much should be clear by now – we at Area 1 absolutely detest phish! But in some weird karmic way, we exist because phish exist…and we exist to quell each and every one of the attacks hitting our customers.
Well, it just got a lot harder on those pesky creatures, and a lot better for our current — and future — customers.
This week we announced a round of growth funding led by new investors, ForgePoint Capital, along with current investors Kleiner Perkins, Icon Ventures and Top Tier Capital. We also announced the appointment of Patrick Sweeney as President and CEO. Patrick joins us after a long and storied career in cybersecurity and will help drive our next phase of go to market acceleration. Please welcome Patrick and ForgePoint to our Area 1 family!
Milestones at Area 1 always increase focus on our top priority – our customers and building the best possible product to detect and stop phish. We are incredibly fortunate to have organizations of all sizes across a variety of industries not only using our product, but also offering invaluable insights as we fulfill our mission to stop phish and secure your email.
As mailboxes move to the cloud and damages from cyber crime continue to mount, innovation in email security becomes paramount for businesses worldwide. Reactive cybersecurity offered by legacy solutions is ineffectual, and no longer relevant when fighting today’s types of attacks. Our customers understand this; they are adapting to the market and are better protected for it. And without them, well…we’d be catching a lot less phish.
So, thank you to all of our customers. Your support allows us to uphold the possibility and the necessity of preemptive, accountable cybersecurity that effectively fights the bad guys out on the internet.
Onwards and upwards.
What a Mad Scientist, a Train Wreck and a Taskmaster Have in Common
We’re lucky to have great CISOs as customers. But, we know many of you have come across not-so-great CISOs – the ones who fail to learn from history’s mistakes, who are stuck in common cybersecurity pitfalls instead of adapting to the ever-changing threat landscape.
Don’t be one of these CISOs.
Instead, listen to a candid discussion between former NSA counterintelligence expert and Area 1’s CSO, Blake Darché, and former Global Information Security Officer at Guess?, Kevin Wilson, about the common CISO failures plaguing the industry and how to better approach running a security organization that is prepared to prevent today’s and tomorrow’s threats.
View the on-demand webinar here (45 min)
Security Awareness Training for Computers
Over a third of the many thousands of daily phishing attacks that we see and stop here at Area 1 contain malicious links. And with our fundamental belief that relying on end users to recognize funky URLs and catch their own phish is a faulty approach, we thought – How can we get computers to automatically recognize malicious URLs for us?
The answer is our proprietary machine-learning approach called Blind URL Inspection. Learn how it catches never-seen-before phishing emails here.
Shalabh Mohan
VP, Product at Area 1
With a career spanning 20 years fighting bad guys online, Shalabh leads all product and go-to-market functions at Area 1 Security, with extensive prior experience across security, enterprise, and cloud infrastructure companies such as Aspen Networks, IronPort Systems, Cisco and Bracket Computing. Shalabh and his teams have taken products from conception all the way to large scale businesses; and in the process have consistently helped make the Internet a safer place. An alumnus of Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin, Shalabh holds five patents and can claim to know something about enterprise infrastructure and security.