Area 1 Security
vs. API-Only Email Security Solutions
API-Only Solutions Act Post-Delivery, Leaving Organizations at Risk.
Choose the Only Preemptive Integrated Cloud Email Security Solution Instead.
Cloud email providers (Microsoft 365, Google Workspace) offer a robust set of APIs to provide additional services, and many email security vendors have leveraged these APIs for their solutions. API-based email security makes sense when offered as part of a comprehensive service that includes real-time protection. However, API-only approaches from vendors like Abnormal, Tessian and Armorblox have inherent shortcomings.
Here’s how relying on API-only email security vendors can increase phishing risks against your organization:
Area 1 Horizon | API-Only Solutions |
Preemptive We stop phishing campaigns before they launch and reach inboxes. |
Delayed Actions API-only solutions can only remove threats after they’re already in inboxes. Threats sitting in inboxes increase attack dwell time, putting users and organizations at risk. |
Flexible, Multi-Mode Deployments MX, inline, connector, API or a mix. You pick what works for your architecture. |
Single-Mode API-only deployments respond to threats, but don’t preempt them. |
Comprehensive Email Security We’re a full suite, cloud-native email security solution, protecting against various threat types and covering multiple sources and vectors. With Area 1, you won’t even need a traditional Secure Email Gateway! |
Supplement Only API-only vendors are add-ons; you’ll still need additional security (such as a Secure Email Gateway or Microsoft 365 with ATP) for the threats they miss. |
Scalable Performance We’re built to handle cloud traffic spikes and are not constrained by email provider limitations. Actions like message retraction can be taken across large volumes of messages. |
Limited Performance At-Scale For API-only solutions, performance is constrained by the cloud email provider’s limitations on API actions. This also means actions are not scalable across large volumes of messages. |
Complete Privacy We provide highly accurate detections, including insider threat detection, without needing to access sensitive messages. |
Privacy Concerns API-only solutions access each message, which includes inspecting sensitive internal messages and confidential information. |
Transparent to End Users Our solution protects users without distracting banners or interfering with their productivity. |
Noisy for End Users API-only solutions rely on end-user banners, notifications and actions, contributing directly to end-user fatigue and indirectly to SOC noise. |
They’re my last line of defense and they catch everything. They’re responsive to feedback and updating their product.
I’m happy to say that Area 1 Security exceeded all of our expectations.
Comprehensive protection across threat types, vectors and sources.
Continuous security including pre-delivery, at-delivery and post-delivery protection.