EGRESS
Keeping email communications safe Egress has had a successful year – culminating in winning a prestigious award – but this is on the back of a lot of work to improve its email security services and it is something that businesses in the channel can look to offer customers to improve their security.
There was much celebration at Egress in November when the company scooped the Security Innovation of the Year awards for its adaptive security for cloud email at the 2023 UK IT Industry Awards. Egress took the award as earlier this year, the company became the first cybersecurity organisation to apply an adaptive security model to cloud email. By aggregating product telemetry and behavioural data from across each customer’s cybersecurity ecosystem, Egress provides a single, unique view into human risk throughout the organisation to enhance visibility and surface new insights. “We were delighted to win that and that shows how innovative Egress is,” says Dan Hoy, director of strategic partnerships at Egress. “It is the leaders in UK IT industry coming together so for us to win that Innovation Award, speaks of the investment we're making and the products that we're delivering.” Fast-growing Egress is a fast-growing cybersecurity business, headquartered in London with
satellite offices in Cheltenham and Sheffield. The company is also growing internationally, with offices in New York, Boston and Brisbane. “Our focus is email security and we position ourselves in the market as an intelligent cloud email security vendor focused on helping organisations mitigate advanced email security threats both inbound and outbound,” says Dan. “Inbound includes phishing attacks, potentially business email compromise, those hard to mitigate threats that cause a lot of concern to organisations and most have probably been affected by them in the last 12 months. “On the outbound side we look to address advanced email security threats such as misuse of email, essentially data exfiltration.” Joseph Hedegaard-Ganly, Solutions Architect at Saepio Information Security, a partner of Egress, adds that on the outbound side often there's more data flowing out accidentally than is being stolen by attackers. “A lot of the time it's a background risk that people don't necessarily know that they have an issue with,” he says. “it’s not as in your face as inbound phishing, where you're getting obvious fraud, on the outbound side it can be as seemingly innocuous as sending an email to the wrong person by accident and the person that's received that email doesn't let you know. “Email is still a critical business communication channel. There has been discussion about how email might one day die and everything will be done over WhatsApp or Teams, but in reality is the opposite is true. Email is a trusted communication for official business to business communication. Some of that market noise has meant that three or four years ago, there was a lack of development in email security and we've seen that impact on more traditional email security vendors that didn't put as much emphasis as they should on protecting it. As a result, we’ve seen vendors like Egress stepping up and delivering innovation and recognising that email risk is comprehensive.
Dan Hoy director of strategic partnerships
egress.com
Our focus is email security and we position ourselves in the market as an intelligent cloud email security vendor. “ ”
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