Company: Egress
Founders: Tony Pepper, Neil Larkins
Website: https://www.egress.com/
About Egress
Egress is the first organization to offer an adaptive security architecture for cloud email.
With 69% of incidents involving a human element,* people represent the greatest risk to organizations’ security. People are also most vulnerable when using email, with independent research showing that 94% of organizations experienced inbound and outbound email security incidents in the last 12 months.**
Consequently, solving human risk in cloud email is the most urgent priority for organizations globally. By using an adaptive security model, Egress continually assesses human risk, constantly monitoring and analyzing data to derive insights that are used to automatically dial security enforcement up or down based on real-time risk.
Egress combines multiple datasets to generate a single, unique human risk score.
Grouped into profiles of risk, these datasets include:
• Egress Defend (anti-phishing) product telemetry
• Egress Prevent (email DLP) product telemetry
• Deep behavioral analytics
• Intrinsic non-mutable risk, such as duration of employment, job role, and seniority
• Security awareness training (SAT) engagement data from KnowBe4, the world’s largest SAT and phishing simulation provider
• Open-source intelligence (OSINT)
Analyzing granular data enables Egress to generate accurate insights that are used to dynamically adapt protection and response, providing Cybersecurity teams with greater visibility than multiple scores across different platforms.
When a risk score increases against the evolving threat landscape, the Egress Intelligent Email Security platform automatically adapts its security controls and adjusts each individual user’s experience, while educating them through in-the-moment nudges.
These adjustments are made automatically, before threats have even materialized. Additionally, through bidirectional integration with KnowBe4, users are auto-enrolled in highly relevant training modules that are tailored to the real threats they face.
Integrating seamlessly into Microsoft 365, Egress Intelligent Email Security can be deployed within minutes, and offers immediate value through enhanced threat detection. Published in November 2023, Forrester Consulting’s Total Economic Impact of Egress Intelligent Email Security found that organizations, on average, benefitted from:
• 359% ROI
• Less than 6 month payback period
• 98% inbound security efficacy rate
• 90% reduction in effort to remediate misdirected email incidents
• 90% reduction in time spent compiling security reporting
In July 2024, KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform announced it had acquired Egress, with a vision to deliver the largest, advanced AI-driven cybersecurity platform for managing human risk.
*2024 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report
**2024 Egress Email Risk Report
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