Tessian’s mission is to secure the human layer by empowering people to do their best work, without security getting in their way.

Tessian is honoured to be recognised as a Representative Vendor for Integrated Cloud Email Security (ICES) in the recently released 2021 Gartner Market Guide for Email Security. According to Gartner the “continued increases in the volume and success of phishing attacks and migration to cloud email require a re-evaluation of email security controls and processes. Security and risk management leaders must ensure that their existing solution remains appropriate for the changing landscape.”

The key findings listed in this Market Guide for Email Security 

According to this report, “the adoption of cloud email systems continues to grow, forcing security and risk management leaders to evaluate the native capabilities offered by these providers”. The report further states “solutions that integrate directly into cloud email via an API, rather than as a gateway, ease evaluation and deployment and improve detection accuracy, while still taking advantage of the integration of the bulk of phishing protection with the core platform.”

The report also states that “ransomware, impersonation, and account takeover attacks are increasing and causing direct financial loss, as users place too much trust in the identities associated with email inherently vulnerable to deception and social engineering.”

Gartner recommends that the security and risk managers for email security should:  

• “Use email security solutions that include anti-phishing technology for business email compromise (BEC), protection that uses AI to detect communication patterns and conversation-style anomalies, as well as computer vision for inspecting suspect URLs.”
• “Consider products that also include context-aware banners to help reinforce security awareness training.”
• “Invest in user education and implement standard operating procedures for handling financial and sensitive data transactions commonly targeted by impersonation attacks. Remove as many targeted ad hoc processes from email as possible.”

This report highlights trends that Tessian is also seeing.

Historically, companies around the globe were deploying the Tessian platform to augment the shortcomings of their Secure Email Gateways (SEGs). Customers needed a more comprehensive solution that would stop the real nasty stuff like zero-day attacks and ransomware, and that was able to detect and stop the threats that often slip past their SEGs such as business email compromise (BEC), account takeover (ATO), spear phishing, and impersonation attacks.

Tessian’s recent Spear Phishing Threat Landscape 2021 Report examined emails from July 2020 – July 2021, and discovered nearly 2,000,000 emails slipped through SEGs.

An interesting shift we’ve observed over the past nine months is that we’re seeing more and more customers leveraging the enhancements made by Microsoft along with the Tessian platform to replace their SEG. We expect that trend to accelerate in 2022.

Gartner predicts that “by 2023, at least 40% of all organisations will use built-in protection capabilities from cloud email providers rather than a secure email gateway (SEG), up from 27% in 2020.”

Tessian’s approach

Tessian’s Human Layer Security platform detects and prevents advanced inbound and outbound threats on email.

Tessian automatically stops data breaches and security threats caused by employees on email. Powered by machine learning, Tessian provides unparalleled visibility into human security risks, detects and prevents accidental data loss, data exfiltration, and advanced phishing attacks while continuously driving employees toward secure email behaviour through in-the-moment training.

Built as a cloud-native platform, Tessian integrates seamlessly with O365, Google Workspace, and MS Exchange environments within minutes, learns in hours, and starts protecting in a day closing the critical gaps in the email security stack

Powered by machine learning, our Human Layer Security platform understands normal behaviour by analysing content, context, and communication patterns from historical email data to establish trusted relationship graphs. Tessian can then detect anomalies in real-time using those employee relationship graphs alongside deep content analysis, natural language processing, and behavioural protecting organisations from both inbound and outbound attacks as well as protecting you from data leakage from accidental or malicious user behaviours.

Tessian is honoured to be recognised as a Representative Vendor for Integrated Cloud Email Security (ICES) in the recently released 2021 Gartner Market Guide for Email Security. According to Gartner the “continued increases in the volume and success of phishing attacks and migration to cloud email require a re-evaluation of email security controls and processes. Security and risk management leaders must ensure that their existing solution remains appropriate for the changing landscape.”

The Tessian differentiators:

• Threat prevention: Tessian protects against both known and unknown email attacks, including business email compromise, account takeover, spear-phishing, and all impersonation attacks that bypass SEGs, M365, and G Suite
• Education and awareness: With Tessian’s in-the-moment training, organisations can educate and empower users to build continuous email security awareness
• Reduced admin overhead: Tessian removes the burden on SOC and admins by automating repetitive tasks such as maintaining triage and review. This eliminates the need for human verification of email threats, reducing FTE requirements.
• Data-rich dashboards: With Tessian, security teams have clear visibility and the ability to demonstrate clear ROI

Tessian solutions:

• Tessian Defender is a comprehensive inbound email security solution that automatically prevents a wide range of attacks that bypass Secure Email Gateways (SEGs) while providing in-the-moment training to drive employees toward secure email behaviour.
• Tessian Guardian automatically detects and prevents accidental data loss from misdirected emails.
• Tessian Enforcer automatically detects and prevents data exfiltration attempts and ensures compliant email activity.

To learn more about how Tessian can help strengthen your email security posture, book a demo now.