Cloudflare to simplify email security, preventing phishing & malware attacks

KUALA LUMPUR, March 15 -- Cloudflare Inc, the security, performance, and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, announced plans to make enterprise-grade email security tools available to Cloudflare customers, once Cloudflare’s acquisition of Area 1 Security closes.

With the acquisition of Area 1 Security, Cloudflare will be able to provide organisations an easy way to benefit from robust phishing and malware detection that is part of an integrated, Zero Trust approach to securing all of their organisations applications.

“We recently made a significant investment in email security by agreeing to buy Area 1 Security. In the spirit of democratising email security, we plan to bring several critical capabilities to businesses of any size,” said co-founder and chief executive officer of Cloudflare, Matthew Prince.

“This is the future of Zero Trust security–where you have an integrated, one-click approach to securing any and all of your business applications.”

According to a statement, legacy email security products are often expensive, complex, and require physical or virtual infrastructure that is out of reach of many organisations without a large IT team.

Area 1 Security’s cutting-edge email protection will provide Cloudflare customers with a simple to use, highly effective, email security solution that can be implemented in just one click.

And because it’s integrated with Cloudflare’s suite of Zero Trust solutions, the company is designing Cloudflare’s email security tools to use email data to trigger additional security actions like automatically routing suspicious links through remote browser isolation or displaying phishing insights within the recently launched Cloudflare Security Center.

With these email security products, Cloudflare customers will be able to onboard with a single click; stop costly phishing attacks before they reach your inbox; replace or augment existing email security solutions; and, benefit from the same email security solution deployed by Fortune 100 companies.

Area 1 Security’s email security capabilities will be available for all enterprise plan customers once Cloudflare’s acquisition of Area 1 Security closes, and will be available to customers on all other paid plans in the months to come.

More details at www.cloudflare.com.

-- BERNAMA