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GreatHorn Email Security

by Proofpoint
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Quick facts
VendorProofpoint
Year launchedN/A
StatusSold
LocationGreatHorn, Inc. PO Box 540 Denver, Colorado 80201, USA
Countries servedGlobal
Languages1
Integrations5+
Free tierN/A
Free trialYES
Contact salesYES

About GreatHorn Email Security

GreatHorn Email Security is an email security platform from Proofpoint that provides advanced protection against phishing, spam, and malware. It includes features such as real-time threat detection, automated incident response, and comprehensive reporting, so organizations can safeguard their email communications effectively. GreatHorn helps reduce the risk of email-based attacks and provides actionable insights to IT teams. The platform supports integration with existing email workflows and offers customizable security policies to fit different organizational needs. Key capabilities: real-time threat detection automated incident response comprehensive reporting customizable security policies integration with existing email workflows Best for: IT security teams that need to protect their organization from email-based threats.

GreatHorn Email Security, now a key component of Proofpoint's product portfolio, stands out in the crowded email security market by taking a modern, API-first approach to threat protection. Unlike traditional Secure Email Gateways (SEGs) that reroute mail and can be complex to deploy, GreatHorn integrates directly with cloud email platforms like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. This provides a seamless, five-minute deployment process, making it an attractive solution for organizations looking to quickly enhance their security posture without significant IT overhead. The platform's core strength lies in its sophisticated, fact-based detection engine, which uses a combination of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science to analyze thousands of data points within an email. This enables it to catch advanced and "zero-day" phishing attacks, impersonations, and credential theft attempts that often slip past built-in email security tools. The platform's focus on automation and incident response is a significant advantage.

Pros & Cons

Pros
  • Allows quick deployment, often in minutes, without complex mail routing changes.
  • Has highly effective capabilities at catching sophisticated and zero-day phishing attacks that can bypass traditional solutions.
  • Ability to automatically remove threats from multiple inboxes in seconds drastically reduces the manual work and time required for remediation.
  • Strong Customer Support
Cons
  • There is a short delay between an email's arrival and the platform's policy rules being applied
  • Search function has some limitations
  • Lacks a native Data Loss Prevention (DLP) function

Features

Key features

API-Based Cloud Integration

GreatHorn deploys quickly and easily by integrating directly with cloud email services like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace via API, without requiring changes to mail routing or MX records.

Fact-Based Detection Engine

It uses a combination of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science to analyze hundreds of data points, including communication patterns and technical fingerprints, to accurately identify and remediate threats.

Automated Incident Response

The platform automates the response to threats, allowing security teams to find and remove malicious emails from all user inboxes in seconds, significantly reducing the time to respond to attacks.

In-the-Moment User Education

It uses "smart banners" that provide contextual warnings to users on suspicious emails, helping them make more informed decisions and reducing the risk of a click.

Account Takeover Protection

This feature uses machine learning to analyze user behavior, such as typing patterns, to detect and prevent account takeovers, a unique capability not widely available in other solutions.

Additional features

Threat Detection and Analysis

Uses AI and ML to identify and tag threats like impersonations, credential theft, and malware.

Automated Remediation

Automatically quarantines or removes confirmed threats based on a company's risk profile.

Link Protection

Rewrites suspicious links for continuous analysis and displays warning pages to prevent users from accessing malicious sites.

User Reporting

Provides an integrated "Report Phish" button that allows users to quickly and easily report suspicious emails, feeding real-time data back to the security team.

Comprehensive Forensics

Offers granular search and forensic capabilities to investigate threats across the entire email environment.

Integration Layer

Connects with other security tools, including Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platforms like Cortex XSOAR and Tines, as well as Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems.

Mailbox Intelligence

A client-side plugin that gives employees "stoplight" level threat analysis on every email, indicating the sender's trustworthiness.

DMARC Integration

Integrates with DMARC providers like dmarcian to protect an organization's domain from unauthorized use and combat email fraud.

Pricing

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Countries & Languages

Global
Countries served
1
Interface languages
1
Billing currencies

Interface languages

English

Billing currencies

🇺🇸USD

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