Avanan

Score9.8 out of 10

171 Reviews and Ratings

What is Avanan?

Avanan, from Check Point since the August 2021 acquisition, connects security technologies to enterprise cloud applications in order to improve protection of sensitive corporate data and IP. According to the vendor, Avanan's one-click deployment allows customers to deploy a new security solution in seconds. Because it requires no appliance, agent or gateway proxy, Avanan can begin protecting any cloud application immediately, with no effect on users.

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Screenshot of Avanan Security Dashboard

Anti-malware
Anti-malware is a type of software program designed to prevent, detect and remove malicious software
Category average: 8.8
Threat Detection
Threat protection defend against sophisticated malware or hacking-based attacks targeting sensitive data.
Category average: 8.5
Management Tools
Management tools include administrator dashboards, reports, etc.
Category average: 8.4

Data Loss Protection
A set of tools and processes used to ensure that sensitive data is not lost, misused, or accessed by unauthorized users.
Category average: 7.7
End-to-End Encryption
In end-to-end encryption the data is encrypted on the sender's system or device and only the recipient is able to decrypt it
Category average: 8.2
Sandboxing
Sandboxing is a software management strategy that isolates applications from critical system resources and other programs providing an extra layer of security
Category average: 7.5

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

Spam Filtering
Easy Setup
Little input from managing users needed

Cons

Attachment Sandboxing
Event Grouping

Most Important Features

Spam Filtering
Email Protection
Internal Email Protection

Return on Investment

Blocked a bunch of emails
Protects our users

Alternatives Considered

Proofpoint Advanced Threat Protection and Barracuda Email Security Gateway

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Avanan as an additional layer of security for our business email. It blocks suspicious emails that Microsoft may have allowed through. Prior to Avanan, we had quite a bit of impersonation emails coming through to users' email boxes, and this has been reduced by 99%—occasionally, an email will still get through, but it is very rare.

Pros

Catch suspicious emails that Microsoft 365 misses
Provides notifications of emails to review
Overview Dashboard of Activity

Cons

Occasional miss of suspicious emails
Reports can sometimes be complex to drill down
Policy configuration can be complex

Return on Investment

Significantly reducing the chance of an end user clicking on a bad link
Pricepoint is in line with our budget
Easy to manage product

Usability

Sumesh Gansar View profile

Product Marketing Manager in Marketing at Samsung Electronics (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We primarily use Avanan as a email security tool. One of the major challenges that we were facing earlier was the inflow of many malicious emails. The default security provided by the email tool was not enough and moreover there was no restriction in sharing these emails internally. With the introduction of Avanan drilling down into important summary statistics became that much more easy with its slide down menus.

Pros

Impressive Slide down menus
Responsive Security dashboard and design
Unified search query box helping find users much quicker.

Cons

The server uptime status is not very easily visible as it is tucked at the top right
Initially some threat free emails were blocked which was a major hindrance for us. But overtime, these errors reduced
The initail set up and implementation could be faster

Most Important Features

Centralized Doc menu on the dashboard screen
High level events summary in the events page
Smart Phising option to check the exact reason for detection of phishing emails

Return on Investment

Advanced Threat detection helping us protect our data
Reduced 3rd party security costs
Centralized interface for managing all the data saves a lot of time for us.
Improved data security resulting in 30% better revenue

Other Software Used

Sales Boomerang, Moosend, Zepto

Pradum Kumar View profile

Software Engineer in Engineering at Capgemini (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I had used Avanan for past 1 year and the services provided are excellent. One of the best things about Avanan is It provides detailed reports for the attempted attacks or issues happened with your email like number of phishing emails blocks, the number of anomalies. The other best feature it has is, Post attack Forensic and Quarantine so that the possible bad results of the attack can be minimized and and because of AI it does the self learning.

Pros

Business Email Compromise Prevention
Post attack Forensic and Quarantine
Secure Click for Embedded links

Cons

False Positives.
Initial setups takes time.
Pricing
User Interface

Most Important Features

Post attack Forensic and Quarantine.
Malware Sandboxing for inbound, outbound for internal emails.
Data Leak Prevention.
Business Email Compromise (BEC) Protection.

Return on Investment

Insight management. (from big data.)
False Positives.
Advance backup on Mac PCs are time consuming.
UI with Bugs.
Data pulling from third party platforms.

Alternatives Considered

Cisco Secure Email

Other Software Used

Cisco Secure Email, FortiMail, Proofpoint Email Protection

Ronald Lanton View profile

2D Artist in Engineering at Highbrow Interactive Pvt Ltd (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Avanan has been a boon to us, with a recent surge in cases of email hacking/phishing and ransomware it has made it hard to focus and work without anyone worrying and Avanan has eliminated that issue, with its top-class email security we don’t need to worry about data leaks.

Pros

Blocks phishing threats.
Has great dashboard which helps in handling multiple users.
Can work collaboratively with Office365 and Slack.

Cons

The price is a little high considering small scale industries.
Sometimes detects regular mails as spam too even though contact is trusted.
Can improve the dashboard to help improve the user experience.

Most Important Features

Prevent data leak.
Detect phishing emails.
Protect from malicious URL.

Return on Investment

Has saved data leaks multiple times.
Has helped user to be less worried and more productive.
Has helped us saved a lot of money is losses.

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