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Avanan

Overview

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…

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Recent Reviews

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Users have found this product to be incredibly versatile and useful in a variety of situations. One common use case is for work …
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Great

7 out of 10
February 09, 2023
We use it for our email security and to take control of our spam. We get a lot of cold emails and it would be overwhelming sometimes to go …
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Security On Clicks

7 out of 10
November 01, 2022
Since we had a small BU with different domains, those working remotely with Covid in place and teams using various collaboration tools …
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Cloud email security solution

8 out of 10
August 25, 2022
This tool protects our mailboxes from phishing email attacks. My most favourite feature is hyperlink check which checks the hyperlinks in …
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Avanan - Review - 2022

8 out of 10
July 13, 2022
We used this Avanan checkpoint tool to validate its functionality and email protection and to be able to compare it against other security …
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Avanan Review

9 out of 10
April 07, 2022
Avanan has been a very comprehensive email security which allows the organization is safe and free from any phishing attacks. It is also …
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Popular Features

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  • Threat Detection (106)
    9.2
    92%
  • Management Tools (106)
    8.6
    86%
  • Customizability (106)
    8.4
    84%
  • Anti-malware (105)
    8.3
    83%

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Pricing

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Advanced Anti-Phishing

$4.00

Cloud
per user per month

Complete Malware Protection

$5.00

Cloud
per user per month

Full-Suite Protection

$8.00

Cloud
per user per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttp://www.avanan.com/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

A short Avanan introduction demo.

YouTube

Office 365 Malware Demo

YouTube
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Features

Secure Email Gateway

Secure email gateway software prevents the transmission of emails that contravene company policy or contain malware, phishing attacks, spam or other unwanted emails

8.2
Avg 8.4
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Product Details

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.

Avanan Features

Secure Email Gateway Features

  • Supported: Anti-malware
  • Supported: Customizability
  • Supported: Data Loss Protection
  • Supported: Threat Detection
  • Supported: Sandboxing
  • Supported: End-to-End Encryption
  • Supported: Management Tools

Additional Features

  • Supported: Anti-Phishing
  • Supported: Malware Protection
  • Supported: Data Leakage Prevention
  • Supported: Shadow IT
  • Supported: Account Takeover Protection
  • Supported: Post Delivery Protection

Avanan Screenshots

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Avanan Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Reviewers rate Threat Detection highest, with a score of 9.2.

The most common users of Avanan are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Users have found this product to be incredibly versatile and useful in a variety of situations. One common use case is for work presentations. Customers have reported that the product's intuitive interface and powerful features make it easy to create visually appealing slideshows and deliver engaging presentations. Another popular use case is for educational purposes. Teachers and students have praised the product for its ability to enhance learning experiences by incorporating multimedia elements and interactive features into lessons. Additionally, many users have found value in using the product for personal projects such as creating photo albums or sharing travel experiences with friends and family. Overall, the product's flexibility and range of features make it a valuable tool for a wide range of applications.

Users have provided several recommendations for Avanan Cloud Email Security based on their experiences. The most common recommendations include proper implementation and assistance. Users suggest taking the time to properly implement Avanan Cloud Email Security or seeking help from someone knowledgeable in configuring and managing the tool. This ensures that the product is effectively utilized and maximizes its benefits.

Another frequent recommendation is to take advantage of Avanan's Proof of Concept (POC) option. Users recommend evaluating how well Avanan fits in their environment by running demos alongside other email security gateway vendors to compare advantages and see Avanan's capabilities firsthand.

Lastly, users acknowledge that while Avanan may be a bit expensive, it is still considered worth the investment given the cost of a security breach. They highlight the solid security capabilities of Avanan, including eliminating SPAM, phishing risky URLs, and reducing phishing emails. Users also appreciate Avanan's API-based solution for filtering unwanted messages as well as its comprehensive security platform and integration with Microsoft DLP.

Overall, users highly recommend Avanan Cloud Email Security as an effective solution for protecting cloud-based email and document services, reducing spam, preventing security attacks, and securing organizations against advanced threats.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Avanan has been a great tool when it comes to protecting our business-sensitive data. For instance, the email protection features keep our email system safe ensuring all threats are screened and blocked. Also, Avanan offers other data protection features such as data loss protection features, Malware protection, threat detection, post-delivery protection among other critical features. Using Avanan is easy and the fact that it is customizable makes it even better.
  • Seamless integration with other software such as Google and Microsoft Products.
  • Using Avanan is easy thanks to the UI.
  • Offers great data and email protection features.
  • The threat detection features are very useful and accurate.
  • Management tools needs improvements.
Avanan is a perfect solution for businesses that worry about data privacy. In addition, if your business constantly deals with phishing, malware, and spamming problems, then Avanan is what you need thanks to email protection and threat detection features.
November 18, 2021

My Experience With Avanan

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Avanan mainly for data loss protection at is a great software. However, the main reason we deployed Avanan was to offer email protection to our business email as well as ensure privacy when sharing emails and files. Regarding email protection, it offers important features such as anti-spam, anti-malware, among other important features. The software has been a great addition to our business is deployed across all departments.
  • I like that using Avanan and understanding its many features is easy.
  • Encryption and decryption need no coding skills.
  • It easily integrates with other APIs.
  • The threat detection capabilities are the best.
  • Sometimes the software can lag more so when the network is slow. Otherwise, it is a great tool.
I recommend Avanan for two reasons. First, it offers the best encryption features and this makes it easy to share emails and file securely. Secondly, the software comes with the best threat detection capabilities. Most businesses will benefit from Avanan.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have Avanan deployed across the organization thanks to its many capabilities. First, the software is effective when it comes to email protection. It keeps away email threats such as malware, phishing activities, and spamming among other threats. In addition, this software also makes it easy to share emails and files securely thank to the military-grade encryption capabilities.
  • Offers email threat detection features including malware, spamming, anti-phishing.
  • Comes with encryption features.
  • Threat detection.
  • Data loss protection capabilities.
  • No issues whatsoever with Avanan.
Avanan is virtually ideal for all businesses. It offers great features that will keep email systems secure. Most professionals including medical practitioners, lawyers, and accountants, among others, will as well benefit from this more so the end-to-end email encryption features.
November 18, 2021

Anti-phishing friend

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our organization uses Avanan for anti-malware, phishing, and spam detection for our Exchange Online deployment. It addresses the business problem of additional advanced detection technology, not relying solely on the Microsoft security stack. When malware or phishing is detected, we utilize the option to remove the emails from user inboxes, saving time and effort to do it in a more manual fashion. We also utilize Avanan's reporting capabilities.
  • Detecting phishing emails.
  • Detecting and quarantining spam.
  • Providing an easy method for "search and destroy" of malicious emails.
  • Because Avanan is not inline, we've had instances where users already click on a malicious email before Avanan has had time to quarantine and remove it. I'd like to see users never have that opportunity.
Avanan works very well with Exchange Online. It has been an effective and accurate tool for email filtering and malware blocking. I particularly like the feature that allows malicious emails to be deleted at once from multiple mailboxes, without the need to write Powershell queries on our own or do manual interventions.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Avanan is being used across our organization for phishing, malware, and data loss prevention (DLP). It reduced the number of support requests and reduced clutter in end-users inboxes. Avanan provided insight into security breaches. Our end users love the ability to request quarantined emails to be restored with minimal effort.
  • Blocks phishing and malware
  • Reports DLP issues
  • Ease of implementation
  • Flexibility with policies
  • Ease of Reporting
  • Nothing really
I have been asked, and I will continually recommend Avanan to friends and colleagues. This is a solution that just works. Simple, and easy to install. It took us under 30-minutes to implement. We are continually amazed at how well this product works for our company.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our main concern was e-mail security. Avanan is being used for avoiding phishing attacks and other security breaches in our organization. The results so far are much better than what we had before with a free software.
  • Prevent phishing.
  • Filter spam.
  • Block malware.
  • UI improvement.
  • Feature customization.
Any organization struggling to handle spam and other sorts of malware can benefit from Avanan. I cannot see a scenario in which it is not necessary.
November 17, 2021

Avanan is the best!

Kelli Stephenson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Avanan company-wide. We decided on Avanan for the cloud capabilities, how it uses AD, and the easy implementation. We were having problems with Microsoft's built-in protection not catching anything. We were being inundated with phishing attacks and impersonation attacks. We needed something fast to be in place and easy to implement across the whole company.
  • Easy to use, with the notifications it's easy to decipher which ones need to be released.
  • Implements so easily, just had to connect the active directory, and done!
  • Customizable rules allowing us to set what we need and don't need.
  • Nothing...
  • This platform is great...
  • Seriously
When we were looking for a service to use, those were the main aspects to be checked. A lot of other products had a lengthy implementation and could even cost more. It's very easy to use and catches everything!
November 17, 2021

Avanan works for for us!

Matt Cox | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Email security, Malware, Phishing, etc. Our entire IT staff has access to the dashboard, they can check for security alerts such as Phishing or Anomalies. The dashboard is very intuitive and easy to use. We have many policies running to protect us from Malware, Phishing, and Spam.
  • Data leak protection
  • Malware protection
  • Phishing blocked
  • Spam threats
  • I currently don't see a need for improvement, it's working.
It provides us with these critical services, we don't need to worry about, we can concentrate our efforts elsewhere. The product is very intuitive and our IT department is not intimidated by the dashboard. It's very straightforward.
David Brooks | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Avanan is used across our organization to check and manage communication through email. It prevents malicious information and data before it lands into [an] email. It surveys and gives notification on any impending attacks to our internal data. Management of our workflows through [the] provision of [a] threat-free environment has [led] to faster service delivery and increased production.
  • Full-suite protection of our collaboration platforms
  • Providing data security
  • I have not experienced any new room that requires improvement.
  • The tools performance has not failed us since we deployed it.
I have great experience working with Avanan and the performance over that time [has] been great. It gives our workforce team more time to concentrate on productivity activities without any fear of any forms of attacks. It has streamlined our operation policy by [allocating] resources to each department and monitoring the performance regularly. Any organization that requires [a] powerful data security product can invest in Avanan without any fear.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Avanan is being used as an advance anti-phish mechanism. It is currently doing inline protection on all mailboxes in the organization. It's anti-phish scanning and learning is top notch. Also it empowers an organization to quickly act if a phishing email makes it through. Its learning component is also very well done so that the same items don't get caught again.
  • Advanced Anti-Phishing
  • Behavioral Learning
  • Quick Response
  • Mobile App Support
Really any size organization would benefit from implementing Avanan's anti-phish product. Avanan also offers a host of other solutions that are worthy of review and consideration. Avanan support is quick and highly responsive. This was surprising to us even in year 3 where Avanan is becoming more of a household name. Speaks to the quality of the company.
Carly Richardson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Avanan is the most reliable security platform that enables us to secure our communication platforms. Our business emails have been secure from hackers and cannot easily be compromised by unauthorized access. It has powerful antivirus tools that prevent us from online viruses and lets us browse in a secure environment. All our cloud data services are well monitored effectively preventing any data leakages.
  • Email protection
  • Policy management
  • Giving report analytics
  • I have not experienced any downtime with the performance of this tool.
  • I have no recommendations for new improvements.
The performance of Avanan is very effective across our enterprise. It prevents our systems from unauthorized attacks and gives proper analysis of our data. It notifies when there are impending attacks on our data so that we can take precautions on time. File sharing through emails is faster and free from unauthorized access.
November 04, 2021

Avanan is Great

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The price of the product delivers great spam protection. It might not have as many features as its competitors but it does everything we need it for a 1/3 of the price. The recent acquisition I see as a positive as they will have access to more resources to help improve the product even more.
  • Spam Filtering
  • Easy Setup
  • Little input from managing users needed
  • Attachment Sandboxing
  • Event Grouping
For the price, there isn't much out there that can compete unless you are paying an arm and a leg for it. We were really only focused on the money but the other products did the same stuff and made the same promises for 3x the cost. We are getting amazing files for the price.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Avanan for comprehensive email security, as well as security for our cloud system (Google Workspaces).
  • Great admin interface
  • Easy controls and filters
  • Very smart AI engine detects Phishing accurately
  • Easy for end users to understand and use
  • I don't have any issues with Avanan, so far
Super easy to deploy and configure. Great customer support and helpful technicians. They also offer a 2 week trial period that is seamless and transparent to the end users. I like the way it integrates into Google via an API and removes the need for a redirect/proxy.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use this product for spam and phishing filtering across the organization. The program does exactly what it says and more. I have used it for searching for specific emails as well as searching for mass emails that may have been caught as spam that should have gone to the organization. It is by far easier to use than Microsoft's built in Spam filtering product.
  • Filter Spam
  • Email Search
  • Filter Phishing
  • Sometimes after logging in, it will bring you to a page where you need to log off and back on again to work
I would say that the best thing besides the filtering is the mail search function. I use it for that the most in manual searches. Since I work with mail every day, I get some users that say that they didn't receive some mail that they were waiting for. I can just open up Avanan and search in there. Since it is directly connected to Office 365, you know whether the mail was received by Microsoft or not.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Avanan removes phishing emails from ever getting to your users. I was skeptical until we installed it. My users were getting many phishing attempts per day. Configuring Avanan stopped that completely.
  • Stops phishing
  • Monitors Office 365 logins from other countries
  • Allows for easy false positive remediation
  • It seems their mobile website is lacking. Not everything fits on the page.
  • [I] can't think of anything else. It is really that good.
Avanan is well suited for companies that either get a lot of spam/phishing emails or have a lot of untrained users who cannot easily spot email scams.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
It's used across the organisation. It solves all our email security problems on our business emails and protects all our users from external threats. Email security is the biggest challenge in any organization and once we implemented Avanan, our emails are completely secured from external threats and malware and shadow issues
  • Cloud email security
  • Ease of use
  • Cost effective
  • Channel management
  • Local support and resources
  • Gateway email security
For Outlook, Avanan is the best email security product. For cloud email security, Avanan is the best email security solution. For gateway email security, Avanan is not well suited as it does not have all the features which some of the other solution in the gateway email security space already have. There is room for improvement there.
September 03, 2021

Most advanced technology

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
We are resellers and we use it for one of our customers, and it was excellent.

As per the customer opinion, it was an easy implementation and proactively finds phishing emails. It was the first email solution deployed as an app and its advanced machine learning fetches data from Office 365 and prevents email attacks. It deploys in a click.
  • Easy integration
  • Advanced technology
  • Excellent threat detection capabilities
  • Deploy in a click
  • AI-based machine learning
  • Data leakage prevention
  • User anomalies
  • Reporting issues, incorrect information
Avanan is better suited for cloud-based emails like Office 365 and Google Gsuite.
It is deployed as an application. Specialized AI engines are used to catch the missing threats not detected by Microsoft Exchange online, Google filters, and advanced threat protection.

It is not suited for an on-premises exchange server and emails hosted by other email providers.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Avanan is a good security tool, useful to protect both from external and internal attacks; only few solution on the market can work in this way. It's invisible, is easily deployed, and allows full protection also on mainstream applications like MS 365. Our security now is really better than ever.
  • There are onboarding specialists to help in the configuration process
  • You can take advantage of cloud potential while also protecting a primary application like MS 365
  • Spam filter is good, and only in a few cases makes wrong decisions
  • There were some cases where suspected email where wrongly judged legitimate
  • Control console can be a little bit easier to use
  • Maybe reduce time to configure the solution
Useful for effective protection and transparent reporting in small and mid-size companies. The support can help you in every step of configuration, even if this can be a little bit long sometimes. You can stop thinking about phishing, even if some spam passes the controls. The white list sometimes has problems.
Travis Wallace | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Avanan is a great solution and recommend to anyone looking to beef up their email security and are lacking a strong email security solution. I like to call this "low hanging fruit" because it is extremely important to make sure you have a creditable yet effective solution in place to protect your employees from malware and phish attacks, especially in the world we live in today where ransomware is really evolving and becoming more creative to extort businesses. Avanan is a solution that will better protect your organization from these threats while also having a peace of mind and doesn't break the bank.
  • Affordability.
  • Effective at stopping threats.
  • Adaptable.
  • Customer focused.
  • Expandable.
  • User-friendly.
  • Better granular reporting.
  • Only cloud based.
If you're an O365 workshop and utilize all of the supporting applications like Dropbox, Teams, and other cloud based backup applications, than this is the perfect solution to keep your workshop safe and protected from cyber threats. It will catch almost everything and leads the email protection industry with the data to prove it.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is being used across the whole organization to provide phishing and malware protection for Microsoft 365. It protects against phishing attacks and provides a quick and easy way to pull unwanted messages from user mailboxes.
  • It is very effective at quarantining malicious emails.
  • It has a relatively low rate of false positives.
  • It allows for quick removal of unwanted messages from multiple mailboxes.
  • It provides valuable and detailed data on the characteristics of messages and sender reputation.
  • Would like to see cooperation with Microsoft that would allow Microsoft's defenses to be disabled or bypassed in order to use Avanan's defenses exclusively.
Avanan is extremely effective at blocking phishing messages. It has a good solution for pulling unwanted messages from multiple mailboxes. It is hidden from the Internet and not a target for threat actors spoofing quarantine notices.
It is more effective but also more expensive than Microsoft's native defenses. For us, it is worth the extra expense to protect against potential compromises by threat actors.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Avanan is being used across the whole organization. Avanan helps filter potentially harmful emails that are received by our team members. Sending and receiving emails is part of our day-to-day lives and we sometimes handle sensitive information we can't afford to be in the hands of cybercriminals. With Avanan, we feel secured.
  • Filters potential phishing emails well
  • The notification email shows a good amount of detail
  • In the email notification, it would be a great idea to include a link where we can see the email content. Currently, the only option is to release the email which I am hesitant to click.
Well suited for organizations like ours. Any threat can cause a lot of damage to the business.
August 22, 2021

Avanan is great!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I currently use Avanan as an email and spam filter solution. This tool is being used by my organization to monitor and secure many other client environments. The business problems that Avanan addresses are phishing and spam filtering. This helps to block suspicious emails before they reache the end user.
  • User interface
  • Insight into findings
  • Email security
  • GUI needs improvement
  • Better alerting providing more details
  • Update spam filters
Avanan is a great tool when you need to investigate emails that are coming in for potential spam or phishing. The tool is very well suited to address these areas and make it easy for the analyst to determine if the email is unwanted or not based on the information the tool provides.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Avanan is being used across the whole organization and we are using it for email protection and spam filtering. It provides us with a reliable service that gives us peace of mind when it comes to spam and phishing emails. I also enjoy their customer service, as they are excellent and quick to respond.
  • Easy to deploy
  • Good technical support
  • Good product
  • Restoration response time could be faster
  • Speed of AI learning
  • Better UI
Compared to other products, Avanan is one of the best on the market right now. They are well suited for any size company ranging from 10-100,000, as it is easy to deploy and easy to use. They are also an excellent service because emails still send perfectly even if Avanan services are down. Other products can't do this, so this is why I chose Avanan.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Avanan provides an extra layer of security to our cloud mail delivery system. We use this across the whole organization for unified protection. It has great capabilities in detecting any kind of malware and phishing emails to avoid data theft or any data loss. It provides up-to-date protection against any latest threat or viruses.
  • Dashboard
  • Up to date protection.
  • Quick implementation.
  • Support for many cloud storage apps.
  • No dedicated mobile application.
  • Search in quarantine can be improved.
  • Huge learning curve.
Avanan provides protection to fight against any kind of possible threats through its regular updates. It is a must-have application to avoid any data loss or any major threat. Its capable to forecast any possible threat and ensures our servers are not affected by it. Although UI needs refining to be able to be understood by any average user.
August 19, 2021

Solid Product

Jackson Travers | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Avanan for all incoming emails for our whole company. It has drastically reduced the number of phishing and scam emails that we receive as a company. I would recommend this product to any company that is facing these kinds of security threats. The system was easy to implement and fit right into our Office 365 system.
  • Ease of use
  • Delivers on stated uses
  • Easy integration
  • Web UI can be confusing
  • Better support
  • Easier to search for quarantined emails
If your company is facing an onslaught of phishing and scam emails, Avanan is the product for you. It drastically cut down on our scam emails and allowed management to sleep better knowing that their employees were not putting our systems at risk by clicking on dangerous links or emails.
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