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Egress acquires Aquilai

June 2021 by Marc Jacob

Egress announced it has acquired Aquilai, an anti-phishing provider with machine learning and natural language processing technology that stops all targeted email attacks, including business email compromise (BEC), spear phishing and impersonation attempts. The acquisition of Aquilai strengthens the Egress Intelligent Email Security platform, which solves every organisation’s most complex cybersecurity challenge: insider risk.

The powerful combination of Egress and Aquilai will provide customers with protection against all inbound cyberattacks targeting employees and real-time outbound email security for shared data, including inadvertent data loss and email encryption. With the increased volume and sophistication of targeted phishing attacks, security leaders need an intelligent, non-disruptive email security solution that detects multi-vector exploits and thwarts zero-day attacks. Additionally, seamless integration with Microsoft Outlook will enable organisations to effectively defend against email data loss and the increasing number of attacks targeting the 365 platform.

The acquisition will go into immediate effect with the launch of Egress Defend, which incorporates Aquilai’s anti-phishing technology and the following key capabilities:

• Machine learning and natural language to detect all phishing attacks. Egress Defend detects and mitigates all zero day phishing attacks, including advanced threats such as BEC and brand forgery, CEO fraud and impersonation attempts, and spear phishing.
• Content and context analysis for inbound email traffic. Egress Defend detects BEC and social engineering attacks, including those utilising open-source intelligence (OSINT), to provide enhanced security versus relationship-based solutions.
• Streamlined user engagement for enhanced cybersecurity awareness among employees. Egress Defend includes traffic light warnings and insight summaries to provide active learning to educate users about the threats they face.

The acquisition of Aquilai supports a year of rapid growth for Egress, following announcements made earlier in 2021 of key additions to its leadership team, new product enhancements and the opening of its first New York office, and continues Egress’ leadership of the human layer security technology category.

Today’s announcement will also see Aquilai’s CTO Jack Chapman join Egress as VP of Threat Intelligence. Chapman co-founded Aquilai in 2018 and oversaw the development of its anti-phishing solution. Based on its technological excellence and vision, Aquilai was hand-selected by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) – a part of the UK Government’s intelligence and security agency GCHQ – for its Accelerator programme and benefitted from in-depth and strategic insights for product development.

As a result of the acquisition and launch of Egress Defend, the Aquilai Ajax brand will be retired from 1st June 2021.


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