The 10 Best Email Security Solutions For MSPs

SpamTitan provides effective anti-spam and malware blocking, utilizing multiple layers of spam detection at the email gateway. SpamTitan Cloud is powered via Multiple anti-virus engines power malicious URL and attachment protection by scanning for threats in real-time. SpamTitan also offer content control via email, allowing IT teams to whitelist, blacklist and grey-list email content to ensure employee security and maintain professional compliance. SpamTitan offers customizable email policies, allowing each user, domain and domain group to manage their own blacklists.

SpamTitan Cloud is easy to manage and deploy – important features for MSP customers. The platform has a low maintained overhead, automating updates and fully managed through a web-based management console. SpamTitan also offer an extensive set of APIs to allow MSPs to integrate SpamTitan into their third-party management products and API infrastructure. SpamTitan can be fully white-labelled and has a flexible pricing model. In addition, SpamTitan offer a full suite of reports for each domain, allowing service providers to demonstrate the effectiveness of the spam-filtering service.

N-able’ Mail Assure combines a cloud-based email gateway, 24/7 email continuity and secure archiving to protect email from inbound and outbound threats and give organizations more control over their emails. Their threat intelligence combines data from 23 million mailboxes to detect email threat and provide strong email filtering. They also allow admins to detect abuse via email. Mail Assure allows end users to view, release, blacklist or whitelist messages from their spam quarantine, and allows admins to set customizable email policies from a centralized admin console. Mail Assure supports SPF, DKIM and DMARC to help protect against domain name spoofing.

N-able Mail Assure service partners benefit from a range of features that make managing email security easier for MSPs. Mail Assure provides a multi-tenant interface with a range of pre-defined policies, settings and reports; designed to make it easier to manage your clients. This interface supports multiple languages, allowing you to support customers all over the world. Mail Assure supports custom filtering rules, allowing you to easily manage clients email filtering, and provides advanced searching functionality designed to make it easy to search and view clients email traffic. N-able provides comprehensive support and technical documentation and the service can be fully white labelled to fit your brand. N-able Mail Assure is a good option for MSP customers looking for a powerful email security solution a focus on delivering an easy to manage and customizable platform for service providers.

Avanan provides full visibility and protection against threats that are inside the Office 365 environment. Their anti-phishing tools utilize machine learning (ML) algorithms to detect malicious emails threats that are missed by email gateways and Microsoft’s default security systems. This makes Avanan a strong solution for organizations looking to implement a multi-layered email security stack, with Avanan working as the last line of defense to detect malicious emails before they reach the email inbox. Avanan use ML models to analyze over 300 indicators of phishing attacks, providing powerful phishing and account compromise detection. They also provide real-time malware and, link and attachment sandboxing, to protect against malicious links and attachments.

For MSPs, Avanan offers a powerful email threat protection within a platform that is easy to deploy and manage. Avanan deploys in less than five minutes, and integrates easily with platforms like Office 365, G Suite, Dropbox and Slack to protect against threats inside these cloud applications. Avanan offers a simplified management console for both MSPs and their end-clients, with simplified onboarding and 24/7 global support. Avanan’s multi-tenant portal allows you to easily manage all users and generate reports on customer activity.  Avanan also offer flexible MSP pricing and offers support for clients of all sizes.

AppRiver offer a range of threat protection features. This includes protection against spam and malware, with dedicated Impersonation Protection to defend users against targeted email attacks like business email compromise. This works by detecting deceptive email addresses and comparing them to display names – allowing AppRiver to automatically quarantine malicious messages, or flag suspicious emails with a customizable indicator in the email subject line. AppRiver deploys easily into the email environment and is managed via a modern email dashboard.

AppRiver offers five tiers of partner benefits, which include marketing assistance, performance incentives, thought leadership, discounts and training. AppRiver’s cloud-based email security solutions are quick and straightforward to deploy and manage, and scalable to organization of all sizes. AppRiver partners also benefit from comprehensive migration and technical support. AppRiver’s solutions work well with Office 365, making it a good option for MSPs looking for a range of email and endpoint protections designed for this environment.

Total Email Protection includes Barracuda’s secure email gateway, with email filtering and spam blocking functionality, as well as encryption, archiving and email continuity. Barracuda Sentinel augments this gateway with protection inside the email inbox, protecting users against targeted email threats like spear-phishing and email compromise. Barracuda PhishLine, also included, is Barracuda’s complete security awareness and phishing simulation solution, helping to train end-users to identify and report suspicious emails.

Barracuda is a popular choice for MSPs looking for an email security solution. They offer a purpose-built MSP platform, with multi-layered security and data protection services. Barracuda provide enablement resources, experience in the channel and scalable solutions for organizations and MSPs of all sizes, as well as fixed-monthly pricing plans for MSP customers.

Hornetsecurity’s 365 Total Protection platform offers a range of email threat protection features for Office 365 users. They provide comprehensive threat detection using multiple email filtering systems to detect spam and malware, powered by Hornetsecurity’s ongoing threat intelligence data. Hornetsecurity guarantees a detection rate of 99.99% for spam and 99.9% for viruses. They also offer an Advanced Threat Protection sandboxing engine which performs dynamic analysis on malicious files to detect malware and ransomware in real time, automatically quarantining malicious emails. Hornetsecurity also provides content controls and compliance features for email, ensuring that IT teams can set customizable policies to ensure employee safety and compliance.

Hornetsecurity offers a comprehensive email platform for service providers. Partners benefit from their strong email security platform, which integrates easily with Office 365 and easy to manage at the client level. Hornetsecurity’s solutions are scalable and have a high availability. Hornetsecurity offers four levels of partnership, which offer different benefits in terms of margins and sales and technical support availability. All Hornetsecurity partners have access to partner discounts, as well as technical and marketing support. Hornetsecurity is a strong email security solution for MSPs, especially those based in Europe, looking for a partner-focused solution.

When CloudFilter flags a message as suspicious, it send users a notification that allows them to preview the HTML contents of the message and, if it’s safe, deliver it and whitelist the sender so that future communications from them aren’t blocked. If the email is deemed malicious, users can add the sender to their “blocked” list. This decreases the number of false positives, freeing up IT resources to remediate genuine threats. The CloudFilter platform also offers in-depth reporting and analytics capabilities, which provide each user with regular insights into which emails were quarantined and why, including where it was sent from and where delivery was interrupted. This ensures that users only release emails that are 100% safe into their inboxes.

For MSPs, CloudFilter features detailed administrator logs that enable security teams to see detailed analytics into message scoring and classification, so that they can quickly mitigate any issues. The advanced mailflow status tools monitor delivery in real time and automatically alert the security team to any delivery issues as soon as they’re detected. This enables MSPs to mitigate any problems before their customers are even aware of them. Mailprotector’s CloudFilter platform is a strong solution for MSPs looking to provide their clients with accurate inbox protection. Mailprotector also offer an extensive online knowledge base, as well as dedicated support and training, to ensure that their MSP partners can secure their clients as effectively as possible.

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 provides comprehensive threat protection features, including protection against malicious attachments and URLs across O365, including in email, Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive. It also provides policies to prevent the delivery of phishing attacks and provides real-time threat reports. Higher levels of the service provide automated incident response and attack simulations to train users to spot phishing attacks within Office 365.

Despite these threat protection features industry analysts have pointed out that Microsoft Defender has some way to go before it reaches the level of threat protection offered by third party email security solutions, with Gartner commenting that, “Microsoft has an opportunity and an incentive to solve the phishing issues, but based on historical results, it must become more agile and respond more rapidly to changing attacker tactics.” However, Microsoft Defender is a strong solution for MSPs who are providing Office 365 to their clients and are looking for an extra layer of email security to stop malicious links and attachments.

Proofpoint Essentials provides strong email protection by combining powerful anti-virus, URL scanning and attachment sandboxing. It’s easy to manage, giving each end-user access to their own email quarantine and email archive. It’s also simple to deploy, working well in cloud-based email environments. Proofpoint Essentials offers advanced protection from phishing attacks and insider threats and offers a range of granular admin policies.

Proofpoint offer flexible pricing modules, with competitive margins for MSPs. MSPs also benefit from an easy-to-use multi-tenant dashboard, which makes managing the service and creating automated reports very straight forward. Proofpoint partners also benefit from a free, 50-user NFR license. Proofpoint provide strong support for partners, offering a range of marketing materials and regular webinars. With flexible pricing modules and a suite of security options that include Encryption, Archiving and Continuity, Proofpoint Essentials is a popular choice for MSPs.

Vade Secure for Microsoft 365 is able to detect and remediate against advanced email threats by preforming real-time behavioral analysis of emails, URLs and attachments. Vade Secure’s solution sits inside the email environment via API-based integration to Office 365. This allows it to perform real-time analysis of emails and URLs, looking for indicators of malicious behaviours including modified logos and images commonly used in phishing attacks. Vade Secure performs automatic remediation against known email threats, automatically removing malicious emails. The system also displays warning banners on suspicious emails, alerting the user to a potential threat.

Vade Secure offers multiple benefits for MSP users. Thanks to its API based integration to O365, deployment of is very simple, without requiring MX record changes to get the service running across your clients. The system is also easy to use, working completely within the O365 environment. Vade Secure is scalable and secure, providing support and automated threat reporting to MSP clients. Vade partners also benefit from a not-for-resale license to protect their internal mailboxes. Vase Secure is a strong option for MSPs who are looking for a post-delivery protection solution to help their clients remediate against targeted social engineering attacks with O365.