Snapshot
Hornetsecurity protects business against malicious emails, spam, data leakage and DDoS.
Who it's for
Small and medium sized businesses looking for easy to use email protection and monitoring.
What is Hornetsecurity?
The Hornetsecurity email security service offers an effective solution that is both cost efficient and technically advanced, which allows companies to protect themselves against spam – without the need for extra hardware, software or administrative costs. The service includes comprehensive virus and compliance filters.
What is Hornetsecurity?
The Hornetsecurity email security service offers an effective solution that is both cost efficient and technically advanced, which allows companies to protect themselves against spam – without the need for extra hardware, software or administrative costs. The service includes comprehensive virus and compliance filters.
Profile Hornetsecurity
| Category | Email Security |
| Website | hornetsecurity.com |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Headquartered | Hannover, Germany |
| Deployment | Cloud, MX Record Redirection |
| Starting Price | $2.30 user/month |
| Suitable For | Small & Medium sized organizations, MSPs. |
Hornetsecurity Features
- Hornetsecurity acquired Spamina (Spanish email security vendor) in February 2019. The acquisition expands Hornet's technical team to over 200 people and extends their presence in Spain and Latin America.
- Feature rich administrator interface
- Concise reports give visibility of email traffic allowing administrators to easily troubleshoot issues
- Good levels of spam detection and filtering
- Fast email processing means that the gateway will not slow down email communications
- Full range of solutions for anti-spam, email continuity and archiving
- Feature-rich administrator interface which is easy to use with granular content controls
- Service level agreement on 99.9% spam and virus detection, with over 95% of spam blocked on arrival
- Strong Advanced Threat Protection optional module, which handles evolving email threats
- Full range of solutions for anti-spam, email continuity and archiving
- Customizable rules for data leak prevention
- Service is very easy to use, with automatic filtering and one click recovery of email
- User integration directly with Office 365
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Expert Insight
Hornetsecurity offer a platform suited to protecting email threats. They offer businesses strong protection against malicious emails, spam and phishing attacks. A particular strength is their optional Advanced Threat Protection module, which protects businesses against emerging email threats. The service has a good level of admin features, and concise reports allow admins to have an overview of their email communications. The drawbacks of this service are that the administrator console is flash based, and there can be delays between policies being submitted, and then taking effect. However, this is an easy to use service, which does offer strong threat protection.
Hornet is a good option for organizations that require a solution where data is not stored in the USA. Outside of Germany & Spain, the service is sold mostly through distributors and resellers who are able to provide in-country support. The low cost and ease of use this service means that it’s well suited to small and mid-sized businesses looking for easy to manage security. The service is also popular with MSPs as the service can be white labelled.
User Reviews
Technical Manager
Reseller
IT, 25-100 employees
Used the product for: 2+ years
May 08, 2019
"Brilliant Anti-Spam product and so much more"
What did you like best when using this solution?A simple and easy to use product, with many useful features beyond just anti-spam.
What did you dislike about using this solution?Nothing.
Describe your overall experience with Hornetsecurity. Did you find this product solved your business needs?We use Everycloud (the UK version of Hornetsecurity) internally and we use it for most of our client base with 1000's of satisfied users.
IT Administrator
Existing Customer
Construction, 25-100 employees
Used the product for: 1-2 years
Oct 01, 2019
"Low cost spam filter with some bugs and quirks"
What did you like best when using this solution?Ability to see what emails had been rejected by greylisting. Logs of the last 90-days email. Effective spam filtering. Ability to stop mass marketing emails, i.e. newsletters.
What did you dislike about using this solution?Elements of the system still use flash. Come on Hornet, this is 2019. Flash will soon be unsupported. Once we had a compromised mail box that started spamming out. Hornet detected it and then blocked all outbound email from our server. It took several calls via the Everycloud support team to get this resolved.
Describe your overall experience with Hornetsecurity. Did you find this product solved your business needs?The Hornet service is low cost and effective. The interface is a mashup of an HTML5 control panel with an older flash control panel still used for some administrative elements. Any changes to the mail routing can take up to an hour to take effect. Sometimes the Hornet data centers go offline, resulting in emails queuing for delivery. Issues with ATP wrongly blocking genuine websites.
Sales Office Manager
Reseller
IT, 10-25 employees
Used the product for: 2+ years
Aug 09, 2020
"Brilliant solution"
What did you like best when using this solution?The ease of set up, and how i could obtain the reports and anaylise what and who has been attacked
What did you dislike about using this solution?Limitations of mobile access to the portal due to the lack of flash
Describe your overall experience with Hornetsecurity. Did you find this product solved your business needs?Definatley. The solution provides great peace of mind that the business is protected agaist spam and phising attacks.
Profile Hornetsecurity
| Category | Email Security |
| Website | hornetsecurity.com |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Headquartered | Hannover, Germany |
| Deployment | Cloud, MX Record Redirection |
| Starting Price | $2.30 user/month |
| Suitable For | Small & Medium sized organizations, MSPs. |