Cloudflare Area 1 Email Security

Stop phishing attacks and secure your cloud email

Don’t trust your inbox: protect your organization from attacks against your #1 business application: email. Cloudflare Area 1 comprehensively defends against sophisticated threats by stopping phish at the earliest stages of the attack cycle.

Get Zero Trust protection against a broad spectrum of threats: malware-less Business Email Compromise, multichannel phishing, credential harvesting, and other targeted phishing. All in a cloud-native service that can be deployed in minutes to secure your Microsoft 365 and Gmail users.

The Cloudflare Area 1 Difference

Stop attacks days before launch

Area 1 preemptively hunts for phishing infrastructure, sources, and delivery mechanisms to block campaigns at the onset - no more waiting for signature updates.

Remove implicit trust from your inbox

Comprehensively block campaigns across different attack vectors (email, web browser, SMS, and others), even when messages are from “trusted” senders or domains.

Simplify threat defense

Get end-to-end phishing triage and response, plus seamless integration with SIEMs and other security tools. PhishGuard customers gain additional protection from insider threats and active fraud.

Save IT time and resources

Replace ineffective SEGs and stop more phish with cloud-native, API-first email security, with nothing to install or endlessly “tune.”

Since we implemented Area 1 we have seen a 50% reduction in the number of malicious or suspicious emails our users receive every day. That frees up multiple hours we can reinvest into other goals.

Michael Perdunn
Director of Cyber Security

“This allows us to better secure inboxes without having the employees needing to know anything about Cloudflare Area 1 or change their email habits in any way. As a result, our user-reported phishing investigations were cut by at least half.”

Rob Hooper
Sr. Manager of IT & Security

“I’m happy to say that Cloudflare Area 1 exceeded all of our expectations … It took less than half an hour to get the service up and running.”

Donovan Bray
Director of DevOps & IT

"Area 1 was the only solution that fit into our tech stack and that also demonstrated a compelling case around security."

Nick Laferriere
Lead Cloud Architect

KEY USE CASE

Preemptively block phishing attacks

Neutralize suspicious/unknown web links and multichannel phishing attacks, by turning on the Area 1 integration with Cloudflare Browser Isolation.
Uncover new tactics used by malicious actors to block phishing in real-time, versus waiting days or weeks for signature updates.
Accurately detect and contain low-volume targeted phish without requiring large attack sample volumes.
Get visibility into compromised accounts and domains, as well as new, lookalike, and proximity domains impersonating your brand.

KEY USE CASE

Stop Business Email Compromise attacks — including ‘long con’ invoice fraud

Sentiment analysis looks at message intent, tone, sender relationships, and other attack signals.
Uncover sophisticated BEC and supplier account takeovers through sender trust graphs and entire thread analysis.
Automatically block, quarantine, and escalate fraudulent financial communications.

Learn how to detect and block BEC — a $43 billion global problem — with six advanced techniques.

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KEY USE CASE

Enhance Microsoft 365 & Google email security

Replace redundant SEGs — which we often see miss over 30% of phishing emails — with best-in-class cloud-native email security.
Proactively discover and block socially-engineered phish that bypass Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 with ATP.
Eliminate the need for hardware and “tuning” to keep up with new threats.

HOW IT WORKS

Seamlessly fits into any email security stack

Deploy in minutes without any hardware, agents, or appliances.
Choose the deployment option best for your organization — inline, API, or multi-mode.
Extend email protection to your chosen vendors and partners.
Expedite SOC investigations with post-delivery message retractions and integrations with SIEM/SOAR platforms.

Key features

In-the-wild discovery of attacker infrastructure and phishing campaigns

Protection against all 4 Gartner-defined BEC attack types

Both heuristic-based and ML-based detection techniques to ensure broadest possible threat coverage

Protection against web-based phishing campaigns through a globally distributed, recursive DNS service

Deep integrations with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace environments and workflows

Multi-mode deployment with flexible options including inline, API, journaling, and connectors

Automated and managed phishing triage and remediation

Cloud-native architecture built to dynamically scale and ensure business continuity

Discover which threats are evading your current email defenses

Why Zero Trust + Email Security?

Simplify the way you protect SaaS applications

The traditional tools used to connect employees to corporate apps grant excessive trust, increasing your cyber risk.

The Cloudflare Zero Trust platform replaces legacy security perimeters, and ensures that all traffic in and out of a business is verified and authorized.

As part of the Cloudflare Zero Trust portfolio, Area 1 helps increase visibility, eliminate complexity, and reduce risks for remote and office users alike.