Agari Raises $22 Million; Continues to Protect Fortune 1000 Companies From Email Attacks - Seite 2

"Targeted email attacks are becoming a highly visible problem for consumers and corporations alike. These attacks target sensitive enterprise information resources, and today incorporate techniques beyond malicious content that make them harder to stop, such as identity deception to subvert trust. As the problem grows, so does the need for a proven email security solution to stop it in its path," said Scott Crawford, Research Director, Information Security at 451 Research. "The timing of this funding will enable Agari to help further combat this global problem, that has now been elevated to a board-level issue."

Founded in 2009, Agari partnered with PayPal, Yahoo! and Google to create the Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) open standard. Agari's solutions were quickly adopted by PayPal, JP Morgan Chase, and NACHA to eliminate malicious email attacks targeting their customers' sensitive information while also gaining unprecedented visibility into their global email ecosystems. Continuing to innovate, Agari has won numerous industry awards and worked with Microsoft and the FBI to bring down the Citadel botnet. Today, Agari's customers include some of the largest companies in financial services, e-commerce, healthcare, logistics and B2B services. The company's product portfolio includes Agari Enterprise Protect, the industry's only email security solution that stops sophisticated, difficult to detect targeted phishing attacks that evade current security tools.

"Over the past several years, the cybersecurity market has grown exponentially -- with new companies and products being launched every few months. Yet with all this industry focus, email attacks are continuing unabated, with growing impact," said Patrick Peterson, founder and CEO of Agari. "Enterprises are clamoring for solutions to stop targeted email attacks to protect their corporate assets, as well as avoid the humiliating publicity that comes with these attacks. We are in a unique position: the Agari Email Trust Platform is the only proven solution to prevent these previously 'unstoppable' email attacks. This funding will allow us to expand our development and deployment activities, enabling both companies and consumers to once again 'trust' in their email."