Magic Quadrant for Email Security Platforms
Vendors or products added in this year’s report may indicate a change in the market, change in evaluation criteria, or change of focus by the vendor.
No vendors were added in this report.
Vendors or products dropped from one year to the next may indicate a change in the market, change in evaluation criteria, or change of focus by the vendor.
No vendors were dropped in this report.
Email infrastructure has predominantly transitioned to the cloud, increasing the market potential for vendors primarily delivering security outside the confines of traditional secure email gateway (SEG) implementation. Integrated cloud email security (ICES) solutions utilizing API connections have increasingly challenged the standard of in-line email security. Advances in natural language processing (NLP) and large language models (LLMs) have changed both how organizations are attacked and how ESPs defend against social engineering attacks. The market has seen significant change with a greater number of relatively small vendors seeking to gain market share by catering to specific use cases and security features. There has been increased merger and acquisition activity in the email security space.
A: Vendors must meet specific inclusion criteria including: selling email security as an independent product line, providing capability to block or filter unwanted email traffic, file scanning for malware protection, URL vetting and protection, utilizing advanced analytic tools (LLMs, NLP, or social graph analysis) for content analysis focused on preventing business email compromise, having a minimum of 10,000 customers or 1 million mailboxes protected, and having combined market share in North American, European, Middle East and African markets exceeding 40%.