Area 1 Security Reviews & Product Details

Before implementing, we were investigating phishing incidents between 1 and 3 times per week. After implementing, the number of incidents has been reduced to about 1 per month. We've seen a significant improvement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I know Area 1 is working on it, but I would like to be able to run more thorough investigations within the platform like pulling email headers and being able to see delivered email as it relates to blocked email. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Area1 detects complex threats like malicious binaries inside password-protected archives.

The interface is very intuitive. API capabilities are rich. The detection to noise ratio is great.

The subject line and email body modification proved to be very useful in order to notify end users about the detected threats. It's very easy to deploy protection for new domains.

Business Email Compromise capabilities are rich. Area1 easily integrates with GSuite directory to detect BEC attempts against any member of the org. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Price model. Not all features are supported with GSuite.

Reporting functionality is lacking customization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

By far the best thing is being able to closely work with the team, they have very talented people and its always a pleasure to work with them, communication is never an issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some features were lacking a few months ago but that's being solved as the time passes. Some could use more polishing but that's the same thing, with time and the right feedback all this should be solved in the near future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Short implementation, great dashboard that allows you to easily see phishes being blocked. Pricing model is a no brainer as you only pay per phish caught up to the cap in the contract. Has been a great experience since we implemented a year ago. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In the beginning it may require some tuning on what are suspicious emails or not but it gets trained very quickly and support is highly responsive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Being able to search email detection's and blocking sender's. The multi-tenant portal is also extremely helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It would be nice if I could see the GSuite/O365 quarantine from the console. But that is a stretch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the design and results of the application as well as the customer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The company is pretty helpful all around. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

seamless integration with our existing and future architecture; very low false positives Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UI can take a bit of a learning curve - not as intuitive as we'd like Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Area 1 is really easy to use. It's very clean looking, and I love how easily i'm able to look at quarantined emails. It does a great job filtering out emails, and it's very easy to read. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Graphs and showing data in a pretty manner Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Our experience with Area 1 has shown it to be very accurate in classifying malicious and suspicious emails. In one instance when we noticed a problem, it had been resolved by the time we contacted them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would like to be able to configure Area 1 to drop malicious emails while providing a way to review them to be sure that no emails were improperly dropped. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The extra attention around supply chain compromise. Detections of the BEC Type 3 where email threads are hijacked were mostly detected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The user interface needs work to be a all around useful tool for any style of job - analyst, engineer, program lead. It can be difficult to extract information from the portal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ability to have their service protect us automatically but also allows for customized rules when needed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the long term reporting and charting could be improved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Area 1 is all about please the customer. When you contact them with an issue they jump right on it and help with whatever problem you have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't know of any downsides with Area 1 security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simple to implement a top-tier secondary phishing analysis of all our emails that arrive at Office 365. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The dashboard is not overly complicated, yet I find myself hunting for certain functions, but that could be just my getting used to the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy implementation without changing mx records and easy management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Reporting section should be reviewed and improved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Active Directory Integration and Quarantine Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The categorization and the ability to either quarantine or block them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Initial setup was extremely easy for us as it required very little changes to mail flow. We are leveraging Area1 in BCC mode, so all we had to do was configure our SEG to forward copies of external emails to an Area1 mailbox and we were set. There are additional features/capabilities from the portal that we are still working through (i.e. SSO for user logins) or that we have yet to explore (SIEM integration), but everything else was setup within an hour, which was great.

Also, Area 1 is pretty much set and forget for us, so it doesn't add a lot of overhead from an administration standpoint. The email analysis results are also within minutes which allows us to quickly take action on any delivered phishing emails. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We've spent a couple months trying to setup Single Sign On (SSO) for user logins to the platform, and have still not figured it out. It's been a little frustrating.

While the platform is fairly intuitive and self explanatory, Area1 does not have much to offer documentation-wise. I have not seen an Admin Guide, SSO setup guide, or other than would be helpful to keep or share with colleagues as a reference.

It would also be great if we could specify which type of alerts each webhook is able to receive. For example, if we're only interested in Malicious email notifications, it would be great if we could set it to such rather than using a mailbox rule to filter all the notifications for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It just works. Implementation is so straightforward. They don't try to do too much or overburden with lots of rule sets. Best of all, bad inbound mail is drastically reduced and suspicious mail is appropriately marked up and/or defanged.

Support is super responsive and helpful. They've reached out proactively when they noticed mail issues completely unrelated to their service that were impacting us. Super helpful. They are a partner, not just a vendor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hard to think of much. The dashboards and metrics on the platform are high level and could always use more fleshing out for investigative purposes. The newer search functionality is helping in that regard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Great customer support -- fast & knowledgeable. They make a good product and are working to improve it further. They can help tune their product implementation in 1-1 technical calls Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some false positives and some false negatives. This is inevitable in a phishing filter. If it were possible, I'd love to see metrics on false positives, false negatives, and a competitive benchmark. It would also be nice to have an admin portal where I could self-report false positives & false negatives Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Really ups the signal to noise ratio. Frees us to dig on real problems and ignore crap. Feed back from our users to Area1 systems could be smoother. Really wish that was a thing, but absolutely best part is how much more effective our team is at id'ing threats. Targeting them in mass and flagging issues before they hit a users inbox. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Uh. this is embarrassing. today one "change direct deposit" scam email landed into our payroll person.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best is simple. We are seeing less and less phish in our mailboxes. Support is really good at responding and updating their policies when new phish come out. So if i phish comes through once, they'll updated policies asap and you won't see the same phish again. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hmm, trying to think. There is nothing specific I dislike. It does its job. Wish I can think of anything but what we use it for is simple and does the job. It stops phish and lowers the amount we get. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We consistently see Area1 catch malicious emails that our other security solutions overlook. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Many times the emails will trigger signatures that don't clearly convey the threat. I've not seen a concise knowledge base or guide to what some of these signatures mean. Providing some additional context can help us better bolster our defenses and determine why other layers may miss these messages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It was incredibly easy to integrate Area 1 into our gmail setup. It took me only 10 minutes to connect to our email server using GoDaddy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can't complain, has overall been a great experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Area 1 Security has been protecting our organization for almost 2 years now. As our security team has grown, Area 1 has been our partner. They assist us in integrations with new tools, as well as keeping us abreast of any new features they come up with. Their phishing protection is all-encompassing and the reporting for these events are very detailed. It truly is a "set it and forget it" tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Area 1 has only had a few service interruptions or incidents occur that had little to no impact on our service. No complaints here. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Area 1 was easy to setup and provides strong anti phishing protection. We run our email with Google G suite and Area 1 Security was a natural fit and setup in minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some advanced rules need to be adjusted a little for them to work well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Having Area-1 in place allows me to spend less time worrying about end users being "tricked" by phishing and more time looking into the big picture. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It takes a little bit of effort on the front end to prevent false positives, but once you get it tuned it is like magic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.