Hornetsecurity Press Archive

It’s becoming a tradition: Hornetsecurity is off to a flying start in the new year, announcing another successfully completed acquisition. With this announcement, Hornetsecurity takes over 100% of the shares of Altaro, the fast-growing international provider of backup solutions…

Most cyber attacks hit businesses via email, so it is extremely important to choose the right security solution. The new ‘Secure Email Gateway – Market Quadrant 2020’ from Radicati Group, which can be downloaded free of charge, provides helpful guidance. Hornetsecurity is highlighted in the market analysis as an innovative ‘Trail Blazer’ that stirs up the market with new technologies…

The new Market Guide for Email Security from leading research and advisory company Gartner has listed Hornetsecurity as Representative Vendor. With the Gartner Market Guide for Email Security, analysts Mark Harris, Peter Firstbrook and Ravisha Chugh provide comprehensive guidance on how to set up email security to meet changing circumstances. Especially because of the dramatic increase of phishing attacks, the rise of business email compromise (BEC) and the ongoing migration to cloud security, security managers need to ensure that the solutions they choose are appropriate….

LONDON, OSLO, AND HANOVER – [23] JULY 2020 – Providence Strategic Growth (“PSG”), the growth equity affiliate of premier asset management firm Providence Equity Partners (“Providence”), and Verdane, the specialist Northern European growth equity investor, today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for an investment in Hornetsecurity Group (“Hornetsecurity”), a leading European provider of cloud-based email security and data protection, whereby affiliates of PSG become new shareholders in the Company whereas Verdane re-invests.

Hornetsecurity, the German company which is Europe’s leading email cloud security provider, is expanding its presence in the UK through a strategic partnership with cybersecurity distributor Brigantia. The new partnership – which follows Hornetsecurity’s acquisition of the Poole-based email security provider Everycloud in January – will give it access to Brigantia’s network of resellers throughout the UK and Ireland and support its plans to become the UK market leader within 12 months…

With the 365 Total Protection Suite, Hornetsecurity has already launched a full security service to ensure email and data security for business customers of the international Microsoft 365 cloud service. Now Hornetsecurity is expanding its portfolio with the Hornet.email service, a cloud-based secure corporate communications platform that enables companies to combine additional mailboxes with Microsoft 365 within existing domains and tenants – or to use it as a standalone solution.