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Feedback recently received from analysts includes:
Frost & Sullivan: 2024 EMEA Company of the Year Award, email security industry
In a recent analysis of the email security industry, Frost & Sullivan recognized Hornetsecurity with the 2024 EMEA Company of the Year Award based on its findings.
The analyst said in a press release: “Hornetsecurity excels in email security by providing a highly differentiated suite of solutions tailored for Microsoft Office 365 customers. The company’s innovative platform offers disruptive email live tracking and threat live tracking capabilities, delivering administrators and end users unprecedented visibility into their security posture. Additionally, Hornetsecurity’s service includes sophisticated malicious document decryption and Ex Post Deletion features, ensuring robust protection against emerging threats.”
Sarah Pavlak, Industry Principal at Frost & Sullivan, added: “Hornetsecurity has a proven focus on megatrends, customer concerns, and keeping its products up to date on the latest emerging threats by quickly adding enhanced protection capabilities to its security suite. Hornetsecurity released several key launches within the past three years that have contributed to its continuing growth and leadership in the email security market.”
Comment from
the Head of the Hornetsecurity Security Lab, Umut Alemdar:
“We appreciate Frost & Sullivan’s comprehensive analysis of our market position and capabilities. The report effectively captures our core strengths: the all-in-one security approach, Microsoft 365 specialization, and innovative features like Ex Post Deletion, Malicious Document Decryption, and QR Code Analyzer.
“However, there are also several growth opportunities we’re actively pursuing:
- Expanding our North American presence
- Enhancing our GRC capabilities for enterprises
- Further developing our automated security awareness training to address evolving social engineering threats.
“The insights from our Security Lab’s threat research continue to drive product innovation, particularly in emerging threat areas. The report’s recognition of our tremendous growth rate reflects strong market validation of this approach. We’ll continue investing in R&D and threat intelligence to maintain this momentum while expanding our global presence.”
Info-Tech Research Group: Tech Note – Redefining Email Security With AI and Global Insights
US research and analyst group, Info-Tech, has taken an in-depth look at Hornetsecurity’s email security offerings and found that “Hornetsecurity offers a comprehensive suite of tools designed to combat the sophisticated landscape of cyber threats,” adding that its “technical prowess shines through features like advanced phishing detection with computer vision, AI-driven recipient validation, and a flexible hybrid deployment model that caters to a wide array of customer needs, from cloud SEG to ICES integrations.”
ITRG Analyst Carols Rivera says: “What sets Hornetsecurity apart is not just its technology but its global reach and the expertise of its staff. With worldwide deployment, Hornetsecurity ensures that its solutions are not only scalable but also culturally and regionally adaptive, providing robust security for organizations regardless of their location. The knowledgeable team behind Hornetsecurity continuously innovates to support next-generation threats like ATO, VEC, and BEC, leveraging their deep understanding of social engineering tactics to refine their defenses.”
Comment from
the Chief Technology Officer at Hornetsecurity, Dr Yvonne Bernard:
“This analysis by Info-Tech validates our innovative approach to email security while spotlighting our industry-leading computer vision and threat detection capabilities.
“We are meanwhile expanding our capabilities for MSPs beyond threat detection and threat remediation. Our XDR/SOAR integrations will enable automated threat analysis and response orchestration, while new AI-driven explainability features help security teams understand attack patterns and validate automated decisions.
“For enterprise customers, we are exploring threat intelligence integrations that maintain our stringent accuracy standards while addressing sophisticated regional threats. This initiative builds on our proven AI qualification process and extends our coverage across diverse threat landscapes.
“We invite organizations to explore how our innovations can strengthen their security posture.”
For the full Tech Note, click here and here (in pdf).
TechConsult: Professional User Rating – Security Solutions 2025: Backup & Recovery Champion
TechConsult bestows annual PUR awards based on research they conduct into the:
- Level of performance, scope, and benefit (Technology/Solution)
- Level of the manufacturer and its positioning (Company)
Their findings stem from approximately 4,500 representative online interviews, some 300 to 1,200 interviews per solution area and around 100 to 120 considered providers in the German market, after which the datasets undergo a quality check. The best among the evaluated providers are then presented in the “PUR-Result Diamond.”
Resulting from this rigorous process, Hornetsecurity was named a Champion out of the 23 best Rated Backup & Recovery providers.
Comment from
the Head of Product Development at Hornetsecurity, Chris Lupi:
“We are thrilled to be named a Backup & Recovery Champion. The recognition particularly emphasizes our strengths in user-friendly design, ensuring smooth deployment and intuitive operation, and our comprehensive feature set, covering a wide range of Microsoft 365 workloads and including advanced backup automation and reliable recovery options.
“The evaluation also pointed to opportunities for improvement, notably in expanding third-party integrations. We are addressing these areas by prioritizing robust API development and in fact we have recently rolled out a first batch of APIs allowing our customers to integrate our solution into their reporting and PSA tools. We are also focusing heavily on providing sophisticated self-service tools within our product plan, to build on the self-service functionality that is already being provided.
“Expanded threat detection, automatic compliance controls, and intelligent backup verification are among our development priorities. These features meet the increasing needs for secure, verifiable backups while expanding upon our integrated security basis.”
For more information about the PUR award, click here and here.
Info-Tech Research Group: Backup & Availability Leader 2024
Hornetsecurity VM Backup has been awarded a Gold badge and named a Leader in ITRG’s 2024 Backup and Availability – Data Quadrant Awards powered by SoftwareReviews.
This was based on data collected from real end users, verified for veracity and meticulously analyzed, comparing and contrasting each product with all others in the category to create a holistic, unbiased view of the product landscape.
Hornetsecurity VM Backup also won TOP RATED awards in 18 capability areas within the Backup and Availability category. Among them, users highlighted the offering for being:
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
- Effective Service
Comment from
the Head of Product Development at Hornetsecurity, Chris Lupi:
‘’We are honored that Hornetsecurity VM Backup has been named a Leader in Info-Tech Research Group‘s Backup & Availability 2024 quadrant. ITRG’s evaluation highlighted our strengths in ease of use, high performance in recovery operations, and robust scalability.
‘’At the same time, the report pointed out areas where we can grow, such as enhancing our reporting features for deeper operational insights and broadening support for emerging hypervisor technologies. We’ve already set plans in motion to address these. For instance, we’re actively working on new updates that will deliver more customizable, real-time reporting options, and we’re exploring options to expand our compatibility ecosystem.’’
Gartner: Magic Quadrant and Critical Capabilities for Email Security Platforms 2024-2025
Hornetsecurity was one of 14 companies to make it into Gartner’s Magic Quadrant 2024-2025 for Email Security Platforms (ESP). This was Hornetsecurity’s first inclusion in this study, where it was named a Niche Player.
Comment from
the Chief Product Officer at Hornetsecurity, Adrien Gendre:
“We appreciate that, despite taking part in this study for the first time ever, we are one of a handful of providers to be included in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant. This has been a learning process and we are still working on understanding how best to work with Gartner and provide the information they need.
“Gartner’s main focus is the US Enterprise segment, and this is an area that we are still developing; we are far stronger in the European market and we need to continue increasing our reach in North America.
“One of our core strengths is our one-platform approach, where we provide a range of complementary offerings that extends beyond traditional email security all conveniently managed via one central Control Panel. While this approach is key to Hornetsecurity partners and customers, Gartner did not recognize this as a determining factor in their overall assessment.
“Hornetsecurity delivers enterprise-grade security through advanced threat intelligence from over 1.4 billion protected mailboxes globally. Our proprietary social graph analysis and Vision AI technology excel at detecting sophisticated threats like business email compromise and phishing attempts that evade traditional security measures. These capabilities, combined with real-time global threat analysis and generative AI, position us strongly for expansion beyond Europe.”
For more information about the quadrant, click here (subscription required to access).
Watch this space for other top nominations and click here to view all our recent awards!
Loved by organizations around the world
Hornetsecurity customers benefit from our offerings as they address their email security, backup, security awareness and GRC needs. Here are some examples of the advantages organizations enjoy thanks to Hornetsecurity solutions:
Grimme, a worldwide agricultural machinery provider with more thank 2,800 employees, says describes Hornetsecurity as “provider that guarantees business continuity while securing our email communication and shared data from all kinds of malware and espionage.”
Andras Hotels uses a range of Hornetsecurity services to satisfy their need for a “simplicity in the product’s setup, a training platform, and importantly great support”.
UK-based IT services and managed services provider, Natpoint, explains why it confidently partnered with Hornetsecurity to deliver according to its mantra: “if we don’t do a good job, we don’t deserve the customer.”
LPKF, a leading provider of laser-based solutions for the technology industry, says “Hornetsecurity has developed and expanded a product for spam and malware filtering, email encryption and backup in Microsoft 365 environments, which is unparalleled in depth and consistency.”
The US provider of technology services, Isogent, chose to partner with Hornetsecurity thanks to three key factors “smooth to implement, reasonable costs and broad feature set.”
