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Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense

Complete email security protection, simplified

Modernize your email security into a singular, continuously evolving, advanced platform—driven by cloud-scale AI detections.

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A truly cloud-scale architecture that provides robust security in a simplified way

Expansive email security protects your employees and organization, while empowering your security response.

Cloud-scale, AI-driven gateway capabilities

Harness cloud-scale AI in our unified platform, eliminating traditional appliance-based limitations and reducing overhead.

Comprehensive, pre-delivery threat protection

Proactively stop email threats before they reach the mailbox, helping to ensure compliance and a safer, protected environment.

Unified and flexible platform

Gain flexible threat protection through a cohesive interface that unifies inline gateway and API-based deployment modes into a single console.

Simplified management and robust security

Streamline maintenance and accelerate your email security journey with cloud-scale AI and seamless platform integration.
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Market-leading email security

Secure Email Threat Defense has once again set itself apart from its competition in the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass, with top rankings in four different categories.

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See advanced threat features of Email Threat Defense

Take a look at the way that the strategic uses of AI empower Secure Email Threat Defense to identify the intent and risk that an email-based threat poses to an organization.

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Better together

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Licensing made easy

Pricing

Pricing for Secure Email Threat Defense is on a per-user basis, which means it applies to a single-knowledge worker.

Terms

All subscriptions have flexible options,​ including 1-, 3-, and 5-year terms with significant savings on multiyear options​. There is no extra charge for scheduled billing (monthly, quarterly, yearly, or full payment)​.

Financing

All subscriptions can be included in larger Cisco buying programs (Security Bundles, Enterprise Agreements) and can engage Cisco Capital for financing options. 

Support

All subscriptions include Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) support (24/7) and customer success for onboarding assistance.

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Email Threat Defense achieves SE Labs AAA rating

Sophisticated AI detectors in Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense provide the highest level of email threat protection, according to SE Labs research.

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Frost Radar™: Cisco is highlighted as a growth leader

Frost and Sullivan recognizes Secure Email Threat Defense for its incredible market growth, advances in AI, and global expansion.

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Using relationship graphs mitigates email threats

See how Email Threat Defense leverages non-content contextual information derived from relationship graphs to provide crucial context that content analysis alone cannot detect.

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Innovations in email security

Email Threat Defense unifies multiple deployment modes into a single, flexible solution offering pre-delivery threat prevention and post-delivery remediation using APIs in one streamlined console.  

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