Who is Avanan?
Avanan is a privately held provider of cloud-native security software that protects email, file sharing, and collaboration applications running on software-as-a-service platforms.
- Email security for cloud productivity suites
- Threat prevention for collaboration and file-sharing applications
- API-based integration with software-as-a-service platforms
- Data loss prevention and account takeover protection
- Security operations for cloud-hosted business applications
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More About Avanan
Avanan's offerings are positioned for organizations that run email and collaboration workloads on Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and similar software-as-a-service platforms. Deployment typically occurs through application programming interface connections rather than mail gateway routing, which allows the service to inspect messages and files after they reach the cloud tenant. Organizations adopting these platforms often find that native controls leave gaps in phishing detection, account monitoring, and sensitive data handling, and third-party cloud security tools address those gaps.
The architecture relies on API-based inspection combined with machine learning and threat intelligence to classify malicious content and anomalous user behavior. Identity integration commonly uses standards such as OAuth and Security Assertion Markup Language. Security teams often align deployments with zero trust principles, which emphasize identity verification and least-privilege access across cloud resources.
The solution category overlaps with secure email gateways, cloud access security brokers, and data loss prevention tools. Unlike gateway-based products that sit in the mail flow, API-based cloud email security operates inside the platform, which affects deployment timelines and visibility into internal messages. Buyers typically evaluate these options based on coverage of the specific software-as-a-service applications in use, detection methods, and administrative overhead.
Email remains a common channel for phishing and business email compromise, and collaboration tools have expanded the exposure surface for file-based malware and unintended data sharing. Security and compliance teams use these capabilities to support regulatory obligations, incident response workflows, and monitoring of cloud application activity.
Avanan operates within the information technology sector, in software and services, IT services, and internet services and infrastructure. Its current solution areas center on cloud email security, collaboration application protection, and software-as-a-service security. Check Point Software Technologies acquired the company and has since integrated its offerings into its broader cloud security portfolio.
Our description of Avanan. Updated October 2026.
