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Who is Avanan?
Avanan is a cloud-native email and collaboration security provider that integrates directly with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms to prevent phishing, malware, data loss, and account compromise for enterprise environments.
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- Cloud-native email security for cloud email providers (email security)
- Protection for collaboration platforms such as file-sharing and messaging tools (collaboration security)
- API-based integration that connects inside the cloud tenant rather than routing traffic through a secure email gateway (cloud security)
- Anti-phishing, malware detection, and account takeover prevention using policy-based controls and scanning engines (threat protection)
- Management console for policy configuration, incident response, and reporting across protected cloud services (security operations)
More About Avanan
Avanan provides security controls for cloud-hosted email and collaboration platforms, with a deployment model that connects into the customer’s existing SaaS tenants. Enterprises use Avanan to inspect inbound, outbound, and internal communications for phishing attempts, malware, malicious links, and policy violations, with an emphasis on protecting cloud email accounts and associated collaboration tools.
The platform operates through API-level integration with supported email and collaboration services, instead of acting as a traditional inline secure email gateway. By integrating directly into the cloud tenant, Avanan analyzes messages and shared content after they reach the provider environment but before users interact with them. This architecture is intended to address attacks that bypass perimeter filtering and to provide coverage for internal mail flow and file sharing across users and groups.
From a technology standpoint, Avanan combines threat detection engines, reputation and URL analysis, file and attachment scanning, and heuristic or behavioral techniques to identify phishing, malware, and account takeover patterns (threat protection). Administrators can define policies that govern how suspicious messages are handled, such as quarantine, inline blocking, warning banners, or user-level remediation. The system also supports automated incident response workflows for messages that are later reclassified as malicious, enabling post-delivery removal across user mailboxes.
For collaboration platforms, Avanan extends similar inspection to shared files, links, and messages, scanning for malware, known-bad URLs, and sensitive data exposure. This is positioned for organizations that rely on cloud document storage and team messaging and that require controls aligned with email security policies. The unified console presents alerts, dashboards, and reporting to security and IT teams, allowing centralized management across multiple SaaS services.
In marketplace and taxonomy terms, Avanan aligns with cloud email security and collaboration security categories, often grouped alongside API-based email security and cloud access security controls. It is used in conjunction with, or as an alternative to, traditional secure email gateways, particularly in environments that have standardized on cloud-based productivity suites and seek in-tenant security inspection and automated response.
Our description of Avanan. Updated December 2025.
