SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Agari, the leading provider of real-time, data-driven security solutions that detect and prevent advanced email cyberattacks, and Neustar Inc., a trusted, neutral provider of real-time information services and analytics, today announced the two leading security firms are partnering to give customers the highest level of domain security possible in the current climate of targeted and sophisticated cyberattacks. The partnership provides the industry’s first-ever collaborative domain protection solution for customers, combining the power of the Agari PRO solution with Neustar’s UltraDNS offering. The two services will reinforce one another to provide even stronger domain security and protection than using each product individually.
With the steady drumbeat of sophisticated and high-volume email-borne cyberattacks and the large number of DDoS attacks against companies, the combination of Agari and Neustar is an unprecedented collaboration of email and domain industry expertise aimed at turning the tide against intelligent, highly technical cybercriminals costing billions annually in global economic activity.
In joining forces, Agari and Neustar can give their customers unequaled visibility and protection against criminals impersonating a brand’s domain to trick consumers into opening spoofed email. Because Agari has turned more than 2 billion email inboxes into a global, real-time threat detection network, it can provide clear visibility and protection into this highly prevalent type of domain abuse, benefiting Neustar UltraDNS customers.
“This partnership is a natural collaboration for Agari and Neustar and a clear advantage for our customers. Neustar, with UltraDNS, provides top-notch domain security and protection, and Agari’s solutions ensure that emails purporting to come from an UltraDNS domain are legitimate and trusted,” said Patrick Peterson, CEO and founder of Agari. “Combining the best-in-class cybersecurity solutions from Agari and Neustar marks another milestone in the development of the Agari Trust Network and the fight against the ongoing and relentless threat of cyberattacks.”
The collaboration between Agari and Neustar comes on the heels of the launch of the Agari Trust Network, a partner program designed to put an end to cybercrime. The Agari Trust Network enables partners to expand and enhance the cybersecurity ecosystem by creating a global, connected community of worldwide brands, mail providers and technology partners to gain an unprecedented level of visibility and protection against email-based cyberattacks.
Among the benefits for customers of the Agari Trust Network are preventing phishing attacks against their consumers, providing global visibility into their email ecosystem, and offering protection from email-based brand and domain abuse. Given the unique approach Agari has taken, partners and clients gain access to real-time threat intelligence never before available.
“Neustar is committed to providing our customers with services to secure their digital experience, including their web sites, APIs, mobile apps and email,” said Reynold Harbin, vice president, Product Management at Neustar. “The partnership with Agari allows us to offer customers the visibility of showing how their domains are being used in phishing attacks, and the ability to protect end-users from those phishing attacks.”
As a founding member of DMARC.org and contributing author of the open standard DMARC that is the foundation of its solution, Agari helps companies combat the crippling business threats of cyberattacks. Agari PRO is a cloud-based SaaS solution, with no software to install, providing real-time infrastructure and abuse alerts, global and instantaneous visibility into email-based domain abuse, as well as eliminating domain impersonation via the primary attack vector that is email.
Agari PRO detects non-authorized uses of domains and IP addresses (mail servers) that are acting suspiciously after being compromised or misconfigured, and then provides Neustar an unmatched and unique early warning of suspicious IP addresses. Agari’s real-time global threat feed also gives Neustar unique domain/brand/email abuse data that can be cross-referenced with existing and new services. Both Agari and Neustar will be collaborating and sharing attack data with one another so each can defend and protect their customers in a far more real-time and robust manner.
The Agari and Neustar partnership is a natural extension of the Agari Trust Network, a growing ecosystem of leading infrastructure and security solution providers coming together to offer best-in-class analytics and security solutions that help global brands eliminate email cyberattacks, protect customers and their personal data, and preserve brand reputation.
About Agari
Agari builds disruptive, Internet-scale, data-driven security solutions that eliminate email as a channel for cyberattacks and enable businesses and consumers to interact safely, and is leading an ever-growing coalition of security partners to help fix email for good. The Agari cloud-based SaaS solution aggregates data from 2.5 billion mailboxes to help global brands eliminate email threats, protect customers and their personal data, and proactively guard brand reputation. Today, Agari analyzes over 6 billion messages per day, identifies over 2 million malicious URLs per month, and blocks over 200 million malicious emails per month. Founded by the thought leaders behind Cisco’s IronPort solutions, Agari, a recipient of the JPMorgan Chase Hall of Innovation Award and recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor in Security, is backed by Alloy Ventures, Battery Ventures, First Round Capital, Greylock Partners and Scale Venture Partners.
Agari is headquartered in San Mateo, California. Learn more at www.agari.com and follow us on Twitter @agariinc.
About Neustar
Neustar, Inc. (NYSE:NSR) is the first real-time provider of cloud-based information services and data analytics, enabling marketing and IT security professionals to promote and protect their businesses. With a commitment to privacy and neutrality, Neustar operates complex data registries and uses its expertise to deliver actionable, data-driven insights that help clients make high-value business decisions in real time, one customer interaction at a time. More information is available at www.neustar.biz.
