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Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform Overview

What is Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform?

Cloudflare Area 1 is a cloud-native email security platform that identifies and blocks attacks before they hit user inboxes, enabling more effective protection against spear phishing, Business Email Compromise, and other advanced threats that evade existing defenses. Area 1 enhances built-in security from cloud email providers with deep integrations into Microsoft and Google environments and workflows. Area 1 is part of the Cloudflare Zero Trust services portfolio. Learn more at https://www.cloudflare.com/products/zero-trust/email-security/.

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Product Description

Cloudflare Area 1 Security identifies and prevents advanced socially engineered attacks before they impact your enterprise.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Preemptive: Area 1 identifies attacker infrastructure and delivery mechanisms ahead of time to stop phishing at the earliest stages of the attack cycle.

Comprehensive: Area 1 covers the full range of email attack types (URLs, payloads, BEC), vectors (email, web, network), and attack channels (external, internal, trusted partners).

Contextual: Area 1 leverages advanced detection techniques (language analysis, computer vision, social graphing, etc.) to catch BEC, vendor email fraud, and other payloadless threats.

Continuous: As part of the Cloudflare Zero Trust platform, Area 1 assumes defense-in-depth with threat protection layers before, during, and after an email hits the inbox.


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Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business. Powered by one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks, Cloudflare blocks billions of threats online for its customers every day. It is trusted by millions of organizations – from the largest brands to entrepreneurs and small businesses to nonprofits, humanitarian groups, and governments across the globe.


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Every attack has a launch point, whether that’s an email address, IP address, URL, or domain. Using a combination of high-speed web crawling and small pattern analytics, Area 1 Security preemptively identifies campaign events and discovers these launch points in advance of the campaign going acti...
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What do you like best about Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform?

The ease of setup and zero service interruption for my team. I did not have to push any changes or software to any systems. and best of all It covers the users on any device! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform?

There were some challenges on bulk loading people into to the filters for trusted senders Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?

Like all things in security, it is important to have layers of protection. This tool has allowed us to filter out many messages which were missed by other tools and allows for the easy alerting of IT when an staff member belives they have a phishing email. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Christina Warner of Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform

Hi Jason,

Thank you so much for your amazing review and feedback! We are so lucky to have customers like you, and we are so pleased to hear that you are enjoying your experiences with us. Thank you so much!

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What do you like best about Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform?

Being able to search email detection's and blocking sender's. The multi-tenant portal is also extremely helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform?

It would be nice if I could see the GSuite/O365 quarantine from the console. But that is a stretch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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I think Area 1 is an extremely versatile email security tool. I have been working with them for a couple years now and the capabilities and ease of use has gotten better as time goes on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have seen a drastic decrease in malicious/spam/spoof emails actually making it to a user's inbox. Reducing the risk of a user falling for a phish. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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effectiveness, its really good at stopping phish, new and improved dashbodrd Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform?

deploy interactive banners so users can interact realtime with emails and risks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?

Block the amount of phish and BEC in the environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Christina Warner of Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform

Thank you so much for sharing your feedback. We're glad to hear that we've exceeded your expectations. Your review has given us valuable insight into the services that we provide, and also help us shape our future product enhancements. We've taken back your feedback on the dashboard. Stay tuned for exciting new product enhancements and features.

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The process to set this up was seamless! The people involved definitely made me an EASY Button for the best experience ever! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform?

Can't think of a thing, since the group I was working with made everything simple! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform:

Be sure to check out the Phishing Queen's blog, wonderful content! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?

My phishing worries are over. This is an excellent product that helps me sleep well knowing it is covering us! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Christina Warner of Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform

Hi Lydia,

Thank you so much for the 5 star review and for taking the time to share your feedback. We are incredibly grateful for you and we appreciate you being a partner. Thank you!

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Multiple Rules on the UI for authentication, In built list of identity providers. And since ours is a startup environment we are taking advantage of their free tier plan Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform?

So far nothing. Its been a great experience and especially since we are using cloudflare for DNS management this was another good option for that additional security layer wrt end users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?

IT team - Robust control

Clients - providing secure access to use our software product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform?

Ease of integration and setup is probably the strongest part of the Area1 platform. I'd used their competitor P********T and not only was it a pain to setup it simply failed to prevent as advertised. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform?

There's not a lot to dislike; improvements are made pretty consistently to the platform and capabilities. So far, every feature sold to us, actually works unlike our last vendor Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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From a product quality standpoint, it's hard-pressed to find a comparable vendor that delivers at the price point Area1 Delivers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am minimizing external threats through areas of higher risk. So far *knock on wood* no BEC / phishing issues. I expect that will continue to be the case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Christina Warner of Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform

Thank you for the great feedback. We are so glad to hear that you are enjoying working with us. We pride ourselves on providing the best BEC/phishing protection. Thank you!

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It was easy to implement in to our existing email security stack, tons of API's! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform?

There's some product enhancement that could be built into the UI, allowing for better sorting of emails based on fields in email headers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform:

I would recommend Area 1 in your existing email security stack if your looking for defense in depth, this tool has been able to find and bring things to light that none of our other tools have been able to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?

The #1 problem we're solving is identifying and stopping emails related to financially motivated threat actors related to fraud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform?

Before implementing, we were investigating phishing incidents between 1 and 3 times per week. After implementing, the number of incidents has been reduced to about 1 per month. We've seen a significant improvement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform?

I know Area 1 is working on it, but I would like to be able to run more thorough investigations within the platform like pulling email headers and being able to see delivered email as it relates to blocked email. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform:

If you're struggling with phishing and BEC in your organization, whether you're using native tools or another specialized product, give this a try. They're great to work with, and their product is priced very competitively. I've used many anti-phishing tools and I've been very happy with this one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?

Phishing and BEC are the number 1 problems we're solving with Area 1, both internally and for our customers. The native capabilities of Gsuite and O365 just aren't there, so having something like Area 1 in place has been a huge benefit to reducing risk and increasing productivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Christina Warner of Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform

Hi Jennifer, Thank you so much for your review and feedback. We greatly appreciate you taking the time to leave us the review. Your feedback is incredibly helpful and will help us improve our services and products. We are always enhancing and innovating our products--so stay tuned for exciting new product features! Thank you again so much!

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What do you like best about Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform?

By far the best thing is being able to closely work with the team, they have very talented people and its always a pleasure to work with them, communication is never an issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform?

Some features were lacking a few months ago but that's being solved as the time passes. Some could use more polishing but that's the same thing, with time and the right feedback all this should be solved in the near future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform:

To give it a fair try and to make sure they communicate their needs and want to the area 1 team so they can best help them ensure this is the right technology for them Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?

Besides the detections around phishing & other malicious activities, one feature that might not be the selling point but its still really useful is the ability to cache the emails if the main provider goes down, that way you don't lose that traffic.

Defanging urls & being able to add a message to the body of the email to ensure proper communications with users is also really nice to have.

For the MSSP side, multi tenant which was added a few months back was and is super helpful and we are glad it was added this fast and that we were able to be amongst the first to try the feature.

And the most recent one, being able to set up new tenants from the console allows us super fast deployments or setups for new POVs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Christina Warner of Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform

Hi David! Thank you for sharing such a detailed and insightful review. Feedback like yours is valued by every team member here. We are always incorporating customer feedback into our product pipeline and innovation, and we're excited to hear that is your experience as well. Our whole team works very hard to keep our customers happy, and we can only do it thanks to amazing customers like you. Thank you!

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What do you like best about Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform?

Area 1 does not only take configuration from the initial setup but also has a great ML feature that can receive .eml files in order to learn more about the type of attacks your company may be targeted by. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform?

Still learning what features that are not available that are needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?

Protecting the company's internal network and the employees we support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Christina Warner of Cloudflare SSE & SASE Platform

Thank you so much for taking the time to share your thoughts and feedback with us! We're glad that you love our ML feature. We hear you on areas of improvement. Please reach out to your customer success team and let us know what features are needed that may not be available. We are constantly improving and enhancing our product. Thank you again!