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About Egress
We eliminate your most complex security challenge: insider risk
What we do
Our mission is to eliminate the most complex cybersecurity challenge every organisation faces: insider risk. We understand that people get hacked, make mistakes, and break the rules. To prevent these human-activated breaches, we have built the only Human Layer Security platform that defends against inbound and outbound threats. Using patented contextual machine learning we detect and prevent abnormal human behaviour such as targeted phishing attacks, misdirected emails, and data exfiltration.
Used by the world’s biggest brands, Egress is private equity backed and has offices in London, New York, and Boston.
Our team
The Egress team brings together decades of experience helping businesses around the world secure their most valuable assets, be that their data, their networks, or their people.
We’re one of the fastest growing tech companies in the security space, and our talented and ambitious workforce has played a huge part in why.
All employees are encouraged to bring their ideas to the table, and our distinctive company culture creates a supportive atmosphere that’s considered our greatest asset. Despite a year of remote working, we’re continuing to grow, and are always on the lookout for new recruits.
Egress' culture is really unique. Everyone's really welcoming and it's so much fun to work here.
Munn-Tzin Bong,
Senior Product Manager
If I had to describe Egress in three words it would be innovative, fun, and sociable.
Darryl Anderson,
Software Developer
What makes Egress different, I would say, 100%, is the people.
James Hinks,
VP Solutions Engineering
What I say to anyone looking to join the business is "do it"
Will Renwick,
Senior Account Executive
Our goal is to build a product that works for everyone, so it is important our workforce includes staff from as wide a pool of talent as possible. We’re proud of the range of experienced people we have in all areas of our business, and the impact their different views and knowledge are having on our products and colleagues around them.
20%
of our workforce are from BAME backgrounds
(Rising from 14% in the last 5 years)
24%
of our managers identify as female
(Rising from 9% in the last 3 years)
21
different nationalities represented
(Doubling from 10 in the last 2 years)
Our key milestones
October 2007
Egress is founded in London, UK, by CEO Tony Pepper, COO Neil Larkins and CSO John Goodyear.
Tony, Neil and John met when working together at Reflex Magnetics, a data security company that was later acquired by Checkpoint Software Technologies. They launched Egress following this success.
March 2010
We launch our first security solution. Now known as Egress Protect, our email encryption software was adopted by a network of local authorities based in London and quickly spread throughout the wider public and corporate sectors.
February 2014
We successfully receive Series A funding of $2.8m from Albion VC, helping to accelerate our rapid growth.
Albion VC partner Ed Lascelles joins the Egress board, where he continues to serve, and uses his expertise to help us transition from start-up to scale-up.
March 2016
We launch the product now known as Egress Prevent, which ensures emails and attachments are sent to the right people, mitigates spear phishing, and applies appropriate protection to sensitive data.
This innovation creates a new category of security technology: human layer security, which uses intelligent machine learning to prevent insider data breaches.
December 2018
We receive Series C funding totalling $40m from FTV Capital and Albion VC. This investment starts a period of hyper-growth for Egress.
Kyle Griswold, Partner at FTV Capital, joins the Egress board to help steer the direction of this new growth.
What our customers say
Egress Prevent runs content analysis on all our email attachments, ensuring the right files go to the right recipients. This helps us offer security and assurance to our clients.
We needed something universal, that encrypts emails, that everyone could be a part of, and that didn’t require us to change our email system. We were also looking for a new FTP site. Finding a system that delivered both made me look like an all-star,
The partnership with Egress will continue to build on the security of NHSmail, delivering an effective user experience, supporting security and compliance with GDPR with detailed auditing and reporting.
Egress Protect can be deployed based upon our individual security policies – it can scan email content and prompt a user to encrypt based on whether key terms are being used.
From day one, security has remained Crowe UK’s top priority when it comes to a protecting sensitive data via a file sharing solution.
We’re an award-winning company that creates award-winning products
Environment, Social & Governance
Investing in initiatives that both Egress as a whole, and our staff, are passionate about has been an important part of our growth. Here are a selection of some of the ways we’re supporting issues such as environmental impact, diversity and equality, fair employment practices, and our local communities.
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Insider Data Breach Survey 2021
Your people make choices every day. The links they click, the mistakes they make, and the rules they break damage your organization.
Our latest report showcases real-world stories and statistics to help you understand the real risk to your business.
Download the free research report to discover:
- Why people get hacked
- Why people make mistakes
- Why people break the rules
Our group companies
We provide our services to our customers through a number of companies within our group. These companies are:
- Egress Software Technologies Limited
12th Floor, White Collar Factory, 1 Old Street Yard, London, EC1Y 8AF, United Kingdom. This company is also registered as a foreign company on the Dutch Chamber of Commerce, with its Netherlands address at Oval Tower, De Entrée 99-19, Amsterdam, 1101 HE, The Netherlands. - Egress Software Technologies Inc (USA)
Suite 2, Level 3, 268 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210, United States.
Floor 4, 148 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10013, United States. - Egress Software Technologies Inc (Canada)
Suite A304, 11685 Yonge Street Richmond Hill, L4E 0K7, Ontario, Canada.