Leading cybersecurity company Egress has been named a finalist at the 2023 UK IT Industry Awards.
The launch of Egress' adaptive security architecture for its Intelligent Email Security platform has led to the Security Innovation of the Year nod, as the company becomes the first cloud email security platform to apply an adaptive security model.
About Egress
“Our long-term view is to secure all channels of communication with a capability to be an intelligence layer that integrates into the Microsoft ecosystem and offers threat intelligence on inbound and outbound communication.” Tony Pepper, Egress CEO & Co-Founder

The only cloud email security platform to use an adaptive security model
As advanced persistent threats continue to evolve, we recognize that people are the biggest risk to organizations’ security and are most vulnerable when using email.
Egress is the only cloud email security platform to continuously assess human risk and dynamically adapt policy controls, preparing customers to defend against advanced phishing attacks and outbound data breaches before they happen. Leveraging contextual machine learning and neural networks, with seamless integration using cloud-native API architecture, Egress provides enhanced email protection, deep visibility into human risk, and instant time to value.
Trusted by the world’s biggest brands, Egress is private equity backed with offices in London, Sheffield, Cheltenham, New York, Boston, and Toronto.
Team spotlights
Egress 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.

Our team
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.
Diversity and Belonging at Egressof our workforce are from BAME backgrounds
(Rising from 14% in the last 5 years)
of our managers identify as female
(Rising from 9% in the last 3 years)
different nationalities represented
(Doubling from 10 in the last 2 years)
Our history

Starting out
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.
Meet our leadership team
Egress Protect launch
We launch our first security solution, Egress Switch.
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 in the UK.
Egress Protect
Series A funding
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. Albion would later fill Egress' Series B funding round as well.

Egress Prevent launch
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.
Egress Prevent
Series C funding
We receive Series C funding totaling $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.
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Egress Defend launch
Egress acquires cutting-edge NCSC Accelerator company Aquilai, an anti-phishing provider with machine learning and natural language processing technology that stops targeted email attacks.
The acquisition sees the launch of Egress Defend, with founder Jack Chapman joining Egress as VP of Threat Intelligence, along with many members of the Aquilai team.
Egress Defend
Adaptive Security launch
Egress announces the launch of adaptive security for its Intelligent Email Security platform.
In the most significant innovation since the creation of Integrated Cloud Email Security, Egress now provides dynamic and automated protection against advanced inbound and outbound threats, transforming the way in which organizations manage human risk on email.
Adaptive SecurityEnvironment, 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 is 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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Watch event on demandOur group companies
We provide our services to our customers through a number of companies within our group. These companies are:
Egress Software Technologies Limited
Registered in England and Wales (registered number 06393598). 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 (registered number 74110462), with its Netherlands address at Herengracht 420, 1017 BZ, The Netherlands.
Egress Software Technologies, Inc. (USA)
A Massachusetts corporation (ID number 001158155). One Marina Park Drive, Suite 1410, Boston, MA 02210, United States. 408 Broadway, New York, NY 10013, United States.
Egress Software Technologies Inc. (Canada)
Registered number 885902-7. 30 Via Renzo Drive, Suite 200, Richmond Hill, ON L4S, 0B8, Canada.
Egress Software Technologies Pty Ltd
ACN 667 428 971. 80 Ann Street, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia.