Hornetsecurity

Hornetsecurity GmbH in Hanover comes at endpoint security from the direction most compromises actually take: the inbox. The product set is built around Microsoft 365 — email filtering, advanced threat protection, backup for mailboxes and SharePoint, security awareness training and permission management — rather than around an agent on the laptop.

Listing it here needs the caveat stated plainly: it is not an endpoint anti-malware suite and will not replace ESET or Bitdefender on your machines. It sits in front of them, and for many organisations it prevents more incidents than the endpoint agent ever will, because phishing and business email compromise do not arrive as files to be scanned. Pricing is quoted per seat through partners, and the whole proposition assumes you are on Microsoft 365, which makes it either a perfect fit or irrelevant.

What Hornetsecurity does well

• Aimed at where compromise actually starts, which is email
• Backup, awareness training and permission management alongside filtering
• German company, EU processing, ISO 27001
• Deep Microsoft 365 integration

Where Hornetsecurity falls short

• Not endpoint anti-malware; it complements rather than replaces it
• Only relevant if you run Microsoft 365
• Quoted pricing through partners

Standout feature. It guards the door the attackers use: for most organisations the inbox compromises more machines than the machines do.