Guardz Email Protection + Awareness Training

Most email security tools either sit in front of the mail flow as an MX-record gateway (which means changing DNS and re-routing every customer's mail) or run as a separate awareness-training product with no signal-sharing back to detection. Guardz Email Protection does neither. It is API-based — Check Point Harmony Email, formerly known as Avanan — and it inspects mail post-delivery inside the Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace tenant. No MX changes, no broken outbound flow, and the platform can pull a malicious message back out of the inbox after delivery.

The awareness training and phishing simulation modules sit on the same platform as the detection. Run a simulation, see which users clicked, feed those users into a targeted training queue, and correlate against the real phishing attempts the detection layer has been catching for the same users. That feedback loop is the difference between awareness training as a checkbox and awareness training as a signal source.

For Australian MSPs replacing Avanan plus a separate awareness vendor (KnowBe4, Hoxhunt or similar) with one bill, this is the consolidation pitch. For MSPs whose SMB clients have never had awareness training at all, the integrated approach gets them moving without a separate procurement conversation.