Two brothers took a security idea from the intelligence world and put it inside everyday email. Their wager: a file should carry its own rules, wherever it travels.
The Florida email-security company found a way to sell the cloud through people. Its $275 million sale tells a story about spam filters, small IT shops, and the price of being useful.
Paubox built a healthcare security business around a simple observation: if protection depends on remembering a button, somebody will forget. Its answer was to make the ordinary inbox do the safe thing automatically.

The Echoworx chief marketing officer has spent years turning an invisible technology into a human proposition: trust should be easy to use, simple to explain and difficult to break.
Most security software asks people to change. Echoworx built its business around changing the route instead - and one insurer's 3% TLS gap shows why that matters.
Trustifi is a cloud-based, AI-driven email security company that protects organizations from phishing, business email compromise, data leaks and compliance failures. Its one-stack platform pairs Inbound Shield threat detection with Outbound Shield one-click encryption and One-Click Compliance, making enterprise-grade email protection simple enough for small businesses and the managed service providers that serve them. Founded by Rom Hendler and Idan Udi Edry, the company raised a $25M Series A in 2025 to scale its channel-first, AI-powered platform.