Guardz debuts with cybersecurity-as-a-service for small businesses

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Guardz, a Tel Aviv-based startup promising a broad range of out-of-the-box cybersecurity solutions for small and medium-size businesses (SMBs), has announced both a successful $10 million round of seed funding and the broad availability of its flagship product.

The premise of the company’s main offering is tight API integration with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Guardz automatically enrolls all user accounts upon activation, and monitors risk posture, performs threat detection on all monitored accounts and devices, and offers one-click remediation for some threats.

Guardz provides email scanning, endpoint security, identity management, browser filtering, cloud application security and awareness and training programs for users, the company said. The product is managed from a central dashboard, providing visibility into the various individual security services it provides.

Guardz pricing aims to attract SMBs

The product’s suitability for SMB use is mainly in the pricing — there’s a free “Essentials” tier that can be used to detect risk across an organization’s digital assets and provide what Guardz, in an email, described as a…

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