Area 1 Security, a cloud email security company, has launched a North American partner program for MSPs, VARs and solution providers. The program enables channel partners to offer Area 1 security solutions that protect against business email compromise (BEC), credential harvesting, ransomware and other threats that secure email gateways (SEGs) sometimes miss.Key features of Area 1's partner program include:Pay-per-phish pricing model Joint/co-sell go-to-market strategies Sales and technical enablement Optiv, Guidepoint, Sada and Synnex (among others) have already joined the Area 1 partner ecosystem. In addition, Area 1 has launched a partner community in combination with its partner program.Email: Guards against phishing attacks that use cloud-based mail transfer agents or cloud APIs/connectors. Network: Guards against phishing attacks that can shut down an organization's network. Web: Guard against phishing attacks that use a globally distributed, recursive DNS service. Furthermore, Horizon provides preemptive discovery of phishing infrastructure via web crawling, link crawls, sandboxing, user impersonation and computer vision-based detections, Area 1 stated. Horizon also detects ransomware, malware, spoofs, BEC messages and other types of phishing attacks.