Case Study: Area 1 Security achieves early detection and prevention of targeted phishing with Google Cloud Platform

Area 1 Security Preempting phishing attacks

Area 1 Security, founded by experts in security and big-data analytics, delivers a proactive anti-phishing service that stops targeted campaigns in their earliest stages. The company must analyze massive telemetry—sensors across the internet, a crawler that spiders up to 6 billion URLs per month, more than 3 billion events daily and a roughly 3 PB attack data warehouse—to detect the small patterns that signal emerging phishing attacks.

By building its platform on Google Cloud Platform and using Cloud Storage, Dataflow, BigQuery, and Bigtable, Area 1 ingests and analyzes huge data streams at scale, getting query results in 30–60 seconds and surfacing millions of phishing events. The solution protects customers across email, web, and network vectors, reduces operational overhead, saves years of engineering effort, and enables decisive, rapid action to stop attacks before they cause damage.

Area 1 Security

Phil Syme

Chief Technology Officer