API deployment

When you choose an API deployment for your Area 1 setup, email messages only reach Area 1 after they have already reached a user’s inbox.

Then, through on integrations with your email provider, Area 1 can retract messages based on your organization’s policies.

​​ Benefits

When you choose API deployment, you get the following benefits:

• Easy protection for complex email architectures, without requiring any change to mailflow operations.
• Agentless deployment for Microsoft 365 and Gmail.
• The initial email protection measures offered by your current email provider.

​​ Limitations

However, API deployment also has the following disadvantages:

• Area 1 is dependent on your email provider’s API infrastructure and outages will increase the message dwell time in the inbox.
• Area 1 requires read and write access to mailboxes.
• Requires API support from your email provider (does not typically support on-premise providers).
• Your email provider may throttle API requests from Area 1.
• Detection rates may be lower if multiple solutions exist.
• Messages cannot be modified or quarantined.
• Certain URL rewrite schemes cannot be decoded (for example, Mimecast).

​​ Get started

For help getting started, refer to our setup guides.