A year of acceleration, innovation, and strategic transformation
As we close a pivotal year for Olfeo, now Olfeo by Ekinops, it’s the perfect moment to reflect on the milestones that have shaped our journey. In a landscape defined by cloud adoption, SaaS proliferation, and increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, one element has remained central to our mission: delivering high‑quality, actionable data that empowers organizations to secure and optimize their digital environments.
Strengthening visibility in a cloud‑driven world
We began the year by addressing a challenge shared across industries: understanding the behavior and risk level of thousands of SaaS applications flowing through enterprise networks. Our SaaS Application Database continued to expand, offering exhaustive coverage, near‑perfect recognition accuracy, and seamless integration into various software platforms. This enhanced visibility has helped our customers diagnose issues faster, enforce more granular policies, and better understand the cloud services shaping their digital footprint.
As organizations gained clarity on their SaaS usage, another question naturally emerged: how can we classify and secure an ever‑growing volume of web content with the same level of precision? This led us to the next major theme of the year.
AI as a Strategic Engine for Cybersecurity
Artificial intelligence has long been embedded in our classification technologies; we strengthened our models with advanced semantic analysis and deep learning. The result: up to 30% improvement in classification relevance, while maintaining the near‑100% accuracy that defines our database.
Yet one conviction remains unchanged: AI is powerful, but human expertise is essential. Our hybrid approach ensures that every classification is both technically robust and contextually sound, especially in ambiguous or sensitive cases. This synergy between automation and human insight also underpins the next cornerstone of our work: the quality and reliability of our URL classification.
Elevating the Standards of URL Classification
Remember, this year, we highlighted the meticulous work of our classification department, a team dedicated to analyzing domains and subdomains with precision, consistency, and cultural awareness. By combining automated analysis with systematic human validation, we maintain exceptional recognition rates and drastically reduce false positives and false negatives. In a world where a single misclassification can disrupt operations or expose users to risk, this level of rigor is indispensable.
This commitment to quality naturally paved the way for one of the most significant milestones of the year.
A Strategic Alliance to Build Europe’s First Sovereign SASE Offering
A defining moment of 2025 was our integration into Ekinops, a major European technology provider specializing in network connectivity and secure access. Together, we are building the first 100% European SASE offering, combining Ekinops’ network expertise with Olfeo’s leadership in web security, URL classification, and SaaS intelligence.
For our customers, this transition is seamless: products, teams, and support remain unchanged. But our capacity to innovate, scale, and expand internationally has grown significantly. This strengthened foundation also enabled us to address another critical area of cybersecurity: supporting SOC teams in their daily operations.
Supporting SOCs with Actionable Intelligence
As cyber threats multiply, Security Operations Centers face increasing pressure to contextualize alerts and detect weak signals. Our categorized URL database has become a powerful enrichment layer for SOC workflows, enabling faster correlation, more effective threat hunting, and proactive detection of risky domains. With over 100 thematic categories, including legal and high‑risk classifications, our data provides analysts with the context they need to act decisively.
And as SOCs increasingly deal with cloud‑centric threats, the need for deeper SaaS intelligence became clearer than ever.
To conclude
This year, we enriched our SaaS Application Database with an additional layer of insight: a contextual risk scoring dimension designed to help teams better interpret the applications traversing their networks. Rather than introducing a new feature, this enhancement naturally extends the value of our existing metadata and categorization work. By adding a risk indicator, we enable platforms and security teams to more easily identify suspicious or unauthorized applications, prioritize controls, and align network and security policies with business sensitivity. In an environment shaped by shadow IT and cloud sprawl, this added layer transforms raw application data into clearer, more actionable intelligence.
Following our merger with Ekinops, we are committed to expanding our content and expertise to serve a global audience. Our resources now reflect a broader international perspective, designed to address the evolving needs of organizations worldwide.
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