Today, LibraCyber begins
A letter from our CEO on the launch of LibraCyber — and why human-centric, privacy-first cybersecurity is Europe’s moment.
Twenty-five years ago, I was a mechanical engineer designing medical devices by day and writing anti-spam code by night. I had no idea where email security would take me — only that the problem was real, and it was getting worse. In May 2010, a small company from Lecco with a single employee placed third in a Virus Bulletin global comparative test, ahead of Fortinet, Symantec, McAfee, Cisco and IBM. That was the moment the fog lifted. Three years later, Libraesva was born.
Today, another fog lifts. Libraesva and Cyber Guru have come together to form LibraCyber — and I am proud to lead it as CEO.
Why now, and why together
Libraesva built its reputation on protecting the inbox. Cyber Guru, founded in Rome by Gianni Baroni in 2017, built theirs on changing behaviour — helping people become the strongest layer of defence instead of the weakest. For years, we worked adjacent to each other. For years, something was missing on both sides.
At Libraesva, our phishing-testing product worked beautifully on the testing side, but awareness and training were never our craft. Cyber Guru’s adaptive, AI-powered learning approach was unlike anything I had seen. Put the two together and the picture becomes complete: we protect users in real time from external threats, we protect brands through DMARC, and we equip every person inside an organisation with the judgement to spot what slips through. Human risk, finally, at the centre of the technology meant to defend against it.
What makes us different
In a market dominated by US giants, the question I get most often is: what is actually different about LibraCyber? The answer is not that we are Italian — both companies have always operated far beyond our borders. It is what being European brings with it: a serious, uncompromising approach to data sovereignty.
Our AI models are deployed locally, directly on the customer’s appliance. Emails never leave the customer’s tenant. No data is sent to OpenAI, Microsoft or Google for analysis. We use small, specialised, proprietary models built for the job. In a world where geopolitics can reshape a contract overnight, that is not a marketing line — it is an architectural choice, and one the market is increasingly asking for. At RSAC this year, “privacy first” moved from European talking point to global selling point. We have been building toward it for a decade.
The threat we are actually fighting
Modern security is not about blocking known threats. That is the easy part. The work is blocking what you have not seen yet — because the other side is not a handful of amateurs. It is an industry, with profit margins, AI pipelines, deepfake video and voice cloning. Anyone can fall for it. I did, once, clicking on a link in a message I thought was from my daughter.
The next frontier is agentic AI: autonomous systems that plan phishing campaigns, find recipients and coordinate with each other without a human in the loop. We are already responding with agents of our own — ten of them, analysing around 15,000 sample emails a day from customers and producing detailed reports in minutes. The same tools are available to attackers. That is precisely why people, trained and supported, remain the decisive layer.
What changes for our customers
Nothing you rely on today goes away. Your products, your contracts, the people who know your environment — all of it continues. What changes is what becomes available to you: a single platform spanning secure email, secure people and a secure organisation, built around one idea.
Where we are going
LibraCyber starts with thousands of customers across five continents, recognition in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Email Security and a place on the Frost Radar. But we start, above all, with a clear conviction: the cybersecurity of the future will not be won by technology alone. It will be won by educating, training and protecting people — the privacy-first way.
Europe is looking for its digital sovereignty. We intend to be part of the answer.
— Paolo Frizzi, CEO, LibraCyber
