advact is an email-security platform from advact AG in Bern, Switzerland. Its modules cover phishing simulations for staff with recurring seasons and personal challenges, a report button in Outlook that sends suspicious emails for analysis, evaluations of the resulting patterns, short security-awareness lessons, and Extract, an email filter for Microsoft 365 whose rules customers can inspect. According to the vendor, its analysts adjust the filter rules several times a day and the filtering software is developed in Switzerland. The service is delivered as a hosted service.
advact AG is headquartered in Switzerland, and its website names no foreign parent. Switzerland is not an EU member but an EFTA country, and the EU has recognised its data protection level through an adequacy decision. The vendor states that services, teams and data remain in Switzerland and that Extract is hosted there. Its privacy policy applies Swiss data protection law and, where applicable, the GDPR. For a European organisation this means processing under Swiss jurisdiction; check the data processing agreement and the subprocessors involved.