Ironscales
Ironscales’ adaptive AI and crowd-sourced intelligence work around the clock to detect, block, and remediate phishing, BEC, and ransomware threats. Together, these solutions give you complete confidence in every email that enters, and leaves, your organisation.
Some of our benefits:
- Proactive Threat Detection
- Real-time feedback
- Smarter Security That Learns
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Prevent, and neutralise even the most convincing phishing, BEC, and ransomware threats.
About Ironscales
Email is the Universal Communication Hub
Despite the rise of Slack, Teams, and other messaging platforms, email remains the backbone of professional and personal communication. However the days of easily spotted "Nigerian prince" scams are largely over. Today's threats are advanced and convincing.
Business Email Compromise (BEC) / CEO Fraud
This is the top financial threat to businesses today. Attackers impersonate executives (like the CEO or CFO) to trick employees into transferring large sums of money or sending sensitive data. These emails often don't contain malware or links, making them hard for traditional filters to catch.
Phishing and Spear Phishing
Highly targeted emails that appear to come from a trusted source (a colleague, your bank, a vendor). The goal is to steal login credentials, credit card info, or install malware.
Ransomware Delivery
Email is the most common delivery method for ransomware. A single employee clicking on a malicious attachment can encrypt an entire company's network, halting operations and extorting massive payments.
Supply Chain Attacks
Attackers compromise a trusted vendor's email system and then use that access to target all of their customers, exploiting existing trust.
We selected Ironscales as our leading email security solution due to its uniquely adaptive and collaborative approach designed to proactively defend your organisation from the above threats. It effectively merges advanced AI driven automation with a global network of human intelligence, creating a self-learning defense system that continuously improves its response to emerging threats. This powerful technical foundation is enhanced by an integrated phishing reporting mechanism that seamlessly empowers your end users to become active participants in their own security.
A Human and Machine Approach
IronScales Email Protect seamlessly combines automated anti-phishing technologies with human insights into a single, API-based solution that integrates natively within your Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace environment. This unique fusion provides continuous protection directly in the mailbox, which is the most effective way to stop advanced email attacks.
Key Benefits and Features:
Leverage a powerful combination of AI/ML, natural language processing, and visual scanning to automatically discover, alert, and remediate advanced threats.
Feature
Protect
Email Protect
Complete Protect
Adaptive AI
Dynamic machine learning combined with crowdsourced intelligence
Advanced Threat Detection
Multi mode AI stops phishing, BEC, and impersonation attacks before they reach your inbox
Continuous Mailbox Behavioral Analysis
Monitor and analyse email behavior patterns in real time to detect anomalies and potential threats
Adaptive AI Spam Hygiene
Block unwanted emails and gray mail in real time with AI driven filtering that continuously learns and adapts to user preferences and evolving spam tactics
Domain Lookalike Detection
Automatically identify and block phishing attempts from domains that closely resemble trusted ones, preventing credential theft and fraud
BEC and Impersonation Protection
Automatically detect and block Business Email Compromise (BEC) and impersonation attempts
QR Code Attack Protection
Defend against QR code phishing threats with multi modal AI that scans embedded URLs for malicious activity
Generative AI Attack Protection
Block phishing emails created with generative AI using adaptive detection that evolves with emerging threats
Continuous URL Scanning
Ensure every link in every email is inspected for current or time delayed threats
Malicious File Scanning
Automatically analyse and block harmful attachments in emails, preventing the spread of malware and ransomware
Account Takeover Protection
Detect unauthorised access attempts to Microsoft user accounts to prevent data breaches, internal BEC attacks, and ransomware.
Microsoft Teams Protection
Phishing Simulation Testing
Simulate phishing attacks with GenAI to improve employee awareness.
4 Per Year
Unlimited
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Dynamic Email Alert Banners
Customisable alert banners in emails highlight potential threats, providing visual warnings and enhancing user awareness and security
Report Phishing Button
Easily report suspicious emails with 1-click.
Crowdsourced Threat Intelligence
Leverage real time insights from a global network of security experts to enhance threat detection and stay ahead of emerging email attacks
GPT-Powered Spear Phishing
Uses GPT to create personalized phishing simulations for each of your employees
Is Your Secure Email Gateway (SEG) Leaving You Exposed?
Use the tools below to audit your current email security posture and uncover the sophisticated threats that traditional providers often miss.
A Risk Calculator Based on Our Customers that Also Use a SEG. They use the same thing you use, but with IRONSCALES (that's us) caught what they missed. Use their data to calculate your risks.
Why DMARC is the "Missing Link" in Your Perimeter.
While a Secure Email Gateway (SEG) filters incoming threats, DMARC protects your outgoing reputation. This video explains why integrating DMARC is the most effective way to eliminate brand impersonation and Business Email Compromise (BEC).
Frequently Asked Questions
What is DMARC?
DMARC stands for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance and is an email authentication protocol. DMARC gives email domain owners the ability to protect their domain from unauthorised use. DMARC empowers an organisation to assert the authenticity of their legitimate email, leaving the illegitimate email easily identifiable as spam, thereby improving email security.
If I have anti-spam tools, do I really need DMARC?
Anti-spam tools may prevent spam emails from getting into inboxes, but it cannot stop someone from impersonating your domain and sending malicious emails as if they are from your business. DMARC tools can be used alongside anti-spam tools.
What is domain impersonation?
Domain impersonation is also known as phishing. It is when an unauthorised party gets access to your domain, and can send and receive email as if it is from your organisation. By impersonating your domain, they can get access to sensitive data and possibly solicit funds by sending fraudulent invoices, which contain their banking details.
What is the risk of domain impersonation to my organisation?
Whether you’re an SME or a large multinational company, the risks of being victim to a phishing attack have never been higher, as criminals – and technology – become more sophisticated.
Phishing attacks can result in severe financial consequences.
While the financial consequences are enough cause for concern, there can also be long term impact to your business:
Brand damage. A phishing attack on your domain can result in severe reputational damage to your brand – even though you had nothing to do with the attack. If your company domain is used to send fraudulent phishing emails, victims may associate your domain with the fraud in question. Especially if you’re in a competitive industry, undoing this association can be challenging. Brand is delivering viruses, malware and ransomware to your domain.
Ramifications for executives. If you’re an executive in a company who falls victim to such an attack, you may have to go to court, face the media or even lose your job as the person who was responsible for the damage that resulted.
Less room for plausible deniability. When phishing first became a threat several years ago, company executives could claim that there was nothing they could have done to prevent such attacks, as they didn’t know the risks. Now that DMARC is fast becoming accepted as a global best practice, where you can see the phishing attacks happening in real time from your email addresses – as an executive you’re compelled to do something about it.
Risks to customers. Protecting your domain is not just about your own company security – it’s about protecting your customers’ data too. Should your domain come under threat, there’s a very real chance that your customers could be affected too, which in turn could cause serious damage to your brand. As a corporate citizen, securing your domain is therefore the responsible thing to do.
Is DMARC only for large companies?
No – DMARC adoption is for any responsible business, whether it is a small business, an SME or large corporate/ enterprise.
How does DMARC work?
DMARC allows an organisation to publish a policy that defines its email authentication practices and provides instructions to receiving mail servers for how to enforce them. Publishing is as simple and straightforward as a few DNS entries:
Sender Policy Framework (SPF)
DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM)
Domain-based Message Authentication,
Reporting and Conformance (DMARC)
The DMARC email validation system works as follows:
The domain administrator publishes a policy defining its email authentication practices and how receiving mail servers should handle mail that violates the policy.
When the inbound mail server gets an incoming email, it uses DNS to look up the DMARC policy
Depending on whether the incoming mail meets the provisions of the DMARC policy or not, the email will either be delivered, or disposed of. The receiving mail server will report the outcome of the sending domain owner.
How much does a DMARC solution cost?
As the requirements for each organisation are unique, please complete our enquiry form and one of our expert consultants will contact you about the best DMARC service provider in South Africa.
Is your DMARC solution available outside South Africa?
Currently our DMARC service is only available to our South African customers.
How is a Saicom managed email service different from the basic security built into Office 365 or Google Workspace?
While platforms like Microsoft and Google provide a good foundational layer of security, they are largely designed to stop known, widespread threats. Our managed service acts as a specialised, expert security team that complements these built-in tools. We focus on the sophisticated, evolving threats that slip past standard filters such as targeted spear-phishing, business email compromise (BEC), and socially engineered attacks. We provide 24/7 monitoring, real-time threat hunting, and immediate human led response to neutralise threats, a critical capability most native solutions lack.
What happens when an employee reports a suspicious email?
The moment an employee reports a suspicious email using the simple "Report Phish" button in their inbox, our integrated system springs into action. The reported email is automatically analysed by our AI-powered platform and your very own admin. If confirmed as malicious, the threat is not only quarantined for that user but is also automatically hunted and removed from the inboxes of all other employees across your organisation, stopping the attack in its tracks within minutes.
We already have a secure email gateway (SEG). Why do we need your additional service?
Traditional Secure Email Gateways are old school and only effective as a first line of defence, but they operate at the perimeter. Today, a significant number of advanced attacks are designed to bypass these gateways entirely. Our service provides a crucial layer of defence. We specialise in post delivery protection, meaning we find and stop the threats that have already made it past your SEG. This multi layered approach combining your gateway with our managed detection and response significantly closes your security gaps and reduces the risk of a successful breach. In most cases we see our customers eventually removing these legacy SEG’s with our modernised based AI service.
How does our service help with employee security awareness?
We believe your employees are your last line of defence, and we empower them to be a powerful part of your security strategy. Beyond just training, our platform turns every employee into an active sensor. The seamless reporting button facilitates real world practice in identifying threats. Furthermore, when we detect a simulated phishing campaign or a real threat, we can deliver immediate, contextualised training directly to the user's browser at the "teachable moment." This reinforces learning and measurably improves your organisation's human firewall over time.