Spotlight Feature | Ironscales: Modern Email Security Built For How Attacks Actually Happen
Email remains the primary entry point for cyber attacks. Business email compromise, credential harvesting, impersonation, and socially engineered phishing now account for a large share of security incidents across all sectors. IRONSCALES is an email security platform designed specifically to address this reality. It protects organisations against advanced email threats that bypass traditional secure email gateways by combining adaptive artificial intelligence, real human intelligence, and employee engagement.
IRONSCALES is best suited for organisations that rely heavily on email and collaboration platforms such as Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace. This includes government, education, healthcare, and mid to large enterprises that face high volumes of targeted phishing, impersonation, and account takeover attempts. The platform focuses not just on detecting threats, but on reducing risk across technology, people, and process.
The Human Element
A defining strength of IRONSCALES is its built-in human intelligence layer. Instead of relying only on algorithms, the platform incorporates feedback from a global network of more than 30,000 security analysts and threat hunters. When new phishing attacks are identified by any customer, that intelligence is rapidly shared across the platform, strengthening protection for all users.
This human reinforced model allows IRONSCALES to adapt quickly to emerging threats, including zero-day phishing campaigns and novel social engineering techniques. It also reduces false positives by validating AI decisions with real world analyst insight. Employees play a role as well, using one click reporting and in mailbox guidance to surface suspicious messages and contribute to collective defence.
Highlight Features:
- Global network of 30,000 plus security analysts and threat hunters continuously feeds real world phishing intelligence into the platform
- Human validated threat reporting accelerates detection of zero day and never before seen phishing attacks
- Employee reporting actions strengthen collective defence and reduce false positives through real time feedback
Phishing Simulation Testing
IRONSCALES includes integrated phishing simulation testing to measure and improve employee resilience. Organisations can run realistic, controlled phishing campaigns that mirror current attacker techniques without additional tools or platforms. Campaigns can be tailored by role, risk profile, or past behaviour, making simulations relevant rather than generic.
The platform tracks how users respond, including who opens, clicks, reports, or ignores simulated attacks. These insights help security teams identify high-risk behaviours, target training, and demonstrate measurable improvement over time. Automated scheduling, recommended campaigns, and simplified reporting make phishing testing easy to run continuously, not just once a year.
Highlight Features:
- Realistic simulations aligned to current phishing techniques and threat data
- Clear performance insights that identify risky user behaviour
- Automated campaign management with segmentation and reporting
Adaptive Artificial Intelligence
At the core of IRONSCALES is Adaptive AI, a self-learning system that builds a behavioural baseline for every user, mailbox, and communication pattern. Rather than relying on static rules or known threat signatures, the platform learns how people normally communicate and flags meaningful deviations.
IRONSCALES uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) to analyse email content for context, intent, and subtle language cues. This allows it to detect tone shifts, impersonation attempts, and social engineering signals that traditional filters often miss. The AI continuously improves through feedback from the human threat network, creating a closed loop between machine learning and real-world intelligence.
Highlight Features:
- User insight profiling uses NLP and social graphs to establish a normal communication baseline for each employee
- Behavioural pattern mapping detects real-time email anomalies based on deviations from established behaviour
- Reputation and authentication enhance detection through domain validation and reputation intelligence
Why IRONSCALES Beats Traditional and Competing Solutions
Many email security products focus only on detection at the perimeter or rely solely on machine learning models trained on historical data. IRONSCALES goes further by protecting mailboxes directly, scanning emails after delivery, and responding autonomously when threats are confirmed. It also treats employees as part of the solution, not the problem, by empowering them with reporting tools and targeted simulations.
This combination of adaptive AI, human intelligence, and employee engagement delivers stronger protection against modern email threats while reducing operational overhead and false positives.
Battle Card: IRONSCALES vs Traditional Email Security
| Capability | IRONSCALES | Traditional Secure Email Gateways |
| Detection method | Behavioural AI plus human intelligence | Static rules and signature based |
| Zero day phishing | Strong protection via human feedback loop | Limited or reactive |
| Post delivery protection | Continuous scanning and remediation | Often limited or unavailable |
| Employee engagement | Built in reporting, simulations, and training | Usually separate tools |
| AI learning model | Adaptive and continuously updated | Periodic model updates |
| Cloud integration | API native for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace | Perimeter focused |
For Australian organisations facing increasingly sophisticated email threats, IRONSCALES represents a shift from reactive filtering to adaptive defence. By combining artificial intelligence, human insight, and employee resilience, it delivers stronger protection against the attacks that matter most today.
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