Blog Archive - 2019

Eyal Benishti 2019 Jan 24 Looking Back at Our Accomplishments & Ahead at What’s to Come IRONSCALES leads the email security and phishing mitigation industry in innovation, and more is planned for 2019. READ MORE Tristan Bishop 2019 Jan 1 The Three Must-Haves of a Truly Automated Email Security Solution Automation is the latest trend in email security, but how can you tell a solution is truly automated? READ MORE

Lomy Ovadia 2019 Feb 21 Why Predictive Technology is Essential for Modern Email Security Predictive technology is helping some security companies, like IRONSCALES, move beyond reactive (detection) to introduce proactive (prediction) innovations that are transcending the industry’s history of choosing to respond rather than to anticipate. READ MORE

Brendon Roddas 2019 Mar 20 The Perils of Oversharing on Social Media Let this sink in for a minute: in 2019, it is estimated that social media has exceeded 3 billion users around the globe, equating to more than one-third of the world’s population. READ MORE

2019 Apr 11 Evolution of Email Incident Response Email incident response has evolved from manual investigation and response to automatic, AI & machine learning-driven investigation and response. READ MORE 2019 Apr 2 Secure Email Gateways Miss 99 Percent of Email Spoofing Attacks A two-year analysis of more than 100,000 verified email spoofing attacks found that sender name impersonations and domain look-alike attacks regularly bypass SEG technology READ MORE

Brendon Roddas 2019 May 20 The Seven Essentials of a Modern Email Security Platform Did you know that any organization, regardless of its size and the number of in-house security personnel employed, can now automatically prevent, detect and respond to all types of sophisticated phishing techniques in real-time? READ MORE

Eyal Benishti 2019 Jun 27 One Gartner Risk Summit, Dozens of Keynotes, Four Takeaways IRONSCALES founder and CEO, Eyal Benishti, provides email security insights from Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit. READ MORE Eyal Benishti 2019 Jun 17 IRONSCALES Series B Continuing to Innovate Email Security As a result of our recent $15 million Series B, I am proud to announce that we are advancing on our journey toward bringing fully automated anti-phishing threat protection to inboxes across the globe READ MORE Brendon Roddas 2019 Jun 3 Why Threat Intelligence Feeds Don’t Reduce Email Phishing Risk IRONSCALES delivers real-time, actionable email phishing campaign intelligence, unlike antiquated threat intelligence feeds. READ MORE

2019 Jul 24 IRONSCALES Named An Emerging Vendor By CRN New partnerships with Pax8, BDO Managed Detection & Response and other resellers, distributors and MSPs propels the anti-phishing innovator onto the prestigious list for a third consecutive year READ MORE 2019 Jul 17 Steps to Identify and Prevent the Growing Threat of Credential Theft and Account Takeover Attackers are using email phishing as a means to achieve credential theft on users in order to perform account takeover or commit fraud. READ MORE

Brendon Roddas 2019 Aug 22 A Zero Trust Mentality in the Era of Advanced Email Security Threats Email security frameworks should begin with zero trust and follow the principles of CARTA, the next iteration of Gartner’s adaptive security architecture. READ MORE Brendon Roddas 2019 Aug 16 What One Black Hat 2019 Session Got Entirely Wrong About Email Security Email authentication and encryption protocols and standards are not a holistic solution to email security and anti-phishing. Unique fingerprinting technology is required to see and act. READ MORE Eyal Benishti 2019 Aug 5 What Anti-Phishing Solutions Can Learn from Wikipedia and Waze Phishing prevention should follow a decentralized approach to automatically respond, classify and mitigate phishing attacks across all endpoints READ MORE

Lomy Ovadia 2019 Sep 18 Dispelling the Three Most Common Myths of Email Security Incident Response For SOC & IT security teams to effectively manage email security incident response, they must first begin by being able to separate fact from fiction. READ MORE Eyal Benishti 2019 Sep 13 What does enterprise email security look like in 2020? For the enterprise, phishing prevention in 2020 requires an email security strategy in which technologies, processes and procedures address the entire phishing picture. READ MORE 2019 Sep 4 Fight Phishing & Credential Theft with AI Preventing phishing attacks that probe inboxes & scrape Microsoft Office 365 logins to produce credential harvesting pages requires AI-powered computer vision. READ MORE

Eyal Benishti 2019 Oct 31 Email Security Isn’t Fair Research firm Aberdeen Group argues that in order to face the obstacles of today’s phishing attacks, email security must be a blend of advanced technologies and human intelligence. READ MORE Eyal Benishti 2019 Oct 25 YARA, YARA, YARA: Why Manual Rules Don’t Cut it as Incident Response Manual incident response methods like YARA rules can’t keep up with today’s advanced phishing attacks. READ MORE Eyal Benishti 2019 Oct 16 How To Mitigate Email Security Risk With Continuous Feedback Loops By analyzing and learning from actionable machine and human intelligence, email security solutions can improve their ability to predict, detect and respond to email threats in real time. READ MORE Brendon Roddas 2019 Oct 8 Email Security for the Channel in 2020 Looking ahead to 2020, modern email security for the channel is vital as threats from attackers are on the rise. READ MORE

Eyal Benishti 2019 Nov 18 Does Email Security Really Matter? How to Answer This Question Derek Brink, research fellow at Aberdeen Group, concludes his guest post series on the importance of effective email security. READ MORE Eyal Benishti 2019 Nov 8 Using AI to Fight Phishing Attacks [Podcast] Eyal Benishti and Peggy Smedley discuss the role of ethics in AI and how the technology is used to mitigate phishing attacks. READ MORE

Eyal Benishti 2019 Dec 30 What’s Next for Email Security and Anti-Phishing in the Year Ahead Email security and anti-phishing trends for 2020 include looking beyond built-in email security, predictions for the channel, and larger AI adoption. READ MORE Eyal Benishti 2019 Dec 17 The Industrial Revolution of Cybersecurity is AI [PODCAST] Eyal Benishti, founder and CEO of IRONSCALES, discusses the future of artificial intelligence in cybersecurity on The Peggy Smedley Show. READ MORE Eyal Benishti 2019 Dec 3 With Email Security, CISOs Must Have a Unified Mindset With today’s attacks, CISOs must cultivate a unified mindset on email security that integrates prediction, prevention, detection, and incident response as well as decentralization READ MORE