Why Choose IRONSCALES over KnowBe4 (Egress)

Choosing the right email and messaging security platform is foundational to the protection of your organization. This page compares two of the top-rated email security platforms — IRONSCALES and Egress — to help you choose the platform that’s right for you.
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IRONSCALES provides a self-learning, AI-driven email security platform that continuously detects and remediates advanced threats like BEC, credential harvesting, ATO, and more, in milliseconds. The platform also incorporates employees into the organization’s fight against phishing with integrated email alert banners, report buttons, personalized phishing simulation testing, and advanced security awareness training (SAT).
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Egress focuses on tackling email security challenges that stem from human-centric vulnerabilities. As a result, Egress created a security platform to defend against both inbound and outbound threats. They use contextual machine learning to identify and obstruct abnormal human behavior that may lead to security breaches, such as misdirected emails, data exfiltration, and selective spear-phishing attacks. 

Navigating the Shifting Landscape of Email Security

Over the past two decades, email security has witnessed significant transformations. Traditional methods like authentication and signature-based secure email gateways (SEGs) struggle to protect against today’s sophisticated attacks. Phishing, social engineering, and VIP impersonation bypass outdated defenses, putting your organization at risk.
 
IRONSCALES solves this problem with intelligent email security. Our solution uses AI, machine learning, human insights and agentic SOC automation to identify and neutralize advanced threats at the mailbox level. Protect your organization with a platform that thinks, learns, and adapts in real time.
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How are IRONSCALES and KnowBe4 (Egress) Different?

While both IRONSCALES and KnowBe4 (Egress) utilize AI and machine learning for email threat detection, our approach and integrations differ significantly.


KnowBe4 (Egress):

  • Deployment Method: Utilizes an SMTP relay configuration, which can introduce potential points of failure and may disrupt email delivery during outages.

  • Threat Detection: Focuses on analyzing email content and user behavior to identify threats, but relies on administrators to manually initiate bulk remediation actions.

  • User Engagement: Provides contextual warning banners and prompts to educate users at the point of risk, enhancing security awareness.

IRONSCALES:

  • Deployment Method: Integrates directly with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace via native APIs, ensuring seamless inbox-level protection without altering mail flow or requiring MX record changes.

  • Threat Detection and Automation: Employs adaptive AI for real-time detection and automated remediation of threats. The platform features Themis, an AI-powered virtual SOC analyst that autonomously investigates, classifies, and remediates threats, significantly reducing the time and effort required by security teams.

  • Deepfake Protection: Offers industry-first deepfake protection for enterprise email security, leveraging advanced AI algorithms to analyze video and audio anomalies, flagging potential deepfake content before it reaches its intended target.

  • DMARC Management: Provides comprehensive DMARC management and monitoring, simplifying the setup and maintenance of DMARC, SPF, and DKIM policies across multiple domains. This enhances email deliverability and protects against domain spoofing.

  • User Engagement: Incorporates employee-reported insights into its AI models and offers personalized phishing simulations and training based on individual user profiles. Additionally, dynamic inbox banners provide real-time warnings and guidance, empowering users to make informed decisions.

Key Distinction:

IRONSCALES delivers continuous, automated inbox-level protection with seamless integration, minimizing administrative overhead and enhancing user engagement. Its advanced features, including deepfake protection and comprehensive DMARC management, position it as a robust solution against evolving email threats. In contrast, KnowBe4's approach may require more manual processes and could introduce potential disruptions in email delivery.

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Why IRONSCALES?

Our platform protects your employee's inboxes from advanced phishing attacks that others miss, with the only technology that combines AI and human insights. Our platform is quick to deploy and  dead simple to manage (so you get instant protection).

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Advanced Threat Protection

Protect Better
Block advanced phishing and BEC attacks (and never seen before threats) with our Adaptive AI—dynamically sharpened by real-world user insights and a community of over 25,000 threat hunters.
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SOC Automation

Simplify Operations

Slash the time your team spends remediating email incidents from 30 minutes per incident to 30 seconds.

Our Adaptive AI scans every email for malicious indicators. When it finds a threat, it doesn’t just block it, it automatically finds and remediates all others like it in your environment.

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SIMULATIONS & TRAINING

Empower your Org

Triple the email security awareness of your workforce and transform your employees into a crucial line of phishing defense. We make it dead simple to sharpen your employees' understanding of real-world threats with:

  • Phishing simulation testing
  • Security awareness training (SAT)
  • Dynamic email banners

...and a GPT-powered chat assistant

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"The ability to provide real-time feedback on both positive and negative performance has proven very effective. It’s a wake-up call for our employees.”
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