Why Choose IRONSCALES over 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) used to be enough, but they can’t keep up with the new tactics’ attackers use today. Now email security needs to proactively address "malicious intent" like social engineering, and automate active protection at the mailbox level.
 
Present-day solutions employ AI, ML, automation, and even human insights to tackle advanced threats like BEC, ATO, and VIP impersonation. Both Egress and IRONSCALES have fashioned their solutions in response to this evolving threat environment.
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How are IRONSCALES and Egress Different?

While IRONSCALES and Egress share foundational strategies—using AI and ML for threat detection and remediation and integrating with cloud-based email services via APIs—their methodologies diverge substantially in the details.

 

  • Egress leans heavily on technology, using AI and ML to identify and neutralize incoming malicious emails. Its solution also provides real-time insights and analytics, enabling security teams to take proactive measures to prevent future attacks. Egress primarily uses their API integrations with cloud-based email services to synchronize user identity data and establish a baseline for their behavior and relationships. However, they don't use their API for mailbox detection and defense, instead they use the API to configure an SMTP relay to capture upstream spam and threats. Despite the potential utility of this SEG-like approach—it may cause mail delivery disruptions during an Egress outage. Additionally, it requires administrators to manually initiate 'search and destroy' actions for mass remediation.

 

  • IRONSCALES utilizes adaptive AI and ML for real-time protection at the inbox instead of pre- or post-delivery protection. This level of protection is achieved by fully harnessing the power of the IRONSCALES API integrations with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, ensuring continuous inbox protection without adding any risk of interrupting mail delivery. This also enables IRONSCALES to automate tasks such as individual and bulk remediations, thereby eliminating the need for admins to learn, create, and execute scripts or queries.

    Another significant differentiator to IRONSCALES is the native integration of human insights into the platform. By incorporating employees in the fight against phishing with integrated email alert banners and report phishing buttons, employees' [human] insights are looped into IRONSCALES AI/ML models to continuously advance autonomous security coverage. The platform also includes the ability to send personalized phishing simulations and training based on employees' profiles and recent inbox attacks, using the integrated Phishing Simulation Testing and Security Awareness Training (SAT).

    Additionally, IRONSCALES differentiates itself with its integration of employees' [human] insights that feed AI/ML models to continuously advance attack coverage. with features such as email alert banners and report phishing buttons. Moreover, personalized phishing simulations and security awareness training (SAT) based on employees' profiles help improve its security coverage.

 

This is just a high-level difference between the two solutions. Both Egress and IRONSCALES offer different types of features and capabilities to address the shortcomings of basic security features included with cloud hosted email services. However, IRONSCALES stands out with its real-time inbox level protection and integration of human insights.

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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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