Why Choose IRONSCALES over Mimecast




Adapting to an Evolving Email Security Landscape
Email security has changed a lot in the last 20 years. Basic protocols 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.
Now email security needs to address "malicious intent" like social engineering, and actively protect at the mailbox level. Solutions now use AI, machine learning, and automation, as well as human insights, to fight advanced threats like business email compromise, account takeover, and VIP impersonation.
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Inbound Email Protection
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URL / Link / Attachment Inspection
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AI-Powered Advanced Phishing Protection (ATO, BEC, VIP attacks)
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Phishing Simulation Testing
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Security Awareness Training (SAT)
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Mail Transport Changes
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API-Based Cloud Email Integration
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Adaptive AI
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Continuous Inbox Scanning for Time Delayed Attacks
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Crowdsourced Threat Intelligence
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Dynamic Inbox Banners warnings/guidance
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Email Archiving
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Email Encryption
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Native Mobile App for Incident Response
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How are IRONSCALES and Mimecast Different?
IRONSCALES and Mimecast use very different methods to securing an organization’s email environment.
Mimecast primarily utilizes a preventative strategy with a SEG to block SPAM and known threats before they reach the inbox. This is similar to network firewalls as they are located in the DMZ of a network, in-line and upstream of a mail server or service.
For more than a decade, IRONSCALES has utilized an API to seamlessly integrate with cloud email providers and inboxes, employing AI to instantly detect and mitigate sophisticated threats such as BEC and ATO. Distinctively, IRONSCALES’ Cloud Integrated Email Security (ICES) also engages employees and a community of 20,000 IT security administrators in phishing defense through integrated email alert banners and phishing report buttons.
The platform also includes the ability to send personalized phishing simulations and training based on employees’ profiles and recent inbox attacks, thanks to integrated phishing simulation testing and security awareness training (SAT).
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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).
Advanced Threat Protection
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SOC Automation
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SIMULATIONS & TRAINING
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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