Why Choose IRONSCALES over Perception Point

Email security has transformed significantly over the past two decades. Traditional methods, like authentication and signature-based secure email gateways (SEGs), can no longer keep up with modern attackers. Today, email security must proactively address "malicious intent" such as social engineering and automate email incident remediation.

Modern solutions leverage AI, machine learning (ML), automation, and human insights to tackle advanced threats like Business Email Compromise (BEC), Account Takeover (ATO), and VIP impersonation. Both Perception Point and IRONSCALES have developed distinct solutions to address this evolving threat landscape.

Let's start with a comparison of their features.

While both IRONSCALES and Perception Point leverage AI and ML for advanced email threat protection, their methodologies and feature sets differ in significant ways.

• Adaptive AI and Community Learning:
  IRONSCALES Adaptive AI continuously evolves, learning from every inbox interaction, phishing report, and remediation decision. This intelligence is further enriched by a global community of over 25,000 ITSec admins, who provide real-world insights to stay ahead of emerging threats. While Perception Point also uses AI, it lacks the community-driven approach that IRONSCALES uses to continuously train their machine learning models to detect never-seen-before threats.
  
  

• Integrated Phishing Simulation and Employee Empowerment:
  IRONSCALES takes phishing simulation beyond basic training with features that actively integrate real-world scenarios into your security strategy. Admins can use real-world attacks as templates for testing, while our continuously updated library ensures simulations mirror present-day phishing tactics and language. Personalized spear-phishing emails, tailored to each employee’s behavioral baseline, sharpen their awareness, and performance metrics track how well employees identify threats. This feedback not only improves individual training but also informs our AI, making it smarter at remediating future attacks. Perception Point offers general SAT training but lacks the advanced, integrated phishing simulations and feedback loops that make IRONSCALES an active defense tool.
  
  

• Automation and Management:
  IRONSCALES stands out for its high degree of automation, enabling virtually hands-free operation that simplifies ongoing management. Customers have noted that managing Perception Point can be more complicated and less automated, requiring additional effort from IT teams. Furthermore, IRONSCALES offers a mobile app for incident management, allowing security teams to review, respond to, and remediate threats from anywhere, ensuring faster response times.

Why IRONSCALES Stands Out

IRONSCALES is more than just an email security solution—it’s a platform that evolves with the threat landscape and engages with your workforce. From leveraging Adaptive AI powered by community intelligence to delivering compelling phishing simulations that actively improve employee performance, IRONSCALES provides a truly comprehensive solution.

While Perception Point delivers solid inbox protection, its lack of integrated phishing simulations, mobile incident response, and community-driven learning leaves gaps that IRONSCALES fills.