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Business Email Compromise Protection

Block Business Email Compromise Threats

Detect and remediate BEC threats in real time with Adaptive AI that continuously learns to block invoice fraud, impersonation, and vendor compromise.

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Why BEC Protection Is Critical to Modern Email Security

BEC Consequences

Business Email Compromise attacks strike at the heart of your organization, carrying severe implications:

  • Financial Fallout—BEC schemes often result in direct monetary loss through fraudulent financial transactions, substantial enough to destabilize business operations.
  • Data Exposure—These sophisticated attacks can expose sensitive customer information or proprietary business data to unauthorized entities.
  • Reputational Damage—The trust your business has built can quickly erode following a BEC incident, impacting customer confidence and your brand image.

BEC Challenges

Effectively combating BEC attacks requires overcoming many challenges:

  • Deceptive Communications—BEC attacks typically lack malicious payloads, relying instead on sophisticated social engineering to manipulate employees into unauthorized actions, such as redirecting payments or revealing sensitive information.
  • Automation and Scale—Attackers leverage automation tools to scale their efforts, increasing the complexity and volume of attacks without relying on detectable malicious links or attachments.
  • Investigative Overhead—Identifying and responding to BEC attacks requires extensive manual investigation, making it a resource-intensive process for strained IT security teams.

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Threat Detection

Seamless integration of behavioral analysis and authentication to detect the subtlest cues of BEC attacks.

  • User Insight Profiling—Leveraging Natural Language Processing and social graphs, we create a communication baseline for each of your employees.
  • Behavioral Pattern Mapping—Our platform uses user baselines to identify email anomalies based on content and intent in real-time.
  • Reputation and Authentication—Alongside behavioral analysis, we enhance detection accuracy with rigorous email and domain address authentication checks and reputation data analysis.

Threat Remediation

We don’t just detect and block BEC attacks, we use Agentic Automation to eliminate every variant across your environment.

  • Email Clustering & Incident Response—Once a threat is detected by our machine learning models, our automation steps in to cluster similar incidents, initiating an automated yet nuanced remediation process that adapts to evolving threats, including spam and graymail.
  • Customizable Automation Controls—Our agentic platform excels in full automation but also values human discretion. You can adjust the automation level to your comfort, ranging from fully-automated remediation to one incorporating your personalized expertise.
  • Empowered User Reporting—When employees flag suspicious emails, our platform re-analyzes them based on the reporter's awareness level. Automated actions like adding warning banners or global quarantining follow customizable settings.

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WHY IRONSCALES?

The Industry’s Only Email Security Platform Unifying AI and Human Insights

Our API-based platform builds a social graph and communication baseline, enabling Agentic AI to analyze content, behavior, and reputation in real time to detect threats.

Protect Better

Block phishing and BEC attacks (and never-seen-before threats) with our Adaptive AI machine learning, continuously updated by real-world user insights and a community of over 30,000 IRONSCALES threat hunters.

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Simplify Operations

Eliminate the manual grind with agentic remediation that adapts to evolving threats, streamlining response workflows without sacrificing transparency, control, or accuracy.

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Empower Your Org

Triple the email security awareness of your workforce. Transform employees into a crucial line of phishing defense with integrated phishing simulation testing and security awareness training.

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“Just yesterday, a vendor’s account was breached and they were sending us phishing emails. Luckily IRONSCALES caught them.”
Mike Shorts IT Manager, Allegheny Millwork

Frequently Asked Questions

What makes IRONSCALES effective at stopping BEC attacks where traditional SEGs fall short?

IRONSCALES operates inside the inbox using Adaptive AI combined with human insights. This approach detects behavioral anomalies, social engineering, and zero-payload BEC attacks that secure email gateways (SEG) often miss. Traditional SEGs rely on known patterns, filters, and policies, while IRONSCALES continuously scans the inbox with Adaptive AI using behavioral analysis to catch evolving threats that slip through. (Learn More: Adaptive AI)

How does IRONSCALES detect and remediate BEC attacks in real time?

IRONSCALES uses Adaptive AI to learn how each employee normally communicates, who they talk to, the tone they use, and when they send messages. When a BEC email deviates from these patterns, our platform flags it instantly. If confirmed, IRONSCALES clusters and removes all similar messages across your environment, often in seconds. Over 99% of threats are remediated automatically, slashing response time and saving hours of manual work.

Do I need to change MX records or disrupt my current email flow to deploy IRONSCALES?

No. IRONSCALES deploys via native API integration with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, no MX record changes, no DNS changes, and no email disruption. You’ll be up and running in minutes, with inbox-level protection that starts detecting threats right away.

How does IRONSCALES adapt to new BEC tactics like GenAI-crafted messages or impersonation attempts?

IRONSCALES combines Adaptive AI with human insights from more than 30,000 security professionals in our customer community. When new BEC tactics appear, such as AI-generated (GenAI) phishing or VIP impersonation, our AI learns from real-world feedback in real time. This allows us to detect and stop never-before-seen threats that traditional tools often miss.

What level of control does my security team have with IRONSCALES in place?

Your team stays fully informed and in control. You can customize automation policies, review all flagged emails, and investigate threats using detailed metadata, community feedback, and sender reputation. Admins can take action directly through a centralized dashboard or via the mobile app.

Can IRONSCALES help with compliance or cybersecurity insurance requirements?

Yes. The platform includes phishing simulations and security awareness training tools that help meet common insurance and regulatory standards. You can track employee performance, show risk reduction over time, and generate reports to prove due diligence. These tools help lower your click rates and demonstrate that your organization is actively managing email risk.

Stop Email Attacks.

Dead In Their Tracks.

Get better protection, simplify your operations, and empower your organization against advanced threats today.

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