No. Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace provide a useful baseline, but they leave significant gaps that modern phishing attacks exploit every day.

Around 20% of phishing emails are marked clean by Microsoft's filters and land directly in inboxes. Hackers can open a Microsoft 365 account themselves, test their phishing emails until they bypass the filters, and reuse those techniques at scale. AI-generated phishing emails no longer contain the spelling mistakes traditional filters were trained to detect.

Business Email Compromise (BEC) and Account Takeover attacks carry no malicious links or attachments — Microsoft sees them as clean email. IRONSCALES adds AI-powered behavioural detection, mailbox-level analysis, and automated remediation on top of your existing platform — without replacing it.

Email spoofing is when an attacker forges the sender address to make an email appear to come from a trusted person — a colleague, a supplier, your bank, or even your own company's domain.

Employees trust the sender name and act without verifying — transferring money, sharing credentials, or clicking malicious links. A convincing message is enough. No malware needed.

IRONSCALES uses AI-powered header analysis to detect spoofed addresses, enforces DMARC authentication, and catches lookalike domain attacks (such as c0mpany.com) that bypass DNS controls entirely.

Three DNS-level controls work together to protect your domain: SPF specifies authorised mail servers, DKIM adds a cryptographic signature to outgoing email, and DMARC sets a policy for what happens when checks fail.

These controls only protect your exact domain. Attackers increasingly use cousin domains (slight misspellings) and display name spoofing — none of which SPF, DKIM, or DMARC stop on their own.

IRONSCALES automates the setup and monitoring of all three, adds AI-based lookalike domain detection, and provides ongoing visibility into spoofing attempts targeting your domain.

BEC is a targeted attack where criminals impersonate executives, finance staff, or suppliers to trick employees into transferring money or sending sensitive data. There are no malicious links or attachments — just a convincing email and a plausible story.

The FBI consistently ranks BEC as the most financially damaging cybercrime globally. Small businesses are targeted disproportionately — they move money faster and have fewer approval controls.

Because BEC emails contain no malicious content, standard filters treat them as clean. IRONSCALES uses behavioural AI to analyse communication patterns for every user and flags requests that deviate from the norm — even when the email appears to come from a known address.

Most employees cannot reliably spot modern phishing. Today's attacks are AI-generated, grammatically perfect, and personalised with real data from LinkedIn and company websites.

IRONSCALES includes built-in security awareness training, simulated phishing campaigns with immediate contextual feedback, and a one-click report button inside Outlook and Gmail.

When an employee reports a suspicious email, IRONSCALES automatically checks whether the same email reached other inboxes across your organisation and removes it from all of them simultaneously — turning every employee into a sensor for your security team.

IRONSCALES was built specifically for organisations without a dedicated security operations centre. Its AI handles continuous detection and classification of threats across all inboxes, automated remediation before employees can act on suspicious emails, and real-time threat intelligence updates — no manual rule changes required.

Your IT manager oversees everything through a clear dashboard — reviewing flagged threats, running phishing simulation reports, and monitoring your security posture — without needing deep cybersecurity expertise.

Email is the primary entry point for data breaches. Regulators and insurers now require demonstrable email security controls — not just a policy document.

GDPR requires appropriate technical measures to protect personal data. A phishing-related breach can result in fines of up to 4% of global annual turnover. IRONSCALES provides audit logs and incident documentation to demonstrate compliance.

NIS2 requires organisations in scope to implement email security controls as part of their cyber risk management obligations. IRONSCALES covers multi-layered protection, DMARC enforcement, and documented incident response.

Cyber insurers increasingly require documented email security as a condition of coverage. IRONSCALES may also reduce your premium by demonstrating a proactive security posture.