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AI phishing & email-threat detection

Catch phishing, BEC and malware emails the secure email gateway misses.

Minimum data maturity
intermediate
Technical prerequisite
dev capacity
Industries
Finance, Healthcare, public_sector, Professional Services, Manufacturing
AI type
ml classification

What it is

An ML model analyses email content, sender reputation, header anomalies and behavioural context (does this CEO usually email this CFO at this hour?) to catch sophisticated phishing and business-email-compromise attempts that signature-based gateways miss.

Data you need

Email gateway access, identity directory, 6+ months of email history.

Why it works

  • Per-user feedback loop on quarantined emails
  • Layered defence: keep your existing SEG

How this goes wrong

  • False positives quarantining legitimate executive emails
  • Single point of trust, vendor lock-in

When NOT to do this

Skip if you have no SOC or incident response process, alerts will go unactioned.

Example vendors

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