IRONSCALES provides email security for my previous customer environment, which is a big inventory customer. The entire email security is monitored by IRONSCALES. It monitors all activities including invoices, customer domain communications, phishing emails, suspicious emails, and VIP member communications. We investigate suspicious mails in IRONSCALES.
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Has reduced phishing threats with AI-driven alerts and improves investigation accuracy
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The best features of IRONSCALES are that most alerts are validated through AI, which reduces the fatigue of alerts that need to be worked on by the team handling the alerts investigation part. Only a small number of alerts require manual review.
IRONSCALES is a useful tool that detects every malicious file delivered to our customer domain emails. It safeguards against phishing emails and malicious files that are inbound to our customer services.
IRONSCALES reduces processing time significantly. There can be multiple alerts where the team handles and reviews them. The SOC team participates in bridge calls to investigate all emails delivered in the sandbox, and if required, we keep them in junk or contaminate them after analysis.
What needs improvement?
The user interface could be more attractive to users. The UI is not brightened or appealing. Having a more user-friendly UI would make it easier to identify features and options when using the tool.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have used IRONSCALES for two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
IRONSCALES is a stable tool.
How are customer service and support?
Customer support for IRONSCALES was great.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I would advise that it is a necessary tool when comparing to other email security tools. If we are getting it for a lesser quotation, organizations should have this AI-automated email security which saves time and money.
What other advice do I have?
The automated alerts generated are integrated into our SIEM solution. We can create logics according to our investigation in our SIEM solution from logs pulled from IRONSCALES to SIEM solution via API call. We monitor all triggered alerts in the same solution.
The user interface could be more user-friendly and attractive to use. I rated this solution 9 out of 10 overall.
Has improved threat analysis by providing clear email correspondence history and reporting tools
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for IRONSCALES is the UI and the convenience of having detailed information available to me.
A specific example of how I use the UI and detailed information in my day-to-day work is that it provides correspondence history with all the mails being sent and also the way it passes the headers. It's very easy to read and make out where exactly vulnerabilities lie.
IRONSCALES' platform makes it very easy and user-friendly. For the technical part, there's always a further drill down that can be done for information.
What is most valuable?
The best features IRONSCALES offers are the investigation tabs, headers, and correspondence history, which stand out the most for me.
The investigation tabs are valuable for my work because reporting goes a long way in terms of playbooks and having a full investigation. The investigation tab knows exactly how to put the information in a way that makes it very easy for reports to get done fast.
Security awareness training is a big part of IRONSCALES. The platform offers a broad spectrum in terms of what campaigns can be run for security awareness for users as well as reporting back on how users interact with their mails and understanding where the vulnerabilities lie.
IRONSCALES has positively impacted my organization by making email security simple in terms of controlling mails, understanding where the threats are, and protecting the organization itself.
What needs improvement?
I would really prefer to drill down more on correspondence history. It provides detailed background information to actually understand what's going on. If there were clickable drill downs on specific users or specific correspondence to relate them to certain types of mails, that would be beneficial.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working in my current field for about one year and two months now.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
IRONSCALES is very stable.
How are customer service and support?
Customer support for IRONSCALES is outstanding. I've never had to wait more than a day for feedback from support, and they're very interactive with our users as well as our analysts.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I did not previously use a different solution.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
A team investigated other platforms before choosing IRONSCALES. We settled on it because it is interactive and user-friendly for certain types of analysts. The fact that there are always ongoing updates and products being added is a bonus.
What other advice do I have?
My advice to others looking into using IRONSCALES is to exercise caution as to how the platform works. Everything is not obviously as it seems. The product uses AI and the information that's provided. Looking at it at face value shouldn't be your final classification. It's a tool that we use to better our understanding of email security, and it's not a one and done situation. People starting to use IRONSCALES should really look into understanding email security and using it as a tool becomes a necessary part of proceeding with email security.
IRONSCALES is a really good platform, and it's ever-growing. This is just the start of what they are able to do with the AI, especially with Themis, and also the way it's structured, and that overall understanding of email security and how certain events should be handled.
I rate IRONSCALES 9 out of 10.
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If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Ironscales - secure email tool
Ironscales makes quick work of email security
Ironscales Themis AI does a good job of auto-classifying suspicious emails, and it gets better as we tune it. The emails that it's unclear about are easy to process manually.
The phishing campaign management is easy to work with and the integration of remedial training makes user education (almost) painless.
The Ironscales team is very easy to work with and very responsive in helping with any questions that we've raised.
IRONSCALES utilized over a 3-year period
Great Service and Easy to use
Also offer basic user Training and Simulation module to make sure users learn from mistakes.