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WHITE PAPER
Your SEG Is Missing Phishing Attacks, Here’s the Proof
Traditional Secure Email Gateways (SEGs) fail to stop an average of 67.5 phishing attacks per 100 mailboxes every month. These gaps leave organizations exposed to credential theft, vendor scams, and advanced phishing threats.
This research-backed report, based on data from 1,921 customer environments, reveals exactly how SEGs are failing, why modern phishing attacks bypass traditional defenses, and what security teams need to do next.
Download the Hidden Gaps in SEG Protection White Paper
What's In the report?
We catch the phish others miss, now we have the data to prove it.
This research reveals how many phishing emails slip past Secure Email Gateways (SEGs) like Barracuda, Proofpoint, Mimecast, and Cisco IronPort—leaving organizations exposed to credential theft, vendor scams, and business email compromise.
- Across 1,921 customer environments, SEGs missed an average of 67.5 phishing emails per 100 mailboxes every month.
- Smaller orgs are hit the hardest, those with under 100 mailboxes experience phishing attack rates up to 20x higher than larger orgs.
- Some SEGs struggle more than others, for example: Barracuda missed 751 attacks per 100 mailboxes in orgs with fewer than 100 users, while other vendors performed better in certain size ranges.
Curious how your SEG stacks up? Try our SEG Missed Attacks Calculator to estimate your risk based on your SEG provider and organization size.
67.5
Phishing Emails Missed
Per 100 Mailboxes every month
1,921
Environments Analyzed
Barracuda, Proofpoint, Mimecast, Cisco IronPort
What's In The Report?
We catch the phish others miss, now we have the data to prove it.
This research reveals how many phishing emails slip past Secure Email Gateways (SEGs) like Barracuda, Proofpoint, Mimecast, and Cisco IronPort—leaving organizations exposed to credential theft, vendor scams, and business email compromise.
- Across 1,921 customer environments, SEGs missed an average of 67.5 phishing emails per 100 mailboxes every month.
- Smaller orgs are hit the hardest, those with under 100 mailboxes experience phishing attack rates up to 20x higher than larger orgs.
- Some SEGs struggle more than others, for example: Barracuda missed 751 attacks per 100 mailboxes in orgs with fewer than 100 users, while other vendors performed better in certain size ranges.
Curious how your SEG stacks up?
Try our SEG Missed Attacks Calculator to estimate your risk based on your SEG provider and organization size.
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Simplify Operations
Slash the time your team spends remediating email incidents from 30 minutes per incident to 30 seconds. Our Adaptive AI scans every email for malicious indicators. When it finds a threat, it doesn’t just block it, it automatically finds and remediates all others like it in your environment.
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SIMULATIONS & TRAINING
Empower your Org
Triple the email security awareness of your workforce and transform your employees into a crucial line of phishing defense. We make it dead simple to sharpen your employees' understanding of real-world threats with:
- Phishing simulation testing
- Security awareness training (SAT)
- Dynamic email banners
- ...and a GPT-powered chat assistant
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"We adopted Ironscales a year ago, and it’s been amazing how they’ve helped reduce the time between identifying a potential threat and resolving it. We used to dedicate hours to manually going through reported emails and following up on them. Ironscales has helped us to cut the number of man hours down by 95%."
Interim Chief Information Officer, City of Memphis
“IRONSCALES is catching 80-90% of phishing attempts and other miscellaneous emails that shouldn’t be coming through. It’s performing as advertised, so when we do need to remediate, the process works perfectly. And our people are finally ‘getting’ security'.”
Director of Technology, Paramount School District
“IRONSCALES is the product that has saved our bacon multiple times now. From an administration point, I needed that simplicity. "
Director of IT, Valley ENT
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"The ability to provide real-time feedback on both positive and negative performance has proven very effective. It’s a wake-up call for our employees.”
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