IRONSCALES Reviews

The tool runs on an API, and it communicates with all of our users' inboxes. The tool is just for keeping spam in check and, more importantly, to deal with the dangerous phishing emails out of our users' hands. It can see if it lets something pass and it goes to the inbox, then after 20 minutes, if it gets new information that it is a potentially dangerous email, the solution will yank it right out of the user's inbox.

With the tool, users can report things that they think are phishing activities, meaning it allows IRONSCALES to take another look at it and then determine the final disposition, which is a good feature. More importantly, we just kind of let it run and do its thing, and then the tool comes up with two to three possibilities. If something is clean, we never hear from IRONSCALES. If it is spam, it will be categorized as spam. If an email is considered to be a phishing email, it'll categorize it as a phishing activity. If an email is spam or comes under the phishing category, the tool will pull the email out of the inboxes so that it is not available.

I think the tool can continue to hone the product to ensure the detections are accurate. The tool also involves some crowdsourcing. It is a pretty good product. We use IRONSCALES in conjunction with Proofpoint since the latter tool is an email gateway. Between IRONSCALES and Proofpoint, the idea of filtered security solutions, especially with emails because phishing is so dangerous, has kept us from harm for five-plus years.

I have been using IRONSCALES for three years. I am a customer of the tool.

It is a totally stable solution. The tool has never had downtime.

I can't rate the support of IRONSCALES because our support comes through the company we got the tool from, and it is called Constant Edge. Constant Edge is a reseller of the tool to SMBs because IRONSCALES doesn't want to get caught up with just 100 user licenses since it is just too small for it to worry about. Constant Edge has done an incredible job of providing support to our company. Constant Edge also provides our company with Proofpoint.

The company we get IRONSCALES from is not big enough to sell the product directly.

The solution can be deployed in a day.

One person can deploy the solution.

My organization got the tool from Constant Edge out of the UK, and they came in and set it all up for us.

The email security management costs take up a large portion of our IT security budget because everybody needs security in our company. We really have to watch out for trying to keep our users in a safe zone.

The tool is affordable. Our company has a pretty tight IT budget. We had to make room for IRONSCALES in our budget, and we have kept it since, after three years, we plan to renew it. The tool is not very cheap, but it is affordable. It is much cheaper to have the tool than to have a phishing email get clicked and see your whole network being brought down. On a scale of one to ten, if ten means it is an expensive tool, I rate the product's price as six or seven.

The AI engine is, like anything else that is similar to machine learning, so it is going to get smarter as time goes on. In our company, we put a lot of time into the tool to see if it detects something that is clean, making sure that it understands that it was not a malicious email. The tool has become pretty darn smart at this point.

If there is a situation where I need to manage the tool, I would say that there is an AI engine for the product, Themis Copilot, for Microsoft Outlook. When the tool pulls an email, it says that even though it pulled it out, it cannot give it a final disposition, so I won't know if it is spam or phishing activity. In that case, you need to go in and manually let the tool know that a particular email is spam, is associated with some phishing activity, or is clean. The tool tries to improve the accuracy of the machine learning and AI aspects. Occasionally, the tool requires some manual intervention.

IRONSCALES has gotten smarter as our company has trained the machine learning and improved the AI engine, and it has reached to the point now that it is set and forgotten. We visit the tool maybe once a week just to make sure that there are no emails that haven't given a final disposition.

I recommend the tool to others, along with Proofpoint.

I rate the tool a nine out of ten.

The solution captures a bit more of the unknown, quantifies it, and applies intelligence to it to pick out and stop a lot of phishing emails that come through. The solution improved our response to phishing attempts. IRONSCALES has a virtual assistant and some AI intelligence that's applied to it. That was the main differentiator between IRONSCALES and Microsoft.

The solution's AI automation clearly identifies phishing emails and gives you an overall indication of why it found the mail to be malicious. It does the whole analysis for you to see why the email was deemed a phishing email. The solution's response time is better than that of our previous tool. The solution's user interface is pretty straightforward and user-friendly.

IRONSCALES should bundle more features together instead of separating them and charging additional licensing fees. The solution’s scalability could be improved.

I have been using IRONSCALES for one year.

I rate the solution a seven out of ten for scalability.

We did a side-by-side comparison of Microsoft and IRONSCALES. Microsoft generally has a lot of features, but for me, Microsoft is behind in terms of the more advanced and smarter solutions. I wouldn't recommend using Microsoft as a main filter for email protection. IRONSCALES performed better in terms of what it was catching than Microsoft.

The solution’s initial setup was straightforward.

IRONSCALES is an expensive solution. The solution has certain add-on features, and its pricing depends on how you scale it. You have to pay additional licensing fees for some specific features.

IRONSCALES has a pretty smart technology, which is different from the traditional gateway kind of technology.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

Phishing emails and spam are challenges companies of all sizes face. IRONSCALES acts as a second layer on top of the Microsoft mail relay we use. It scans every email coming into our organization and automatically checks the validity. We also check manually in some cases.  

While we mainly use it for the mail relay, IRONSCALES can also act as a phishing campaign simulator. We can send simulated phishing emails to our colleagues to test their readiness. 

Our entire organization uses IRONSCALES across many locations worldwide in South America, Asia, Europe, and North America. All sites use the system to protect the mailboxes and just act as a mail relay. We have about 8,000 users.

The biggest benefit is that we get fewer phishing and spam emails, so using IRONSCALES has made our environment much safer. While I wasn't here when they deployed the system, I believe they saw benefits right away.

The feature I use the most is the main relay. IRONSCALES was designed around that, but phishing simulation management is also a handy tool that I don't see often. Combining these features enables a user to be more comfortable with the simulations. 

For example, one of IRONSCALES' features is an Outlook extension that lets you report phishing emails and other stuff that looks malicious. In our training, we encourage our colleagues to click this button to report as many emails as possible. Reporting suspicious emails should become part of our employees' everyday routine. The training campaign usually helps us catch our colleagues outside their comfort zone to see if they're paying attention to all these suspicious emails they receive.

AI and machine learning are essential components of the product. It automatically can identify phishing emails and classify them according to several factors. I'm not sure how it works, but there's a ranking system that ports onto every sender and email we receive. This artificial intelligence can conduct a thorough search that's sometimes better than humans. 

The automated detection and response feature handles most of the job. I only need to classify a few emails manually each day. Artificial intelligence does everything else automatically for me. Without this technology, we would have to sort 1,000 emails each day manually. IRONSCALES cuts that down to maybe 50.

The IRONSCALES mobile app is convenient to use outside working hours. It's not my primary tool, but it's nice not to need to open your laptop whenever you would like to classify something. You can use the app to check up on the system. 

There's room for improvement in the campaign management. IRONSCALES has many built-in templates that I use, but I can also build templates from scratch. However, the interface for creating custom templates needs to be updated. 

I've already contacted IRONSCALES with some features I'd like to see, and they've promised to implement them. For example, let's say I send campaigns using customized tags assigned to each user. If I would like to send a campaign to my colleagues in China, I would send the campaign using a tag that says China. In many cases, new users don't have tags. 

I asked IRONSCALES to add the ability to send campaigns to colleagues that don't have any tags. They promised this feature would be available during the next update.

I've been using IRONSCALES since I started working here at my current company about a year ago. 

IRONSCALES is stable. I can't think of any outages. 

We can grow as much as we want. We are growing right now and adding new sites to our company.

I rate IRONSCALES support 10 out of 10. They provide support in less than 24 hours. I have never had a problem with them, and they always solve my issues. 

Positive

The company previously used Microsoft ATP, which required a lot of manual work. I was told that they used to spend a lot of time manually sorting the emails by phishing, spam, etc. The company switched to IRONSCALES because they wanted something to help automatically sort stuff and get faster results.

Though I wasn't here when IRONSCALES was deployed, I saw the system requirements and a basic guide to implementing the system. It was straightforward. 

After deployment, it doesn't require much maintenance. It does everything automatically as well. IRONSCALES supports older versions of Exchange and local Exchange servers that require manual updates of the add-ons they use to protect the mailboxes, but we don't use those services.

I rate IRONSCALES nine out of ten. Some improvements to the campaign management might bring it up to ten. It's a great system. I would recommend it if you only need a mail relay. On top of that, there are additional advantages of using the system, like the campaign manager that complements the mail relay. 

I use the solution in my company to stop phishing and spam efficiently and automatically.

The most valuable features of the solution are that it is easy to set it up, install, and manage the product.

I think maybe on the side of the awareness training, the tool can improve a little more information and have some other languages since even though English is good, Spanish is not so good. The tool can improve the content in Spanish and other languages. The tool supports 15 to 16 languages, but the content it uses in the training in Spanish has certain limitations.

I have been using IRONSCALES for a year. My company is an end user of the tool.

It is a very stable solution as it is software that runs in the cloud. I didn't have any outages with the tool.

It is a very scalable solution. I know the tool scales up very well. Some of our customers have thousands of use of mailboxes. In my case, only one hundred users use the tool. It requires very little installation, but I know thousands of customers.

The technical support offered is very good. The tool's support team attends very quickly to the support tickets raised. The technical support is very good at resolving issues.

Positive

I have used a security gateway from Forcepoint, which was a lot more complicated to maintain and set up. Forcepoint decided to discontinue its solution for email gateway, and then it decided to introduce another solution in the market that includes AI.

The product is easy to set up as it is an API-based solution. With IRONSCALES, you don't have to do anything on the platform. You just need to do the integration and the connection with Office 365 tenants, and that is it.

I rate the product's setup phase as a ten out of ten.

The solution can be deployed by one person from IRONSCALES, who will create the tenant for me. Then, I do the rest of the setup process, which includes three or more steps, but it can be done in minutes.

The solution can be deployed in 15 to 30 minutes.

The product is available as a middle-priced tool. I think it is not the cheapest solution. There are other solutions apart from IRONSCALES that are more expensive, while some are a little bit more cheap, but they are not available with the same capabilities.

The automated response capabilities are very accurate for detecting suspicious activities and suspicious languages used by the attackers.

The only people needed when using the tool are to take care of the console and an analyst. In some cases, some incidents require an analyst to complete the analysis of the email. I don't create incidents that can be automatically resolved by AI. I create incidents that need a review from an analyst. The only people who need to be aware of the incidents and where such details should not be classified is when it comes to analysts. I don't need to do any maintenance process for the tool every day. Everything is available as a service, so I don't need to do anything to maintain the platform apart from dealing with the non-classified incidents.

The tool uses a lot of AI technologies to detect the accuracy of the email, especially to filter out phishing emails. It not only detects phishing emails but also provides a preview of who the attackers are before we receive the real phishing email. It is not just to detect phishing emails but also to detect the intent of the attacker in creating a phishing email.

I rate the tool a nine and a half out of ten.

We help customers use this to help them to secure against business email compromises, phishing, and impersonation.

They're outstanding as a solution. They have a threat-sharing capability so that you get information from all the customers regarding any phishing attack. That's a great feature for us due to the fact that we get information very fast if someone else in the world has seen that email. 

The artificial intelligence is excellent. They are able to use it to recognize phishing emails due to the language used.

The initial setup is very easy.

The solution can scale.

The stability is good.

We've been satisfied with technical support.

The integration with Google Suite needs to be better. it's something they can work on.

The pricing is a bit high.

In the future, I'd like to see digital exposure of the users, such as credential exposure, or this kind of feature.

We've been working with the solution over the past year.

The solution has been very stable. It's reliable. We haven't found bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze. 

We don't have any issues with scaling - even when dealing with many different customers. 

Our clients range in size. We help companies with anywhere from 50 users to thousands of users. 

We have been satisfied with the solution's technical support. They have been helpful and responsive. 

We have used Darktrace in the past. The reason we are looking into Darktrace is to have another option. However, for us, Darktrace is not so good as IRONSCALES. IRONSCALES is easier to use, easier to implement, and more accurate when it comes to false positives.

We've also worked with Proofpoint and some Microsoft-owned options, however, we haven't worked with anything else. 

The initial setup is amazing. it's not overly complex or difficult at all. 

It was fast, easy, and straightforward to implement and deploy. On average, with the customers, it takes us around 10 minutes to one hour to set everything up, depending on the size of the customer.

We can assist our clients with the initial setup.

We have a yearly licensing contract. The pricing is a bit expensive, and we'd, of course, like it to be lower, however, we really like the product.

We are a customer as well as an integrator. In some cases we sell the solution, in some cases, we provide the customer with the service. We are a security service provider.

We are working with the latest version. IRONSCALES is a universal service cloud for service. So you always have the latest one.

I would recommend the solution to other users and companies. I couldn't believe that it could filter out 35% of the email. We've very satisfied.

I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten.