The Top 8 Anti Impersonation And Spoofing Solutions

Headquartered in Atlanta, USA, IRONSCALES is the industry’s fastest growing cloud-based email security company. Their AI-driven email security solution, IRONSCALES Email Security Platform, stops particularly advanced threats such as business email compromise (BEC), VIP impersonation, and account takeover (ATO) attempts that slip past existing secure email gateways.

IRONSCALES Email Security Platform

• Artificial intelligence learns how users interact and use email in order to catch spoofing and impersonation attempts–including external communications by performing a 90 day scan on inbox activity
• AI can also detect instances of phishing
• Users can send potentially harmful received emails by clicking the IRONSCALES Report Phishing button and sending the email for external review
• Utilities artificial and human intelligence to rule out attacks from both perspectives
• Mobile app allows admins to triage alerts and notifications while remote
• Awareness training

Pricing: IRONSCALES offer companies three tiers of pricing, each with a different range of capabilities that are detailed on their website. There is a Starter™ plan (free version) for up to 500 mailboxes, that includes their full-featured phishing simulation testing functionality and basic email security capabilities; the Email Protect™ plan ($6.00 per mailbox, per month) that adds comprehensive automated email security to what’s included in Starter™; and finally, the Complete Protect™ plan ($8.33 per mailbox, per month), that includes all features of the previous two plans plus Account Takeover protection, Microsoft Teams protection, and unlimited Security Awareness Training. Volume discount pricing is available for Email Protect™ and Complete Protect™ plans. Volume Discount Pricing is available via a quotation request.

Expert Insights Comments: Drawing on the power of artificial intelligence and correlated threat intel from thousands of customer security teams across the globe, IRONSCALES’ emails security solution is overtly robust and effective in preventing a wide range of attacks, including the most sophisticated of attacks, such as anti impersonation and spoofing by removing it from user inboxes before they can interact or respond. It is fast to deploy and configure, with simplified management. Overall, the solution is easy to use for both admins and users alike, with little to no training needed for staff and admins able to navigate through a clean console. We would recommend IRONSCALES for organizations ranging from SMBs to enterprise level.

From San Francisco, USA, comes Abnormal: an advanced specialist in email security founded in just 2018. Inbound Email Protection from Abnormal is a powerful cloud-based email security solution that focuses on preventing inbound and internal threats through an array of tactics, most notably by deploying behavioral AI to tackle these threats. 

It’s a comprehensive solution that can securely and effectively block all types of email attacks including malware, ransomware, spoof-based phishing, impersonation attacks, and more. It also has strong filtering for spam and graymail. It’s adept in detecting and quarantining zero-day attacks, as well as ensuring proper email hygiene across the board. It’s an easily deployable solution, with the program up and running in a short span of time.

Abnormal Inbound Email Protection Features

• Behavioral analysis through machine learning to identify abnormalities and potential threats
• Builds digital profiles on all employees within the networking, noting department, level, title, communicate, tone, and how they interact with others
• Risk assessment
• Abnormalities flagged with admins for inspection
• Banners to notify users of potential risks when responding to emails
• Pricing: Pricing is supplied via a quotation request.

Expert Insights Comments: Abnormal Inbound Email Protection solution is a highly intelligent and adaptive tool that leverages AI to learn how your users interact with other users, both inside the network and out of it. This creates an entirely unique algorithm that can detect when something is amiss or not like usual forms of communication, allowing for instances of business email compromise, account takeover, and impersonation to be blocked. It is also adept in blocking out technical based methods of phishing, such as spoofing. All emails are subject to content analysis, meaning that regular phishing instances and fraudulent emails are also ruled out. It is quick to deploy and has easy integration with Microsoft 365. Abnormal Inbound Email Protection is suitable for most industries, ranging from SMBs to enterprise level.

New York-based Avanan, a Check Point company, has established itself as a trusted and capable figure in the email security market since its inception in 2014. Their contribution to this list is the solid and intuitive Avanen Email Security solution which offers powerful protection for user inboxes, warding off standard and advanced threats. Deployment is cloud-based via API, and is easy, fast, and intuitive to complete, often being up and running in a matter of minutes. It integrates well with cloud-based email servers. It does not impact MX records.

Avanan Email Security Features

• API integrations allow for email history analysis to develop profiles on email communications between individuals and teams
• Develops understanding of contact lists, users, and departments
• Anti-phishing feature examines all inbound, outbound, and internal mail for any potential phishing scams – closely looking at sender ID, IPs, language, tone, attachments, and links
• Malware sandboxing for all mail, file shares, and collaboration apps, such as Teams and Slack
• Advanced logging, analytics, and policy controls

Pricing: For companies with under 500 employees, pricing plans begin at $4.30 per user per month before extending to $7.20 per user per month for a more expansive plan. For companies exceeding 500, pricing is supplied via a quotation request.

Expert Insights Comments: Organizations looking for a smart and adaptive email security solution with additional helpful features can stand to benefit from deploying Avanan Email Security. It offers fast-actioned and robust security at the email gateway and to other communication channels like Slack. It wards inboxes from spoofing, impersonation, malicious attachments, phishing, malware, and more. It is an easy to deploy solution, though with a slight learning curve for configurations. We would recommend Avanan to any organization using a cloud-hosted email server, such as Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace. 

Barracuda is a highly respected vendor with powerful solutions in the email security space. Their Barracuda Email Protection product is a comprehensive email gateway solution that has spoofing and impersonation targeting capabilities. It combines an email getaway with direct API integration that is highly integratable with Office 365. It uses AI-based threat detection, allowing for the detection and response to potential impersonation and spoofing based threats in real-time.

Barracuda Email Security Features

• Artificial intelligence recognizes and quarantines phishing emails that use impersonation tactics by picking up on the use of deceptive characters, zero-day links, and misspelled domains
• Granular policy controls for admins
• Robust filtering capabilities provide virus scanning, spam scoring and real time analysis
• Archiving and Continuity features offered as an add-on
• Full integration with Office 365
• Data loss prevention through outbound filtering

Pricing: Barracuda Sentinel is offered under their three Email Protection plans: Advanced, Premium, and Premium Plus. Pricing is available via a quotation request.

Expert Insights Comments: Barracuda Email Security is an artificial intelligence-powered tool that offers full protection for your email communications, both inbound, outbound, and internal. It is feature rich, with additional add-ons to offer a full email security stack that prevents users from accessing anything malicious directly. It leverages AI that learns how your organization operates and communicates. From there, it will be able to identify unusual behavior in email communications and can block and quarantine accordingly, preventing risks such as spear-phishing attacks. Alongside social engineering threats, Barracuda’s Email Protection’s email gateway constantly scans and blocks for any spoofing-based threats. It also offers training solutions to teach users about potential risks and send simulations to test their knowledge. We would recommend Barracuda Sentinel for organizations of all sizes who use Office 365 software.

Egress is a UK-based global leader in powerful email security solutions used by a wide range of industries. Egress’ email security platform has three parts: Prevent, Protect, and Defend. The Defend program is the one most relevant here. Defend is an anti-phishing specific software that detects, quarantines, and eliminates phishing threats – both technically and socially engineered – in real-time. It’s highly integratable with Microsoft 365, although deployment can be quite involved. It can be deployed as cloud, on-prem, or as a hybrid model.

Egress Defend Features

• Zero-trust features perform in depth scans of every email trying to reach an inbox in your network, including packets
• Email scanning for anomalies and immediate quarantining
• Impersonation attacks preventing through artificial intelligence and machine learning, studying and logging all relationships, methods and context of communication, email and contact lists, language and more to understand who contacts who, for what, and why
• Natural Language Processing feature can search for and flag any language that is deemed unusual or particularly urgent
• Self-learning detection technologies reduce requirement for manual policy configuration and ongoing maintenance

Pricing: Pricing is supplied via a quotation request.

Expert Insights Comments: Egress Defend is an intelligent, AI-drive, machine learning powered email security solution that dutifully researches and logs all behavior and utilizes language learning capabilities to ensure that even the most difficult-to-detect instances of email phishing attacks are weeded out. The integration of so many intelligent tools into the solution has created an almost “hands-off” approach for admins; with so many processes automated and a solution that learns and adapts as it goes, Egress Defend strives to be as self-reliant as possible. Admins will find it is easy to onboard and have a full and extensive view into the solution and the network, with fast reporting and alerts, and full analytics. We would recommend Egress Defend for most industries that need to comply with strict governmental guidelines, including ​​governmental organizations, utilities, financial services, healthcare, and defense. 

Headquartered in Boston, USA, Mimecast is a global email security, email archiving, and continuity vendor. Mimecast Email Security is a consolidation of a number of cloud-based email security solutions, including email security, security awareness training, cloud archive, DMARC analysis, and web security. Mimecast’s DMARC analyzer protects your organization from spoofing-based attacks. It combines DMARC, SPF, and DKIM protocols to report to admins when the company domain is being used without authorization and can block all unauthenticated mail. The DMARC analyzer detects when IP packets – the bit that displays an email header, including sender ID and location – have been spoofed, and will block and quarantine this content until it has been checked by administrators before acting.

Mimecast Email Security Features

• Targeted Threat Protection protects your brand from spear phishing, BEC, impersonation, ransomware, and other targeted email attacks
• URL and attachment protection, which scans for anything harmful including suspicious looking domains and potential attacks that become active after being received
• Impersonation protection through real-time scanning of all inbound mail to detect anomalies which include: header differences, domain similarity (which is also done through inspecting international character sets, such as replacing the character ‘a’ with ‘á’), sender spoofing, suspicious email content, and time stamps
• Security awareness training
• real time reports
• Sandboxing, spam filtering, and email continuity features

Pricing: Mimecast’s Email Security product comes in a range of plans, not all offering both solutions covered in this listing. Pricing is supplied via a quotation request.

Expert Insights Comments: Organizations looking for an overly powerful solution with a full stack of strong and intelligent features can gain something from deploying Mimecast Email Security. Adaptive, powerful, and feature rich, it is highly adept in detecting and filtering out instances of spoofing and impersonation through DMARC, SPF, and DKIM protocols. It has a high level of customer satisfaction, and is generally easy to use, manage, and deploy. End users have a certain level of agency with a self-service tool that grants them limited control such as the ability to block senders. mWhile Mimecast is more suited to enterprises, more affordable, tailored plans are available for small businesses.

Headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, USA is Proofpoint, a market leader in email security. Their solution, Proofpoint EMail Protection, is a fully featured and integrated email security solution that offers protection from impersonation and spoofing attacks. It is a consolidation of secure email gateway, encryption, management, URL and attachment defense features and more. It’s easily deployable on Microsoft 365, G-Suite, and Exchange mail providers. Admins receive strong granular access policies, flexible yet powerful policy and filter capabilities, and a comprehensive and intuitive interface.

Proofpoint Email Protection Features

• Range of deployment options
• Zero-hour threat protection and protection against phishing, spear phishing, and spoofing attacks
• Spam filtering
• Emergency Inbox allows automatic access to emails when servers are down
• Active Directory Integration
• Admins can also raise user awareness by tagging any emails they think might be an impersonated threat – but can’t be 100% sure. This allows for end-users to check and verify before acting.
• Clean and intuitive interface with extensive reporting and analytics

Pricing: Pricing is supplied via a quotation request.

Expert Insights Comments: Proofpoint Email Protection is adept at safeguarding your business against both spoofing and impersonation-based email threats. The product includes advanced BEC defense which prevents a number of email fraud tactics. This detection engine is AI and machine learning-driven and can analyze header data and subsequent IP packets, sender’s IP address, and the actual content of the email itself for any particularly suspicious words and phrases, or urgent and demanding language. It can also scan for reply-to pivots, malicious IPs, and use of impersonated supplier domains. It is a powerful yet easily and highly scalable solution, making it a firm choice for large enterprises.

Ireland-native TitanHQ is a global leader in the email and web security industry, boasting powerful solutions that are comprehensive as they are impenetrable. TitanHQ’s answer to email security is SpamTitan; it’s an extensive yet powerful solution that focuses on protecting your business from a range of threats, preventing data loss, and blocking spam. It’s a highly deployable solution, merging well with most email servers. It can be deployed via cloud or on-prem.

SpamTitan Features

• Whitelisting and blacklisting reporting
• Data loss prevention supported by outbound scanning and recipient verification
• Advanced threat protection defense is modeled on auto learning and heuristics to prevent more sophisticated attacks, targeting impersonation attacks
• Extensive reporting include spam reporting
• AI phishing protection capabilities which prevent zero-day threats 
• Anti-virus tools
• Easy to manage, deploy, and use with clean dashboards for admins

Pricing: There’s an array of pricing plans dependent on how many users there are. Monthly and yearly payment plans are available. Exact pricing based on needs and company size is supplied via a quotation request.

Expert Insights Comments: SpamTitan is highly successful in blocking most threats before they reach user inboxes, including viruses, malware, ransomware, and spam. The URL protection feature can scan email content for malware-based threats and phishing techniques deploying harmful URLs that, if clicked, can infect servers and steal data. It can block emails based on their content and attached files by searching for any phrasing, language, or tones that may be considered unusual or abnormal. Other features include highly customizable policies (blocklists can be created based on users, domains, and domain groups), sandboxing, and dedicated real-time blacklists. Anti-phishing solutions come in the form of AI-driven technology, which safeguards against phishing, business email compromise, and zero-day attacks. It can also rewrite URLs and give time-of-click analysis to protect URLs that only become harmful after delivery has been completed. We would recommend SpamTitan for SMBs, enterprises, and MSPs.