IRONSCALES

IRONSCALES has achieved the highest Gartner Peer Insights rating in the email security category with a genuinely rare 100% willingness to recommend score, and the reason becomes clear once you look at the incident response model specifically. Where most email security vendors detect and quarantine, IRONSCALES removes a malicious email from every affected mailbox across the organisation the moment one user reports it, turning remediation from a manual investigation into an automatic action. The collaborative threat intelligence model, where a phishing pattern reported by any customer improves detection across the entire IRONSCALES base within minutes, compounds this speed advantage further.

The honest limitation is compliance documentation depth, which trails Proofpoint's decades of regulatory reporting experience, and IRONSCALES carries less brand recognition in the largest enterprise procurement processes that default to established names.

The verdict: IRONSCALES is right for organisations of any size wanting the highest-rated email security platform with the fastest, most automated phishing remediation available. Large enterprises needing the most extensive compliance documentation should evaluate Proofpoint alongside it.

Last reviewed: September 2026

Strongest: Threat detection quality

Watch out for: Threat & compliance reporting

Best for

Organisations of any size wanting the highest-rated email security platform with the fastest, most automated phishing remediation available.

Not suitable for: Large enterprises requiring the most extensive regulatory compliance documentation and reporting depth built over decades.