
The Problem
The Threats Getting Through
The Solution
Technical Architecture
Layer 01
External senders
Supplier mailboxes
Brand notifications
Layer 02
External senders
Blocklists
Attachment scanning
Known threats blocked
Layer 03 — CES
Sender behaviour
Language & intent
Identity verification
Link & payload analysis
Anomaly detection
The Difference
Relies on signatures and known threat intelligence
Misses zero-day social engineering attacks
Cannot detect compromised internal accounts
Trusts emails from legitimate domains
User awareness is the last line of defence
Successful attacks often go unnoticed for weeks
Behavioural analysis catches threats with no malware
Zero-day phishing and BEC detected in real time
Account takeover identified through anomaly detection
Lookalike domains and impersonation flagged automatically
24/7 UK SOC investigates and responds for you
Layered protection — keeps existing filtering intact
FAQ
Answers to the questions UK businesses ask us most about Email Security.
Yes. The built-in filters are good at blocking spam and known malware, but most modern phishing carries no malware and is built to look genuine. CES adds a layer that reads behaviour, so it catches business email compromise, impersonation and account takeover that slip past the defaults.
BEC is a scam where an attacker poses as a director, supplier or someone in finance to trick staff into sending money, handing over data or changing bank details. The emails usually have no links or attachments, which is exactly why normal filters miss them.
Old-style gateways work off signatures, sender reputation and blocklists. CES looks at behaviour, wording, intent and identity, so it can flag a message that reads as legitimate but shows the fingerprints of social engineering or a hijacked account.
No. CES sits behind your current protection as an extra layer. You keep your existing spam and malware filtering, and CES picks off the clever attacks that get through it.
Most organisations are protected within one working day. It connects to your mailbox through an API, so there's no hardware, no MX record changes and no interruption to your mail.
Yes. CES watches identity signals and unusual sender behaviour, so a hijacked internal mailbox firing out fake invoices or odd requests gets caught, even though the email comes from a real account.
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