The Hidden Gaps in SEG Protection

Each missed phishing email costs an average of $36.29 to investigate and remediate.

SEG miss rates range from 38.4 to 101 phishing emails per 100 mailboxes monthly.

Secure Email Gateways (SEGs) are missing an average of 67.5 phishing emails per 100 mailboxes every month. This analysis is based on actual phishing emails that bypassed SEG defences and were detected by the IRONSCALES email security platform.

Organisations with fewer than 100 mailboxes experience up to 7.5x more missed phishing attacks than large enterprises.

Each missed phishing email takes 27.5 minutes of analyst time

Over 65% of missed phishing emails across SEGs are vendor scams and credential theft.