MailBond™ adds real-time threat intelligence directly inside Microsoft Outlook — scanning links, attachments, QR codes, image-only lures, sender authentication, and look-alike domains in seconds. No MX changes. Deploy in minutes.
91% of cyberattacks begin with a phishing email. Financial institutions now face QR-code phishing, image-only lures, brand look-alikes, and social-engineering attacks that bypass traditional gateway filters.
Lost to Business Email Compromise in 2023 alone (FBI IC3)
Of cyberattacks start with a phishing email targeting employees
Increase in financial sector phishing attacks since 2020
MailBond™ doesn't rely on a single technique. Every scan runs independent detection engines for links, QR codes, image text, sender authentication, social engineering, and visual risk explanation.
Every URL is unwrapped, normalized, resolved through redirects, and scored against heuristics, Google Web Risk, PhishTank, and look-alike-domain detection.
QR and barcode payloads are decoded from image attachments and rendered email-body screenshots, then URL-shaped payloads are checked like any other link.
Verifies sender authentication headers to detect spoofed domains and forged sender identities before your team is exposed.
Originating IPs are checked against Spamhaus, SpamCop, and Barracuda blocklists to flag messages from known-bad infrastructure.
Social-engineering heuristics detect urgency, invoice pressure, brand impersonation, and forwarded lures; OCR surfaces text and URLs hidden inside images.
Extracted URLs, OCR-discovered URLs, and QR-decoded URLs are checked against PhishTank and Google Web Risk without sending email bodies or attachments.
Dangerous flags appear as bold red bubbles, suspicious indicators as orange bubbles, and low-context observations as gray chips so users see why an email is risky.
Security teams see scan history, risk trends, per-user activity, org-wide sender blocks, and customer exports for compliance and response workflows.
MailBond works where your team works — directly inside Microsoft Outlook. No switching tabs, no separate portals.
An employee receives an email with links or attachments that seem unusual. Instead of guessing, they click the MailBond button in their Outlook toolbar.
Links are unwrapped. QR codes are decoded. Image text is OCR scanned. Attachments are sandboxed. Headers are verified. Content is analyzed for social engineering.
A clear report appears with a 0-100 score, red/orange/gray risk bubbles, decoded QR payloads, link verdicts, authentication results, and a visual map of the email.
Traditional email gateways operate at the perimeter. MailBond adds a critical last-mile defense layer directly at the point of click.
| Capability | MailBond™ | Microsoft Defender | Proofpoint / Mimecast |
|---|---|---|---|
| Real-time link analysis at click | ✓ | ✓ | Partial |
| Attachment sandboxing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SPF / DKIM / DMARC verification | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sender IP reputation (DNSBL) | ✓ | Partial | ✓ |
| Social engineering / BEC detection | ✓ | Partial | Partial |
| PhishTank integration | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| QR / quishing detection | ✓ | ✗ | Varies |
| OCR for image-only lures | ✓ | Partial | Partial |
| Look-alike-domain detection | ✓ | Partial | Partial |
| Visual risk bubbles for users | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| User-initiated on-demand scan | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Deploy without MX / gateway changes | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Org-wide sender block from admin dashboard | ✓ | Policy-dependent | ✓ |
| Works alongside existing security stack | ✓ | N/A | ✗ |
| Minutes to deploy (no IT project) | ✓ | Varies | ✗ |
No hidden fees. No per-incident charges. Predictable cost that scales with your organization.
Designed with regulated teams in mind. Audit logs, 90-day minimized scan history, customer exports, and per-user reporting help support security and examiner inquiries.
Runs on Microsoft Azure with encrypted storage, automated backups, monitoring, and inherited Azure platform compliance controls.
One Outlook button returns a plain-language report with red, orange, and gray risk bubbles. Users understand the concern without reading a security report.
Most organizations are up and running in under 15 minutes. MailBond is deployed through Microsoft 365 admin center — no MX record changes, no gateway reconfiguration, no agents to install on endpoints.
No — MailBond is designed to complement your existing stack. It adds a user-facing last-mile defense layer that works alongside Microsoft Defender, Proofpoint, Mimecast, or any gateway solution. Think of it as the safety net after everything else.
MailBond supports Outlook on the web, Outlook on Windows (new and classic), Outlook on Mac, and Outlook on iOS/Android. Some advanced features like email header analysis require desktop or web Outlook.
MailBond uses the ReadItem permission only — it can read the currently selected email's content, links, attachments, and headers. It cannot access your mailbox, send emails, or modify anything. Each scan request is ephemeral: content is validated, analyzed, returned as a verdict, and destroyed. Only minimized scan metadata is retained for up to 90 days to power your dashboard, audit log, scan history, and export features.
Yes. MailBond was designed with financial institutions in mind. We provide audit logs, scan history exports, per-user analytics, org-wide sender controls, and clear data retention controls. Request content is not persisted; minimized scan metadata is retained for up to 90 days, can be exported before purge, and can be deleted on request. Our infrastructure runs on Microsoft Azure, which maintains SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications for covered Azure services; MailBond does not currently hold its own SOC 2 attestation.
Yes. Users can scan any email in their inbox on demand by clicking the MailBond button in the Outlook ribbon. This is particularly valuable for emails that bypass gateway filters or internal phishing simulations.
Pricing is per user per month, billed annually. You only pay for users who need access to the add-in. Volume discounts are available for organizations with 200+ users.
Schedule a personalized demo and see MailBond analyze a real email in your environment — live.