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.
MailBond evaluates suspicious links at scan time using layered reputation, redirect, and impersonation signals so users get a clear verdict before they click.
MailBond looks for QR-based lures in message content and supported attachments, then treats discovered destinations with the same caution as visible links.
Uses available sender-authentication signals to help identify spoofed domains and forged sender identities before your team is exposed.
Sender and infrastructure signals help flag suspicious delivery patterns, unusual origins, and messages that deserve extra scrutiny.
MailBond reviews visible text, image-only lures, and common social-engineering patterns so users see the risk context in plain language.
Potentially risky destinations are checked against trusted threat-intelligence sources without sending email bodies or attachment content to those services.
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 risk scores, primary reasons, attachment counts, sender and recipient identity controls, and approximate public mail-relay location alongside trends, seat usage, and CSV exports.
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.
MailBond checks links, supported attachments, image-based lures, sender signals, and social-engineering context using a layered cloud analysis workflow.
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 analysis / sandboxed preview | Business+ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SPF / DKIM / DMARC verification | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sender IP reputation (DNSBL) | ✓ | Partial | ✓ |
| Social engineering / BEC detection | ✓ | Partial | Partial |
| Independent threat-intelligence enrichment | ✓ | Partial | Partial |
| QR / quishing detection | Business+ | ✗ | Varies |
| OCR for image-only lures | Business+ | Partial | Partial |
| Look-alike-domain detection | ✓ | Partial | Partial |
| Visual risk bubbles for users | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| User-initiated on-demand scan | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Deploy without MX / gateway changes | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Per-message risk evidence and guidance | ✓ | Varies | Varies |
| 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.
MailBond is currently undergoing a SOC 2 audit.
Runs on Microsoft Azure with private Key Vault and backup endpoints, managed-identity backups, encrypted storage, 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. Mobile users receive inline scan results with a safe visual preview and tappable link hotspots. 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, supported attachments, sender and recipient context, and available headers. It cannot browse other mailbox items, send or modify mail, or access calendars, contacts, tasks, rules, or mailbox settings. Each scan request is ephemeral: content is validated, analyzed, returned as a verdict, and destroyed. Production scan logs retain a timestamp, tier, risk score, primary reason, attachment count, sender and recipient domains, and an available validated public sender mail-relay IP for up to 90 days. Authorized tenant administrators may opt in to encrypted full-address retention for 7 or 30 days with bounded extensions up to one year. Subjects, URLs, attachment names or content, headers, screenshots, OCR text, and decoded QR payloads are never persisted.
Yes. MailBond was designed with financial institutions in mind and is currently undergoing a SOC 2 audit. We provide minimized scan-history exports, per-user analytics, seat management, and explicit data-retention controls. Every selected message proceeds through analysis regardless of sender. 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.
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.
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