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MailRisk

Instantly helpful reporting and feedback for suspicious emails

Illustration showing a suspicious email and a MailRisk prompt. Illustration showing a suspicious email and a MailRisk prompt.

Give everyone a chance to practice cybersecurity

With just one click, anyone on your team can contribute to making your organization more resilient against cyberattacks.

MailRisk automatically analyzes phishing, spam, and scam emails, and gives your colleagues feedback on their action - on the spot. 

The handy button is always available in their inbox, making security a visible, actionable, and rewarding part of their daily routine.  

Illustration showing the location of the MailRisk icon in an email app.

How MailRisk works

Email remains one of the top tactics cybercriminals use to hijack people’s attention and trick potential victims into acting against their better judgement. 

Making it easy, comfortable, and rewarding to flag risky emails is an incredibly effective way to stimulate contribution - and make cybersecurity a positive experience for everyone.

Automated analysis for email-focused social engineering attacks

The MailRisk button sits in the toolbar of your email application, whether you’re using the desktop app, webmail, or the mobile application.

Every time someone checks an email, we automatically search for similar emails your colleagues flagged as suspicious and also check it against other sources of data. 

When we find a match, you get immediate confirmation of how your action contributed to the organization’s safety - and your own!

Illustration showing how users are instantly rewarded with points for reporting an email in-app.

Individual reports that boost team-wide protection

MailRisk identifies if a phishing campaign targets multiple people in your company through their reports. And when you integrate this threat data into spam filters, it helps block these dangerous emails from reaching anyone else on the team.

People can also add context to their reports, making it easier for IT and security teams to make informed decisions with no extra effort.

Illustration of a user receiving a message to say their email report will be investigating – an example of how users receive feedback.

Richer, higher-quality email threat data for your security program

Instant feedback engages people to flag suspicious emails more often, boosting reporting rates by as much as 50 times. 

We use real-time machine learning for correlation and classification to analyze this data in our EU-based, privacy-first cloud platform which exceeds GDPR standards. 

This automatically gives IT and security teams a goldmine of crowdsourced threat data they can use to find entry points that attackers leverage. 

What you can achieve with MailRisk

People found MailRisk instantly useful, and reporting rates went up. MailRisk lowers the threshold for getting help, but instead of creating more work for us, we are now almost completely rid of manual submissions to our helpdesk.
Mari Nygaard Simonsen Head of Threat and Vulnerability Management at Intility

Start with the smallest action everyone can take

When using MailRisk to check an email, your colleagues get the help they need while also helping others. This instant reward ensures they always have a positive experience with cybersecurity.  

These familiar tools and simple actions earn people’s trust, involvement, and develop their confidence around making good security decisions.

Manage risk with the entire Secure Practice toolkit

MailRisk data becomes even more valuable when combined with simulated phishing or added into your threat hunting program.

Anonymous behavioral data from all these activities - and more - turn into human risk metrics which define risk areas you can address through targeted micro-courses.

Plus, this anonymized data is your secret sidekick for seamless compliance and certification processes.

MailRisk FAQ

Yes! 

You can get MailRisk in the language you prefer to make it as easy and familiar for everyone in your organization to use it. 

The rest of the Secure Practice platform is available in English and Norwegian, but you can customize and translate all resources and exercises you deliver to your team into their native language.

If your organization uses the Office 365 email client, they can use the MailRisk button from the dedicated iOS or Google Play app. 

For organizations that use the on-premise Exchange email client, we offer a workaround to the restrictions from Microsoft: using the Outlook Web Access (OWA) client in the web browser. 

Here is the full guide on how to use MailRisk on mobile devices.

Yes.

This is necessary to perform a thorough enough analysis to keep up with the latest cyberthreats. When you click the MailRisk button, the email you are looking to analyze is collected by Secure Practice.

We do this based on a written agreement with your employer, which describes in detail how we are allowed to process this data.

MailRisk is supposed to work as automatically as possible. However, certain suspicious emails require manual analysis during which an authorized security expert will specifically open your email for review.

In addition, if your reported email contains a particular threat, it may be reviewed by staff who are looking to build the best protections for the future.

Should your email not include any threat, its contents will be hidden from any staff unless they make a specific request to unlock its contents. In such cases, these requests are logged for accountability.

Anyone can change their mind, and we make sure that this is easy to do in MailRisk.

Simply open MailRisk, and click the menu button at the top right corner. Here you will find a list of emails you have analyzed. 

Click the email you would like to revoke data for, and click «Withdraw report» to delete any data.

Firstly, we only collect email data from emails which you specifically choose to analyze. 

If we cannot find any particular threat, the email contents will be automatically deleted after a number of days, as configured by your employer.

MailRisk is not a spam filter, but a supplement to this type of security technology and a source of data for it. 

Security teams can choose to use MailRisk data in a way that suits their needs, including through the API we provide.