Quick Summary

This article reviews five leading anti-phishing software tools—Proofpoint, Mimecast, Ironscales, Cofense, and Fortra Brand Protection—that protect against email-based threats. We also cover Trustmi, the payment fraud prevention platform that provides the critical layer beyond email security, stopping the financial damage that phishing attacks cause.

Looking for the Right Solution to Phishing Threats?

Phishing attacks are on the rise, and businesses are feeling the financial impact. In 2024, the average cost of a single phishing breach was an estimated $4.88 million, a nearly 10% increase from the previous year.

As cybercriminals become more sophisticated, protecting your business from these threats is no longer optional. Anti-phishing software is crucial for detecting and preventing attacks before they reach your inbox—but email protection alone isn’t enough to stop payment fraud.

In this Trustmi article, we explore the top 5 anti-phishing software options to protect your business from email-based threats, plus Trustmi’s payment fraud prevention platform that stops the financial damage phishing attacks cause.

Why Listen to Us?

At Trustmi, we’ve created a solution that has secured over $200 billion in payments for our clients. So, we understand the phishing threat firsthand. 

Leveraging our experience and expertise, we’ve analyzed the market and reviewed real-world case studies to bring you the best tools for combating modern phishing threats.

What Is Anti-Phishing Software?

Anti-phishing software is a cybersecurity tool that detects and blocks fraudulent attempts to steal sensitive information, such as login credentials or account data, by impersonating trusted sources.

Using techniques like machine learning and pattern recognition, these tools scan emails, websites, and digital communications for signs of phishing, such as fake URLs, malicious attachments, or impersonated senders, preventing threats before they reach your system.

Why Anti-Phishing Software Isn’t Enough to Stop Payment Fraud

The anti-phishing tools reviewed above provide essential protection at the inbox level. They block malicious emails, detect impersonation attempts, and train employees to recognize threats. But here’s the problem: phishing attacks don’t just aim to compromise your email—they aim to steal your money.

Even with the best anti-phishing software in place, sophisticated payment fraud attacks can succeed. Here’s why:

• Phishing is just the entry point. Once attackers gain access through a compromised account or successful social engineering, they move beyond email into your payment systems. They change vendor banking details, impersonate executives to authorize fraudulent payments, and manipulate financial data across multiple platforms.
• Anti-phishing tools lack financial context. Email security solutions can’t see what happens in your ERP, procurement systems, or payment workflows. They can’t detect when a legitimate-looking payment request contains fraudulent banking details, or when vendor information has been subtly altered.
• The fraud happens after the phishing succeeds. By the time attackers are ready to steal money, the phishing email may be long gone. The actual fraud occurs during invoice processing, payment approval, or wire transfers—stages that anti-phishing software doesn’t monitor.

Together, these blind spots create the phishing gap that most financial fraudsters exploit.

Trustmi: The Payment Fraud Prevention Layer That Fills the Gap

Trustmi is not an anti-phishing tool—it’s the next layer of defense.

It’s the payment fraud prevention platform that protects your money from phishing attacks. While anti-phishing software focuses on blocking malicious emails, Trustmi secures your entire payment process—monitoring vendor onboarding & communications, payment workflows, and banking details across your ERP and financial systems.

By integrating directly with ERP, email, procurement, and payment systems, Trustmi’s Behavioral AI works alongside your anti-phishing tools to address the critical gaps in email-only protection:

• Monitors vendor and payment behavior end to end, identifying unusual requests, banking detail changes, or anomalies in approval patterns.
• Understands financial context, distinguishing between legitimate workflow changes and suspicious activity.
• Stops fraud in real time, validating every payment against expected behavior before funds move.

In short: anti-phishing tools secure the inbox; Trustmi secures the money. Together, they create a complete defense—from the first phishing attempt to the final payment approval.

5 Top Anti-Phishing Software Solutions

Now let’s explore the leading anti-phishing software tools that protect your organization at the email level. These five tools provide strong email-level protection against phishing threats.

Now, let’s look at each in detail.

1. Proofpoint 

Best for: Large enterprises needing comprehensive email threat protection with advanced threat intelligence

Proofpoint Core Email Protection is an enterprise-grade solution that defends against email threats like phishing, malware, and spam. Like Trustmi, it offers robust detection, real-time monitoring, and customizable policies, ensuring businesses remain protected from evolving email-based attacks. 

Proofpoint is scalable and integrates smoothly with existing systems for streamlined security. However, unlike Trustmi, its protection doesn’t extend into payment workflows, vendor behavior, or cross-system anomalies that unfold over time.

Key Features

• Analyze Email Traffic: Analyzes over 3.4 trillion email messages annually to detect phishing, spear-phishing, and malware using machine-learning models.
• Stop BEC Attacks: Stops over 124 million business-email-compromise (BEC) attack attempts monthly by profiling normal communication patterns and flagging high-risk deviations.
• Block Malicious URLs: Scans over 21 trillion URLs annually, blocking access to harmful or spoofed websites in real time to prevent credential theft and malware downloads.
• Execute Suspicious Attachments: Runs suspicious attachments in a dynamic sandbox environment to uncover hidden threats that evade signature-based filters.
• Protect Against Impersonation: Enforces DMARC, monitors domain lookalikes, and uses advanced forensics to stop spoofing of corporate domains and executive identities.
• Detect Account Takeovers: Monitors email and cloud app logins, automatically detecting and remediating unauthorized access or hijacked sessions.

Pricing

Proofpoint Core Email Protection offers tailored pricing based on the number of users and required features. Pricing details are available on request.

Pros

• Scalable for growing enterprises with complex needs
• Customizable security policies for tailored protection
• In-depth reporting to enhance overall security posture
• Easy-to-use interface with quick setup

Cons

• Configuration can be complex and time-consuming
• The user interface feels outdated and less intuitive
• Resource-heavy for larger organizations

2. Mimecast Advanced Email Security

Best for: Organizations seeking all-in-one email security with integrated spam filtering, archiving, and continuity features

Mimecast’s Advanced Email Security tool offers comprehensive protection against spam, malware, and phishing. combines human risk management, threat intelligence, and seamless integrations to safeguard inboxes, attachments, and URLs. 

You also get real-time dashboards and employee-focused risk scoring to enable your security teams prioritize high-risk users and stay ahead of evolving email attacks.

Key Features

• Security Awareness: Educates employees with contextual warnings and guidance on risky emails.
• Email Threat Analysis: Processes over 7 billion daily signals to block phishing, BEC, and zero-day attacks.
• Human Risk Correlation: Links user behavior, training outcomes, and risk profiles to prevent human-error exploits.
• Link Inspection: Rewrites and scans URLs at click-time to block malicious sites and prevent credential theft.
• Detonate Attachments: Runs attachments in a multi-layer sandbox to uncover hidden malware.
• Impersonation Prevention: Detects CEO fraud, domain lookalikes, and brand spoofing using behavioral forensics.

Pricing

Mimecast offers tiered subscription plans based on company size and required features. Pricing is customized and you can get a quote on request.  

Pros

• Effectively filters spam and malware
• Easy to use and understand for admins and users
• Clear dashboards for monitoring email threats
• Customizable policies for better control

Cons

• Not as advanced in AI and innovation as competitors
• Support can be difficult to reach or slow to respond
• Administration and policy changes are clunky
• Limited encryption options for internal emails

3. IRONSCALES

Best for: Organizations wanting AI-driven phishing protection combined with employee training and crowdsourced threat intelligence

IRONSCALES is an AI-powered anti-phishing platform that integrates threat detection, automated response, and real-time employee training across inboxes. It uses adaptive machine learning to analyze email metadata, content, and behavioral signals to block phishing, BEC, deepfake, and account takeover attacks before they reach users. 

You also get mailbox-level APIs that continuously deliver threat intelligence with Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 integration, while the autonomous SOC automation remediates incidents in real time. 

Key Features

• Adaptive AI Threat Detection: Uses machine learning to identify and block phishing, BEC, deepfake, QR code, and GenAI-based attacks in real-time.
• Deepfake Protection: Detects AI-generated voice, video, and text impersonation attempts, protecting against the latest social engineering tactics.
• Continuous Threat Intelligence: Aggregates global signals and dark-web feeds to enhance detection and adapt defenses as threats evolve.
• Rapid Incident Remediation: Neutralizes malicious emails within minutes, quarantining threats and reversing harmful actions before they escalate.
• Extensive Ecosystem Integrations: Seamlessly connects with SIEM, SOAR, ticketing systems, and collaboration tools to streamline workflows and incident management.

Pricing

IRONSCALES offers flexible plans for SMBs, enterprises, and MSPs. 

• MSPs can choose from Ironscales Protect, Email Protect, Complete Protect, and Security Awareness Training Suite Plans. 
• SMBs and Enterprises can choose from Ironscales Protect, Email Protect, and Complete Protect.

The exact quotes for each plan is available on request. 

Pros

• Effective at blocking phishing and spam emails
• Uses AI for real-time threat detection and automated responses
• User-friendly interface that simplifies management
• Offers real-time phishing simulation and training for employees

Cons

• Some integration challenges with existing platforms
• Security awareness training needs further improvement
• Complex setup process requiring technical expertise

4. Cofense PDR

Best for: Enterprises seeking phishing detection powered by crowdsourced intelligence from millions of global sensors

Cofense PDR is an advanced phishing detection and response platform that combines human insights with AI precision to neutralize phishing threats that bypass perimeter defenses. 

It relies on data from over 35 million global sensors to provide businesses with near-instant threat identification, automated containment, and actionable intelligence. You can easily integrate it with your existing email security systems to reduce dwell time and remediate phishing incidents with exceptional speed and accuracy.

Key Features 

• Global Human Sensor Network: Taps into a crowdsourced network of 35 million sensors, providing proactive threat intelligence and early warning of emerging phishing campaigns.
• Precision Clustering & Triage: Uses YARA rule matching, threat clustering, and click-tracking analytics to prioritize high-risk phishing emails for streamlined containment.
• Customized AI-Driven Spam Filtering: Utilizes machine-learning models to block benign alerts, allowing security teams to focus on genuine, high-risk threats.
• Proactive Threat Intelligence Sharing: Centralizes and shares real-time phishing intelligence, enriching detection engines to adapt to evolving attacker tactics.
• Supervised AI Accuracy: Achieves 99.998% detection accuracy by continuously learning from real-world phishing examples reported by users.

Pricing

Cofense offers customized pricing based on company size and required features. Contact the Cofense sales team for a tailored quote.

Pros

• Easy to use, irrespective of technical floor
• Centralized dashboard tracking phishing campaigns and employee risk
• Seamless integration with existing email security systems
• Global signals and real-time updates for central intelligence

Cons

• Complex initial setup may require dedicated time and resources
• Limited customization for certain features, such as phishing simulations
• Resource-intensive for larger organizations, requiring more management 

5. Fortra Brand Protection

Best for: Organizations needing comprehensive brand protection across email, social media, and the dark web

Fortra Brand Protection (formerly Phishlabs), is another comprehensive digital risk protection platform that specializes in disrupting phishing and brand impersonation attacks. 

It does this by combining continuous domain monitoring, social media surveillance, and dark web intelligence, nipping those threats in the bud before they impact your organizations. Its integrated takedown services swiftly remove fraudulent domains and phishing websites, while real-time analytics give security teams the insights needed to stay ahead of evolving attacks.

Key Features

• Phishing Site Detection & Takedown: Rapidly detects phishing websites mimicking your brand and coordinates their swift removal to limit exposure.
• Customer Phishing Protection: Prevents phishing pages targeting customer accounts, safeguarding against credential theft, account takeover, and data breaches.
• Dark Web Monitoring: Tracks underground forums, paste sites, and marketplaces to identify stolen PII, compromised credentials, and other indicators of phishing risks.
• Counterfeit & Brand Fraud Protection: Identifies unauthorized ads, counterfeit sites, and fake storefronts to protect your brand from phishing traps.
• Automated Takedown Coordination: Coordinates with domain registrars, hosting providers, and law enforcement to accelerate the removal of malicious domains and phishing content.

Pricing

Phishlabs provides tailored pricing based on company size and feature requirements. For a personalized quote, reach out to the Phishlabs sales team.

Pros

• Easy-to-use platform for phishing detection and reporting
• Protects against brand impersonation and social media threats
• Customizable phishing simulations and employee training  
• Effective incident response, reducing operational disruptions
  

Cons

• Limited advanced features compared to leading competitors
• Some false positives reported, leading to unnecessary alerts
• Customization of alerts can be tricky for new users

Get Complete Protection: Anti-Phishing + Payment Fraud Prevention

We’ve explored 5 top anti-phishing tools, each offering unique features and benefits. From AI-powered threat detection to comprehensive training and reporting capabilities, these tools provide essential protection against phishing attacks. 

But to stop the payment fraud that phishing attacks enable, you need Trustmi’s payment-level protection. Trustmi works alongside your anti-phishing tools to secure the critical payment processes that email security can’t reach.

Together, anti-phishing software and Trustmi’s payment fraud prevention provide complete protection—from the inbox to the bank account.

Request a demo today to see how Trustmi stops payment fraud that originates from phishing attacks.