Email Security Services
The email attacks that work are the ones your gateway didn't catch.
Ninety-five percent of successful cyberattacks start with a phishing email, and the ones that get through are rarely the obvious ones. It's the CEO impersonation asking finance for a wire transfer, the DocuSign lookalike that grabs your CFO's credentials, the login page that isn't quite what it claims to be. Traditional gateways are built to scan code, but attackers write for the human reading the message. That's the gap.
Dynamic Quest deploys Inky Advanced, which uses computer vision to see email the way your users do and educates them in real time when something isn't right.
Source: Verizon 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report identifies phishing and pretexting as the leading initial-access vector in confirmed breaches.
What most email security misses
Most email security stops at the obvious: known malware, flagged domains, and spam patterns. That's not where the real risk lives anymore. Today's successful attacks are built specifically to avoid detection.
- Brand impersonation – Lookalike domains and near-identical login pages that pattern-matching tools can't distinguish from the real thing
- First-time senders – An email from someone claiming to be your CEO, sent from a personal account, that's still technically a legitimate message
- QR-code phishing – The malicious link is hidden inside an image, so link scanners never see it
- Payload-free attacks – No attachment, no bad link, just a convincing request for a wire transfer or a password reset
- AI-generated phishing – Written well enough to pass as routine business correspondence
Inky Advanced catches these attacks. It applies computer vision and machine learning to detect what pattern-matching misses and displays real-time warnings that coach users to pause before acting.
What Inky Advanced does
Inky Advanced provides these capabilities for Microsoft 365 email accounts.
- Computer vision brand-spoof detection – Inky renders every email the same way your users see it, then applies computer vision to detect brand impersonation such as fake login pages, spoofed document-signing requests, and lookalike domains. Pattern-matching gateways miss these. Inky catches them.
- AI-powered threat detection – Machine learning models trained on billions of emails identify phishing, malware, and business email compromise attempts that never appeared before, including zero-day attacks that signature-based tools cannot see.
- Real-time user coaching – When Inky sees something suspicious, it embeds a colored banner into the email: gray for informational, yellow for caution, and red for danger, with a plain-language explanation of what triggered the warning. Users learn as they read their mail. This way, IT teams stop being the only line of defense.
- One-click phish reporting – When a user reports a suspicious email, Inky pulls similar messages from other inboxes, updates the model, and closes the gap across your entire environment.
- Graymail and signature management – Newsletters and low-priority marketing emails are routed automatically. Email signatures stay consistent across the organization without asking users to update anything.
Who Inky Advanced protects
Not every business faces the same level of email risk. Inky Advanced tends to matter most for organizations like the following:
- Organizations whose users receive mail from external customers, vendors, and partners, and who are frequent targets for impersonation
- Regulated industries where a successful phishing attack becomes a reportable breach: healthcare, financial services, credit unions, professional services
- Businesses whose cyber insurance policy asks specific questions about email security controls, user training, and phishing response
- Any organization with a leadership team that is a plausible target for CEO fraud, wire transfer impersonation, or business email compromise
What DQ's managed deployment includes
Inky Advanced only works if it's tuned, maintained, and watched. Our managed deployment covers all of it:
- Platform licensing and provisioning across your email environment
- Initial configuration tuned to your organization's mail patterns
- Ongoing rule maintenance and threat model updates as attacks evolve
- Integration with DQ's Managed Detection and Response service where both are deployed, so a phishing event that gets past email flows straight to the SOC
Have your email security stress-tested
A thirty-minute conversation with a DQ security engineer is enough to see what's actually getting through your current email security and whether Inky Advanced is the right next step or something else needs attention first. No hard sell if you're already covered.