Gen 1: Rules and reputation
- Known signaturesNo match
- Sender reputationTrusted
- Attachment scanClean
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Chief Executive Officer
SVP of Security Awareness at Proofpoint, a ~$200M business. Part of the exec team that scaled McAfee Consumer from $1B to $2B in 7 years.
Chief Commercial Officer
GVP & GM of Human Risk at Proofpoint, the same ~$200M business, renamed. Global strategy & alliances at McAfee Consumer.
Chief Product Officer
Built email security for 15 years, from MailDistiller through its acquisition by Proofpoint, then at FireEye. Ran threat-intelligence products at Mandiant and Google, building for the world’s most security conscious companies.
Chief Technology Officer
Pioneered malware sandboxing at FireEye, which exposed attacks by watching what they did. Now architects TRACE, which exposes AI-generated attacks by reasoning about what they’re trying to do.
"We didn't build StrongestLayer because we saw an opportunity. We built it because we ran the teams that built the last generation of email security, and we know exactly where it breaks."
Previously at ProofpointMcAfeeGoogleMandiantFireEye / Trellix
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Invoice fraud scenario. An email from ar@acmelogistics.com with the subject “Updated banking details for Q3 invoice”.
What your filters saw: reputation trusted, signatures no match, attachment clean, dmarc pass, links none. Nothing for a rule or model to fire on.
What TRACE read: “…please use our updated banking details for all Q3 invoices before quarter close.”
Evidence agents found 3 evasion techniques: Real Acme mailbox, first-ever bank change ask (delivery trust); Asks AP to switch bank details by quarter-end (cognitive exploit); Clean PDF, but it carries the new bank details (pretext).
Your context: Acme: same remittance for 3 years; Quarter-end: extra scrutiny; Bank changes need a call-back.
TRACE’s reasoning: “Real vendor mailbox, but a first-ever bank change at quarter-end. Your AP policy requires a call-back, and none is referenced. Verdict: payment diversion.”
Intent: Redirect a vendor payment. Evasion: A trusted vendor mailbox. Personalization: Knows your vendor and cycle.
Verdict: detected, payment diversion. Pulled from inbox in ~30 sec. Reasoning logged.
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Hi Alex,
Payment for Q3 invoice #4417 cleared on our side this morning. Thank you for the quick turnaround.
A stamped copy is attached for your records. No changes to our remittance details.
Best,
Dana Reeves · Accounts Receivable, Acme Logistics
0.4%
of alerts were false positives
StrongestLayer deployment data, ~5,000-seat customer, 2026.
33 → 4
investigations a day
StrongestLayer deployment data, ~5,000-seat customer, 2026.
660 → 8
minutes of investigation a day
StrongestLayer deployment data, ~5,000-seat customer, 2026.
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"With generative AI, attackers craft highly convincing, targeted messages at scale, making traditional defenses obsolete. The real risk is in every human decision that follows."
347 AI attacks caught in 10 days that the gateway missed.
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"Using an AI model to detect and quarantine phishing emails is far better than relying on the user to catch them. It helps us in the areas where our users have fallen short."
Reasoning this sharp raises a fair question: what are the models learning from? Not your mail. It's built into the architecture, not just written into a policy.
No customer email trains or fine-tunes a model, ever. Model weights stay fixed.
Safe mail is discarded the moment it's cleared. No logs, backups or snapshots of its content.
Inference runs on AWS Bedrock in US regions. AWS is our only subprocessor.
All customer data deleted within 90 days, confirmed in writing.
3.6%
CEO fraud, vendor-invoice redirect, payroll and W-2 fraud. The rest is noise that fills the queue.
86%
Attackers build on trusted domains and platforms. Authentication says who sent it, not whether it's safe.
4.1
Drawn from the 22 techniques in our Email Evasion Taxonomy. A filter that checks one at a time misses the combination.
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