Case Study: Fortitude Re achieves automated detection of 13K phishing emails and $78K savings with IRONSCALES

Fortitude RE's switch to IRONSCALES boosted email security, training effectiveness, and cost efficiency

Fortitude Re, a reinsurer managing roughly $101 billion in reserves and over 4 million policies, faced relentless, sophisticated phishing and business email compromise (BEC) attacks that targeted new hires and senior staff. Legacy email gateways were too slow and ineffective against these fast-moving threats, so Fortitude Re selected IRONSCALES’ AI-driven email security platform combining proactive phishing detection with integrated security training.

IRONSCALES replaced the existing email security stack with a dynamic solution that also added novel defenses (including malicious QR-code analysis) and ongoing phishing simulations and training. In the first six months IRONSCALES automatically detected and remediated 13,000 phishing emails, drove a 10% increase in employee reporting of simulated phishing, and delivered about $78K in cost savings, materially improving Fortitude Re’s defensive posture.

Fortitude Re

Elliott Franklin

Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer