Last updated 7 November 2026
Spam filter, cloud email security, training, or Antilure
Where is your mail read, and what does a person see at the moment of the click? This page compares four ways a small company protects its people from phishing: the spam filter in its mail service, cloud email security, awareness training and Antilure, by what each one does, without naming vendors.
Four approaches, side by side
| Spam filter in your mail service | Cloud email security | Awareness training | Antilure | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where your mail is read | On the provider's servers | On the vendor's servers | It isn't: training works on people | On your computer |
| Who runs it | Your mail provider | The vendor, connected to your mail service by IT | IT, with a training vendor's courses and test emails | Each computer runs it; a company can add its own console |
| What the person sees at the moment of the click | Nothing, once a message is in the inbox | A banner at most | What they remember from the last course | A warning inside the message, with the reason, phrase by phrase |
| A targeted message with no link | Rarely caught | Depends on the product | Depends on what people remember | Wording and sender signals, explained |
| Hidden instructions for AI assistants | No | Not stated | Doesn't look at the mail | Found, shown, and flagged so an assistant does not act on them |
| What IT receives | The provider's admin reports | The messages and verdicts, in the vendor's console | Course and test results | With a console: the verdict, the sender's domain, the time and the tactics found; never the mail |
| Price model | Included with the mail service | Per mailbox, usually monthly | Per person, usually yearly | Personal free for the first year, then US$24 a year; Team and Business per seat, on the pricing page |
| Needs an IT team | No | Yes | Someone to run the campaigns | No |
What Antilure adds to what you have
If you have a spam filter only
Your mail service already stops most bulk spam and known malware before it reaches you. What gets through is the message written for you: a supplier's new bank details, a sign-in page that looks right. Antilure reads that message on your computer and says, inside it, what not to do and why.
If you pay for cloud email security
Cloud email security reads your company's mail on the vendor's servers and removes much of what it catches. Antilure adds the moment of the click: a warning inside the message, with the phrase or link that triggered it, and the mail stays on the computer. Your console receives metadata only.
If you run awareness training
Training teaches people what a scam looks like, once or twice a year. The scam arrives on an ordinary afternoon, between two other emails, from a name they trust. Antilure is there at that moment, inside the message, pointing at the deadline, the threat or the changed bank details the course described.
Antilure is a layer on top of the filter your company already has: keep the filter, and add the warning at the moment someone reads the mail.