KnowBe4 says Defend ranked first across all three incremental detection metrics in Microsoft's latest email security benchmark, which tested seven integrated cloud email security (ICES) solutions on live Defender customer data. Defend caught 1.11% of malicious emails that Microsoft Defender missed, versus a 0.30% average, which is 3.7 times more than the average add-on. Its 0.65% overlap with Defender was the lowest measured. Defend also accounted for 16.92% of malicious emails removed after delivery, more than double the average. KnowBe4 says the product reads behavior and relationships, not just payloads, and Defend also led on spam and promotional email detection, with 1.88% and 65.24% incremental uplift.
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