Enterprise Phishing Protection for UK Organisations
AI-driven detection, automated threat triage and live intelligence. We help UK organisations strengthen Microsoft 365 phishing protection, MSPs deliver managed phishing response and resellers join our partner programme, all built around the Cofense platform.
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Why Choose Wise Fish
Wise Fish is a dedicated phishing-focused resource created by Wise Distribution Ltd, the UK distributor for Cofense. We help UK organisations, MSPs, value added resellers and Microsoft partners make informed decisions about protecting users against modern phishing attacks.
Our role is to educate organisations, explain emerging threats and help businesses evaluate Cofense-powered solutions that complement Microsoft 365, secure email gateways and existing email security investments.
Wise Distribution Ltd
UK Distributor for Cofense
An educational phishing resource, not a software vendor
Supporting end-user organisations, MSPs and value added resellers
Helping you evaluate the right phishing protection strategy, not simply selling software
The Challenge: Phishing Attacks Still Reach Your Inbox
Even with secure email gateways (SEGs), native cloud filters and DMARC in place, modern phishing attacks continue to bypass traditional controls. AI-generated content, business email compromise and credential theft exploit trust rather than technology.
Finance teams, executives and IT administrators are frequently targeted. Poor reporting rates, slow investigation and limited automation mean threats go undetected until damage occurs.
Effective defence requires four essential layers:
Automated Filtering
SEGs and cloud filters block commodity threats
User-Reported Detection
Surface bypassed attacks
AI-Powered Triage
Threat triage and clustering
Autoquarantine & Removal
One-click threat removal across inboxes
How Cofense Helps
As the UK Cofense distributor, Wise Fish helps organisations strengthen phishing detection and response. One-click Outlook reporting, AI-powered threat triage, one-click threat removal and live threat intelligence complement your SEG and Microsoft 365 security to accelerate investigation, cluster threats and remove whole campaigns.
Why Traditional Email Security Is No Longer Enough
Traditional email security was built to block known threats: spam signatures, recognised malicious URLs and virus attachments. Modern attackers use AI-generated phishing that reads naturally, adapts to each recipient and changes faster than signature databases can keep up.
Business email compromise and executive impersonation contain no malware or links, passing straight through gateway filters. QR code phishing (quishing) hides URLs inside images, and smishing moves the attack to SMS. Social engineering bypasses filters because the email looks legitimate to a scanner.
Prevention alone is not enough. Post-delivery detection closes the gap:
The Cofense Platform
One Unified Platform for Modern Phishing Defence
The Cofense Platform combines employee reporting, automated investigation, inbox remediation, threat intelligence and security awareness into one connected defence that helps organisations detect, respond to and reduce phishing risk.
Detect
Gain visibility into phishing attacks that bypass traditional email security using real-world threat intelligence, employee reporting and AI-assisted analysis.
Respond
Investigate, prioritise and remediate phishing threats quickly with automated workflows that help security teams contain attacks before they spread.
Strengthen
Improve reporting behaviour, reduce human risk and build long-term organisational resilience through phishing simulations and security awareness training.
Discover how the complete platform works together to deliver enterprise phishing defence.
Read more about the Cofense PlatformHow Modern Phishing Bypasses Traditional Email Security
A visual breakdown of the modern phishing attack chain and how post-delivery detection closes the gap.
Internet
Threats enter from external sources
SEG
Secure Email Gateway filters known threats
Microsoft Defender
Cloud filters block detected attacks
Inbox
Sophisticated phishing bypasses controls
Employee Reports Email
One-click Outlook reporting
Cofense AI Triage
Automated analysis and clustering
Threat Intelligence
IOC enrichment and campaign correlation
Inbox Remediation
Threats removed from all mailboxes
Organisation Protected
Attack contained, future variants recognised
The Complete Phishing Defence Lifecycle
Eight connected stages that move from detection through to continuous improvement, forming a closed loop.
Detect
Surface threats that bypass filters
Report
Employees flag suspicious emails
Analyse
AI assesses reported messages
Cluster
Related campaigns are grouped
Respond
Threats prioritised and actioned
Remediate
Malicious emails removed
Educate
Awareness reduces future clicks
Improve
Intelligence strengthens detection
How Cofense Complements Your Existing Email Security
Cofense is designed to sit alongside your existing platform, adding post-delivery detection, triage and remediation capabilities that most email security tools do not provide natively.
| Capability | Microsoft Defender | Mimecast | Proofpoint | KnowBe4 | Abnormal Security | Cofense |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Email Filtering | – | – | ||||
| User Reporting | ||||||
| AI Threat Triage | – | |||||
| Threat Clustering | – | – | – | |||
| Threat Intelligence | ||||||
| Inbox Remediation | – | – | ||||
| Awareness Training | – | – | – | |||
| Behaviour Analytics | ||||||
| Response Automation | – | |||||
| Managed Services | – | – | – | – |
Explore the detailed Microsoft Defender comparison, Mimecast comparison, Proofpoint comparison, KnowBe4 comparison and Abnormal Security comparison.
Unified Phishing Defence: AI-Powered Response, Detection and Resilience
Combining AI-powered threat triage, automated response, live threat intelligence and user-reported detection achieves faster resolution and stronger email threat visibility across SEGs, Microsoft 365 and beyond.
AI-Powered Response
Automated triage, autoquarantine and one-click removal across all inboxes. Cluster threats and remove whole campaigns, not just individual emails.
Detection
One-click Outlook reporting surfaces attacks that bypass SEGs and native cloud filters. AI analysis validates and prioritises threats in real time.
Live Threat Intelligence
Human-verified, real-time IOCs from millions of global employee reports. Actionable intelligence improves detection rules and accelerates investigation.
Resilience
Phishing simulations and behavioural analytics feed back into the detection loop, strengthening reporting behaviour and reducing human risk.
Microsoft 365 + Cofense: Complementary, Not Competing
Microsoft Defender filters threats before delivery. Cofense detects, triages and removes the threats that still get through.
Microsoft Defender
Pre-delivery filtering
- Email filtering and anti-spam
- Threat policies and quarantine
- Microsoft 365 native integration
- Automated URL detonation
Cofense Platform
Post-delivery detection and response
- One-click employee phishing reporting
- AI-powered threat triage and clustering
- Campaign-wide inbox remediation
- Phishing simulations and awareness training
Reporting
Employees report what filters miss
Remediation
Threats removed from every inbox
Intelligence
Future variants recognised faster
The Phishing Threat Landscape
Verified statistics from industry-leading research organisations.
91%
Breaches Start with Phishing
3.2x
Annual Phishing Email Increase
1 in 99
Users Click Phishing Links
$4.7M
Average Data Breach Cost
22 hours
Average Breach Detection Time
64%
Phishing Bypasses Email Security
Explore Cofense Technologies
The technologies behind phishing detection, reporting, investigation, remediation and threat intelligence.
Cofense Platform
Complete email threat detection and response.
Unifies employee reporting, automated triage, inbox remediation, live threat intelligence and awareness training into one coordinated enterprise phishing defence workflow.
Cofense Triage
Automated phishing investigation and response.
AI-powered triage that clusters threats, correlates IOCs and enables security teams to remove whole campaigns, not just individual phishing emails.
Cofense Vision
Cross-mailbox threat removal and autoquarantine.
Search, autoquarantine and automatically remove malicious phishing emails from all affected inboxes in a single coordinated action across Microsoft 365 tenants.
Cofense Intelligence
Phishing threat intelligence and IOCs.
Live, human-verified IOCs and campaign intelligence from millions of global employee reports that improve detection rules and accelerate investigation.
Cofense PhishMe
Human risk reduction and behavioural analytics.
Multi-channel phishing simulations, reporting analytics and behavioural insights that strengthen user reporting behaviour and feed directly back into live detection workflows.
Why Buy Through Wise Fish?
As the UK distributor for Cofense, Wise Fish provides the expertise, support and consultative guidance that goes beyond a standard software transaction.
Official UK Cofense Distributor
Direct access to Cofense licensing, vendor expertise and roadmaps without navigating multiple layers.
UK Technical Pre-Sales Support
UK-based support throughout your evaluation, from scoping reporting requirements to designing detection and response workflows.
Microsoft 365 Specialists Partners
Deep expertise in phishing threats across Outlook, Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive, with seamless Cofense integration.
Phishing Maturity Assessments
Structured assessment of your detection, reporting, triage, remediation and human risk to identify gaps and prioritise next steps.
Partner Enablement for MSPs & VARs
Sales enablement, technical training and go-to-market support for partners building recurring managed phishing services.
Local Consultancy & Deployment Services
UK-based deployment guidance from initial configuration through to optimisation and ongoing review.
Want to learn more about our approach? Read about Wise Distribution or speak to a phishing specialist.
Industry-Specific Phishing Risks
Phishing methods, targets and consequences vary by sector. Explore protection guidance for the industries most frequently targeted.
Manufacturing Phishing Protection
Ransomware and supplier fraud across supply chains.
Healthcare Phishing Protection
Patient data at risk from ransomware disruption.
Local Government Phishing Protection
Data breaches across councils and public services.
Education Phishing Protection
Account compromise across large user populations.
Financial Services Phishing Protection
Fraud and targeted attacks across banking.
Legal Sector Phishing Protection
Client data breaches and invoice fraud.
The Human Risk Reduction Loop
How awareness, simulation, reporting and intelligence combine to continuously reduce human phishing risk.
Awareness
Employees learn to spot phishing
Simulation
Realistic tests measure behaviour
Reporting
Suspicious emails are flagged
Threat Intelligence
Reports enrich detection
Better Detection
Triage catches threats faster
Lower Risk
Fewer clicks, faster response
Key Phishing Defence Concepts
What is enterprise phishing protection?
A layered defence combining email filtering with post-delivery detection, user reporting, automated triage, inbox remediation and human risk management. The Cofense platform connects these into one workflow, recognising that BEC, AI phishing and quishing regularly bypass filters.
What is phishing detection & response?
The process of identifying phishing emails that bypass filters, analysing and clustering them, then removing them from all affected mailboxes. It combines user reporting, AI-powered triage and inbox remediation to close the gap between a threat landing and being contained.
What is phishing triage?
The process of analysing reported emails to determine whether they are genuine threats, prioritising them by severity and grouping related messages into campaigns. Cofense Triage automates this with AI, clustering similar reports so teams respond to whole campaigns rather than individual messages.
What is threat clustering?
Threat clustering groups related phishing reports into campaigns by matching IOCs, sender patterns and content fingerprints. Rather than investigating hundreds of individual emails, security teams handle one clustered campaign, dramatically reducing analyst workload and accelerating remediation across the tenant.
What is inbox remediation?
Automatically removing phishing emails from every mailbox they reached after a threat is confirmed, rather than relying on users to delete messages. Cofense Vision searches the entire Microsoft 365 tenant and removes matching threats in a single action, protecting employees who never reported the email.
What is human risk management?
Understanding and reducing the security risk that employee behaviour introduces. By combining phishing simulations, reporting analytics and behavioural data, it identifies which employees or roles are most likely to click and targets training accordingly. Cofense PhishMe delivers measurable, behaviour-driven risk reduction.
Latest Phishing Insights
Practical guidance on modern phishing threats, buyer's guides and platform-specific protection strategies.
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Malicious URLs hidden inside QR codes to bypass email link scanning, increasingly targeting Microsoft 365 users.
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How to evaluate phishing protection platforms, reporting capabilities and remediation workflows.
Read the Phishing Protection Buyer's GuideEnterprise Phishing Protection FAQs
Not Sure Where to Start?
Three ways to move forward, depending on where you are in your phishing defence journey.
Book a Phishing Maturity Assessment
Understand where you stand across detection, reporting, triage, remediation and human risk. We identify gaps and recommend highest-impact next steps.
Ready to Strengthen Phishing Defence Across Your Email Environment?
Speak to a Wise Fish specialist to discuss your phishing maturity, evaluate Cofense and see how AI-powered detection, automated threat triage and live threat intelligence can complement your SEG and Microsoft 365 security.