Sophos Email Monitoring sits behind Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace via API. It catches the business-email compromise, impersonation, payroll-fraud, and supply-chain attacks that get past your primary email security - and lets users report suspicious mail with one click.
Even the best email gateway lets a small fraction of threats through, especially the no-payload social-engineering ones. Email Monitoring catches what slips through - inside the inbox, where most modern attacks now live.
Connects to Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace via Graph API. No MX-record changes, no mail-flow rules, no journaling complexity. Deploy in minutes, not weeks.
Machine-learning models detect business-email-compromise patterns: tone, urgency, payment-redirect language, executive impersonation, abnormal communication patterns.
Catches display-name spoofing, look-alike domains, and homoglyph attacks (CEO@compaĞ¿y.com - that’s a Cyrillic “n”). Built-in directory and contact awareness keeps false positives low.
Spots the “your vendor has been compromised” pattern: legitimate sender, hijacked thread, surprise payment-redirect or password-reset request. The hardest category to filter pre-delivery.
Outlook and Gmail add-ins give users a single button to report suspicious mail. Reports feed back into detection models, train the AI, and trigger automatic remediation across the tenant.
Email detections appear inside Sophos XDR cases alongside endpoint, network, identity, and cloud events. Investigators see the full attack chain - including the email lure that started it.
Traditional email security gateways inspect mail before delivery. That works great for known-bad senders, attachments with malware signatures, and obviously-bad URLs. It works less well for the kind of attack a finance team actually loses money to.
Email Monitoring assumes your primary mail is Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, and adds a layer on top. These are the three patterns we see customers deploy it in.
API-based deployment hooks straight into your tenant. No MX changes, no mail flow rules, no impact on existing tools. Most organizations are protecting their inboxes within an afternoon.
Deployed in an afternoonYou already have Sophos Email (or another email gateway) and want a deeper layer for the threats that always slip through. Email Monitoring sits behind it as the inbox-level second line of defense.
Adds depth, not duplicationNeed a documented record of inbox-level threat visibility, user-reported phish, and remediation actions for SOC 2 / HIPAA / cyber-insurance? Email Monitoring produces the audit trail.
Audit-friendly inbox recordEmail Monitoring works best as a complement to pre-delivery filtering and user awareness training - not as a replacement for either.
Sophos’s primary email security: AI-powered filtering at the gateway level. Most threats get filtered here before they ever reach a user.
User awareness training that teaches your team to spot what gets through. Realistic simulations, bite-sized training modules, and the same one-click report button.
Email Monitoring is included in the Workspace Protection bundle, alongside Endpoint, Mobile, ZTNA, Protected Browser, and DNS Protection. One per-user license.
Request per-user pricing for Email Monitoring, or talk to our team about layering it with your existing email security stack.
