Phishing Protection for Business in New York

Name: HIFENCE
Address: 1216 Broadway, Floor 2, New York, NY, 10001, US
Telephone: +1 (332) 241-6493

Over 90% of attacks start with an email. One program closes that door: email security hardening, phishing simulations, security awareness training, and the payment controls that stop BEC fraud - so one click does not become a wire transfer.

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Why HIFENCE?

to cut off a BEC attack in progress

€300k

payment fraud stopped in that single case

breaches across active HIFENCE clients

years of industry experience

The program is built by specialists who are also certified in offensive security - people who write phishing lures the way real attackers do, not the way a template library does.

Anti-phishing services for New York businesses

Usually, phishing gets on the agenda for a concrete reason: finance almost paid a fake invoice, your cyber insurance questionnaire asks about phishing simulations and security awareness training, a large customer wants proof that employees are trained, or a company you know just wired money to the wrong account.

If that sounds familiar, you probably also recognize the questions this program exists to answer:

If a vendor emailed your bookkeeper new bank details today, would the payment go out - or would somebody pick up the phone first?
Is MFA actually enforced on every mailbox - including shared inboxes and the executives who asked for an exception?
Would the employee who clicked report it within minutes, or hide it for a week?
Could you show your insurer documented awareness training from the last 12 months?

HIFENCE works from New York with US companies of roughly 50–300 employees - big enough to be worth defrauding, rarely big enough to have a full-time security team.

How the phishing protection program works

1. Initial call (30 minutes, free)

We map how email and payments actually work in your company: Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, who approves wire transfers, what protection you already have. This is also where we tell you honestly what you need - if a configuration fix and one training session cover it, we say so.

2. Email security hardening review

We review the doors attackers use before any lure is sent: SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, MFA coverage on every mailbox, forwarding and mailbox rules, admin access, external-sender tagging. A baseline phishing simulation measures where you actually start. Nothing goes offline - the review does not disrupt operations.

3. Train, test, repeat

Security awareness training in plain language, recurring phishing simulations that track progress campaign over campaign, and payment verification procedures built with your finance team - so the email that gets past the filter still dies before the money moves.

The hardening review typically takes 1–2 weeks from access. Simulations and training then run as a recurring program - most teams settle into a quarterly rhythm.

The first step is a 30-minute call.

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Phishing simulation and security awareness training: what you get

Email security hardening report - what we checked, what is exposed, and the fixes in priority order: SPF/DKIM/DMARC, MFA gaps, risky forwarding and mailbox rules, admin access. One part for management, a technical annex for IT.
Phishing simulations - a baseline campaign, then recurring campaigns modeled on what attackers actually send. You see click rate, credential-entry rate, and - the number that matters most - report rate, tracked over time and by department.
Security awareness training - live sessions in plain language, built from your own simulation results, and documented: the evidence insurers, enterprise customers, and SOC 2 auditors ask for, and the workforce training HIPAA explicitly requires.
BEC and payment-fraud controls - a payment verification procedure your finance team can actually follow: callback rules for changed bank details, approval steps for unusual transfers, and the red flags that precede invoice fraud.
Some of the fixes can be implemented by your own IT team the same week. We tell you exactly which ones - the report is not tied to future services.

BEC prevention: stop the fraud, not just the click

Business email compromise is the attack your spam filter is structurally blind to: no malware, no strange link - just a credible email, often from the genuinely compromised mailbox of a real vendor, asking finance to update bank details or rush a payment. Blocking it takes layers: hardened identities so mailboxes are difficult to take over, an out-of-band verification step before any payment detail changes, and people who have seen the trick before.

This is not theory for us. When The Lovely Works, a video production company, called HIFENCE, attackers already had active access to their email systems and a EUR 300,000 fraud was in progress. We cut off the access within 4 hours, operations resumed in 2 days - and what we built for them afterward is the program on this page: MFA everywhere, payment verification procedures, anti-phishing training.

Read the full case study →

“We had a serious case of business email compromise - someone hacked our email. When something like that happens, it is serious; a company can shut down over it. Daniel from HIFENCE solved the problem in the first hours, better than either of the two providers we had worked with before: he went straight to the core of the problem and left us with clear standards for security and for how we work over email from now on.”

— Andrea Heatherington, Owner & Senior Producer, The Lovely Works

Living through something like this right now? That is incident response - start there, and come back to prevention once the attackers are out.

What this program is not

On the market, “phishing protection” covers almost anything from a mail-filter license to a yearly slideshow nobody remembers.

So you know exactly what you are buying, we are just as clear about what you do not get:

It is not another filter license.

We do not sell email security products, licenses, or hardware. We harden the platform you already pay for - Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace - and our recommendations do not depend on any vendor.

It is not about tricking and shaming employees.

Simulations measure how the company responds, not who to punish. Results are reported as trends, and training treats people as the first line of defense - the goal is a workforce that reports suspicious email, not one that hides mistakes.

It is not a promise that nobody will ever click.

Someone eventually clicks - that is the honest baseline of every awareness program. The point of this one is that a click does not become a wire transfer: hardened accounts, verified payments, and people who raise the alarm early.

Want the complete picture instead of one attack path? Start with the cybersecurity audit - phishing protection slots in as one workstream. And if you want your technical defenses attacked for real, that is penetration testing. Prefer proof over promises? See the case studies →

Frequently asked questions

We already have Microsoft 365 / Google Workspace filtering. Why do we need phishing protection?

Built-in filters are good at bulk phishing and known malware - keep them. What they miss is the targeted attack: a BEC email carries no attachment and no suspicious link, often arrives from the real mailbox of a compromised vendor, and simply asks finance to update bank details. No filter setting stops that reliably; hardened accounts, trained people, and payment verification procedures do. This program adds those layers on top of what you already pay for.

What is business email compromise (BEC), and why is it so expensive?

BEC is fraud conducted through email that looks legitimate: attackers take over or convincingly imitate a mailbox, watch how your company handles invoices and approvals, then redirect a real payment. It does not break firewalls, it breaks people - which is why it is consistently among the most expensive attack types for companies this size. We have removed attackers from a live BEC attack with a EUR 300,000 fraud in progress - the full case study is public.

How does a phishing simulation work? Will employees feel tricked?

We send realistic but harmless phishing emails - the same lures real attackers use, scoped and scheduled with you in advance. Nobody is named and shamed: results are reported as company and department trends (click rate, credential-entry rate, report rate), and every campaign feeds the next training session. Done this way, simulations build a reporting culture instead of resentment - the metric we care most about is how many people report the email, not how few click it.

How often should we run phishing simulations and security awareness training?

Annual training is the compliance floor - HIPAA requires documented workforce training and SOC 2 auditors expect to see it - but behavior changes with short, regular repetition, so most companies settle into a quarterly rhythm of simulation plus a focused refresher. If you want ongoing ownership of the whole program, that is exactly what our vCISO services exist for; for the audit and insurer side, see compliance advisory.

How much does phishing protection cost?

It depends on headcount, your email platform, and how much of the program you take - which is why the 30-minute call exists: at the end of it you receive a proposal with a fixed quote, scoped to your environment. No license resale is hiding in the number; we do not sell products.

We think a phishing attack is already in progress. What should we do?

Treat it as an incident, not an email problem: do not delete anything, note what was clicked and when, and get the affected account isolated. Then contact us - responding to active email compromise is incident response, and it is work we have done under real pressure. This page is about making sure the next attempt never gets that far.

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