An employee receives what looks like a Microsoft 365 notification. They’re busy and have a meeting in 15 minutes, so they click.
The page looks legitimate, so they enter their credentials. Nothing breaks no alerts, no warnings. Just another normal workday… until it isn’t.
Security awareness training worked... until the exact moment it mattered.
The Real Problem
Most organisations rely on periodic training to reduce phishing risk. But attacks don’t happen during training or simulation sessions, they happen during:
- Busy mornings
- Deadline pressure
- Mobile browsing
- Context switching
Humans don’t recall slides under pressure, they react. Security awareness might help, but it’s passive. Attacks are real-time.
Where Traditional Controls Fall Short
Even with strong controls in place and consistent employee training, users still encounter:
- Credential phishing pages
- Malicious OAuth consent screens
- Password reuse across services
- Sensitive data pasted into AI tools
- Lookalike domains that bypass filters
Training may reduce some risk, and email filtering may stop some threats. But neither intervenes at the moment of decision.
What Real-Time Intervention Looks Like
Instead of hoping users remember training, the system monitors risk signals and intervenes when behaviour becomes dangerous before actions become irreversible, and without invasive scanning.
Here is an example from a test environment:
A user received an email requesting them to sign in to their Google account. The URL looked familiar at a glance, but Fortulio detected three things simultaneously: a suspicious Punycode homograph domain, an extremely young domain age, and a website mimicking a known brand.
Before the password was submitted and the action became irreversible, the user was warned in the moment:
The user clicked “Go Back.” No credentials were stolen, no IT ticket was raised, and no one had to intervene.
On the admin side, this was logged instantly:
Plain English. No jargon. The admin knows exactly what happened, why the warning was triggered, and what the employee did next.
The Fortulio Approach
Fortulio focuses on behaviour-driven, real-time intervention, closing the gap between user action and response.
Fortulio is currently onboarding pilot companies. If this is a problem your organisation faces, we’d love to show you how it works in your environment.