Case Study/HireLogic
How HireLogic replaced
Microsoft Defender — and stopped
phishing entirely.
Industry
HR Technology / SaaS
Size
~50 employees
Email
Microsoft 365
Previous tool
Microsoft Defender
"We were running Microsoft Defender, but phishing emails were still landing in our inbox almost every day. Cambrient's AI agents caught threats Defender missed — in real time — and explained exactly why. It saved our team from countless 'is this safe?' tickets and gave us the confidence to switch entirely. For the first time, we finally trust our inbox."
A
Anirban C.
CEO, HireLogic
Results
99.9%
Catch rate from day one
vs. Defender's ~60% on novel phishing
3×
Reduction in IT support tickets
in the first 30 days
4 min
Time to full deployment
OAuth API, no MX changes
0
Phishing emails reaching users
since full deployment
The Full Story
From daily phishing to zero — in four weeks.
Before
Defender was their only protection
HireLogic ran Microsoft Defender as their sole email security layer. Phishing emails were landing in inboxes almost daily — link-heavy credential harvesters, fake DocuSign requests, and Microsoft login impersonation pages. Every week, IT fielded multiple 'is this safe?' tickets from employees who weren't sure whether to click.
Trial
Cambrient deployed in 4 minutes alongside Defender
During a parallel trial, HireLogic connected Cambrient via Microsoft Graph API. No MX record changes, no mail flow disruption. Cambrient ran silently alongside Defender for two weeks — flagging what Defender missed and showing its reasoning for every decision.
Discovery
The agents caught what Defender ignored
In the first two weeks, Cambrient's agents identified 31 threats Defender had delivered cleanly. Each one involved a multi-hop redirect chain — 2 to 4 intermediate domains before landing on the credential harvester. Defender never followed the chain. Cambrient crawled every hop, rendered every page, and flagged them all with plain-English explanations.
Result
Full switch. Zero regret.
HireLogic switched entirely to Cambrient after the trial. IT ticket volume for email-related concerns dropped by 3× in the first month. Employees stopped asking whether emails were safe — they could read the explanation in the banner themselves. Anirban describes it as the first email security tool that communicates with users instead of treating them as a liability.
"The thing that surprised me most wasn't the catch rate — it was that our employees actually understood what was happening. Every blocked email came with a clear explanation. Nobody opened a ticket. Nobody marked a real threat as safe out of confusion. It changed how our whole team thinks about email security."
A
Anirban C.
CEO, HireLogic
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