Human-Layer Security

Intelligence at the
Moment of Risk

The "Silent Defender" for the AI-phishing era. We close the cognitive gap between technical filters and human action with real-time, context-specific explanations.

Built for CISOs and security leaders who know the human layer is where the battle is fought and too often lost.

Your technical stack was not built for this threat

AI-generated attacks do not follow patterns. They follow people.

5x
Growth in AI-generated spear phishing in 2025
Attackers now generate personalised, context-aware lures at machine scale — adapting tone, language, and timing to the individual target. Volume and sophistication are rising together.
arXiv:2411.13874v1 — LLM-Powered Phishing Study
$40B
Projected AI-enabled fraud losses by 2027
BEC losses already stand at $12.3B annually. GenAI allows attackers to craft convincing lures at scale with near-zero effort — accelerating the curve faster than defences can adapt.
Deloitte Center for Financial Services, 2024
$4.4M
Average cost of a data breach
Most breaches begin with a single human decision made in a moment of uncertainty. That moment is where the war is actually fought -- and currently lost.
IBM Cost of Data Breach Report, 2025

No stack is perfect. What matters is what happens when the imperfect stack lets something through -- and your employee is the last line of defence.

The Third Layer of Defence

Most organisations have two layers. The third is where the gap lives.

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Technology -- Gateways and Filters

Signature-based systems that block known threats, flag known bad domains, and filter patterns they have seen before. Essential, but blind to what they have never encountered.

2

Training -- Awareness and Simulation

Annual modules, phishing simulations, and general security culture. Builds knowledge over time -- but cannot be recalled in the milliseconds before a click happens.

3

Mungo Labs Real-Time Explanation

The intelligence layer that activates at the exact moment a threat is in front of your employee. Not a generic warning -- a specific, plain-language explanation of what is wrong, why it is dangerous, and what to do next. Inside the tools they already use.

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Specific, Not Generic

Names the spoofed domain, the urgency tactic, and the malicious destination. "This is dangerous because..." is what changes a decision.

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Proficiency-Adaptive

Warning depth calibrates automatically — detailed explanations for those who need context, concise alerts for those who already recognise the pattern.

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Behavioural Immunity

Each contextual explanation builds lasting pattern recognition. Employees become harder to deceive over time — even without further training.

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Zero-Friction Deployment

Lives inside the tools people already use. No new interface, no workflow change, no employee training required.

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Privacy by Design

Analysis runs on-device without transmitting personal content. Structurally compliant with GDPR, HIPAA, and data residency requirements — by architecture, not policy.

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Stack-Agnostic

Augments your existing security stack — Proofpoint, Defender, or any gateway — without replacing any of it. The third layer sits on top of the first two.

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Where the Defence Lives

Embedded inside your existing tools. No rerouting, no appliances, no friction.

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Protection at the point of click

The warning appears exactly where users look — near the browser extension icon — at the moment they land on a suspicious page, before credentials are entered.

  • Works with all major browsers — Chrome, Edge, and Firefox
  • Deploys as a lightweight extension — no infrastructure changes, no IT rerouting
  • Analyses page signals locally — no browsing content transmitted externally
  • Warning activates only when a threat is detected — zero noise on safe pages

MVP covers all major browsers. Outlook support in early access. Gmail support planned.

Inside your inbox, not beside it

Warnings appear inline, within the reading pane, at the moment the email is opened -- before the user acts on what they have read.

  • Works with Microsoft 365
  • Deploys as a lightweight add-in -- no email rerouting, no MX record changes
  • Analyses metadata and content patterns, not personal data
  • Real-time -- warning appears before the user can act on the threat

MVP covers Outlook. Gmail support planned for a future release.

The human layer touches everything

Attackers do not target systems. They target people -- wherever those people work, communicate, and make decisions.

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Where it starts today

The two surfaces where the majority of human-layer attacks begin: email and the browser. These are where employees are most exposed, most distracted, and most often left without support when a filter fails.

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Where risk lives beyond

Social engineering does not stop at the inbox. It moves into collaboration, messaging, document sharing, and every digital surface where people communicate and act. Each is a moment of risk waiting for a defender.

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The vision

A world where every moment a person faces a digital decision, they have access to the same intelligence a security expert would bring -- instantly, contextually, and without interrupting how they work.

The roadmap grows with real-world feedback. What we build next is shaped by what you face now.

See it in your world

Real threats. Real moments. Real-time defence.

Email

Financial Services -- The Moment That Counts

A branch manager and a senior finance officer each receive separate, personalised emails appearing to be from the group CFO, requesting urgent authorisation of a large cross-border transfer. The emails pass all gateway checks -- the attacker used a compromised vendor domain.
Mungo Labs This sender has never previously initiated transfer authorisation requests. The domain was registered 6 days ago and differs from the CFO's known corporate address by one character. The urgency framing and secrecy instruction match known Business Email Compromise patterns. Verify via a known direct line before proceeding.
Browser

Healthcare -- Credential Harvesting via EHR Lure

A hospital administrator follows a link in what appears to be a critical system update notice from their EHR vendor. The link opens a visually convincing login page requesting credentials before "downloading the patch."
Mungo Labs This page was registered 3 days ago and visually mimics a known EHR vendor login. The SSL certificate is issued by a free certificate authority, inconsistent with enterprise vendor infrastructure. Do not enter credentials.
Email

Government -- Targeted Spear Phishing

A government analyst receives an email referencing a real internal project by name, seemingly from a known contractor. The email includes a link described as "updated project files." The contractor's domain was compromised three weeks prior.
Mungo Labs While the sender domain appears legitimate, this email was routed through an unfamiliar relay inconsistent with previous correspondence from this contact. The embedded link redirects through three intermediate domains before reaching an external destination. Treat with caution and verify directly with the sender.
Email

Finance / Accounts Payable -- Invoice Fraud

A PDF invoice arrives from a known supplier with modified bank details. The sender address looks correct. The email was forwarded internally, which is standard process -- so it bypasses most suspicion.
Mungo Labs The bank account in this invoice differs from the last 12 invoices received from this supplier. The PDF metadata shows it was last modified by an unknown author 2 hours ago. Do not process payment without direct verbal confirmation from the supplier.
Email

Executive / C-Suite -- Whaling

A whaling email impersonates a board member requesting that confidential M&A documents be shared urgently to a personal address. The display name matches exactly. The request is framed as bypassing IT to maintain discretion.
Mungo Labs The sender's display name matches a board member, but this email originates from a personal address, not their corporate domain. Requests for confidential documents routed via personal email are atypical. Verify this request through a known, direct channel before responding.
Browser

IT / Engineering -- Fake Dependency Advisory

A developer receives what appears to be a platform notification about a critical vulnerability in a widely used dependency. The link leads to a convincing advisory page recommending an immediate package update -- which contains obfuscated malicious code.
Mungo Labs This advisory page was registered yesterday and is not hosted on any verified platform domain. The recommended package has not been published by the original library maintainer. Do not install. Verify through the official project repository.
North America

Tax Season Phishing Surge

IRS impersonation campaigns spike January through April every year. AI now generates highly personalised variants at scale, targeting HR, payroll teams, and individual employees with convincing W-2 and refund-related lures.
Mungo Labs This message matches known IRS impersonation patterns. The IRS does not initiate contact via email for sensitive tax matters. The sender domain was registered last week. Do not click or provide any information.
Europe

GDPR Compliance Lures

Attackers exploit GDPR awareness to craft urgent "data processing agreement" lures targeting DPOs, legal teams, and compliance officers -- framed as regulatory obligations requiring immediate sign-off via an external link.
Mungo Labs This link leads to a domain registered 4 days ago with no affiliation to the claimed regulatory body. Legitimate data processing agreements are exchanged through verified business channels, not cold email links. Do not proceed without verification.
Asia-Pacific

Multilingual Spear Phishing

AI now generates fluent, culturally-calibrated phishing in Mandarin, Japanese, and Hindi -- adapting to local business norms, formal communication styles, and regional authority structures to make attacks significantly harder to recognise.
Mungo Labs Despite the local-language framing, the sender domain is newly registered and does not match the claimed organisation. The link structure and redirect chain are consistent with known credential harvesting infrastructure. Do not proceed.

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Not just a warning. A behavioural intervention.

The design of Mungo Labs is grounded in peer-reviewed research on security decision-making.

75%+
of users follow specific, contextual warnings. Design — not awareness — is the deciding factor. Better design can close the remaining 25% gap too.
Google Security Research — "Alice in Warningland"
40%+
improvement in correct threat identification when warnings explain specifically what is wrong -- raising accuracy to 79–91% versus 52–69% for generic alerts.
Roy, Torres & Nilizadeh — PhishXplain User Study
20%
lasting reduction in susceptibility to follow-up attacks across 11,000 employees -- even without further intervention -- after a single contextual, in-the-moment explanation.
Cambridge Behavioural Public Policy

Mungo Labs does not just protect in the moment. It teaches through the moment -- building lasting behavioural resilience across your workforce.

The evidence is there. The defence layer is built. Talk to the team and see it working.

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Common questions

We are designed to sit alongside what you already have, not replace it. Gateways operate on known signatures and threat intelligence. Mungo Labs operates at the human layer -- activating when a novel or context-dependent threat reaches your employee. The two layers are complementary. A stronger gateway makes our job easier. When the gateway misses, we are there.

Our core principle is zero friction. A warning that interrupts workflow is a warning that gets ignored or disabled. Mungo Labs is designed to appear only when there is something worth surfacing, in context, within the tool the person is already using. No new tabs, no separate portals, no workflow changes.

Privacy by design is a foundational principle, not an afterthought. We intend to analyse metadata, structural signals, and content patterns without storing the personal content of emails or browsing activity. Our architecture is being designed with GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2 compliance in mind from the ground up.

Our intent is a lightweight deployment model -- a browser extension and an Outlook add-in -- with no email rerouting, no MX record changes, and no network appliances. The goal is measured in hours, not weeks.

We are honest about where we are. The core intelligence and warning system is working and being tested. We are now looking to validate it in real organisational environments with security leaders who want to shape what comes next.

Yes. We walk through the product with threat scenarios matched to your industry. Schedule a discovery call and we will arrange a time that works for you.

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