The Phish Alert Button for Outlook is a free add-in that allows users to report suspected phishing emails directly from their inbox with a single click. Once installed, it adds a button to the Outlook ribbon, enabling employees to forward suspicious messages to a predefined mailbox such as your SOC or IT security team.
This lightweight plugin helps organizations improve phishing detection by encouraging user participation in threat reporting. It integrates smoothly with Outlook 2013 and newer versions, requires minimal setup and works in both on-premise and Microsoft 365 environments.
Features:
– One-click phishing email reporting
– Compatible with Outlook 2013 and later
– Simple configuration and fast deployment
– Sends reports to a custom email address
– Fully customizable: customize button name, ribbon and other details.
Empower your users to become part of your phishing defense strategy with the free Phish Alert Button for Outlook.
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Tested the phish alert / report button for outlook for a while. So far it is satisfactory and will probably use it in production. Here are my evaluation notes. Pros: 1) it is working as expected. Does not crash outlook, does not have unexpected behaviours. 2) it is free. Generally if you want to have a phish alert / report button for Outlook, you have to buy a phishing & awareness solution. And when you change the solution you use, you have to uninstall the plugin of previous vendor and install plugins of new vendor. With this free add-in, you can install the it and use forever ( as far as i can see from licensing and other details) 3) You can customize the button and change its texts and texts displayed in popups. But you cant change the icon 4) Changing configuration is easy. Configuration file is stored under c:\program files\phishguard . Change the settings in the file, restart outlook and you have new phish alert / report button settings. Cons: 1) As mentioned in Pros part, you cant change the icon. So you have to use the default icon for the button. But i liked the default icon too. 2) Phishing & awareness solutions which offer phish alert / report button also have mail analysis features, this free tool does not have these features. But this is another story and should be addressed with other tools. I will try the ThePhish+MISP+Cortex+Hive combination before testing commercial solutions. Cant say anything about support, because till now i did not need support.Reply from Phish Alert Button for OutlookEdited 2025-07-28
Thanks for your review. Regarding your points; - It is completely free and you can use it as long as you wish. There are free phishing simulation solutions like GoPhish, so we thought there should be free phish alert tool too :) - Phish Alert for Outlook a simple plugin so should not require much support. In case you are stuck with anything, please ask your question under the project's Discussion page. - We have tried our plugin with ThePhish+MISP+Cortex+Hive combination, works without issues.