Attachment Inspection

Today, we're launching Attachment Inspection in Adaptive Email Security, which lets analysts preview supported PDFs and images and review file details, embedded links, and QR code destinations without ever opening the attachment on their own device.

Adaptive Email Security is built on an agentic architecture. A swarm of AI agents reads every inbound email in the context of your company, reasons about what it is trying to get someone to do, and removes threats automatically while explaining why. Most of the time the agents have already done the work before an analyst ever looks. Attachment Inspection is for the moments when your team wants to see the evidence for themselves.

Between attachment inspection and link inspection, Adaptive Email Security now gives analysts a full sandboxing suite for two of the most frequent places phishing payloads live.

What's in Attachment Inspection

Analysts start an inspection from any supported attachment on an Email Security event, and Adaptive returns the evidence alongside the original message and the agents' analysis.

• File preview. A safe rendering of the PDF, JPG, or PNG so analysts can see what the recipient was sent.
• File details. The core information about the attachment for a quick read on what it is.
• Embedded links. URLs pulled out of the file so analysts can spot hidden destinations at a glance.
• QR code destinations. Any QR code found in the file is decoded to show where it actually leads, since attackers increasingly hide payloads in images that text scanning can't read.

Why It Matters

Attachments carry evidence that never shows up in the email body. When analysts can't see it quickly, they either spend time spinning up an outside tool or make a call with half the picture.

Attachment Inspection removes that detour. Instead of downloading a file, moving it to an isolated machine, and opening it there, the analyst clicks once and reviews the preview and extracted evidence right next to the email and the reasoning Adaptive's agents already produced. A routine file review that used to take several tools and several minutes now happens in one place.

It also keeps analysts safe. The suspicious file never touches their laptop, so there is no risk of an accidental open turning an investigation into an incident.

How It Fits Into Your Existing Workflow

Adaptive Email Security already assesses every email automatically and runs attachments through malware checks as part of its core detection. The agents handle the volume. Attachment Inspection gives your analysts a deeper look whenever they want to verify a decision, explain it to a stakeholder, or dig into a message that caught their attention.

If your team is already using Link Inspection, this will feel familiar. The same investigation view now covers both links and attachments, so analysts can follow a threat wherever it hides. An embedded link pulled from a PDF can be inspected with Link Inspection, and if you want to go further, Adaptive’s VirusTotal integration is one click away.

There is nothing new to configure and no new tool to learn. It is simply more of the evidence your analysts need, in the place they already work.

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Available Now

Attachment Inspection is live for all Adaptive Email Security customers. Open any Email Security event with a supported attachment and start an inspection to see it in action. If you'd like a personalized walkthrough, book a demo today.