How much does email security monitoring cost for a small business?

InboxGuards costs $4 per user per month — or $40 per user per year, which gets you 2 months free — with no minimum or setup fee. A 10-person business pays $480 a year (or $400 billed annually). That covers automated monitoring of supported Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace audit records at roughly 5-minute intervals, email alerts with evidence, downloadable activity reports, and a printable monitoring record. The first security scan is available before paid monitoring. Tenant changes and incident response remain with you or your authorized IT provider.

The categories below perform different jobs and should not be treated as interchangeable:

• ■Manual review: uses provider tools and requires assigned staff, a defined schedule, and documented response procedures.
• ■Monitoring and alerting software: checks supported records and produces alerts. InboxGuards is in this category at $4 per user per month.
• ■Email security gateways: filter message traffic and may provide other protections; capabilities vary by product and license.
• ■Managed security services: may add human review or incident response under a separate scope, authorization model, contract, and price.

The price is honest about what the service is: automated monitoring plus alerting, not a 24/7 human security operations center. Software checks your audit logs, applies detection rules for account-takeover behavior — sign-ins from new or unexpected locations, external forwarding rules, hidden inbox rules, permission and MFA changes — and emails you when something needs attention, with plain-English general response guidance. No hands-on remediation or incident-response staffing is included.

Evaluate InboxGuards against the monitoring scope, supported providers and events, alert and report features, contract, and refund terms. Do not buy it based on an assumed loss prevention, insurance discount, coverage decision, or claim outcome.

For a 10-person business: $480 per year, or $400 if billed annually. There is no onboarding fee, and new subscriptions have a 30-day money-back guarantee under the published refund terms. Setup requires customer-admin authorization for read-only access. Monitoring begins after a successful connection and scheduled check; your administrator or MSP remains responsible for tenant changes and incident response.