Cyber Angels One Review: Is This AppSumo Security Deal Worth It?

What Is Cyber Angels One?

Cyber Angels One is a cybersecurity tool currently available as a lifetime deal on AppSumo. The pitch is straightforward: protect your website and email from threats with monitoring, reports, and actionable security guidance. It sounds like exactly the kind of tool small business owners need, especially if you don't have a dedicated IT team.

The AppSumo deal is tiered based on how many websites and email addresses you want to protect. Tier 1 starts with a single website and one email address, while Tier 6 (at $600) gets you unlimited sites, unlimited email, and up to 50 customer sites for agencies. Every tier includes the full feature set — the only difference is capacity. That's a reasonable structure, but the real question is whether the features themselves deliver enough value.

First Impressions and Setup

Setting up Cyber Angels One starts with a questionnaire about your current security habits — things like whether you use a firewall, two-factor authentication, and so on. It feels a bit like filling out an intake form at a doctor's office. After that, you add your website as an "asset" by entering your domain and categorizing your business type.

This is where the first red flags appeared. The business categories felt oddly generic (agriculture, freelancer, consultant) and didn't have a great fit for most online businesses. More concerning was the email monitoring setup. Adding a custom domain email address returned an error — and not a helpful one. The error message contained a typo ("uk known air" instead of "unknown error"), which doesn't exactly inspire confidence in a cybersecurity product. Gmail addresses worked fine, but if your business runs on a custom domain, that's a problem.

There were also small UI issues, like a button labeled "modified website" that seemed out of place. These are the kinds of rough edges that suggest the product may have been rushed to market.

The Dashboard and Home Page

Once you're set up, the home page serves as a dashboard with a to-do list of sorts. The first item? Schedule a welcome call with an actual human being. For a software tool, that's an unusual ask — and it immediately raises the question of whether this is a product or a consulting funnel.

The dashboard also surfaces insurance upsells fairly prominently. Cyber Angels apparently offers cybersecurity insurance as an add-on service. While that's a legitimate offering, it reinforces the feeling that the software itself is more of a lead generation tool for their services. If you already have business insurance through a local agent, you'd probably want to explore coverage options there first before buying from a relatively unknown online provider.

The dashboard does show your latest reports, which get generated automatically after you add your website and email. That's the most immediately useful feature, though the reports themselves have some significant issues (more on that below).

Website Monitoring: Surface-Level at Best

The monitor section is where you'd expect to see active security scanning and real-time threat detection. In practice, it's far more basic than that. For a connected website, Cyber Angels One confirms whether you have an SSL certificate and whether your "behavior" is safe.

What does "safe behavior" mean here? It's not about actual security threats or active monitoring. Instead, it's tied to whether you've completed the tasks in the "Improve" section. Your safety score is essentially a checklist completion percentage, not a real-time security assessment. The tool doesn't connect to your website, scan for malware, or actively protect against anything. It just checks some publicly available information and then asks you to self-report on everything else.

The "Improve" Section: 189 Tasks of Homework

This is where Cyber Angels One lost me. The Improve section presents you with a massive list of security best practices — 189 tasks when I started, after completing one from the initial questionnaire. These range from reasonable suggestions like "update all installed software" to enterprise-level compliance items like "appoint an ISO 27001 team and establish roles and responsibilities."

The fundamental problem is that none of these tasks are verified. You click a checkbox, earn some "experience points," and the task disappears. Cyber Angels One doesn't actually log into your website to check if your plugins are updated. It doesn't scan your server to see if ports are properly configured. It's purely an honor system. You could click through all 189 items in ten minutes without doing a single thing, and your security score would be perfect.

When you need help completing a task, clicking "Read More" sends you to a Notion page with a brief description. If that's not enough, the "Request Support" button takes you to a scheduling page to book a call. There's no in-app guidance, no step-by-step walkthroughs, and no automated tools to help you actually implement the recommendations.

In 2024, when AI can help you troubleshoot complex technical problems in seconds, a security tool that amounts to a static checklist with no verification feels outdated. It's more homework assignment than security software.

Training: Mostly Empty

You might hope the Training section would fill in the gaps left by the Improve checklist — maybe some video tutorials or interactive courses on implementing security best practices. Unfortunately, that's not what you'll find.

The training section is essentially another button to schedule a support call. There is an "Awareness Training" area at the top that appears to have video content, but it's marked as premium-only. Even clicking the play button on the available videos didn't actually play anything. Whether this is a bug or a paywall issue isn't clear, but either way, you're not getting training content out of the box with this deal.

Security Reports: Questionable Accuracy

The reports are probably the most tangible deliverable Cyber Angels One provides, and they could be useful for sharing with stakeholders or clients if you're an agency. Each report is presented as a PDF-style document within the browser, complete with risk scores and vulnerability breakdowns.

However, the accuracy is questionable. The report flagged a 64 out of 100 risk score and claimed the site was above industry average for risk — alarming if true. But digging into the specifics revealed problems. SPF records were reported as "not found" despite being properly configured. The tool flagged 109 vulnerabilities, many of which were simply the presence of subdomains (some of which didn't even exist). Each subdomain entry was prefixed with an unrecognizable character, suggesting a rendering or data parsing bug.

The highest-risk item flagged was the presence of wp-login.php — the standard WordPress login page. While security-hardening guides sometimes recommend hiding this, it's a widely debated practice and far from a critical vulnerability. The report also flagged open port 25 as high risk, even though it's intentionally open for email services. These kinds of findings suggest the scanning is shallow and the risk assessments lack context.

Final Verdict: A Pass at 2.3 Out of 5

Cyber Angels One would work well as a free lead magnet to get people interested in cybersecurity consulting or insurance services. As a paid product — even at AppSumo lifetime deal pricing — it doesn't deliver enough value. The tool doesn't actively connect to or protect your website. The monitoring is surface-level. The improvement checklist is unverified busywork. The reports contain inaccuracies. And the training section is largely empty.

If you're looking for real website security, you'd be better served by established tools like Wordfence or Sucuri for WordPress, or Cloudflare's security features for broader protection. These tools actually scan your site, block threats in real time, and provide actionable, verified security information.

The core advice Cyber Angels One gives is sound — use strong passwords, keep software updated, use licensed tools, enable two-factor authentication. But you don't need to pay for a tool to tell you that. This one's a return for me.

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