Abnormal Security announced that it is expanding its Account Takeover Protection
product line beyond email to provide visibility into cross-platform
user behavior and centralize compromised account detection and
remediation across identity, collaboration, and cloud infrastructure
applications. In addition, the company is launching AI Security Mailbox,
which provides a new AI-powered coworker that promotes security
awareness through real-time conversations between employees and an AI
security analyst, while also automating the triage and remediation of
user-reported emails.
"As an AI-native company since our inception, our focus has always been
on delivering the power of AI to our global customers," said Evan
Reiser, chief executive officer at Abnormal Security. "Right now, our
customers are eager for solutions that solve for two key areas:
protecting their organizations from more attacks beyond email and
accelerating AI initiatives across their security use cases. The
products we're announcing today solve for both of these needs, enabling
all of our customers to receive more value from their Abnormal
deployment. It's an important next step in our journey of creating a
fully AI-automated cybersecurity platform."
Enhancing Visibility and Control with More Cloud Account Integrations
Recent research from Abnormal shows that nearly 70% of security leaders
view cross-platform account takeover threats as the greatest concern to
their organizations-even ahead of headlining threats like ransomware and
phishing. Additionally, 83% of these organizations have been impacted
by an account takeover in the last year, and nearly one-fifth have been
impacted more than 10 times.
To protect against this threat, Abnormal now integrates with more cloud
accounts, enabling the platform to analyze a greater volume of signals
to better understand human behavior, while empowering customers with
more cross-platform visibility and control. These visibility and control features are available starting today in the following applications:
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Email: Microsoft 365, Google Workspace
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Identity: Azure Active Directory, Okta, Ping
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SaaS/Collaboration: Atlassian, Box, DocuSign, Dropbox, Google Drive, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Slack, Workday, Zendesk, Zoom
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Cloud Infrastructure: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform
Starting today, any customer can integrate their cloud applications
directly via API to the Abnormal AI platform in under five minutes and
at no cost. As Abnormal begins ingesting data and signals, SOC teams are
provided with a consolidated view of all account activity within each
connected platform. If malicious activity is found, administrators can
remediate compromised accounts with a one-click "Identity Disconnect"
button, which will terminate sessions, reset passwords and block access
across platforms-drastically expanding the scope of protection.
Expanding Account Takeover Protection to Cloud Applications
For customers who would rather automatically detect and remediate
compromised accounts through the power of AI, Abnormal is expanding its Account Takeover Protection
product line beyond email. Once integrated, the Abnormal AI platform
ingests a large set of signals, including sign-in events, typical
geolocations and VPN details, to build a behavioral baseline for each
user across all integrated applications. Autonomous AI models then
analyze risky events based on deviations from this baseline, which are
correlated across other platforms accessed by that user. Compromised
account detections deemed to be high-risk are automatically
remediated-adding superhuman capabilities to the SOC team and providing
automated cross-platform security for organizations.
Select Abnormal customers are already seeing the value. "Effectively
detecting email account takeovers was already a significant challenge
for most organizations; extending that detection across all their other
cloud apps creates a problem that's insurmountable without the right
solution," stated the deputy CISO at a global insurance organization.
"No other solution has the extensive integrations or behavioral AI-based
detection engine that Abnormal provides to quickly ingest, centralize,
and analyze application activity comprehensively across the entire cloud
environment."
General availability for unified Account Takeover Protection will be
announced later this year and Abnormal will also provide this
cross-platform capability across other product lines. In 2025, customers
can expect an expansion of Security Posture Management, which enables
customers to discover and fix key security configuration risks across
cloud email, to multiple cloud platforms.
Increasing Customers' AI Capabilities with AI Security Mailbox
In addition to expanding visibility and control, Abnormal is also
enabling customers to succeed in today's AI-focused security landscape.
"Our focus on AI expands far beyond our own platform as we seek to help
our customers further their own AI initiatives," continued Reiser. "As
leaders in AI, we have a distinct opportunity to empower our customers
to advance their own AI innovation roadmaps and help them cultivate
their internal brand as AI leaders through effective and highly-visible
AI deployments."
To enable security teams to use more autonomous AI solutions, Abnormal is also launching AI Security Mailbox-an
AI coworker for every security team. Now when an employee reports an
attack, the Abnormal platform will serve as their personal AI cyber
assistant by providing a personalized response explaining if the email
was deemed malicious, safe, or spam and how a determination was made.
Users can then converse directly with the AI security analyst, which
delights them with real-time feedback as it teaches them better security
practices.
With intrinsic autopilot capabilities, AI Security Mailbox comes
pre-trained with enterprise security best practices automatically
tailored for each customer environment. To enable further customization,
each organization can give the conversational AI agent a name and
choose its tone of voice, ranging from formal to humorous to empathic to
pirate mode. This capability is available for free to all customers in
AI Security Mailbox, formerly known as Abuse Mailbox Automation.