Abnormal Security - Detailed Review

Abnormal Security Overview

Abnormal Security offers a suite of AI-driven security tools designed to protect against various cyber threats, particularly focusing on email and cloud platform security. Here are the main features and how they work:

Inbound Email Security

This core product provides comprehensive protection against email attacks, including sophisticated phishing and social engineering tactics. It leverages AI to analyze human behavior and detect anomalies with high accuracy. This feature streamlines workflows by automating the detection and removal of malicious emails, saving security teams significant time.

Core Account Takeover Protection

This add-on module prevents breaches by detecting account takeovers in real-time. It builds a contextual behavioral timeline to aid in investigations and can automatically disarm compromised accounts by logging out users, resetting passwords, and blocking access. This ensures that attackers are prevented from causing further damage.

AI Security Mailbox

This feature fully automates the user-reported email workflow using AI. It analyzes, classifies, and automatically remediates malicious phishing emails. Additionally, it engages employees with conversational AI responses, providing in-the-moment security training and enhancing employee awareness.

Security Posture Management

This module eliminates email platform posture gaps that could lead to breaches. It surfaces high-risk events such as privilege escalations, new third-party applications, and conditional access policy exceptions. It also uncovers cases of shadow IT by monitoring user activity, tenants, app integrations, and elevated app permissions.

Complete Account Takeover Protection

This feature extends the core account takeover protection to include 15 additional cloud and SaaS applications. It provides uniform visibility, monitoring, and detection across cloud environments from a single platform. By understanding normal user behavior, it precisely detects and responds to cross-platform account takeover attempts.

Messaging Security

Abnormal Security inspects every message on platforms like Slack, Teams, and Zoom using AI to identify suspicious activity and compromised accounts. It logs email attacks and malicious messages in the same Threat Log, providing a comprehensive view of threats. This feature also scans messages from external collaborators to uncover potential partner or vendor compromises.

Cloud Platform Integrations

Abnormal’s Data Integration Platform allows for the integration of 15 new cloud applications, including Okta, Salesforce, ServiceNow, AWS, and Workday. This integration enhances visibility and control across these platforms. The PeopleBase feature unifies all cloud identities, showing cross-application privileges and a timeline of notable events for each user. It also includes a one-click “Identity Disconnect” button to terminate sessions, reset passwords, and block access across platforms in case of cloud account takeover incidents.

ThreatIntelBase

This is a behavioral Knowledge Base within the Abnormal platform that aggregates threat intelligence across products, platforms, and customers. It allows users to query for threat reports on IP addresses and other indicators of compromise (IOCs), providing detailed information on malicious activity, associated APTs, and common attacks. This feature will expand to include other IOCs like files, text, and images, and will support export through STIX, TAXII, and feeds.

AI Integration

Abnormal Security heavily relies on AI to detect anomalies and predict user behavior. The AI engine analyzes historical data and real-time activities to identify deviations from normal behavior, enabling the detection of sophisticated threats such as phishing attacks and account takeovers. This AI-driven approach allows for real-time detection, automated remediation, and enhanced visibility across multiple platforms. The AI also generates behavioral cases and identity timelines, which accelerate investigations and incident response.

Integration with Other Security Tools

Abnormal Security integrates with other security platforms like CrowdStrike Falcon® Identity Threat Protection. This integration combines the strengths of both platforms to offer higher-fidelity detection of threats and faster response times. It enables analysts to swiftly discover and remediate compromised email accounts and endpoints. These features collectively provide a robust security solution that leverages AI to protect against modern cyber threats, enhance visibility and control, and streamline security operations.