Question 1

What are the best email security solutions for financial institutions?

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The best email security solutions for financial institutions detect attacks by behavior, not signatures, because the costliest attacks carry no malicious link or attachment. Look for vendor fraud and account takeover detection, API deployment with no MX changes, no rule tuning, and integration with your existing security stack. Abnormal’s email security platform is built around those requirements.

Question 2

How does email security for financial services stop wire fraud and vendor payment redirects?

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Abnormal builds a behavioral baseline for every vendor relationship: communication frequency, payment patterns, writing style, and typical recipients. When a payment redirect deviates from that baseline, Abnormal flags it whether or not the message passes SPF, DKIM, and DMARC. Detection rests on behavioral anomalies, not known-bad indicators, which is how Abnormal detected a $36M vendor email compromise attack.

Question 3

Why do phishing and BEC attacks get past email gateways at banks?

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Gateways match messages against signatures and rules, and today’s attacks are built to look like normal business. A compromised vendor’s email, a spoofed copy of a legitimate message, and a CEO impersonation all contain nothing to match. Anti-phishing email security that learns what’s normal for each sender catches the deviation instead.

Question 4

Can banking email security solutions replace my existing gateway, or should it sit behind it?

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Either works. Abnormal deploys through API with no MX record changes and no mail flow disruption, so many institutions start with a proof of value alongside their gateway. Teams that keep a gateway for archiving and compliance add Abnormal behind it and write no rules.

Question 5

How does behavioral AI improve email security in finance?

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Behavioral AI learns what normal looks like for each identity at your institution, human and non-human, and catches the moment something falls outside it. Abnormal’s foundation model, Attune, builds on nearly a decade of email data. That lets it detect novel attacks that no rule or signature anticipated.

Question 6

How does identity security protect a bank from account takeover?

Accepted Answer

Abnormal’s identity security products cover more of the identity attack chain. It discovers human and non-human identities and how they interact, finds and fixes identity exposure, hardens entry points like the helpdesk, and contains and remediates threats. Account takeover that starts in email is caught with the same behavioral baseline.

Question 7

How can financial institutions secure employee AI tools and prevent shadow AI?

Accepted Answer

Start by seeing every AI tool, agent, and chat running across the institution. Abnormal discovers what’s in use, scores the risk, tracks the spend, and enforces policy through AI governance before shadow AI becomes a breach. That closes a gap most security teams can’t see today.

Question 8

How does Abnormal integrate with our SIEM and existing security stack?

Accepted Answer

Abnormal includes no-cost SIEM and SOAR connectors for Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Chronicle, and Cortex XSOAR. Detections, account takeover cases, and remediation actions export automatically. It also integrates with CrowdStrike Falcon Identity and Okta and Entra ID for cross-platform account takeover correlation.

Question 9

What compliance certifications should email security for financial services hold?

Accepted Answer

Abnormal holds SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, and ISO 42001, along with FedRAMP Moderate authorization. Bridge letters are available between audit periods. ISO 42001 covers the AI governance questions financial regulators increasingly raise during examinations.

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What Financial Services Leaders Say

“Email is the easiest route for threat actors to get into an organisation, and it’s easy if you can spoof an email or socially engineer an individual’s behaviour. Abnormal AI solves for that and gets smarter every day.”

“We don’t have to deal with phishing emails like we used to. I think now we might spend 4 or 5 hours a week—and almost all the time, it is safe, because Abnormal is catching what’s passing through.”

“High efficacy is important to us. We need to protect our employees and clients from all angles. We had multiple layers of email security, but it wasn’t enough… we needed Abnormal to catch what others missed.”

“Abnormal analyzes the content of the email using many signals, including urgency, unusual sending patterns or behaviors, and other components not easily detected by humans. Abnormal was added as an additional layer of protection.”

“Abnormal made it easy to see what our SEG was missing. We set up the POV in a few minutes and then there were a lot of ‘Aha!’ moments about what the SEG wasn’t finding.”

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