When Abnormal Security launched in 2018, it answered the call to protect companies against the attacks that were bypassing legacy email solutions. The company’s AI-based threat detection engine for enterprise email security baselines known behavior to recognize abnormal behavior and autonomously prevent personalized, socially-engineered attacks. When it partnered with Chronosphere, Abnormal’s homegrown Prometheus + Grafana monitoring solution had reached its limits and was unable to scale with the usage of its fast-growing cloud-native application.
Two years into Abnormal’s startup journey, the global pandemic hit, enterprises shifted to remote work, and socially-engineered email attacks like business email compromise accelerated at a blistering pace. Abnormal’s self-configuring email security.