Abnormal Security Named as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Email Security Platforms

We’re excited to announce that Gartner has recognized Abnormal Security as a Leader in its inaugural Magic Quadrant for Email Security Platforms. Just six years after our founding, we are placed furthest right for Completeness of Vision among 14 vendors.

Abnormal is redefining the future of email security, making AI the core of our mission to protect humans from the most advanced attacks—including those powered by AI.

According to Gartner, Email Security Leaders "have a strong vision for the future of ESPs, balanced with the Ability to Execute on those visions...Leaders are early to identify new attack trends and move quickly to fill gaps created by an evolving threat landscape, either by innovation or acquisition. Leaders excel with technical capabilities, infrastructure that supports progressive product strategies, and an emphasis on customer success."

Read on to learn why Abnormal is recognized in the report.

1. The Limitations of In-Line Architectures

Traditional in-line email security architectures are increasingly challenged by modern threats. As Gartner notes, “ICES solutions drastically reduce implementation complexity, timelines and, by extension, the ability to competitively compare the effectiveness of various ESPs. They have increasingly challenged the standard of in-line email security.”

Abnormal’s API-first, cloud-native platform aligns with this shift by enabling rapid deployment, improving detection efficacy, and providing seamless protection without disrupting email flow.

2. The Rise of AI-Powered Threats

Cybercriminals are using large language models (LLMs) and other AI tools to craft hyper-personalized, socially engineered attacks. Gartner highlights, “Humans are increasingly incapable of identifying social engineering attacks as large language models (LLMs) are refined for purpose by attackers.”

To combat these sophisticated threats, organizations need solutions that utilize behavioral AI and natural language processing to analyze user behavior and detect anomalies. Abnormal excels in this area by establishing a baseline of human behavior to identify threats that traditional tools miss.

3. The Need for AI-Based Detection in Email

Email remains the primary attack vector for account compromises and other breaches, making advanced detection capabilities critical. According to Gartner, “ESPs must incorporate social graph analysis and identity context as essential components to prevent account takeovers and improve threat detection fidelity.”

Abnormal’s behavioral AI engine meets this need by baselining relationships and communication patterns to detect anomalies indicative of business email compromise (BEC), vendor fraud, and account takeovers. By analyzing identity signals, email content, and behavior across the organization, Abnormal stops threats that bypass traditional rule-based defenses.

By aligning with these market shifts, Abnormal Security delivers a modern, AI-native platform that addresses today’s evolving threats, simplifies security operations, and ensures comprehensive protection for cloud email environments.

Here’s how we do it:

1. Behavioral AI: Learns each organization’s social graph and identity context to stop sophisticated AI-driven threats.
2. API Architecture: Seamlessly ingests 10x behavioral signals, radically simplifying deployment.
3. AI Automation: Fully automates SOC operations and workflows, from phishing mailbox to security training to autonomous attack remediation.

What Customers Can Expect from Us

Today, we serve more than 2,800 customers worldwide, including 20% of the Fortune 500, spanning every major industry, with deployments from 100-600,000 mailboxes. In 2023, Gartner recognized Abnormal as a Customers’ Choice for Email Security on Gartner Peer Insights. And as of December 2024, we have a 99% "Willingness to Recommend" rating on the platform.

Customers choose Abnormal for:

1. The Best Protection: Precision defense against the most sophisticated email attacks and account compromises.
2. Increased Productivity: Fully automated email security operations that free up SOC analysts to focus on higher-priority tasks.
3. Better Value: 70% of customers reduce email security spend by eliminating redundant third-party SEGs and consolidating platforms.
4. Modern Architecture: SaaS-based, scalable API architecture that extends protection beyond email.
5. True Partnership: AI-driven board-level threat insights, ROI analysis, and continuous product innovation based on customer feedback.

We feel that being named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Email Security Platforms validates Abnormal's pioneering vision: reinventing email security by protecting human behavior through AI. As threats grow in sophistication, enterprises are turning to behavioral AI to stop advanced attacks and simplify security operations at scale.

To our customers… Thank you for trusting us with your email security and for pushing us to continuously improve. To our team… Your dedication, ingenuity, and commitment to excellence made this achievement possible. And to our future customers… We look forward to showing you how Abnormal can transform your email security now and in the future.

At Abnormal Security, our journey is just beginning. Here’s to redefining email security—together.

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