You’ve Got Mail (Security): How CrowdStrike and Abnormal Stop Email Attack Campaigns

At a Glance: 

• Socially engineered business email compromise attacks cost companies billions of dollars each year. 

• Security analysts are slowed down in their response by having to manually integrate siloed data from various solutions. 

• By pairing CrowdStrike with Abnormal Security, you get two best-in-class security platforms working together to discover and remediate compromised email accounts and endpoints swiftly. 

 

Imagine if your security team could stop the most sophisticated email attack campaigns before they did real damage — all without the headache of stitching together separate tools. 

That’s the power of CrowdStrike and Abnormal Security working better together. 

Each year, socially engineered business email compromise attacks cost companies billions of dollars. While quick detection and response are key, security analysts are slowed down by having to manually integrate siloed data from various solutions. 

Fortunately, when you pair CrowdStrike’s industry-leading endpoint and identity protection with Abnormal’s AI-driven email security, you get a faster, more effective response. As a combined solution, these best-in-class security platforms enable analysts to swiftly discover and remediate compromised email accounts and endpoints. 

Let’s dive deeper into the pairing of these two security leaders. 

 

The Strength of Collaboration 

Before we delve into how Abnormal and CrowdStrike work better together, we must first explain who they are individually. 

CrowdStrike has redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk – endpoints and cloud workloads, identity, and data. Abnormal Security, meanwhile, leverages behavioral AI to stop the full spectrum of email and collaboration application attacks. 

So how do they work better together? 

Well, in a nutshell, Abnormal’s AI-based attack detection perfectly complements CrowdStrike’s Falcon® Identity Threat Protection capabilities. This integration offers analysts higher-fidelity detection of sophisticated threats alongside more effective response playbooks. 

To elaborate, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform enhances Abnormal’s email attack detection by sending identity-based incidents (e.g., failed authentication attempts from a new endpoint) to Abnormal for further investigation. Security analysts can then automatically mitigate the risk of lateral phishing by signing the user out of active Microsoft 365 sessions, blocking account access, remediating email messages, and resetting their password.  

When Abnormal detects a potential active account takeover within Microsoft 365 (e.g., a call center agent sends a voicemail file to many employees), it automatically adds the user to the Watched Users list within Falcon Identity Threat Protection. Security analysts may configure automatic remediation actions for Watched Users that include enforcing MFA, blocking user access and resetting passwords. 

 

The Impact 

Now that we’ve covered how Abnormal Security and CrowdStrike work together to help strengthen organizations’ email security, endpoints, and identities, we want to give you a few more details about what this integration can do for you. 

Bringing CrowdStrike and Abnormal together allows organizations to: 

• Protect employees against hard-to-detect, sophisticated email account takeover attacks. 

• Consolidate email attacks, account takeovers, and identity-based incidents into comprehensive views for faster, more effective investigations. 

• Automate response actions that limit lateral movement and downstream risks by requiring multifactor authentication, signing users out of sessions, and more. 

• Uncover compromised endpoints and email account takeover attacks that traditional security solutions often fail to detect. 

• Increase operational productivity by breaking down data silos and correlating endpoint, identity, and email events into consolidated views. 

• Accelerate incident response with automated response workflows that stop lateral movement and downstream risks. 

Worried about incorporating either of these solutions into your current tech stack? Rest assured, Brite will not only help with integration – we’ll also optimize these technologies for you so that you’re up and running in no time without any hassle. 

 

Message Sent – Time to Respond 

Email attacks can happen to anyone at any time. If your organization is affected, you don’t want to be caught off guard.  

For a quick reference on how CrowdStrike and Abnormal Security will work better together to keep your business safe from sophisticated email attacks, download this data sheet or check out our video that we compiled. You can also reach out to us directly at 1-800-333-0498 or SalesInfo@Brite.com.