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    Abnormal Security

    Score9.5 out of 10
    N/AAbnormal Security, headquartered in San Francisco, offers a secure email gateway to that protects Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace accounts with AI threat detection. The solution is designed to prevent phishing and scams, high-level account impersonation, or supply chain attacks (i.e. invoice fraud).N/A

    Microsoft Defender for Office 365

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Defender for Office 365 is a security solution used to protect Office 365 against advanced threats, such as phishing and business email compromise. It helps prevent volume-based and targeted attacks, including business email compromise, credential phishing, ransomware, and advanced malware with a robust filtering stack, as well as to detect malicious and suspicious content like links and files across Office 365.N/A
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    Abnormal SecurityMicrosoft Defender for Office 365
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Abnormal SecurityMicrosoft Defender for Office 365
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    Abnormal Security
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Features
    Abnormal SecurityMicrosoft Defender for Office 365
    Secure Email Gateway
    Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Abnormal Security and Microsoft Defender for Office 365
    Feature
    Abnormal Security
    7.9
    2 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Microsoft Defender for Office 365
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    Ratings
    Anti-malware8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizability8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Loss Protection8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threat Detection8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sandboxing7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    End-to-End Encryption8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management Tools8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Barracuda ESG (discontinued)
    Score6.2 out of 10
    Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP)
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Microsoft Exchange
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP)
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Abnormal SecurityMicrosoft Defender for Office 365
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.6
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Abnormal SecurityMicrosoft Defender for Office 365
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Abnormal Security
    Another local organization was compromised, and we were one of the targets of their further attempts. We were 100% protected because the behavioral analysis protected us, but also allowed me to contact that organization and report their compromise. This has actually happened more than one time since going live.
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    Microsoft
    Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is found to be well suited for our size company, and easily for smaller or larger companies as well. It does have a few places where improvements can be made, but at least it also asks you to provide feedback to Microsoft, which I have done with certain suggestions or complaints. However, overall it is a very thorough and useful tool when it comes to securing and defending yourself against trending threats.
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    Pros
    Abnormal Security
    • Spam filtering...we have been able to turn our spam sensitivity down on Exchange allowing more legitimate messages through to user inboxes.
    • Malicious email filtering...we experienced several successful phishing attacks over the past year. Abnormal Security has prevented hundreds of individual campaigns since going live in August '22. I cannot thank them enough!
    • Automated response for reported emails...my team is small and we do not have enough hours in a day to review and respond to each reported email. Abnormal Security performs additional analysis on those reports and automatically responds for us. If the message is spam or malicious, copies of those emails are looked for throughout the server and deleted.
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    Microsoft
    • It has been seamlessly working for us. We have not faced any issue as an end user. I've not faced many issues around accessing my apps, securely accessing and I've also seen certain links being blocked if I do not have correct access based on the security level that is defined for each user.
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    Cons
    Abnormal Security
    • None so far, I have been extremely happy with their service.
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    Microsoft
    • I think it needs to be tuned correctly. For example, afterwards I tried to go in and print once after the implementation was done, I went in and tried to print a file or export a document. Just not possible, which just means it's great, works really well, but it also means that you have to tune your data categorization very carefully.
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    Usability
    Abnormal Security
    It is pretty easy to setup and use along with being a learning AI model that continues to work without much interaction from the end user.
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    Microsoft
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    Alternatives Considered
    Abnormal Security
    KnowBe4 was a close second and only because it has Egress around it which is a more legacy product that has a proven track record of being a good piece of software.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    Sentinel One. Well, we have two different products at the same time. Just see which one is the best fit for our business. So nowadays we're using both at the same time.
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    Return on Investment
    Abnormal Security
    • Preventing compromises that have historically led to payroll or accounts payable threats.
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    Microsoft
    • The positive aspect is the security of the employees, security of the data. There is no breach I can say. So it is a good impact. I mean there is not any bad or negative impact.
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