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Successful Abnormal Security go-live ensures greater sophistication in cyberthreat defense

WashU IT has enhanced Microsoft M365 Defender email security by incorporating Abnormal, an email security platform that detects and prevents advanced email attacks. 

Since the July 3 go-live, the new tool has already prevented the delivery of numerous malicious emails that were very sophisticated in nature to WashU mailboxes, thereby limiting the risk of a cyber-incident. 

Abnormal uses AI to defend and block phishing attacks in a much more targeted and effective way than has been possible in the past.