Material Security 
vs. Abnormal AI

Material takes a comprehensive approach to cloud workspace security, combining top-tier email security with data and account protections to deliver detection and response across the entire workspace, not just the inbox. Connecting by API to Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, teams get the evidence they need to investigate a threat end-to-end:

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• • Integrated visibility across email, files, and accounts
  • Rich audit logs
  • Detailed message identifiers
  • In-depth forensic data

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Abnormal AI focuses on inbound phishing protection, with a design that reduces complexity for teams that want automated results without deeper investigation. With Abnormal, you can expect:

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• • Fully managed intelligence
  • Audit logs with higher-level activity
  • Updates to its behavioral AI models through a ticketed request

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As an email security platform that exposes its signal, Material lets teams verify and tune detection decisions rather than accept them, which matters when a missed call is a real attack and a wrong call is a false positive that buries the team.

Material is built to use out of the box and customize over time. It is designed to fit into your security operations, including account takeover containment:

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• • Add custom detections to Material's detection engine
  • Create event subscriptions to integrate with commonly used systems
  • Use read and write APIs to adapt the platform to your workflows
  • Tune detections to keep pace with emerging threats and sophisticated attacks as attacker behavior shifts
• Abnormal AI provides read-only APIs that let customers extract data for reporting and analysis. Because Abnormal emphasizes phishing detection as its core strength, it does not prioritize the same custom interconnectivity to other systems.
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Material is built to defend against the full lifecycle of modern email threats, at a cost comparable to Abnormal's email-only security. Alongside sophisticated anti-phishing, the platform addresses a broader set of risks:

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• • Identifies and automatically remediates account takeovers
  • Classifies and secures sensitive files
  • Hardens identities to protect accounts and connected apps across both Google and Microsoft

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This is threat detection and response across the workspace, not inbound filtering alone. Abnormal AI focuses primarily on phishing detection, with strong protection in that domain and remediation that commonly involves deletion or routing to spam. For buyers comparing pricing, the real question is how much of the workspace each tool actually covers.

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