Microsoft Security Copilot
An AI helper for security teams built into Microsoft Defender and Sentinel that explains threats in plain English and bills by the hour.
An email security tool that learns each employee's normal email habits and blocks scams that slip past traditional filters.
Abnormal Security, now branded Abnormal AI, is an email security tool. It uses behavioral AI to learn how each employee and vendor normally communicates, then flags emails that break that pattern, such as a fake invoice or a spoofed executive request. It targets phishing, business email compromise, and account takeover attempts that slip past standard email filters. It connects to Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace through an API, so there are no changes to mail routing records, and plugs into tools like Slack, Okta, CrowdStrike, and Splunk. Abnormal reports it catches over 1,200 attacks per 1,000 mailboxes each month that standard secure email gateways miss, and says more than a quarter of Fortune 500 companies use it.
This fits a company already running Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace that wants a second layer beyond built-in filtering, especially where finance or HR staff are frequent phishing targets. A sensible starting point is a short trial running it alongside your current email filter before you replace anything. Planning pricing runs roughly 15 to 30 dollars per employee per year; this is an estimate, not a quote, so confirm current pricing with Abnormal directly. Two risks: it learns from your own traffic, so accuracy takes a few weeks to reach its best level, and added modules like vendor fraud protection or AI governance cost extra, so check what is bundled in your quote.
These estimates cover licensing, setup, integrations, staff time, security, administration, and support.
| Cost measure | Low | Base | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| First-year total | $96.1K | $149.6K | $238K |
| Three-year total | $214.6K | $320.8K | $490.6K |
| First-year cost per unit | $96.1K | $149.6K | $238K |
| Average annual cost per unit (over three years) | $71.5K | $106.9K | $163.5K |
| Component | Low | Base | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| Licensing and usage | $36K | $48K | $64.8K |
| Implementation | $14.4K | $24K | $40.8K |
| Integration | $15.4K | $28K | $50.4K |
| Staff time and change management | $9.8K | $14K | $19.6K |
| Security | $7.7K | $11K | $16.5K |
| Administration | $5.6K | $7.5K | $10.1K |
| Support | $2.6K | $3.5K | $4.7K |
Estimate assumptions: Based on 1 production deployment. This is a planning allowance, not verified product pricing. Confirm the vendor’s billing unit and current price or quote before budgeting.
Benefits have not been estimated: The current research does not estimate potential savings, return on investment, or how long it would take to recover the cost. Earlier benefit estimates are excluded.
Confirm current product identity, commercial packaging, data processing terms, sign-in and access rules, retention, integrations, support model, implementation effort, and rollback conditions.
Verify identity, package, availability, ownership, pricing, and security evidence before approving a pilot
Do not approve a pilot yet. Verify the current product identity, package, availability, owner, pricing, and security evidence; then define one workflow, a baseline, and rollback criteria.
Define what success looks like for a test of Abnormal Security and assign someone to lead it.
Once the requirements above are met, compare a small trial with how your team works today.
Track adoption, output quality, business results, and actual costs against the estimate.
Use the results to decide whether to stop, adjust, or expand the pilot.
Confirm encryption, how the vendor uses your data, customer data separation, how long data stays and how to delete it, activity records, sign-in and user setup, where data is handled, other companies that process data, past incidents, and what your team must manage.
Review before rollout: confirm how to export your data, revoke access, and return to your existing workflow. Assign an owner and test the rollback plan before expanding use.
Do not approve a pilot yet. Verify the current product identity, package, availability, owner, pricing, and security evidence; then define one workflow, a baseline, and rollback criteria.
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