Modern security teams rely on a range of best-of-breed tools like email security, cloud security, identity, and endpoint protection, each generating valuable signals. But when those signals remain siloed, teams are forced to manually stitch together context during active incidents, slowing response and increasing risk.

This challenge is especially acute for email-initiated attacks. Phishing, business email compromise (BEC), and account takeover attempts may be detected at the email entry point, but the malicious infrastructure behind them—URLs, domains, IP addresses, or file hashes—often persists across cloud and web environments. Without a way to quickly operationalize those detections beyond the inbox, organizations are left with an expanded attack surface and a longer window of exposure.

To help security teams close that gap, we’re excited to announce a new integration between Abnormal AI and Netskope, designed to turn high-confidence email detections into faster, automated enforcement across cloud and web controls.

Abnormal AI focuses on stopping attacks at their earliest and most human-centric stage: communication. Rather than relying on static rules or signatures, Abnormal uses AI-native behavioral models to understand how employees, vendors, and partners normally interact. This enables Abnormal to precisely detect and automatically remediate sophisticated email threats such as phishing, BEC, and account takeover attempts, even when no known indicators of compromise exist.

Netskope One provides deep visibility and enforcement across cloud, web, and private application traffic through a unified, cloud-native security architecture. By consolidating capabilities such as next-gen secure web gateway (NG-SWG), cloud access security broker (CASB), zero trust network access (ZTNA), and cloud firewall into a single platform, Netskope enables organizations to consistently enforce security policies and reduce risk as users access applications and data from anywhere.

The Abnormal AI Plugin for Netskope Cloud Threat Exchange brings together Abnormal’s high-fidelity email threat detections with Netskope’s cloud and web enforcement ecosystem. Built on the Netskope Cloud Exchange, the integration enables threat intelligence identified by Abnormal to be shared and operationalized across Netskope and connected security controls.

With this integration, customers can automatically ingest verified indicators of compromise from Abnormal—including malicious URLs, domains, IPv4 addresses, and cryptographic file hashes (SHA256 and MD5)—directly into Netskope Cloud Threat Exchange. These indicators are automatically curated and applied across relevant Netskope controls and connected integrations.

Only verified threat indicators, not full email content, are shared, ensuring security teams can act quickly without introducing additional data complexity.

When Abnormal detects a high-confidence threat, that intelligence can be rapidly shared and used across the broader Netskope ecosystem—reducing exposure, accelerating response, and helping security teams contain sophisticated, email-initiated attacks more effectively.

At a high level, the integration creates a streamlined flow of validated threat intelligence from Abnormal into Netskope:

1. Abnormal detects and remediates a sophisticated email attack using behavioral and contextual AI signals.

2. Verified indicators of compromise, including malicious URLs, domains, IPv4 addresses, and cryptographic file hashes such as SHA256 and MD5, are automatically shared with Netskope Cloud Threat Exchange.

3. ​​Netskope enforces protections in near real time across web and cloud traffic, blocking access to known malicious infrastructure and reducing opportunities for lateral movement or follow-on attacks.

This approach turns email-borne threats into actionable intelligence across the broader security stack by ensuring they don’t remain isolated to the inbox.

For organizations using both Abnormal and Netskope, the integration delivers tangible operational and security benefits:

Faster Enforcement, Reduced MTTR
High-confidence threat indicators are automatically shared, enabling teams to move from detection to enforcement without manual analysis or custom workflows.

Unified Protection Across Email, Cloud, and Web
Threats identified by Abnormal at the email entry point are proactively blocked across cloud and web environments, preventing attackers from moving laterally or reusing infrastructure via alternate delivery paths.

Enriched Threat Context for Smarter Decisions
Abnormal’s email intelligence adds critical context directly within Netskope’s native cloud and web security controls, enabling more accurate enforcement with less manual investigation.

Operational Efficiency Through Automation
Automated sharing of threat indicators eliminates the need for analysts to manually translate email detections into downstream security controls, freeing teams to focus on higher-impact investigations and response.

As attackers continue to exploit human behavior and cloud infrastructure, security teams need solutions that work together as seamlessly as the threats they defend against. By integrating with platforms like Netskope, Abnormal ensures email threat detections don’t stop at the inbox, driving faster containment and reducing exposure across the broader environment.

Explore how Abnormal and Netskope help reduce exposure and accelerate response across email, cloud, and web environments.