High Risk of Financial Attacks: Manufacturers face an 89% chance of encountering a financial supply chain email attack each week, with a 60% rise in business email compromise attacks reported in 2022 (Source: Abnormal Security).
10X Stronger Security: Fortune 1000 Manufacturer Upgrades to Abnormal Over Proofpoint
"Abnormal provided a clear improvement over Proofpoint in both detection and cost savings. The transition was smooth, and the results speak for themselves."
Industry Context
Legacy Security Falls Short: Reliance on outdated solutions like secure email gateways and air gaps leaves manufacturers vulnerable to advanced threats, resulting in ransomware, operational interruptions, and financial fraud (Source: Abnormal Security).
Modern Solutions Address Emerging Threats: Cloud-native email security platforms like Abnormal utilize behavioral analysis and advanced signals to detect and remediate threats, shielding manufacturers from sophisticated attacks that legacy systems miss (Source: Abnormal Security).
Customer Challenge
Detection Efficacy: In just 25 days, Abnormal identified 1,278 advanced attacks that Proofpoint missed, with the SEG remediating only 9% of these threats and taking a median of 9 minutes per attack—highlighting significant gaps in Proofpoint’s protection.
SOC Inefficiency: Security analysts spent a projected 309 hours per month manually triaging 1,855 user-reported emails.
Inbox Overload: Employees received 615,000 graymail messages monthly, with VIPs experiencing 7x more graymail than average employees.
Excessive Redundant Costs: The organization identified $876,000 in annual costs tied to redundant features with Proofpoint for features that largely duplicated the native email security capabilities already included in Microsoft 365, resulting in unnecessary expenses.
Why Abnormal?
Rapid Deployment: Abnormal integrated with Microsoft 365 in under 60 seconds, with full deployment across 20,000 mailboxes completed in just 15 minutes.
Superior Detection: Abnormal’s AI detected 10x more attacks than Proofpoint, averting potential losses of $2.4M annually.
Business Impact
Enhanced SOC Productivity: Abnormal automated email remediation, saving 260 SOC hours per month—the equivalent of 1.5 additional full-time employees.
Employee Time Savings: Abnormal’s graymail filtering saved employees 854 hours per month by decluttering inboxes.
Seamless Migration: The transition from Proofpoint required only 30 SOC hours over a two-week period, minimizing disruption and resource allocation.
Significant Cost Savings: Replacing Proofpoint eliminated $876,000 in redundant software licenses and $250,000 annually on managed services for tuning and configuration.