Cyera and Abnormal AI Announce Strategic Partnership to Stop AI-Driven Email Attacks from Becoming Data Loss
A single phishing email can look harmless. A link clicked. Credentials entered. Nothing obvious happens. But behind the scenes, that compromised account may now have access to customer records, financial data, or internal strategy documents spread across SaaS platforms, cloud applications, and AI tools. Email is often where attacks begin, but data is what attackers are after. Yet many security teams still lack the context to understand intent, assess impact, and intervene early, before sensitive information is exfiltrated.
The rise of agentic AI has only heightened this risk. Attacks now move faster, appear more legitimate, and increasingly involve autonomous systems that can read, respond to, and act on emails without human intervention, allowing a single compromised interaction to escalate into widespread data exposure.
To address this growing challenge, Cyera today announced a strategic partnership with Abnormal AI. Together, Cyera and Abnormal are bringing an AI-native approach to enterprise security that helps organizations connect email-based threats to real insider risk and sensitive data exposure, giving security teams the clarity they need to act earlier and protect critical data across the enterprise.
Cyera’s Role in Detecting Early Insider Risks
Cyera’s Omni DLP acts as the intelligence layer across existing DLP tools, giving security teams relief from noisy, siloed systems. It applies AI analysis to DLP alerts and policies, surfacing what is truly sensitive while automating the tedious work that slows teams down. Instead of fragmented signals and isolated views, Omni DLP unifies alerts and policies in one place so teams can see real patterns and emerging insider risk early - patterns no single tool can uncover on its own.
When Abnormal identifies a potentially compromised email account, analysts can use that signal in Cyera to flag the user as higher risk and put tighter data protection policies in place early—helping prevent data exfiltration before it happens. Rather than chasing alerts one by one, teams get clear, ready-to-act insight that correlates data, identities, and activity over time.
This gives security teams a clearer picture of real risk. They can see which data is overexposed, which users pose meaningful risk, and where early signs of misuse or exfiltration are forming. DLP becomes proactive, targeted, and aligned to business impact.
Abnormal’s Role in Detecting Early Email Threats
Abnormal uses behavioral AI to detect and block the earliest signs of email-based attacks, including phishing, business email compromise, and account takeovers that evade traditional email gateways. These behavioral signals reveal when a user may be compromised.
On their own, those signals raise concern. When paired with data exposure insight, they become actionable.
The result: a clearer view of risk.
When combining Abnormal with Cyera, together, security teams can catch compromised users at the source, see the data that’s exposed, and prioritize and remediate the risks that matter.
Practical Use Cases Security Teams Face
Assessing blast radius after phishing
When an employee falls for a phishing email, the first question is impact. Abnormal detects the phishing attack and identifies the compromised account, while Cyera shows which financial records, payroll files, or customer data that account can access, along with any recent exposure or sharing, enabling faster and more confident response.
Prioritizing insider risk
Not every compromised account represents the same level of risk. By pairing behavioral signals with data access visibility, teams can focus on users whose access creates real exposure to sensitive data.
Stopping data exfiltration early
Compromised users may quietly copy files or share data externally. Abnormal flags early signs of suspicious user behavior, while Cyera detects early exposure and movement patterns across SaaS and cloud environments, allowing teams to intervene before data leaves the organization.
Reducing AI related data leakage
As AI tools gain access to enterprise email and documents, compromised accounts can unintentionally expose sensitive information. Abnormal detects and stops threats that look human, even when they’re generated or accelerated by AI. Cyera gives organizations visibility and control over the sensitive data that AI systems and agents can access, use, and expose.
Complementary Visibility Across Microsoft 365
Both platforms support M365 environments, giving customers complementary visibility into email and data activity across OneDrive, SharePoint, or other M365 applications.
A Shared Vision for Modern Security
Modern threats are fast, adaptive, and increasingly automated in the age of AI. Defending against them requires understanding intent, limiting unintended actions, and protecting sensitive information.
Cyera and Abnormal share a vision of security built on context, clarity, and precision. By combining behavioral intelligence with data risk awareness, the partnership helps organizations detect issues earlier, prioritize efficiently, and protect sensitive information before damage escalates.
Join us at Abnormal Innovate on January 14 for a deeper look at how Cyera and Abnormal AI work together in practice.
From Human Behavior to Data Exposure: Seeing the Full Story of Risk
Nadav Zingerman, Chief Technology Officer, Cyera DLP
Linda Park, Product Marketing Director, Cyera
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