Abnormal Security vs Perception Point Advanced Email Security comparison

Abnormal AI and Fortinet are both solutions in the Email Security category. Abnormal AI is ranked #4 with an average rating of 9.2, while Fortinet is ranked #18 with an average rating of 8.7. Abnormal AI holds a 5.7% mindshare in Email Security, compared to Fortinet’s 2.0% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Abnormal AI users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Fortinet users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

Abnormal Security and Perception Point Advanced Email Security both compete in the email security category, protecting against cyber threats like phishing and malware. Perception Point has the upper hand with its advanced pre-emptive features and high perceived value.

Features: Abnormal Security offers behavioral and AI-driven anomaly detection, making it suitable for advanced attack identification. It includes auto-remediation, API-based architecture for easy integration, and robust spam filtering. Perception Point provides comprehensive protection with threat intelligence, pre-emptive interception, and multi-engine architecture for malware detection. It employs fast scanning with a user-friendly interface and integrates seamlessly with cloud email systems.

Room for Improvement: Abnormal Security could enhance its integration with non-Microsoft platforms and provide more customizable reporting options. Expanding its detection capabilities to cover more communication channels and further reducing false positives could enhance its effectiveness. Perception Point demands improvements in its initial setup complexity and could benefit from reducing the need for extensive configurations. Enhancing API features for broader integrations and refining user alerts for better incident management may improve user satisfaction.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Abnormal Security offers smooth integration with strong customer support, making the transition seamless. Its setup is efficient with minimal configuration needed. Perception Point needs a more complex initial setup but provides robust customer support to address initial challenges, enhancing the deployment experience over time.

Pricing and ROI: Abnormal Security is cost-effective with promising ROI due to efficient threat detection, appealing to budget-conscious buyers. Its competitive pricing structure provides significant savings compared to traditional solutions. Perception Point, with higher costs, ensures significant ROI through its advanced threat prevention capabilities, justifying its expense for businesses aiming at comprehensive long-term protection.

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Categories and Ranking

Abnormal Security

Ranking in Email Security

4th

Average Rating

9.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Secure Email Gateway (SEG) (3rd)

Perception Point Advanced E...

Ranking in Email Security

18th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Internet Security (12th)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Email Security category, the mindshare of Abnormal Security is 5.7%, down from 6.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Perception Point Advanced Email Security is 2.0%, down from 2.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Email Security Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Abnormal Security	5.7%
Perception Point Advanced Email Security	2.0%
Other	92.3%

Email Security

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William Schellhaas

Senior Director of IT at Crunch Fitness West Florida and Atlanta (CR Fitness)

Provides comprehensive email security management, effective in detecting a wide range of email threats

The ideal scenario would be for Abnormal Security to work in tandem with Microsoft to analyze incoming emails. This means Abnormal Security would assess emails before they reach my inbox, even if it happens slightly after Microsoft's initial scan. Currently, the process isn't seamless. Microsoft analyzes emails and delivers legitimate ones to my inbox. Abnormal Security then scans these delivered emails, and if flagged as malicious, they disappear. This creates a problem for our ticketing system mailbox, which is a third-party service. Emails sent to the ticketing system address are automatically forwarded by Microsoft. However, if these emails are malicious, Abnormal Security only cleans them from my Outlook mailbox after they've been forwarded. Since we primarily rely on the ticketing system and not the Outlook mailbox, these malicious emails still reach the ticketing system.

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GraftonCole

IT at a retailer with 11-50 employees

Provides strong email protection and accurate threat detection with effective multi-layer defense mechanisms

They run us through about seven layers of protection, and the reporting is excellent. I found it to be very effective. It has a very high level of protection with Perception Point Advanced Email Security. They continually modernize their surveillance. They use a lot of AI. They run it through several layers of detection, deep packet inspection, which takes a lot of horsepower. I just think it is a good system. Perception Point Advanced Email Security has helped address specific email threats within my organization. I get weekly reporting, and by doing that, I can go and talk to these people directly and make them aware of how many attacks they had and where the attacks are coming from and not only the source of the email, but what category of emails that they are receiving. With the combination of KnowBe4 PhishER, I think it is a good security process that we have in place.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"What I like about Abnormal Security is that it notifies me if any of my partners or suppliers are experiencing a security breach by analyzing their database and identifying potential cyber threats."

"Initial auto-remediation allows us to auto-remediate before the email lands in the end user's inbox for a split second."

"Abnormal Security's AI capabilities are what we like most, as they can categorize and classify the emails, and based on the context of the email, understand if it's a graymail, a bulk mail, or a phish."

"I would recommend Abnormal Security."

"Their ability to take things out of the mailbox and catch things much faster than users is excellent."

"It protects us from being business email compromised, which is invaluable for maintaining our security."

"One of the things that I love about them is that the setup and installation are super easy. All you do is give them access to your Microsoft 365 tenant, and through APIs, they are able to do their work. They are doing all this through APIs, so you do not have to install the software and take a month to get it all set up to even see the value of the solution. You could be up and running in less than an hour."

"I like Abnormal's threat protection with auto-remediation, but I also love its abuse mailbox feature, which automatically responds to the end user. That feature has a super-valuable security component and helps improve the user experience."

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"The solution’s effectiveness when it comes to detection is very good. It is stopping malicious emails and tagging emails noted as spam. So, we are able to disseminate those emails, get what we need, and block clearly malicious emails. It saves us a lot of valuable time. It keeps our users safe, e.g., the majority of emails that they would have gotten in the past don't even make it into their inbox."

"The Perception Point Incident Response team acts as an extension of our SOC team. This is very important for us. This is a benefit provided for their main product of scanning our emails. If Perception Point can give me IR, this is really good versus other products that do not provide this kind of service. Perception Point's service is great. They are very professional. That reduces the time that my internal SOC has to deal with my internal IT person. They just send an email to the IR team at Perception Point, who continues the investigation and blocks any emails, if necessary. This is very good because it can reduce a lot of time and effort from my team. It is like an extension of my SOC, but external."

"The most valuable feature is the technical support services."

"What's really good about this platform is that you have full visibility, it has a very nice and very friendly UI, it's quick, and there's no latency in the scanning."

"Perception Point Advanced Email Security has helped address specific email threats within my organization."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to identify malicious content and phishing emails and reduce the workload we have to do in terms of security."

"One is the hardware-assisted platform that provides more insight into the threat scenarios. And the other is their instant response team's availability, 24/7, for identifying and responding to incidents. These are the two main things that everyone likes."

"The most valuable feature of Perception Point Advanced Email Security is the filtering and securing of emails."

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Cons

"There could be room for improvement in enhancing integration with other cybersecurity tools."

"When we're working on something as engineers, and we find an idea or a method of doing something that would be greatly improved by doing it another way, there should be an ability for me to click the ideas button, type in an idea that I have, and submit it to a product review team or developers to have them think through the process a little bit more."

"The ideal scenario would be for Abnormal Security to work in tandem with Microsoft to analyze incoming emails."

"One feature I'd love to see is outbound scanning."

"Abnormal should add more automatic reports. I have an open request to our account team for more notification and report types that can be sent automatically. For example, they have an awesome report that gets sent weekly, and I also want them monthly, so I don't need to do so much adding up when my director wants numbers over time."

"I, as such, do not have anything that I do not like or would like to add, but you could argue that because they are doing it API-based, there is a chance that something could slip through temporarily before they are able to pull it out. In theory, it could happen just because of the nature of the system. They are not in line with the delivery of the mail. They are kind of asynchronous, which is a pro as well as a con. If it is synchronous, then I know it would always stop them, but because it is asynchronous, things could get through temporarily or because of some system issues on the Microsoft side or their side. It is the nature of the beast, but it is a little bit of a con."

"The biggest pain point for us is the lack of support for on-premise email systems."

"The pricing for academic institutions and student mailboxes is challenging."

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"Integration and end-user interaction can be improved as the current system does not allow end-users to send back information to the platform, unlike Google Workspace or competitive tools like Ironscales."

"They could provide additional data loss prevention features as we encounter different kinds of attacks in today's scenario."

"Coming from products in the Microsoft stack, Perception Point doesn't really give you, as an admin, a lot of options to make changes yourself. It's more on their side to make changes in the back end. That's something they could improve on in the future."

"Our users would like the solution to scan outgoing emails. So, if my system is compromised, and I have malicious content in my system, then there is a possibility that I am sending a colleague that malicious content."

"They need more customer engagement. The product works very well. The IR works very well when we contact them. However, day-to-day, they should have more in communication with their customers explaining new products and features. There is possibly something that if I would know about it, then I would buy and use it. Maybe I need it. They need to improve their communications."

"It would be helpful for Perception Point Advanced Email Security to have more integration with other solutions."

"The only thing that can be improved in Perception Point is the in-depth analysis and attribution to cyberattack groups."

"In terms of architecture, and I know that they're going to improve this, the solution needs to be much more redundant. There was an outage a month ago in AWS, and that basically stopped the service for two or three hours. Although in two years, this was the first time that something like that happened, our expectation from a company like Perception Point is that it should work with either a multi-cloud or multi-region architecture, to improve the resilience."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Abnormal Security, on the other hand, provides the same level of functionality for just over $60,000 – that's half the price!"

"The pricing appears fair, and they demonstrate a genuine willingness to work with us on it."

"Overall, we'd certainly prefer lower pricing, but Abnormal Security doesn't seem unreasonable compared to similar offerings in the market."

"The license is based on the user count, so the number of users that have an email address in the organization."

"We would always like it to be cheaper and save more money. However, we are getting the value from it."

"In Brazil, the dollar price affects the cost. Perception Point Advanced Email Security is about 50 percent less expensive."

"There is room for improvement for them with an MSP partner. The pricing is good and fair. Our customers don't complain. The only thing is that it's a little bit old school. They don't have a system that automatically checks the number of users that our customers have so we can just update the licenses ourselves through a website. It is still done manually. They have a person who checks invoicing monthly to determine if there have been any changes. A nice improvement would be if they could get automated licensing counts."

"The pricing is not cheap, but I can see the value. In security, if you are trying to save by giving up quality, that's a very bad decision."

"The pricing compared to the value Perception Point brings is super-competitive. They're not the cheapest in the market, but the value and the quality of the product are superior to anything else in the market, so we don't mind paying more for it."

"The price of the solution is high."

"It has very reasonable pricing. Normally, the end user is paying. Perception Point is already in the Amazon marketplace, so we cannot sell it as a distribution partner. For example, we cannot take more than that margin of what they offer in the marketplace. Whatever the end user is paying, it is definitely worth it and it is not that high."

"They are not the most expensive vendor. There are much more expensive vendors. They are not cheap, but they are not the most expensive. They are somewhere in the middle."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	1
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	8

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	13
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	6

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Abnormal Security?

The features that appeal to me most are the combination of auto-remediation and Detection 360.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Abnormal Security?

I find the pricing to be favorable, but I did not disclose the exact cost.

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What needs improvement with Abnormal Security?

Ease of use is important, and Abnormal Security's responsiveness and ability to deliver solutions when issues arise are crucial. However, there is always room for improvement, as achieving a perfec...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Perception Point Advanced Email Security?

In Brazil, the dollar price affects the cost. Perception Point Advanced Email Security is about 50 percent less expensive.

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What needs improvement with Perception Point Advanced Email Security?

Perception Point Advanced Email Security can be improved by increasing the speed of analysis and delivery. In some cases, we have trouble with multi-factor authentication emails, which take more th...

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What is your primary use case for Perception Point Advanced Email Security?

My main use case for Perception Point Advanced Email Security is proactive defense against advanced threats, particularly phishing, zero-day attacks, and malware that a standard filter might miss. ...

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Overview

Abnormal Security is a cloud-based email security platform designed to protect organizations from advanced targeted attacks, such as phishing and business email compromise (BEC), and account takeovers. Their approach is centered on using artificial intelligence (AI) and behavioral data science to detect anomalies in email activity.

Abnormal Security is specializes in protecting email communications, detecting and preventing threats, filtering out spam and phishing emails, and blocking malicious attachments. Users rely on Abnormal Security to enhance their email security, identify and stop sophisticated attacks, safeguard sensitive information, and improve overall cybersecurity measures.

Abnormal Security targets sophisticated attacks that traditional email security measures might miss. Their system analyzes various data points to build an understanding of email behavior within your organization. This includes emails themselves, sender and recipient information, and even business context. By understanding these patterns, they can identify anomalies that might indicate a malicious attempt. Their solution is designed for the cloud, offering quick deployment and minimal configuration. This eliminates the need for complex setup processes often associated with security software.

Abnormal Security customers appreciate the ease of use in setting up and managing the platform, along with its ability to accurately filter out suspicious emails and prevent potential cyber threats. Abnormal Security has been praised for streamlining processes, boosting productivity, improving communication within teams, providing valuable analytics for informed decision-making, and driving success in various projects. Experience the robust security measures and benefits of Abnormal Security to safeguard your sensitive information and maintain a secure email environment.

Abnormal AI

Perception Point Advanced Email Security is a comprehensive solution designed to protect organizations from advanced email threats. Leveraging cutting-edge technology, it offers multi-layered defense mechanisms to detect and block sophisticated attacks such as phishing, malware, and ransomware.

With its advanced threat intelligence capabilities, it can identify and neutralize zero-day threats in real-time. The solution also provides robust data loss prevention features, ensuring sensitive information remains secure. Its user-friendly interface allows for easy management and monitoring of email security, while its seamless integration with existing email platforms ensures a hassle-free deployment process.

Perception Point Advanced Email Security is a reliable and efficient solution that safeguards organizations against the ever-evolving landscape of email-based threats.

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