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Abnormal Security vs Sublime Security comparison

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

Categories and Ranking

Abnormal Security
Ranking in Email Security
12th
Average Rating
9.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
Secure Email Gateway (SEG) (6th)
Sublime Security
Ranking in Email Security
14th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Email Security category, the mindshare of Abnormal Security is 3.2%, down from 6.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sublime Security is 1.1%, down from 1.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Email Security Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Abnormal Security3.2%
Sublime Security1.1%
Other95.7%
Email Security
 

Featured Reviews

ChrisBrown5 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Information Technology Technical Services at a wholesaler/distributor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Automated threat detection that protects against corruption with minimal intervention
Abnormal Security is valuable because it features an automated scoring tool that doesn't require much intervention from our team. It enhances threat detection capabilities by making the process automated and is easy to scale to our entire environment. Additionally, it protects us from being business email compromised, which is invaluable for maintaining our security.
reviewer2891127 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Email defenses have reduced manual phishing work and now give clear visibility into threats
I'd say the best features Sublime Security offers are the threat detection and investigation capabilities, which are probably the most valuable part for us. I particularly appreciate the visibility into the email activity and the ability to investigate suspicious messages and understand why something was flagged. I'd say the protection against more sophisticated phishing and business email compromise attacks is also important. Those are difficult to deal with because they don't always contain obvious malware. The investigation capabilities of Sublime Security stand out because they surface themselves in a very nice, obvious way. So when we are investigating, they're just easy to spot and easy to identify. The UI is very clear for us, and overall it's just what we would expect. Regarding Sublime Security's AI capabilities, I think it's honestly pretty good. I haven't had any issues with either the governance side or the security side. I think Sublime Security has been very accurate. For us, it's certainly stopped a lot of the manual investigation that we often do for phishing emails or malicious emails. Occasionally, it does give us false positives, but that's just a five-minute review of something, so it still cuts a lot of time down.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The features that appeal to me most are the combination of auto-remediation and Detection 360."
"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."
"It protects us from being business email compromised, which is invaluable for maintaining our security."
"I have never encountered any stability issues with Abnormal."
"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."
"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."
"Overall, the auditability and the ability to evaluate the information in Sublime through various mechanisms made me very comfortable with setting these capabilities to auto-remediation."
"I like its ability to detect and block."
"Since I have been using Sublime Security personally, I have noticed specific improvements like fewer spam emails and improved detection, which saves me time."
"This is why it provides absolute value; it adds a smarter layer that catches anything missed by Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace protection, as attackers can breach those systems easily using flexible detection logic that security teams can quickly customize."
"Sublime Security has improved our email threat detection and response by helping us identify phishing and Business Email Compromise campaigns faster, investigate related emails, and automate remediation, which has reduced our manual effort and improved our response time."
"Sublime Security has positively impacted my organization by helping our team reduce manual email triage and respond to phishing and BEC threats faster."
"Sublime Security has positively impacted our organization by allowing us to do much less manual phishing detection and email detection, and now we can automate a lot of that, freeing up a lot of our security team to do other work."
 

Cons

"There could be more selectable options and more granular selections available."
"There could be room for improvement in enhancing integration with other cybersecurity tools."
"The biggest pain point for us is the lack of support for on-premise email systems."
"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."
"For Abnormal Security as a product, I would say probably somewhere around a seven, as there are some other areas where they can improve to achieve a higher rating."
"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."
"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."
"One feature I'd love to see is outbound scanning."
"I would say there are very minimal changes needed regarding Sublime Security; for first-time users, it can be difficult knowing how to write the tool."
"To improve Sublime Security, I think the learning curve is the primary concern; it is powerful, but it is not plug and play."
"While they do provide API-level access and web hooks, I believe more out-of-the-box integrations with SOAR platforms and SIEM tools would enhance Sublime's value."
"Sublime Security could be improved by enabling more integration, better customization of alerts, and more detailed reporting."
"I believe the main areas for improvement for Sublime Security are ease of onboarding and learning, as the platform has many powerful capabilities, making it take some time for new analysts to become comfortable with all the features and detection logic."
"There have been occasions where we would have liked a faster response, but the overall experience has been positive."
"The ability for users to look at their own quarantine box needs improvement. So at the moment, it doesn't give you the ability to see every email that has been quarantined. No end-user has the ability to see what's being quarantined. It's only people who have access to the back-end platform that can actually see what has been quarantined. The end user doesn't know if they have an email that has been quarantined, only if they're expecting something that didn't come through."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing appears fair, and they demonstrate a genuine willingness to work with us on it."
"Abnormal Security, on the other hand, provides the same level of functionality for just over $60,000 – that's half the price!"
"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."
"I would rate the pricing of Sublime Security as a seven out of ten. It is reasonably well-priced."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Government
6%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Computer Software Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise8
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise13
 

Questions from the Community

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.
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...
What is your primary use case for Abnormal Security?
The main use case for Abnormal Security is as a spam filter and for mail hygiene. This use case is for the finance industry.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sublime Security?
Pricing for Sublime Security seems appropriate for an enterprise security product. It's not really the cheapest option, but it benefits us. The overall cost does need to be considered against the s...
What needs improvement with Sublime Security?
The product is powerful, but I suppose there are areas where someone new to the platform needs some time to understand all of the available functionality. It can be quite a lot as a new user to abs...
What is your primary use case for Sublime Security?
Our primary use case for Sublime Security is email security, so we use Sublime Security to protect Microsoft 365 email against phishing, business email compromise, any malicious links and attachmen...
 

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Sample Customers

Foot Lcoker, Xerox, Liberty Mutual, Mattel, Boston Scientific
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