Webinar tomorrow: Why modern email attacks require a new approach to defense
A webinar scheduled for July 8th will address the evolving landscape of email-based cyber threats and the limitations of current defense strategies. The event, titled "Stop chasing alerts: Automating email security with behavioral AI," will feature insights from Dan Nickolaisen, Solutions Architect Manager at Abnormal AI, and Eric Danneker, Director of Cyber Vigilance and Defense at Novant Health.
Despite ongoing investments in secure email gateways, multi-factor authentication, and identity protection, organizations continue to grapple with persistent threats such as phishing, business email compromise (BEC), and account takeover (ATO) attacks. These attacks are increasingly sophisticated, leveraging trusted identities, legitimate services, and normal business communications to circumvent traditional security measures, rather than relying on overt malware or suspicious attachments.
Recent analysis has highlighted techniques like Device Code phishing, trusted sender impersonation, BEC, and ATO as common methods employed by attackers to bypass existing defenses. The shared characteristic of these attacks is their exploitation of established trust relationships and legitimate workflows, making them difficult for conventional security tools to detect. This often results in security teams dedicating significant manual effort to investigate suspicious emails and validate user activity, frequently after an attacker has already gained a foothold within an organization.
The webinar aims to explore how behavioral artificial intelligence (AI) can offer a more effective approach to combating these advanced threats. By analyzing communication patterns, behavioral AI can help identify anomalies that deviate from normal organizational activity, thereby enabling the automation of investigations and accelerating response times.
Attendees will gain practical knowledge from security professionals who have adopted behavioral AI solutions. The discussion will cover the operational challenges posed by alert fatigue and the inefficiencies of manual investigation processes. It will also delve into how behavioral AI can streamline detection, investigation, and remediation workflows, ultimately enhancing an organization's resilience against sophisticated email attacks.
The session will provide practical strategies for identifying these evolving threats earlier and reducing the workload on security personnel. Key topics to be covered include the specific ways modern phishing, BEC, and ATO attacks bypass traditional security controls, the continued success of methods like Device Code phishing and trusted sender impersonation, and the detrimental impact of alert fatigue. The webinar will also focus on the practical application of behavioral AI in automating security processes and improving response times.
