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	Gateway Church Focuses on Its Mission to Secure Trust with Its Congregants and Staff

Gateway Church Focuses on Its Mission to Secure Trust with Its Congregants and Staff

Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Machine Learning Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Fraud Detection
Services	Cybersecurity Services System Integration
Challenge	The church contends with the ever-evolving advanced email threat landscape on a global scale. As with all major organizations, threat actors attempt to disrupt its operations and communications with email attacks involving ransomware, fraud, phishing, and impersonation. In 2021, sophisticated threats increased with thousands of attacks that passed Microsoft 365 email defenses. However, with Abnormal we protected the integrity of our email communications with our continued defense in depth approach. Read More
About Customer	Gateway Church is a Bible-based, evangelistic church founded in 2000. The church has more than 100,000 members attending each weekend across its nine campuses. It also streams services to more than 300,000 people. Gateway has established itself as one of the nation’s most celebrated faith-based institutions. Read More
Solution	Gateway chose Abnormal Security because of its uncompromising, precision-based approach to prevent the email attacks that matter most. It augmented Defender with Abnormal’s behavioral AI and ML, which parses known good behavior to develop a deep understanding of people, relationships, and business context. Abnormal applies this to detect and stop socially-engineered email attacks before they reach individual mailboxes. Since deploying Abnormal, Gateway has not experienced a single successful advanced email attack. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Machine Learning

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Fraud Detection

Services

Cybersecurity Services

System Integration

Challenge

The church contends with the ever-evolving advanced email threat landscape on a global scale. As with all major organizations, threat actors attempt to disrupt its operations and communications with email attacks involving ransomware, fraud, phishing, and impersonation. In 2021, sophisticated threats increased with thousands of attacks that passed Microsoft 365 email defenses. However, with Abnormal we protected the integrity of our email communications with our continued defense in depth approach.

About Customer

Gateway Church is a Bible-based, evangelistic church founded in 2000. The church has more than 100,000 members attending each weekend across its nine campuses. It also streams services to more than 300,000 people. Gateway has established itself as one of the nation’s most celebrated faith-based institutions.

Solution

Gateway chose Abnormal Security because of its uncompromising, precision-based approach to prevent the email attacks that matter most. It augmented Defender with Abnormal’s behavioral AI and ML, which parses known good behavior to develop a deep understanding of people, relationships, and business context. Abnormal applies this to detect and stop socially-engineered email attacks before they reach individual mailboxes. Since deploying Abnormal, Gateway has not experienced a single successful advanced email attack.

Impact #1	Instant API-based integration into existing Microsoft 365 deployment.
Impact #2	Immediate and automatic mitigation of email attacks.
Impact #3	Comprehensive visibility into the types of attacks, key recipients, attacker strategy, and attacker origin.

Impact #1

Instant API-based integration into existing Microsoft 365 deployment.

Impact #2

Immediate and automatic mitigation of email attacks.

Impact #3

Comprehensive visibility into the types of attacks, key recipients, attacker strategy, and attacker origin.

Benefit #1	Blocked 112,000 email attacks to date.

Benefit #1

Blocked 112,000 email attacks to date.

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Gateway Church Focuses on Its Mission to Secure Trust with Its Congregants and Staff

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