Case Study: Clatsop Community College achieves phishing protection and major time savings with Abnormal AI

Clatsop Community College Protects Staff and Students with Human Behavior AI

Clatsop Community College (CCC), a small community college in Astoria, Oregon, faced persistent student-targeted email attacks—fraudulent applications, Pell Grant scams, and accounts created to resell services—against its Microsoft 365 mailboxes while operating with a tiny IT/security team. To protect students and staff on a limited budget, CCC deployed Abnormal AI’s email security solutions, including Inbound Email Security, Account Takeover Protection, AI Security Mailbox, and Email Productivity.

Abnormal AI’s human behavior AI immediately detected and blocked sophisticated phishing that bypassed native defenses, provided autoremediation and ATO monitoring, and required little tuning from CCC’s staff. In 60 days Abnormal AI caught 34K+ advanced attacks, remediated 99.9% of messages via the AI Security Mailbox, and saved 28 hours of employee time in 30 days; CCC also reported no false positives in the first 60 days and faster shutdown of fraudulent accounts.

Clatsop Community College

Thomas Ank

Director of Computer Services and Information Security