Case Study: Virginia Beach City Public Schools achieves comprehensive email protection and time-saving automation with Abnormal AI

Charted Course for Student Success, Staff Productivity, and Community Trust

Virginia Beach City Public Schools, a large K–12 division with district-issued Chromebooks and Gmail for students and Microsoft 365 for staff, faced rising credential-phishing and impersonation attacks while needing to comply with COPPA, CIPA, and FERPA. With a small IT/security team and teachers unable to take on extensive security training, VBCPS sought an AI-driven email security solution — engaging Abnormal AI’s API-based, behavioral-email protection (including Email Account Takeover Protection and VendorBase) to protect both Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 ecosystems.

Abnormal AI deployed behavioral AI and automation that baselined normal email behavior, integrated with Office 365 and Google Workspace, and instantly blocked and remediated malicious messages. Since activation Abnormal AI detected 187,000+ attacks in nine months, stopped 16,000+ credential-phishing attempts, flagged 59 high‑risk compromised vendor accounts, and detected 888 internal takeovers, while covering 192,000+ protected mailboxes — reducing manual investigation, speeding remediation, and helping VBCPS preserve community trust and staff productivity.

Virginia Beach City Public Schools

David Din

Chief Information Officer