Fighting AI Threats With Behavior-Based Awareness Training

Abnormal AI CEO Evan Reiser on Behavioral Anomalies, Personalized Phishing Training Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • July 10, 2025

Artificial intelligence has revolutionized security awareness training by evolving from manual, synthetic and generalized campaigns to personalized, automated and relevant campaigns, said Evan Reiser, CEO of Abnormal AI, which rebranded from Abnormal Security in April to reflect its move to a broader AI-native security platform.

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Reiser said AI has made attacks more personal, scalable and realistic, enabling unskilled actors to launch sophisticated phishing and social engineering attempts. On the other hand, AI has unlocked personalized phishing training and behavioral anomaly detection that were too expensive or technically infeasible. And organizations can use AI to automate internal processes that reduce complexity and increase agility (see: From Email to Human Behavior: Abnormal Security's Evolution).

"It allows more people to be criminals," Reiser said. "It ...