Abnormal AI, the AI-native human behavior security comp, today announced its participation in Project Watershed 250, a public-private initiative coordinated by the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD), Office of the Texas Governor, and Texas Cyber Command to strengthen cybersecurity protections for water and wastewater utilities across Texas. Abnormal is one of several companies offering tools, expertise, and resources to help harden critical infrastructure against a threat landscape that is increasingly shaped by AI-enabled attacks.

The announcement comes amid a wave of cyberattacks against water and wastewater systems across the United States, including recent incidents that have disrupted operations at utilities in multiple states, underscoring the urgency of extending cybersecurity resources to historically under-resourced water providers.

“Water and wastewater systems are among the most under-resourced targets in critical infrastructure, and most don’t have dedicated security operations centers of their own,” said James Yeager, VP of Public Sector at Abnormal AI. “That’s exactly the gap AI-native detection was built to close. Abnormal has worked in Texas’s public sector for years, and this initiative is a natural next step: bringing the same detection capabilities that protect thousands of enterprises to the defenders who need them most.”

Project Watershed 250 will pilot cybersecurity protections at water and wastewater utilities across Texas, in coordination with Texas Cyber Command. Abnormal will offer its AI-native email security platform to participating utilities at no cost for the duration of the pilot. Participating companies, including Abnormal, will contribute complementary capabilities spanning red-teaming, system hardening, and threat detection.

This work builds on Abnormal’s growing presence in the public sector, including its GovRAMP authorization and FedRAMP Moderate Authorization, which enable state, local, education, and federal agencies to deploy Abnormal’s AI-native protection against advanced email and identity-based threats.

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Abnormal AI stops cybercrime with AI, protecting more than 4,500 organizations, including more than 25% of the Fortune 500. The Abnormal Behavioral Security Platform spans email, identity, and insider threat, and is built on proprietary specialized Behavioral AI models designed to detect the attacks that legacy, rules-based tools are not built to detect. Learn more at abnormal.ai.

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