Crane Hassold, Director of Threat Intelligence at Abnormal Security
Director of Threat Intelligence at Abnormal Security
Crane Hassold is the Director of Threat Intelligence at Abnormal Security, an email security company focused on using behavioral AI to stop business email compromise, supply chain fraud, and other socially-engineered attacks. He leads an intelligence team responsible for researching enterprise-focused threats and serves as the Head of Abnormal Intelligence—a community platform that provides unique insight into the attacks targeting customers each day. He worked in similar roles at Agari and PhishLabs, and prior to moving to the private sector in 2015, Crane served as an Analyst at the FBI for more than 11 years, spending most of his time in the Behavioral Analysis Units. While there, he provided support to the intelligence community and law enforcement partners against national security adversaries and serial criminals. In 2012, Crane helped create the FBI’s Cyber Behavioral Analysis Center, which takes an asymmetric approach to examining cyber threats by combining the traditional behavioral concepts used for decades in the violent crime world with technical expertise to gain a holistic understanding of threat actor TTPs.