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A concise, real-world case study showcasing agile incident response and tailored threat detection for the modern network.

Attackers bypass MFA using non-interactive sign-ins. Learn how to detect and stop credential-based threats before they escalate.

Secure on-premises and private cloud infrastructure with Vectra AI’s analysis for faster responses, reduced workload, and minimized alert noise.

How is AI transforming cybersecurity? See how security teams are leveraging AI to accelerate response times, reduce workload, and cut alert noise.

Ghost ransomware strikes fast, exploiting vulnerabilities and encrypting data within hours—learn how AI can stop it before it’s too late.

Learn how to detect and mitigate ransomware attacks targeting AWS S3 buckets. Discover best practices and how Vectra AI can help secure your cloud.

Learn why microsegmentation alone can't fully secure your network and how combining it with advanced threat detection enhances your protection.

Learn how attackers exploit the NTLM zero-day vulnerability and how Vectra AI can protect your organization from credential theft.

Discover why security teams prefer Vectra AI over Darktrace for NDR. Learn about superior scalability, signal fidelity and seamless deployment options.

Discover why 91% of customers prefer Vectra AI over Darktrace for accurate attack signal intelligence and superior cybersecurity solutions.

Discover how Vectra NDR's AI-driven capabilities deliver unparalleled attack signal intelligence and help streamline cybersecurity workflows.

Salt Typhoon targets global telcos. Learn how improved visibility, hardening, and Vectra AI help defend against these advanced threats.

As 2024 nears to a close, the AI hype seems to be approaching the inevitable disillusionment stage. The initial excitement surrounding AI’s potential

Forget the obscure, some of the sneakiest bugs hide in plain sight. This blog introduces a new vulnerability class in the cloud, Insecure-by-Design Flaws.

Discover the latest Vectra MXDR capabilities, including enhanced response for 3rd-party integrations, brand reputation monitoring, and threat hunting.

Discover why traditional defenses fall short and how continuous offensive security testing can help your organization detect and respond to cyber attacks.

Global View Strengthens your SOC team by delivering more visibility and better central management for your entire environment

Learn how zero-day attacks on network edge devices bypass traditional defenses and why NDR is essential for detecting and stopping post-compromise threats.

Discover how to save time with Vectra AI's new Dynamic Groups feature that revolutionizes group management and eliminates manual effort.

Protect yourself this holiday season from malicious websites. Learn how hackers deceive shoppers and how to stay secure online.

Discover how Vectra AI strengthens Microsoft hybrid and multi-cloud defenses, filling gaps in native security tools to combat evolving cyber threats.

Learn how Vectra AI enhances threat detection in Microsoft Azure, overcoming challenges native tools miss for better threat detection and response.

Explore key insights from the 2024 State of Threat Detection and Response report, highlighting defender challenges, AI adoption, and the vendor disconnect.

Introducing Halberd—the open-source tool democratizing cloud security testing. Empower your team to efficiently assess multiple cloud platforms.

Discover key insights from Fal.Con 2024 on how proactive security and vendor integrations, like Vectra AI and CrowdStrike, drive cyber-resiliency.

The Document AI service unintentionally allows users to read any Cloud Storage object in the same project and write to an attacker-controlled location.

Vectra AI has been recognized by GigaOM and peer recognized in Gartner Peer Insights Report (separately through their own decision processes) for Vectra ND

Discover how Vectra AI and CrowdStrike collaborate at Fal.Con 2024 to address modern security challenges with next-gen SIEM and AI-driven network telemetry.

See how Vectra AI delivers optimal load times for customers across our UI

SOC professionals spend nearly 2 hours daily investigating false positives. Learn how Vectra AI can help optimize and automate their workflow.

Identity is the center of the modern enterprise and it takes just one compromised identity for attackers to quickly navigate complex network systems and steal critical data.

Vectra AI and Google Chronicle SIEM work together to help security teams streamline threat investigations.

Get an inside look at how Vectra MXDR analysts help customers respond to emerging security threats.

Planning to attend a cybersecurity event? Stay secure with these 19 essential tips to protect yourself from getting hacked

Copilot for Microsoft 365 promises enterprises new opportunities backed by AI efficiency, but are attackers also benefiting from this new functionality?

Hear from Zoey Chu, Vectra AI Product Marketing Manager, and Gearoid O Fearghail, Vectra AI Product Manager, as they explain the power of Host ID and how it helps you track down attackers with ease.

This blog outlines three vulnerabilities surfaced from how Google Cloud handles user-asociated HMAC keys.

Phishing attacks are still on the rise, in fact, they never went away. See why phishing remains a huge threat to users and SOC teams everywhere.

Today’s hybrid environments mean cyberattacks are also hybrid. Here are five real-world examples where hybrid attackers are exposing environments beyond the endpoint.

Make sure to ask your cybersecurity vendors the right questions to validate their claims about AI and help hold them accountable for the efficacy of their attack signal.

Ed Amoroso, founder and CEO of TAG Infosphere Interviews Mark Wojtasiak, VP of Product at Vectra AI where they discuss how the right approach to AI can stop today’s hybrid attacks.

With the dust of XZ Utils backdoor in our rearview, what can enterprise SOCs learn for future security risk management? According to one CTO, it’s a lot.

Today’s hybrid attackers expose security gaps, compromise identities and use a variety of tactics to hide and progress inside enterprise environments.

Learn more about the XZ Utils backdoor vulnerability and how to find out if your organization has been exposed.

Top security teams key in on these five areas to effectively prioritize urgent threats.

Learn about the attacker group Scattered Spider, how they operate, and how Vectra AI helps you defend against their hybrid attack techniques.

Unrivaled signal clarity and rapid response can help you protect your complex IT environment.

The way security technologies work today is not working out for SOC analysts.

Technology integrations are the heart of the modern SOC.

With full context into incidents and knowledge of attacker behavior, Vectra AI ITDR ensures a 360-degree view of identity-based attacks.

Discover the latest Vectra AI Platform functionality and the additional capabilities that will soon be released in the RUX platform.

The Vectra AI Platform dramatically increases your SIEM performance with analytics-led detection, saving you time and money.

Recent enhancements to the Vectra AI Platform include added detection coverage, the industry's first global open MXDR service and key investigation and response controls.

Identity is the center of the modern enterprise and the modern attack. Attackers abuse identities in the data center and the cloud to access sensitive data

Enhance your security with detailed logging, behavioral baselines, and AI-driven prioritization for effective LOTL defense.

Vectra NDR enabled by Gigamon for unified observability into evolving hybrid cloud threats, from the network to the cloud.

Today’s cybersecurity challenges are rooted in the evolving hybrid environment of organizations and struggle to recruit and retain talent. Learn how Vectra MXDR answers these challenges.

Technology integrations are the answer to achieving an open XDR solution. Read how Vectra AI Platform Integrations can help you accomplish an XDR strategy with your current security technology stack.

Why uncovering command and control channels is key to stopping today’s cyber attacks.

The Vectra AI platform can help you establish a highly effective data room for a granular view of target company risks..

Explore a real-world Amazon account takeover scenario underscoring the vulnerabilities in SMS-based MFA and advocating for more robust security measures.

Explore the pervasive impact of Shodan on network security, from its origin to its contemporary applications in cybersecurity.

Demystifying hybrid attacks begins with seeing that all attack vectors comprise a single, hybrid attack surface, all attacks are hybrid attacks and end with signal clarity.

With the global migration to the cloud, enterprises had to rethink how they track malicious activity in their environments.

The new Vectra AI Platform Syslog Connector collects all threat events and sends them directly to any syslog server.

Innovative XDR capabilities can deliver the ML/AI capabilities your security team needs to outpace expanding AI-enhanced threats.

The escalating influence of generative AI on business and cybersecurity in 2024: its growing adoption, potential challenges, and the critical need for regulatory oversight.

Buyers should be aware that there are really four primary spaces that XDR vendors are coming from.

What does extended detection and response (XDR) security mean?

The security landscape is plagued by tools that cause more inefficiencies, more ineffectiveness, and more breaches than ever.

Vectra CDR for AWS enables SOC teams to keep pace with the ever-growing speed and scale of sophisticated hybrid attack.

On May 23rd, 2023, Barracuda announced a vulnerability (CVE-2023-2868) in their Email Security Gateway appliance that was being exploited in the wild as far back as October of 2022.

Vectra AI’s Security Research Team identified issues in Entra ID and Microsoft 365 logs that make your job harder — and may help attackers evade detection.

In my last post, we talked about the importance of security testing as one of the best ways to improve defenders’ skills and expertise and build confidence that ongoing security investments continue to provide ROI.

If you are in security operations, have you ever wondered how long it will take before use cases & playbooks are ready or prove value to your organization?

The best ways to improve defenders’ skills and expertise and build confidence that ongoing security investments continue to provide ROI.

Insight and key takeaways from Gartner Security and Risk Summit 2023

Explore the challenges confronting Security Operations Center (SOC) teams, addressing the surge in alert volumes and advocating for a redefined perspective on threat detection effectiveness.

Just a week before the conference MGM Resorts and Caesar’s Palace suffered major security breaches. Read how Vectra AI’s integration with CrowdStrike can potentially provide a powerful solution to security breaches like those.

In this blog, we explore the true purpose of Cybersecurity Awareness Month and why it is important for end users to understand their role in protecting organizations. We delve into the "Defenders' Dilemma" and shed light on the challenges faced by cybersecurity professionals. Discover how attackers prey on human nature and the impact of their actions on defenders' workload and well-being. Join us in advocating for empathy and teamwork in the fight against cyber threats.

Hooray! It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month – a security marketer's dream. An entire month dedicated to building awareness and educating the public on adopting safe cyber practices.

Discover how Vectra AI empowers SOC teams to swiftly detect, analyze, and counteract cyber threats. Explore advanced investigation practices and streamlined workflows in this insightful blog by Ada Tirelli.

Explore effective strategies for managing zero-day vulnerabilities, including trend analysis, AI-based defenses, and case studies on zero-day exploits.

Some cybersecurity vendors say they provide AI but only deliver basic rule-based systems. Ask 4 questions to see if an AI in cybersecurity claim is real.

With the number of hybrid-cloud cyberattacks on the rise, SecOps teams now have a way to gain unmatched visibility into all actions taking place across the entire AWS infrastructure.

Is decrypting packet payloads operationally effective or efficient at helping defenders find signs of advanced nation state attacks or manually executed attacks like RansomOps in a network?

This new open-source tool bridges common gaps SOC teams face in cloud threat detection. Gain more flexibility to develop custom attack techniques.

Unveiling the Vectra AI Platform: Your pathway to fortified cybersecurity. Co-created with security pioneers, this innovative platform offers integrated Attack Signal Intelligence for unmatched resilience, SOC modernization, and agile response to advanced threats.

Vectra Research recently discovered a method for leveraging functionality newly-released by Microsoft to perform lateral movement to another Microsoft tenant.

In the vast and interconnected realm of the digital landscape, an insidious storm is brewing. This storm, as revealed by the Dutch National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism (NCTV) in their Cyber Security Assessment Netherlands 2022, is rapidly becoming the new norm: cyber and insider attacks orchestrated by nation-state actors ​(The National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security, 2022)​. One well-known example that exemplifies the magnitude of nation-state cyber threats is the SolarWinds cyber-attack. This incident had far-reaching consequences, creating a wave of disruption for numerous organizations.

In an era defined by rapid technological advancements, ensuring the resilience and security of our financial systems has become more crucial than ever. The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), a regulatory framework introduced by the European Union (EU), stands as a beacon of progress, aiming to bolster cybersecurity and operational resilience within the financial sector. In this blog, we shall delve into the essence of DORA, while providing actionable insights to help businesses comply with this transformative legislation.

Forrester’s version of Network Detection and Response (NDR) has some serious flaws, including an obsession with decryption that’s dangerous for enterprises.

The Cambrian Explosion in large language model (LLM) AI SaaS services has opened a huge number of exciting opportunities for everyone, however there are some giant risks associated with these services. As people continue to leverage them regardless of risk — Vectra helps you track exactly who.

What do you need to know following the announcement of the integration of Vectra's Attack Signal Intelligence into Amazon Security Lake?

The recent Microsoft announcement on “Volt Typhoon” activity brings the reality of persistent threat actors back into the spotlight.

As threats become more prominent, it’s important to pose the question: what actually brings clarity? It’s a question that we can struggle with, but we may simply not be approaching it in the right way.

As cloud compromises become the new normal, Cloud Detection and Response is the answer to monitor and detect suspicious behavior across cloud environments.

The NIS (Network and Information Security) Directive was the first EU-wide law on cybersecurity which came into effect in 2016. Let's summarize it for you.

Discover how Vectra AI, through user feedback, has improved its scoring model and user interface to provide more effective threat prioritization and an efficient workflow.