Mind Your Attack Gaps Across Identity, Network, Cloud, and Endpoint Security

Your stack is strong, but is it complete?

By all appearances, you’ve built a strong security stack. You have endpoint protection on every device, tools monitoring your network, posture-management tools scanning your cloud configurations, and IAM or PAM strengthening identity.

And yet attackers can — and are — still getting through. Not because your tools are broken, but because each tool was designed to own its domain, and attackers now operate between them.

Attackers aren’t breaking your tools. They’re bypassing them.

The reality: modern attackers don’t fight your stack. They avoid it.

• Identity abuse: Compromised credentials are the initial access vector in 22% of breaches. 88% of basic web-application attacks involve stolen credentials.¹
• Lateral movement: Attackers move laterally without triggering alerts. Average eCrime breakout time — the gap between initial access and the first lateral pivot — has fallen to 29 minutes.²
• Cloud privilege abuse: Valid-account abuse now accounts for 35% of cloud incidents.²
• Between-tool operation: Attackers hide in the gaps between tools, in spaces no single system was built to watch.
• Alert-noise exploitation: They operate below your thresholds, knowing your SOC can’t investigate everything.
• Cross-domain speed: MFA blocks more than 99% of identity attacks, but adversaries increasingly log in via stolen tokens, consented OAuth apps, device-code flows, and adversary-in-the-middle proxies.³
• AI-accelerated reconnaissance: Attacks by AI-enabled adversaries rose 89% year-over-year. In 2025, attackers exploited legitimate GenAI tools at 90+ organizations to generate credential-theft commands.²

Best-in-class tools don’t equal complete coverage

While each of your investments reduces risk in its specific area, they leave gaps in visibility and detection between tools.

The 2026 numbers tell the story:

• 82% of intrusion detections in 2025 were malware-free. Attackers operated using valid credentials, trusted identity flows, and approved SaaS integrations.²
• Breaches involving multiple environments cost $5.05M on average — 25% more than on-prem-only breaches.⁴
• Average attacker breakout time has fallen to 29 minutes, with the fastest observed at 27 seconds.²

The pattern isn’t new. It’s the new normal.

This ebook is designed to help you map those gaps, and show you where Vectra AI fits and how it closes them.

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¹Verizon DBIR 2025.   ² CrowdStrike 2026 Global Threat Report.   ³ Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2025. ⁴ IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025.