Security Team Modernization
Replace Your Intrusion Detection System (IDS)
IDS is not enough in a hybrid,multi-cloud world. Vectra AI protects your network from the inside with the world’s most accurate, integrated attack signal.
IDS Limitations
Yesterday’s intrusion detection systems are no match for today’s threats.
Your IDS can detect known threats. But how do you address the hundreds of thousands of unknown cyberattacks targeting your network?
The Challenge
IDS leaves huge gaps
Even when combined with other tools like NDR, EDR, SIEM and firewalls, intrusion detection systems can’t easily discern unknown threats or stop attacks already inside the network. Instead, they drown your security team in meaningless alerts. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
White Paper
Why Security Teams are Replacing IDS with NDR
See why top security teams are replacing intrusion detection and prevention systems with network detection and response to address today’s most sophisticated threats.
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The Solution
Find the attacks intrusion detection systems can’t
Powered by the industry’s most advanced Attack Signal Intelligence™, the Vectra AI Platform delivers the integrated signal you need to power NDR.
Look beyond the perimeter
Today's hybrid attackers can easily avoid your perimeter detection. But they don’t stand a chance against Vectra AI to reveal both known and unknown threats.
Detect more threats
Our platform couples leading AI-driven detections with known signature-based detections to reveal all malicious traffic — whether from your DNS resolver, firewall or proxy, or via identity, SaaS or public cloud. All in one consolidated solution.
With fewer tools
Vectra AI provides a single sensor to identify both known and unknown attacker methods in your network, empowering SOC teams to react fast — no more losing critical hours to analyzing and managing separate security solutions.
And more context
Align your team around more accurate attack insights with Vectra AI to combine signature-based context, security-led AI and metadata in one view.
How it Works
Why replace your intrusion detection system?
Get the integrated signal you need to find attacks across all attack surfaces.
IDS tools have tunnel vision
Intrusion detection systems use signature-based detections to uncover malicious activity in the network, but can't find unknown attacks and vulnerabilities.
Vectra AI covers your entire hybrid surface
Consolidate signature-based and AI-driven detections for full visibility of both known and unknown attacker methods.
IDS tools are not entity-centric
IDS tools primarily focus on network-level activity rather than individual entities or users, leaving potential blind spots in detecting more targeted and sophisticated attacks.
Vectra AI delivers intelligent threat hunting
Gone are the days when security teams could rely on identifying strange events. Vectra AI has pivoted to an entity-based model that looks at hosts and accounts and determines if the threat is a real attack.
IDS tools are incredibly noisy
As an anomaly-based detection system, IDS tools can’t identify or prioritize genuine threats. Instead, they overwhelm security teams with a deluge of alerts and false positives.
Vectra AI finds real attacks in real time
Thanks to AI-driven triage, Vectra AI reduces alert noise by 80% or more with machine learning that understands your environment.
IDS tools have tunnel vision
Intrusion detection systems use signature-based detections to uncover malicious activity in the network, but can't find unknown attacks and vulnerabilities.
Vectra AI covers your entire hybrid surface
Consolidate signature-based and AI-driven detections for full visibility of both known and unknown attacker methods.
IDS tools are not entity-centric
IDS tools primarily focus on network-level activity rather than individual entities or users, leaving potential blind spots in detecting more targeted and sophisticated attacks.
Vectra AI delivers intelligent threat hunting
Gone are the days when security teams could rely on identifying strange events. Vectra AI has pivoted to an entity-based model that looks at hosts and accounts and determines if the threat is a real attack.
IDS tools are incredibly noisy
As an anomaly-based detection system, IDS tools can’t identify or prioritize genuine threats. Instead, they overwhelm security teams with a deluge of alerts and false positives.
Vectra AI finds real attacks in real time
Thanks to AI-driven triage, Vectra AI reduces alert noise by 80% or more with machine learning that understands your environment.
Your intrusion detection system has limitations. Vectra AI fills the gaps
Coverage
With consolidated attack telemetry that proactively identifies 52% more threats across your entire hybrid surface, you get the visibility you need to streamline threat hunting and investigations.
Clarity
The Vectra AI Platform combines AI-driven detection with signature-based IOCs context to expose all malicious behavior. With accurate threat signals, you know you're seeing clearly.
Control
Vectra AI accurately validates and correlates threat signals with network-based CVE detection compliance controls, so you can confidently say goodbye to your IDS once and for all.
FAQs
What are the biggest problems with intrusion detection systems?
Because anomaly-based intrusion detection systems were designed to focus on behaviors and signatures, they’re only capable of surfacing specific, known attack patterns. This puts security teams at a huge disadvantage since the majority of today’s threats are unknown hybrid attacks. Relying on IDS to defend your network is like running a free trial version of Kaspersky antivirus from the early 2000s, and then being surprised when you get infected in 2020.
Does IDS put you at a disadvantage?
Yes. Even the best signature-based IDS is incomplete by itself. Intrusion detection system vendors typically position their products as part of a broader platform — one that requires you to invest in firewalls, URL filtering, app visibility tools, advanced attack detection and more. And to get an integrated experience, you have to purchase everything from the same provider.
What's more, IDS solutions typically monitor your network perimeter. They're not equipped for threat detection and incident response once an attack breaks through.
What is the best replacement for your intrusion detection system?
The best replacement is a security solution that works for you. Be wary of “rip and replace” vendors who claim they can’t integrate with your existing technology stack. While it may be time to replace your IDS, many other security investments still serve a valuable purpose. The key is to add an accurate, integrated attack signal across all of them so you can identify, investigate and respond to attacks anywhere in your environment.
How is Vectra AI different from traditional IDS solutions?
Vectra AI goes beyond signatures and anomalies to identify real attacks in real-time. It automatically scores, ranks and prioritizes the most critical threats in your hybrid network, so you know exactly what, when and how to investigate. As an essential part of our leading threat detection and response platform, it helps provide full coverage across network, identity, cloud and SaaS infrastructure. And because Vectra AI easily integrates with your existing enterprise security stack, you can make it a part of existing investigative workflows that incorporate EDR, SIEMs, next-generation firewalls and more.