Security operations

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

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

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.

What value is there in detecting malicious actors if the detection isn't noticed? Vectra makes sure that your security operations see everything, and our updated Splunk Integration is the latest offering to help you do this.

We at Vectra think that SOC teams need to focus on 3 challenges to stay ahead of cyberattacks. Coverage, Clarity�Control

Regardless of discipline, cybersecurity professionals deal with mounting pressure each day to make the right decisions and strategically play the right hand to keep their organisations a step or two ahead of cybercriminals. It can be stressful.

Vectra customers should be aware that current global events related to Russian recognition of separatist regions of the Ukraine carry with them the risk of increased cyber activity conducted by Russian state level actors. This includes evidence that the FSB, the main Intelligence Organization in Russia, is responsible for the DDoS against Ukrainian systems in February 2022.

The role of the CISO has never been clearly defined, and every CISO works differently.They are under a lot of pressure, and this leads to regular rotation of roles. The Masked CISO explains how this could be stopped if CISOs were given more autonomy and responsibility.

A threat-led approach is key to an organisation's security strategy. CISOs should measure security based on their ability to discover if they've been breached, mean time to breach when testing security, or the mean time to detect unknown threats.

Agile has its uses. It's increasingly being adopted as a technology wide operating model-to drive transformation everywhere, from helpdesks to datacenters. But is it always appropriate?

CISOs Must be Brave Enough to Throw Away Their Security Playbook or Suffer the Consequences!

Introducing Sidekick MDR for VECTRA customers with 24*7 eyes-on-glass service leveraging cloud-scale analytics of the VECTRA Cognito platform to enable security teams to meaningfully detect and respond to ransomware, nation-state and insider attacks.

Many organizations these days face incident response challenges. Get insight about the common challenges in this area, and what your organization can do to resolve them.

AI can save your SOC valuable time by automating workloads, while accurately tracking down cyberattacker activities found in ransomware and supply chain attacks.

Ransomware. It is the new digital bogeyman. In the UAE, an industry survey from June 2021showed the extent to which the country (and by implication, the wider region)has been subjected to ransomware. Some 37% of respondents said they had beenvictims in the previous two years. A staggering 84% elected to pay the ransom, only for most of them - 90% of those who paid - to suffer from second attacksthat often came from the same bad actors.

Organizations continue to deploy rapidly in the cloud, while security is often an afterthought. Read about the five areas that could be exposing your AWS deployments to security threats.

As SOC 1.0 remains the norm for many organizations, this way of doing things does have its challenges. See why more organizations are updating their approach in an effort to spot attacks faster while benefiting from a cost savings.

Cyberattacks are hitting the headlines around the world and there seems to be no end to the noise the attacks are making. We dive into what an organisation should do to stay breached.

Find out how Vectra's native integrations with Microsoft and AWS enable security teams to automatically contain events directly from the Cognito platform.

Account takeovers and identity-based attacks are on the rise, with Microsoft Office 365 at the heart of these threats. Find out what concerns are top of mind for IT decision makers when it comes to Office 365 security and protecting data in the cloud.

Speed is a key ingredient to successful containment but switching between security solutions find the host or policy you want and applying it all takes time. Vectra enables security teams to enforce directly in the platform, saving valuable time for security operations.

Despite 71% of organizations suffering malicious SaaS account takeover, 90% are still accelerating cloud adoption. Surprising? Maybe not - read on as this blog distills the takeaways from mid-sized and large Office 365 enterprises.

Security leaders need to measure success, but too often the exercise focuses more on the absence of failure than the presence of success. Here's three practical guideposts to achieve meaningful organizational security.

Learn why a successful implementation of a Zero Trust Architecture requires a modern network detection and response solution that can collect metadata about encrypted traffic-without relying on the overhead of agents.

The number of threats targeted towards Office 365 users and other similar platforms will undoubtedly continue to grow in 2021. Learn from our CTO, Oliver Tavakoli, what your company can do to prepare for the rise of targeted SaaS threats in 2021.

With Adobe Flash officially marking its end-of-life on Jan. 1, 2021, assessing Flash usage is imperative to prevent attacks though that avenue. Cognito Recall from Vectra now has a Flash dashboard to help organizations decommission Flash across their networks.

Discover how the new security insights feature in the Vectra Cognito network detection and response platform eliminates the need for analysts to pivot between tools and provides additional insights related to attacker detections.

"Ransomware operators" are rational economic entities that have evolved their tactics to optimize their ill-gotten financial returns. Their behavior changes mean detection and response approaches must change too.

The goal of an efficient incident response process is to free-up security analyst's time to focus on higher value work that requires critical thinking. Learn how automation can be applied to a detection and response process.

National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) publication for the Zero Trust Architecture (NIST SP 800-207) relies heavily on continuous and accurate monitoring. Find out why network detection and response (NDR) is a required component.

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

Vectra announces the expansion of the partnership with Splunk as a launch partner for Splunk Mission Control, a cloud-based and future-ready unified security operations platform.

Discover how maturity and capability can be defined and measured across the five stages of the maturity model based on the desired level of risk awareness.

A mature incident response process provides the benefit of faster response to reduce the amount of time an attacker has access to organization resources. Discover the metrics security teams can use to measure risk and mitigation.

During a merger and acquisition, there are several critical cybersecurity challenges to overcome and manage during an M&A.Vectra can help speed-up due diligence and integration by automating threat hunting and prioritizing detected threats based on certainty and risk.

Discover in this blog why many organizations are struggling with the burden of maintaining IDPS deployments and how security teams can instead concentrate on detecting and mitigating active threats inside the network with network detection and response.

See the certificates in your network that are actively in use, those that are about to expire and ones that have already expired in the new dashboard in Cognito Recall.

Learn how IDPS is ill-equipped to detect what is known as lateral movement, east-west traffic, or simply attackers moving around inside your deployments due to reliance on signatures and being deployed at the network perimeter.

Consider getting rid of IDPS and the noise it creates and check out detecting and stopping cyberattacks using NDR. Free-up your security analysts to focus on investigations and threat-hunting instead of tweaking signatures.

The newly announced Vectra services enable our customers to produce positive security outcomes, optimize security operations, and backup their teams when it matters most, with access to Vectra experts.

Battista Cagnoni examines how you can mature your Security Operations Center (SOC) using processes for reactive threat detection and proactive threat hunting.

Vectra announces a partnership and deep product integration with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (EDR) and Microsoft Azure Sentinel (SIEM) to further our extensive partner ecosystem and allow our customers to leverage the tools they already are using.

COVID-19 has caused a sudden and immediate shift of employees who would normally work in an office to a remote location that will naturally create a shift in internal movement of network traffic. The outcome will be a change of internal network traffic patterns in which attackers could hide their own communication.

Modern SOCs today are looking for tools that can give them complete visibility into user endpoints, multi-cloud, hybrid, and on-prem networks, as well as correlation and forensic capabilities. In this search, the SOC visibility triad has emerged as the de-facto standard.

Account Lockdown from Vectra allows for immediate, customizable account enforcement via Active Directory integration. You can now surgically freeze account access and avoid service disruption by disabling accounts rather than your network.

With increasingly sophisticated threats,cyber-risk is becoming an escalating concern for organizations around the world. Data breaches through Office 365 lead the pack as 40% of organizations suffer from account takeovers despite the rising adoption of incremental security approaches like multi-factor authentication.

PAA enables SOC teams to monitor and defend against these types of attacks. In addition to our extensive models that detect command-and-control channels, this make the Cognito platform a powerful tool to combat evolving malware attacks against enterprises.

The Cognito threat detection and response platform from Vectra now seamlessly integrates AI-based threat hunting and incident response of Chronicle Backstory, a global security telemetry platform, for increased context during investigations and hunts and greater operational intelligence.

That's why we are happy to announce the integration of Vectra Cognito automated threat detection and response platform with the Swimlane security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) platform.

The integration of the Cognito network detection and response platform with the Forescout device visibility and control platform provides inside-the-network threat detection and response, a critical layer of defense in today's security infrastructure.

The integration between the Cognito automated network detection and response platform and Check Point Next Generation Firewalls empowers security staff to quickly expose hidden attacker behaviors, pinpoint specific hosts involved in a cyberattack and contain threats before data is lost.

The combination of network detection and response (NDR), endpoint detection and response (EDR) and log-based detection (SIEM) allows security professionals to have coverage across threat vectors from cloud workloads to the enterprise.

The rationale behind choosing a managed security services provider (MSSP) can be numerous, but one of the primary reasons is to overcome the cybersecurity skills shortage. Finding the right talent in cybersecurity and retaining skilled professionals once they've been trained is very difficult.

The time of separated networks-when you could safely keep tools for manufacturing, transportation, utilities, energy and critical infrastructure apart from your IT environment-is long gone.

Earlier this month, the Gartner Market Guide for Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems that describes the market definition and direction of requirements that buyers should look for in their IDPS solution as well as the top use-cases that drive IDPS today.

As a security leader, you need the most effective way forward to protect your most valuable assets, make security an integral part of your business and supporting your digitalization journey full on, and inspire the trust of the employees, customers and partners who work with you.

In a previous blog, we wrote about the benefits that come with Zeek-formatted metadata. This blog builds on that thread by discussing why our customers come to us as an enterprise solution to support their Zeek deployments.d

Although NDR and EDR can provide perspective on this, NDR is more critical because it provides perspective where EDR cannot. For example, exploits that operate at the BIOS level of a device can subvert EDR.

Microsoft unveiled the Azure Virtual Network TAP, and Vectra announced its first-mover advantage as a development partner and the demonstration of its Cognito platform operating in Azure hybrid cloud environments.

We love Black Hat. It's the best place to learn what information security practitioners really care about and what is the truth of our industry. Because we want to always be relevant to customers, we figured Black Hat is an ideal event to ask what matters.

Vectra® was recently positioned as the sole Visionary in the Gartner 2018 Magic Quadrant for Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS). Over the years, intrusion detection systems (IDS) have converged with intrusion prevention systems (IPS) and the two are now known collectively as IDPS.

In the Information Security (InfoSec) community, AI is commonly seen as a savior-an application of technology that will allow businesses to more rapidly identify and mitigate threats, without having to add more humans. That human factor is commonly seen as a business inhibitor as the necessary skills and experience are both costly and difficult to obtain.

Reports of successful hacks against Internet of Things (IoT) devices have been on the rise. Most of these efforts have involved demonstrating how to gain access to such a device or to break through its security barrier.