PRESS RELEASE
San Jose, California – February 15, 2024 – Vectra AI, Inc., a leader in hybrid attack detection, investigation and response, today announced the launch of Vectra Managed Extended Detection and Response (MXDR) Services, the first global, 24/7 MXDR service , created to defend against hybrid attacks. This comprehensive offering eliminates silos to provide hybrid attack surface visibility across identity, public cloud, SaaS, data center, and cloud networks and endpoints via integrations with leading EDR vendors.
The move to hybrid and multi-cloud environments means that all businesses are now hybrid businesses, and all modern attacks are hybrid attacks. This has rendered legacy threat detection and response solutions ineffective in defending against the new threat landscape, increasing the need for threat detection coverage across the expanding hybrid attack surface. However, the implementation of various detection solutions has led to the creation of siled tools and rule sprawl, resulting in an unmanageable volume of alerts for SOC leaders. Recent research indicates that SOC teams spend nearly four hours a day manually triaging alarms. This influx has resulted in excessive workload, burnout, and high turnover among SOC analysts. As teams grapple with this problem, attackers continue to exploit complexity, latency, and noise to move laterally, advance attacks, and exfiltrate data undetected. SOC teams need accurate, rapid, large-scale signals to prevent modern hybrid attacks from becoming breaches.
With Vectra MXDR, companies can consolidate every aspect of threat detection and response into a single, unified service, eliminating the need for multiple vendors. Integrations with the industry’s leading EDR platforms, including CrowdStrike, SentinelOne and Microsoft Defender, allow Vectra AI’s MXDR analysts to monitor the health of an entire security system and take direct action regardless of where the signal comes from.
“Following the launch of our Vectra AI platform last year, we recognized that our customers outsourcing these services need a comprehensive platform and access to MXDR specialists dedicated to investigating malicious activity,” said Hitesh Sheth, President and CEO of Vectra AI. “With the launch of Vectra MXDR, we are offering our customers access to the most experienced experts in hybrid attack defense along with the most accurate AI-based signal on the market today to help manage their growing workloads and alleviate the burnout they are experiencing.”
Vectra MXDR gives SOC leaders, analysts and security architects complete coverage, clarity and control across the entire hybrid attack surface. Benefits include:
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AI-Powered Attack Signal Intelligence: Using Vectra AI’s patented Attack Signal Intelligence technology, Vectra MXDR analysts leverage AI and machine learning to learn customer-specific environments and focus on attacker behavior to distinguish between harmful and benign events. This allows analysts to identify in real time the most urgent attacks for customers to prioritize.
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24x7x365 Hybrid Attack Defense Experts – Vectra’s MXDR specialists are hybrid attack experts and apply their experience and knowledge to hybrid attack defense for 24/7 global defense.
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Complete end-to-end coverage – Vectra MXDR manages every aspect of detection and response in a single, unified service, eliminating the need for multiple service providers and multiple control panels.
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Remote response and remediation: Companies can isolate, contain and mitigate hybrid attacks with manual or automated response actions to minimize damage and maintain business continuity.
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Adaptability to meet customer needs – With a flexible operating model, Vectra MXDR can be customized to meet organizations’ specific business needs, ensuring a customized security strategy across a variety of defensive models.
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Managed security policy configuration – Vectra industry experts create and harden the policy configuration of enterprise security systems on both the Vectra AI platform and EDR, proactively protecting and defending against threats.
“The reality is that enterprises need a combination of endpoint protection solutions and network security tools to protect against hybrid attacks,” said Gary Ruiz, VP, WW Professional Services at Vectra AI. “Our approach to By adding the services component with Vectra MXDR, we are bringing the human element into the process to help customers implement and manage this integrated approach. Our experts monitor around the clock and help customers manage incidents by responding and resolving them on their behalf, which significantly reduces workloads for SOC teams. It really allows us to be much more effective for our customers.”
Vectra MXDR is now available to current customers.
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About Vectra AI, Inc.
Vectra AI, Inc. is a leader in detecting, investigating and responding to hybrid attacks. The Vectra AI platform provides integrated signal across public cloud, SaaS, identity and data center networks in a single platform. Vectra AI’s patented Attack Signal Intelligence technology enables security teams to quickly detect, prioritize, investigate and stop the most advanced hybrid cyber attacks. With 35 patents in AI-based detection and the most vendor references in MITER D3FEND, organizations around the world rely on the Vectra AI platform and MDR services to move at the speed and scale of hybrid attackers . For more information visit www.vectra.ai.