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Discover the 2024 State of Threat Detection report insights, highlighting SOC challenges, AI adoption, and vendor responsibility in enhancing cyber defense.

A gap analysis to help organizations understand their threat exposure even with endpoint controls in place, and what actions can be taken to address the risks.

Protect tactics are not enough for combatting hybrid cloud attacks. Vectra AI delivers 75% full coverage of relevant NIST CSF 2.0 Framework.

The need to reduce cyber risk has never been greater — is your organization prepared?

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Download the report for an exclusive interview with Vectra AI’s product VP, plus bonus content on today’s attack landscape:

• ‍AI-enhanced hybrid cloud threat detection and response strategies: Read the Q&A to see how Vectra AI empowers defenders to investigate attacks at speed and scale. ‍
• ‍What should a board understand about AI: Insights from TAG’s founder and CEO on the future of AI in cybersecurity.
• ‍Cybersecurity in the space domain: A cautionary tale of cyber risk from the International Space Station’s control center.

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80% of analysts admit the organization they work in may have been compromised and they don't know it yet. Threat detection is fundamentally broken.

Why do SOC analysts believe the tools they use are effective, when those same tools leave them unable to effectively stop cyberattacks? Discover the disconnect, and how to fix it in the State of Threat Detection Report.

The threat landscape is changing dramatically — is your SOC team prepared? With AI-driven extended detection and response (XDR), you can be.

Use these Gartner guidelines, courtesy of Vectra AI, to evaluate your SOC and learn which hybrid SOC models are being widely adopted today.

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71% of analysts admit the organization they work in may have been compromised and they don't know it yet. Threat detection is fundamentally broken.
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Why do SOC analysts believe the tools they use are effective, when those same tools leave them unable to effectively stop cyberattacks? Discover the disconnect, and how to fix it in the State of Threat Detection Report.

This survey shed light on several enterprise security elements.

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Learn why 75% turn to network detection & response (NDR) solutions as a first line of defense.

Ransomware as an attack profile is too prolific and impactful for organizations to ignore. Organizations that are not wise to these threats or that remain unaware of ransomware trends will find themselves caught off guard and quickly taken advantage of. Ransomware is a formidable threat that has changed the way many organizations do business and security teams do battle.

On Sunday June 13, 2021, the Vectra managed detection and response (MDR) team responded to an urgent request for assistance from a customer in the manufacturing sector. Vectra MDR analysts worked closely with the customer’s team to stop and remediate an active attack using detections and data from the Vectra threat detection and response platform.

The struggle is real. The global cybersecurity skills shortfall now stands at 2.7 million workers globally, including nearly 200,000 in Europe and 33,000 in the UK alone. Exacerbating the issue, the global pandemic is rolling into its third year with no clear signs of ending. This is creating even more staffing demands – individuals are being signed off sick, while work from home mandates are disrupting traditional patterns, making many everyday tasks more difficult and time-consuming.

What are the major threat detection and response issues and what can be done to address them?

From the rapid proliferation of cloud to the growing adoption of micro-services, DevOps, and APIs, new pockets of opportunity are opening up for threat actors to take advantage of. This e-Book contains analysis and findings from a global survey of IT security decision makers on how they are tackling these dynamic threats.

As the cloud continues to change everything we know about security, the right data along with meaningful AI can help bring clarity to the cloud.

While it might seem like quite a chore for an already swamped IT staff to sort out how to defend their new cloud assets— AI can make all the difference.

Ransomware attacks that carry through in a healthcare system can mean stolen medical records and data but can also be physically disruptive when they cause delays in patient care.

Manufacturing continues to increase cloud usage for speed and scale, which adds a layer on top of the attack surface to the already dispersed operational technology infrastructure.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Multiple communication channels, phases, and tools were used to establish interactive, hands-on-keyboard control. Each phase was designed to minimize the chance of detection, with techniques that defeat IDS tool signatures, EDR, manual threat hunting, and even common approaches to ML-based detection.
• The DGA used in this attack was different: a single, unique subdomain was generated for each victim, compromised of a globally unique ID calculated from local attributes and an encoding of the victim hostname.
• Vectra’s AI will see through the evasion tactics applied and detect the tunnels as soon as they go active.
• Vectra uniquely protects the entire network of hybrid, on-premise, and cloud connectivity with learning behavioral models that understand both hosts and identities—tracking and stopping attackers earlier in the kill chain.

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This post-incident report from a Vectra® pharmaceutical customer* shows step by step how the Vectra threat detection and response platform identified early indicators of a ransomware attack and prevented the encryption of network file shares.

The migration to the cloud has been in motion for some time, but the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated this transition, especially for healthcare organizations where there has been an increase in telemedicine and new remote work requirements.

Vectra research shows that privileged access from unknown hosts occurs inside every industry, leading to unintended exposure of critical systems. Yet these privileged accounts rarely receive direct oversight or technical control of how they are used, even when privileged access management tools are in place. It is this lack of oversight or understanding of how privileged accounts are being used that creates the operational and financial risk for organizations. If used improperly, privileged accounts have the power to cause much damage, including data theft, espionage, sabotage, or ransom.