Complete visibility across the modern network (including on-premises data centers, campus, IoT, OT, identity, and cloud) and the ability to defend against attacks quickly are essential to keeping financial institutions operational. Modern network protection must deliver coverage, clarity, and control. To help with evaluating the right network protection solution, network security solution, here is a list of the top critical capabilities financial institutions should consider:
1. Coverage: Real-time visibility
Financial institutions need network protection that is high-performance and provides modern network threat detection of all network traffic, metadata, and packets in addition to cloud logs and cloud packet data. Essentially, this would mean network protection that provides a comprehensive record of all communications occurring within the network (including identity and cloud) that specifically logs the “who, what, when, where” of network communications. Financial institutions also need full-fidelity data that captures both connection and payload information in real-time.
2. Clarity: Real-time detection and prioritization
Financial institutions need network protection that persists past the permitter. They also need AI detection and AI assistants that consolidate all network attack telemetry across the modern network to expose all malicious behavior that tell security teams which threat incidents to prioritize to steer focus on real and urgent modern network attacks.
3. Control: Investigation and response
Financial institutions need network protection that provides integrated investigation with modern network attack context, native and integrated targeted response/containment capabilities, and managed services for 24x7x365 network monitoring at all times.
How Vectra AI helps protecting financial institutions
Real-time Attack Coverage
Vectra AI removes the blind spots by detecting attacker telemetry across the modern network to expose financial institution attackers’ every move (including identity and cloud).
- Vectra AI covers all of your hosts for on-premises and public cloud environments’ (including air-gapped environments) without any compromise while reducing your network, identity, and cloud risk exposure by 50%.
- The Vectra AI Platform utilizes AI to detect all network traffic and display detailed information with your network metadata (including protocols, source and destinations IP addresses) to pinpoint all data related to any behavior or communication in the network.
- Vectra AI precisely detects by identifying the right capture points for both North-South and East-West network traffic monitoring to provide comprehensive visibility in a “zero-trust” environment.
Signal Clarity
Vectra AI breaks down your siloed network metadata and provides security teams with signal clarity through AI assistants that automatically triage, correlate, and prioritize real modern network attacks removing the time spent on manual tasks and respond faster.
- Vectra AI reduces alert noise by 99% by focusing detection on network telemetry rather than just looking for anomalous activities to highlight alerts that narrow down the most critical and urgent events that require attention now.
- Vectra AI detects the most advanced multi-step threats such as threats against Lambdas or access of sensitive parameters from SSM, and correlating activity across changing IPs and cloud roles to expose the original compromise device and account without any manual effort needed.
- Vectra AI detections and AI assistants highlight what’s most critical and urgent – factoring in how observed behaviors map to real attacks and do not need to trust third parties with private keys and thus eliminating exposure risk of decryption.
Intelligent Control
Vectra AI provides more control to security teams to discover, hunt, detect, investigate, report and stop modern network attacks early with response actions no matter the attack surface or avenue with native, integrated, and managed response – improving your teams efficiency and effectiveness.
- Vectra AI provides true scalability with agentless threat detection and the ability to monitor up to 300,000 hosts at a time (unlike other vendors whose AI processing is limited to 16,000 hosts), putting more work on the SOC to analyze and respond to threats. Additionally, Vectra AI provides pre-built queries associated with the threat for quick, out-of-the box forensics analysis in a single unified view.
- Vectra AI provides 100 native integrations to further investigate and stop attacks at any stage of the progression without the need for customer scripts in JavaScript.
- Vectra AI ensures your institution remains in compliance with FFIEC, NYSDFS, GDPR, NIS2, DORA, SEC, FINRA, GLBA, and more to ensure that you adhere to compliance across multi-repository architectures.
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