New offering eliminates latency, maximizes security team talent, and reduces threat exposure, improving organizations' security posture
Vectra AI, the leader in detecting, investigating and responding to hybrid attacks, today announced the launch of Vectra MXDR (Managed Extended Detection and Response), the first global, 24/7 MXDR service built to defend organizations from hybrid attacks. This offering eliminates silos to provide hybrid attack surface visibility across identity, public cloud, SaaS, data centers, cloud networks, and endpoints through integrations with leading EDR vendors.
With the move to hybrid and multi-cloud environments, all businesses are now hybrid businesses, and all modern attacks have become hybrid attacks. This has rendered traditional threat detection and response solutions ineffective in defending organizations in the face of the new threat landscape, increasing the need for detection that covers the entire expanding hybrid attack surface. However, the implementation of different detection solutions has led to the creation of siled tools and a proliferation of rules, causing an unmanageable volume of alerts for SOC managers.
Recent research indicate that SOC teams spend nearly four hours a day manually triaging alerts. This continuous influx of alerts has led to excessive workload, burnout and high turnover among SOC analysts. And as teams grapple with this situation, attackers continue to exploit complexity, latency and background noise to move laterally, advance attacks and exfiltrate data undetected. SOC teams need signals that are accurate, fast, and at scale to prevent modern hybrid attacks from escalating into breaches.
With Vectra MXDR, organizations can consolidate every aspect of threat detection and response into a unified service, eliminating the need for multiple vendors. Integrations with major industry-leading EDR platforms, including Crowdstrike, SentinelOne and Microsoft Defender, allow Vectra AI MXDR analysts to monitor the health of an entire security system and take direct action, regardless of where the signal is coming from.
“After launching our Vectra AI Platform last year, we realized that our customers who outsource these services need a comprehensive platform and access to MXDR specialists dedicated to investigating malicious activity,” he explains Hitesh Sheth, President and CEO of Vectra AI. “With the launch of Vectra MXDR, we are offering our customers access to the best-trained experts in hybrid attack defense, along with the most accurate, AI-driven signal available on the market today, to help them manage growing workloads and alleviate the burnout their analysts are experiencing.”
Vectra MXDR gives SOC leaders, analysts and security architects complete coverage, clarity and control across the entire hybrid attack surface. The benefits offered by the service include:
- AI-driven Attack Signal Intelligence – Thanks toAttack Signal Intelligence Patented by Vectra AI, Vectra MXDR analysts leverage AI and machine learning to understand customers' unique environments and focus on attacker behavior to distinguish between malicious events and normal activity. This allows analysts to identify the most urgent attacks to prioritize in real time.
- Experts available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year in defense against hybrid attacks – Vectra's MXDR specialists are experts in hybrid attacks and apply their experience and knowledge in defending against these types of attacks for global, 24-hour protection.
- Copertura completa end-to-end – Vectra MXDR manages every aspect of detection and response in a single, unified service, eliminating the need for multiple service providers and multiple platforms.
- 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.
- Adaptability according to customer needs – Thanks to a flexible operating model, Vectra MXDR can adapt to specific business needs, ensuring a customized security strategy through a variety of defensive models.
- Managed configuration of security policies – Vectra industry experts create and strengthen the policy configuration that governs the enterprise security system, both on the Vectra AI platform and EDR, proactively protecting and defending against threats.
“The reality is that companies need a combination of endpoint protection solutions and network security tools to protect against hybrid attacks,” he points out Gary Ruiz, VP, WW Professional Services di Vectra AI. "Our approach to thus significantly reducing the workload on SOC teams. This allows us to be much more effective for our customers.”
Vectra MXDR is now available to current customers.
