Vectra AI demonstrating how to reduce security team’s alert fatigue at GITEX 2022

The company will show how its Threat Detection and Response (TDR) and Managed Detection and Response (MDR) suites can deliver actionable intelligence that reduces alert fatigue

Vectra AI, a provider of AI-driven threat detection and response for hybrid and multi-cloud enterprises, announced today its attendance at GITEX Global 2022 in Dubai, where it will demonstrate how attendees can reduce alert fatigue for security teams and mount a more effective defense of their digital estates by leveraging attack-signal intelligence. Vectra will have its own booth at GITEX for the first time in October.

“For the past two decades, threat detection and response methodologies across people, processes and technology have relied heavily on signatures, anomalies, and rules to identify and defeat cybercriminals as they engage in infiltration and exfiltration campaigns. But as enterprises shift to hybrid and multi-cloud environments and digitize identities, supply chains and ecosystems, these approaches only result in more alert noise, triage and false positives,” commented Taj El-khayat, Managing Director for EMEA South at Vectra AI. “Very rarely do organizations know where the gaps in their security lie. And this is a great advantage to attackers, who continually bypass prevention, circumvent signatures, blend in and infiltrate, and progress laterally inside an organization to wreak havoc.”

Vectra’s emphasis on attack-signal intelligence stems from the approach’s demonstrated ability to improve an organization’s resilience to attacks. Unlike other approaches that focus on anomaly detection and necessitate human tuning and maintenance, Vectra’s attack-signal intelligence exposes the entire story of an attack by continuously monitoring for known attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and executing pre-defined models in real-time to detect and correlate those TTPs and sift out the threats that are most relevant to the business.

Processes and workflows are more efficient as a result of Vectra’s signal-intelligence approach. It lowers SIEM costs as well as the need for detection rules. It enables the automation of many previously manual tasks and accelerates detection and response. It also optimizes investments in EDR, SOAR, and ITSM, as well as making analysts and threat hunters more effective by significantly reducing false positives and alleviating alert fatigue.

“Vectra has spent more than a decade researching, developing, pioneering, and patenting AI-powered security that is centered on erasing the unknown,” El-khayat explained. “Attack-signal intelligence empowers defenders to think like their assailants and anticipate their tactics, techniques, and procedures. Our focus on the reduction of alert noise and the alleviation of security teams’ burdens is one that is resonating with people across the region.”

Vectra will highlight attack-signal intelligence capabilities from its Threat Detection and Response (TDR) and Managed Detection and Response (MDR) suites at GITEX. Vectra TDR is designed for today’s hybrid and multi-cloud environments, providing SOCs with coverage, clarity, and control. Threat visibility extends to a number of popular cloud services, including AWS, Microsoft 365, and Azure AD. Artificial intelligence-driven attack-signal intelligence is used to automate threat detection and triage findings for prioritized investigation. AI-enabled operations also allow for integrated investigation, workflow automation, and targeted response.

Vectra MDR is a year-round, 24-hour proactive monitoring service that alerts security teams to the most immediate and potentially harmful threats in their environment. Vectra provides expertise in interpreting early warning signs identified by its TDR platform, and experienced analysts are available around the clock to assist resident SOCs in removing sophisticated adversaries.

The company has reserved space for three demo screens that will demonstrate various SOC (security operations center) capabilities — one for detection, one for response, and one for ecosystem integration with technologies like Splunk and CrowdStrike. Vectra will also run a cloud demonstration zone.

“We are excited for the opportunity GITEX 2022 presents to make the case for attack-signal intelligence,” said El-khayat. “Vectra’s TDR and MDR offerings focus on the power of teams to be masters of their environment and to be ready for that all-important, show-stopping incident. Signal intelligence makes organizations more resilient to attacks and ensures that the really damaging infiltrations do not slip under the radar of overworked, under-resourced teams.”   

At GITEX Global 2022, Vectra will exhibit at Stand H1-C10.