In today’s world, where cyber threats are becoming increasingly complex and corporate networks are expanding into hybrid and multi-cloud environments, effective threat detection and response are critically important. Vectra AI, a leader in AI-driven cyber threat detection and response, has announced a landmark integration of its Vectra AI Attack Signal Intelligence™ technology with the CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM platform.
This expands the capabilities of existing CrowdStrike and Vectra AI integrations, providing Security Operations Center (SOC) leaders, architects, engineers, and analysts with a clear path to replacing their complex, expensive, and inefficient legacy Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems with a modern detection and response platform designed specifically for hybrid enterprises. This integration is a direct response to the growing challenges faced by security teams worldwide.
Why the Vectra AI and CrowdStrike integration is critical for modern SOC
All modern enterprises are hybrid, encompassing diverse domains: networks, identities, clouds, and endpoints. Modern adversaries exploit this interconnectedness through hybrid attacks that spread rapidly across all threat surfaces, quickly moving laterally to further their attack and disrupt business operations, despite the presence of all preventive controls. Without a unified, coordinated detection and response system, SOC teams risk being overwhelmed and unable to stop attacks in time.
This new integration of Vectra AI and CrowdStrike effectively empowers SOC analysts to detect hybrid attacks in real-time and stop them in their early stages.
“As attack surfaces multiply and adversaries employ more cunning techniques, SOC teams are burdened with a growing volume of alerts, leading to increased workload and, ultimately, the risk of burnout. To keep pace, they need the most accurate attack signal, and the only solution is AI-driven detection, investigation, and automation,” said Hitesh Sheth, Founder and CEO of Vectra AI. “Protecting against modern hybrid attacks requires a modern hybrid approach. By partnering with CrowdStrike, we continue our commitment to providing SOC analysts with the necessary support to combat the most sophisticated attacks threatening their enterprise.”
Synergy of Technologies: Vectra AI Attack Signal Intelligence™ and CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM
The powerful combination of CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM and the Vectra AI platform with Hybrid Attack Signal Intelligence™ eliminates cost and complexity, reducing the impact of hybrid attacks and removing delays in detection, investigation, and response. This ultimately maximizes the value of the SOC team’s time and talent.
CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM is an advanced platform that combines third-party and Falcon platform data, threat intelligence, AI, and workflow automation to provide more capabilities and up to 150 times faster searching than legacy SIEMs and solutions positioned as SIEM alternatives. According to CrowdStrike, their solution offers an 80% lower total cost of ownership compared to traditional SIEMs.
The integration successfully enables:
- Detecting and investigating hidden threats using AI-driven detection and rich contextual data from Vectra AI. Vectra AI specializes in detecting behavioral anomalies and adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), which often go unnoticed by traditional signature-based security measures.
- Accelerating deployment through simplified integration of Vectra AI data and automated third-party response actions. This reduces implementation time and allows teams to respond to threats more quickly.
- Unifying SOC data and workflows to achieve better security outcomes at a lower total cost. Centralizing data from various sources in one place significantly simplifies analysis and decision-making.
“Legacy SIEMs are too slow and complex, forcing security analysts to review multiple data sources, tools, and consoles to make sense of the data and conduct investigations. In an era where adversaries are becoming faster and more sophisticated in their attacks, it is critical for organizations to modernize their SOC operations,” said Daniel Bernard, Chief Business Officer at CrowdStrike. “Our integration with Vectra AI adds context to CrowdStrike’s growing ecosystem of data sources, providing security teams with the knowledge and speed needed to prevent breaches.”
Key Benefits of the Vectra AI and CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM Integration
The integration of Vectra AI and CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM is a powerful solution that offers numerous benefits for enhancing organizations’ cyber resilience:
- Reduced Mean Time To Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time To Respond (MTTR): Vectra AI’s AI-driven detection and CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM’s automation significantly reduce the time required to detect and respond to hybrid attacks. According to recent studies, reducing MTTD/MTTR is critically important for minimizing financial losses from cyber attacks.
- Improved detection accuracy: The combination of Vectra AI’s attack signals (which focus on adversary behavior) with CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM data provides more accurate threat detection. This reduces the number of false positives, which are a major cause of “alert fatigue” in SOCs, and allows teams to focus on real threats.
- Enhanced visibility: The integration provides a unified view of the hybrid environment, giving SOC teams full visibility into attacks unfolding across their networks, clouds, and endpoints. This holistic picture allows for a better understanding of the attack vector and its potential impact.
- Reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): Replacing legacy SIEMs with CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM and Vectra AI can significantly reduce TCO by lowering licensing, maintenance, infrastructure, and operational costs. For example, thanks to the CrowdStrike Falcon cloud architecture, organizations can avoid significant capital expenditures on hardware.
Vectra AI – A Valuable Asset for Cybersecurity in Ukraine via NWU
In the context of ongoing cyber threats and the need to modernize defenses, solutions from Vectra AI are strategically important for Ukrainian enterprises.
Vectra AI is a leader in detecting and responding to hybrid cloud threats based on security artificial intelligence. Only Vectra optimizes artificial intelligence to detect adversary methods (TTP – Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures) – i.e., behavioral patterns that are the basis of all attacks – instead of simply alerting about “anomalies” or “other” events. The resulting highly accurate threat signal and clear context allow cybersecurity teams to quickly respond to threats and prevent attacks from escalating into full-blown breaches. According to Gartner, TTP detection is a more effective way to identify complex attacks than signature-based analysis alone.
The Vectra AI platform and services cover public cloud, SaaS applications, identity systems, and network infrastructure, both on-premises and in the cloud. Organizations worldwide rely on the Vectra AI platform and services to achieve resilience against:
- Ransomware: Rapid detection of ransomware attack phases, allowing for the prevention of data encryption and business downtime.
- Supply Chain Compromise: Detection of anomalies that may indicate compromise through third-party vendors.
- Credential Theft: Detection of the use of stolen credentials for unauthorized access.
- Other cyber attacks: Protection against a wide range of modern and emerging threats, including zero-day attacks and sophisticated targeted attacks.
Thanks to NWU, the official distributor of Vectra AI in Ukraine, it is now possible for the domestic IT market to buy NDR (Network Detection and Response) from a global leader, which is an integral part of the SOC triad (SIEM, EDR, NDR). This allows Ukrainian enterprises to modernize their SOCs and significantly enhance their level of cybersecurity.
Protect your organization from the most sophisticated hybrid attacks. To buy NDR for SOC or request a demo of the Vectra AI solution in Ukraine, contact NWU today.
