In today’s cybersecurity landscape, where threats are increasingly complex and hybrid, traditional defense approaches often prove insufficient. Vectra AI, a leader in hybrid attack detection, investigation, and response, has taken a significant step forward by announcing the launch of Vectra MXDR (Managed Extended Detection and Response) services. This is the industry’s first 24/7 global open MXDR service, specifically designed to protect against hybrid attacks. It eliminates delays, maximizes the efficiency of security specialists, and reduces vulnerabilities, while simultaneously improving the overall security posture across organizations.

Challenges of Modern Cybersecurity & Vectra MXDR Solution

The shift to hybrid and multi-cloud environments means that virtually all modern enterprises are now hybrid, and all current attacks are hybrid in nature. This transformation has rendered legacy threat detection and response solutions ineffective in protecting against the new threat landscape. As a result, there’s a growing need for comprehensive threat detection coverage across the entire extended hybrid attack surface.

Problems with Traditional Approaches

However, using disparate detection solutions leads to a number of serious problems:

Fragmented Tools and Rule Sprawl: A multitude of separate tools create a complex and inefficient security ecosystem, requiring constant manual configuration and maintenance.
Uncontrolled Alert Volume: The increasing number of data sources leads to an exponential increase in alerts, overwhelming security teams. Recent studies show that SOC teams spend almost four hours a day manually triaging and analyzing alerts. According to IBM, the average time to detect a breach (Mean Time To Detect, MTTD) in 2023 was 204 days, indicating significant gaps in existing systems.
Analyst Burnout and High Turnover: This constant flood of alerts leads to excessive workload, emotional exhaustion, and high turnover among SOC analysts. This is a critical issue, as the global shortage of qualified cybersecurity professionals already exceeds 4 million (according to ISC²).
Adversaries Exploiting Complexity: While teams struggle with these challenges, attackers continue to exploit complexity, delays, and obstacles to move laterally within the network, escalate attacks, and stealthily exfiltrate data. This underscores the need for precise threat signals delivered at speed and scale to prevent modern hybrid attacks from becoming full-blown breaches.

Vectra MXDR Solution: A Unified Service for Comprehensive Protection

With Vectra MXDR, enterprises can unify all aspects of threat detection and response into a single service, eliminating the need for multiple vendors and reducing operational costs. This comprehensive offering breaks down information silos, providing visibility across the hybrid attack surface through deep integration with leading EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) providers, covering:

Identity (Azure AD, Okta, Active Directory)
Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
SaaS Applications (Microsoft 365, Salesforce)
Data Centers
Cloud Networks
Endpoints (thanks to integration with CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, and Microsoft Defender)

Integration with giants like CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, and Microsoft Defender allows Vectra AI MXDR analysts to monitor the entire security posture and take direct action, regardless of where the signal originates.

“After launching our Vectra AI platform last year, we recognized that our customers who outsource these services needed a comprehensive platform and access to MXDR specialists dedicated to investigating malicious activity,” said Hitesh Sheth, President and CEO of Vectra AI. “With Vectra MXDR, we offer our customers access to the most experienced hybrid attack defense experts, as well as the most accurate AI-driven signal on the market today, to help them manage their growing workload and alleviate the burnout they’re experiencing.”

Key Capabilities of Vectra MXDR

Vectra MXDR provides SOC leaders, security analysts, and architects with full coverage, clarity, and control over the entire hybrid attack surface through a range of unique features:

AI-Driven Attack Signal Intelligence™: Leveraging Vectra AI’s patented Attack Signal Intelligence™ technology, Vectra MXDR analysts utilize artificial intelligence and machine learning to learn customers’ unique environments and focus on attacker behaviors. This allows them to distinguish genuine malicious events from benign ones, significantly reducing false positives and enabling analysts to identify the most critical attacks for prioritized real-time response for clients.
24x7x365 Experts in Hybrid Attack Defense: Vectra MXDR specialists are true experts in hybrid attacks. They apply their experience and knowledge to provide round-the-clock global protection, ensuring continuous monitoring and response, regardless of time zones or threat complexity.
Complete End-to-End Coverage: Vectra MXDR handles all aspects of detection and response within a single unified service, eliminating the need for multiple service providers and numerous management consoles, which simplifies operations and reduces complexity.
Remote Response and Remediation: Enterprises can isolate, contain, and mitigate hybrid attacks through manual or automated response actions. This minimizes damage and maintains business continuity even during an active attack.
Adaptability Based on Customer Needs: Thanks to a flexible operating model, Vectra MXDR can be customized to organizations’ specific business needs. This ensures a personalized security strategy with various defense models, taking into account the unique requirements of each company.
Managed Security Policy Configuration: Vectra’s industry experts create and enforce enterprise security policy configurations, whether on the Vectra AI platform or EDR, actively protecting them from threats. This ensures that security policies are always current and effective.

“In reality, enterprises need a combination of endpoint protection solutions and network security tools to defend against hybrid attacks,” said Gary Ruiz, Vice President of Worldwide Professional Services at Vectra AI. “Our approach to XDR is unique because we not only integrate these technologies into a single offering, but we also use our AI-driven signal to gather information across the entire hybrid attack surface to find real attacks. By adding the services component with Vectra MXDR, we introduce the human element into this process to help customers implement and manage this integrated approach. Our experts monitor the situation 24/7 and help customers handle incidents by responding to and remediating them on their behalf, significantly reducing the workload for SOC teams. This truly allows us to be much more effective for our customers.”

Vectra AI – A Valuable Asset for NWU’s Cybersecurity in Ukraine

Thanks to NWU, the official distributor of Vectra AI in Ukraine, it is now possible to purchase NDR (Network Detection and Response) from a world leader on the domestic IT market. NDR is an integral part of the SOC triad, a fundamental concept of modern cybersecurity.

The Role of NDR in the SOC Triad

The SOC triad consists of three key components:

SIEM (Security Information and Event Management): A system for collecting, aggregating, and analyzing security logs and events from various sources. It provides a centralized repository for security data, helping SOC teams detect anomalies and correlate events.
EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response): A solution for monitoring and protecting endpoints (computers, servers, mobile devices) from threats, providing capabilities for detecting suspicious activity and responding to it.
NDR (Network Detection and Response): Specializes in analyzing network traffic to detect threats that may have bypassed traditional security controls. This is critically important for detecting lateral movement of adversaries within the network.

The synergy of these three components creates a comprehensive cybersecurity system that provides full visibility, deep analysis, and rapid response to threats at all levels of the infrastructure. According to Forbes Advisor (2024), integrated XDR platforms can reduce the average incident response time by 70%.

Vectra AI is a leader in detecting and responding to hybrid cloud threats based on security artificial intelligence. Only Vectra optimizes AI to detect attacker Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs), which are the basis of all attacks, instead of simply warning about “other” anomalies that may be false positives. The resulting highly accurate threat signal and clear context allow cybersecurity teams to quickly respond to threats and prevent attacks from escalating into breaches.

Broad Spectrum of Protection from Vectra AI

The Vectra AI platform and services cover key segments of modern IT infrastructure:

Public Cloud: Ensures the security of data and applications in public cloud environments (such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform), where traditional security tools often face visibility and control challenges.
SaaS Applications: Protection against threats that exploit software-as-a-service vulnerabilities, which is especially relevant in the context of widespread use of cloud applications like Microsoft 365 or Salesforce.
Identity Systems: Monitoring and detection of compromised credentials and privileged access, which are among the most frequent targets for attackers.
Network Infrastructure: Comprehensive protection for both on-premises and cloud networks, providing continuous visibility and control over all traffic, including so-called “East-West” traffic, which is critical for detecting internal threats.

Organizations worldwide rely on the Vectra AI platform and services to achieve resilience against a wide range of modern cyber threats, including:

Ransomware: Rapid detection and blocking of ransomware activity in the early stages of an attack, minimizing damage from data encryption and helping to avoid significant financial losses. According to Cybereason (2024), 8 out of 10 organizations that pay a ransom experience repeat attacks.
Supply Chain Attacks: Detecting anomalies in the behavior of suppliers or integrated components, which may indicate hidden threats and vulnerabilities that could be exploited to penetrate your network.
Credential Theft: Detecting attempts to steal or use compromised credentials for unauthorized access, which is one of the most common attack vectors.
Other Cyberattacks: Providing protection against a wide range of current and future threats, including fileless attacks, zero-day attacks, and targeted APT (Advanced Persistent Threats) group attacks, which are constantly evolving and adapting.

Strengthen Your SOC with Vectra AI and NWU

Modern cyber threats demand innovative approaches to security. Vectra AI’s artificial intelligence-driven solutions offer unparalleled detection accuracy and response automation, which is critical for any modern SOC.

NWU is an official distributor of high-performance products and solutions in network information security and telecommunications equipment from leading global manufacturers. We operate in Ukraine, the South Caucasus, and Central Asia, providing comprehensive solutions for businesses and government agencies.

How NWU Helps Strengthen Your Cybersecurity

To purchase NDR for your SOC or request a trial of the Vectra AI solution in Ukraine, please contact NWU. As an official distributor, we offer not only advanced technologies but also expert support that will help you effectively implement and utilize this powerful solution. This is your chance to significantly enhance the efficiency of your security team and reliably protect your digital assets, ensuring resilience against the most complex cyber threats.

Among other solutions offered by NWU, it is worth highlighting:

Anti-DDoS from NETSCOUT (formerly Arbor Networks) – protection against distributed denial-of-service attacks that can paralyze critical services.
SIEM and UEBA from Exabeam and LogRhythm – security information and event management systems, as well as user and entity behavior analytics to detect anomalies and suspicious activity.
Firewall Policy Management from Tufin – managing firewall security policies to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and minimize configuration errors that can lead to vulnerabilities.
SBC and UC from Ribbon Communications – solutions for protecting unified communications and session border controllers, which are critically important for ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of voice and video data.
EDR, EPP, NDR, and XDR from Cynet – a comprehensive platform for endpoint, network, and extended threat detection, providing a single console for security management.
Storage Area Networks (SAN) from Infinidat – high-performance and reliable solutions for storing large volumes of data, ensuring their availability and security.
As well as innovative environmental monitoring solutions from Huma-I, Nuvap, Sensibo, uHoo, and others – to ensure physical safety and comfort in office and industrial premises.