Ep153: From Minutes to Seconds: How AI-Native Cybersecurity is Winning the Speed War Against Attackers

John Skinner of Vectra AI shares how cyber attackers are democratizing sophisticated attacks using dark web tools, and why AI-powered hybrid defense is now essential for enterprise security.

Topics Include:

• Vectra AI: 13-year-old cybersecurity company founded as "AI native" from day one
• Built on machine learning assumption while competitors treated AI as afterthought
• Generative AI represents the latest evolution in their comprehensive AI journey
• Started pairing threat researchers with ML developers to codify attack behaviors
• Added agentic AI in 2018 for correlation across space and time
• Uses AWS Security Lake, GuardDuty, and recently became AWS Bedrock customer
• Success measured by reducing "dwell time" from initial attack to detection
• Achieved 60% faster alerts, 51% faster monitoring, 50% faster investigation times
• Customers should evaluate vendor's data science quality and algorithm training years
• Evolved hybrid defense approach as attacks start anywhere, go everywhere
• AI handles high-volume correlation while humans focus on analytical decisions
• Future challenge: democratized cyber attacks using readily available dark web tools

Participants:

• John Skinner – Vice President Corporate/Business Development, Vectra AI

Further Links:

• Vectra AI: Website – LinkedIn – AWS Marketplace - YouTube

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