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

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