Ep153: From Minutes to Seconds: How AI-Native Cybersecurity is Winning the Speed War Against Attackers
Update: 2025-10-02
Description
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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