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Vectra AI Launches Revolutionary Cybersecurity Platform

In a bold stride towards safeguarding modern enterprises, Vectra AI, a California-based cybersecurity firm, has unveiled its latest platform designed to counter the growing menace of AI-driven cyber attacks. Set to be launched on January 21, 2026, this next-generation solution promises immediate detection and defense against malicious activities that leverage artificial intelligence.

As companies increasingly integrate AI into their entire application and infrastructure framework, they transition into a continuously active and hyper-connected "AI enterprise." This new environment operates seamlessly across on-premise data centers, multi-clouds, identity systems, SaaS, IoT/OT, edge computing, and AI infrastructure, resulting in a singular, dynamic network. In these setups, non-human identities and AI agents significantly outnumber human operators, ensuring constant activity.

Within this landscape, adversaries have begun to weaponize AI for malicious purposes, employing it for identity abuse, automation of reconnaissance, establishment of command and control, and executing lateral movements at speeds beyond traditional security measures' capabilities. In an AI enterprise, intruders do not merely invade; they log in as trusted entities, melding with legitimate behaviors to execute their plans undetected.

Hitesh Sheth, CEO of Vectra AI, states, "The modern network fundamentally alters the physical laws of cyber risk. It serves as the nervous system of the AI enterprise, where identities operate, and data moves at machine speed. Attackers understand this and exploit it accordingly. Our next-generation platform redefines cyber resilience by enabling organizations to halt AI-driven attacks before they significantly impact business operations."

Vectra AI’s innovative platform introduces three critical enhancements aimed at providing clear results throughout the AI attack lifecycle: proactive security to reduce exposure, active defense to halt attacks at inception, and rapid response to contain ongoing threats.

Integrated Visibility: Enabling Proactive Security

Vectra AI aims to provide integrated visibility across the entire AI enterprise, which encompasses on-prem data centers, multi-clouds, identity systems, SaaS, IoT/OT, edge computing, and AI infrastructure. By leveraging flow-based scalability and packet-level context, Vectra achieves a broad and deep view of the attack surface across the organization.

This integrated visibility empowers security teams to identify and mitigate exposure before AI-fueled attackers exploit identities, trust relationships, and automation paths. By understanding the behaviors of systems and identities within modern networks, organizations can close gaps and reduce risks before an attack occurs.

Martin Roche, Vectra AI’s Cloud Head, emphasizes, "AI infrastructure does not behave like traditional networks anymore. Traffic is ephemeral, dominated by east-west traffic, and the most critical activities do not cross boundaries. Building true resilience in an AI environment requires software-defined visibility that operates at scale, without sacrificing accuracy. This is the foundation for real-time detection and thwarting of AI-driven attacks."

Discovery and Hunting of AI Agents: Enabling Active Defense

AI agents have become vital identities within enterprises and powerful tools for attackers. In response, Vectra AI automatically discovers and tracks AI agents across modern networks. The platform detects when adversaries maliciously utilize AI agents for reconnaissance, lateral movement, and rapid data access. Thanks to pre-built behavior models, results can be delivered in seconds, transforming threat hunting into a continuous, proactive activity.

Detecting and Investigating AI Agent Behavior: Accelerating Machine-Speed Containment

Vectra AI eradicates the critical challenge of "how fast can we get answers?" by correlating and prioritizing activities based on the speed and status of attacker behavior. This capability enables proactive defense, ensuring that as soon as an AI-fueled attack begins, it can be stopped before attackers reach critical systems or data. By using the Vectra AI Assistant, analysts can receive contextual answers to investigative queries using natural language, eliminating the need for complex queries or manual analyses. This synergy accelerates both investigation and decision-making processes, allowing teams to immediately understand the scope, progression, and impact of threats, thus enabling timely containment.

"AI agents are now primary identities in the enterprise, simultaneously serving as formidable weapons for attackers," says Snehal Patel, Vectra AI’s Chief Product Officer. "Vectra AI uniquely discovers and tracks AI agents across modern networks, providing proactive security that mitigates exposure before attackers can exploit it, and delivering active defense that detects and thwarts attacks the moment they commence. The AI-supportive investigation and behavior-based hunting yield answers in seconds, eliminating delays for defenders and containing threats before they can spread to critical systems or data."

Cyber Resilience Designed for AI Speed

The flagship next-generation platform from Vectra AI represents a definitive shift away from traditional security models based on perimeter defense. In an era where AI-driven enterprises confront AI-fueled adversaries, cyber resilience must be continuous, behavior-driven, and capable of machine-speed responses.

Grounded in integrated visibility, behavior-based AI, and real-time investigation, Vectra AI enables organizations to implement proactive security measures that lower exposure before breaches occur, alongside active defenses that can stop attacks as soon as they begin. This is cyber resilience constructed for an environment where both innovation and risk evolve at an AI pace.

For more details on how to protect your AI enterprise from AI-driven attacks, visit ja.vectra.ai/platform. Also, check out CEO Hitesh Sheth's blog titled “Ensuring Security for AI-Driven Enterprises: A CEO's Perspective.”

About Vectra AI

Vectra AI provides AI-driven cybersecurity solutions that protect modern networks against the latest attacks. The Vectra AI platform continuously monitors all attack movements, connecting the dots in real-time to prevent breaches when adversaries bypass existing controls and access customers' data centers, campuses, remote work, identities, cloud, and IoT/OT environments. The firm has secured 35 patents related to AI security and boasts the highest number of vendor references in the MITRE DEFEND framework. Organizations worldwide leverage Vectra AI to uncover and stop attacks that other tools cannot detect. For further information, please visit https://ja.vectra.ai/.

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