Vectra AI Broadens its AI Agents to Bolster Cybersecurity for Customers

Vectra AI has added its latest powerful AI agent, Vectra AI Analyst, to its AI agent portfolio, giving business customers broader cybersecurity tools that aim to boost the efforts of internal IT security teams in battling threats from hackers and other bad actors.

The new Vectra AI Analyst agent joins three other previously released AI agents, including AI Triage, which autonomously investigates past behaviors and filters to tune out  benign signals that cause alert fatigue; AI Stitching, which tracks attacker behavior in real-time across network, identity, and cloud environments to that compromised accounts, devices and workloads can be pinpointed and protected; and AI Prioritization, which automatically analyzes attacker velocity, techniques, and involved privileges to give human analysts the abilities to act on the most critical threats first.

The new AI Analyst tool, which is now available to all Vectra AI Managed Detection and Response customers, is designed to reduce a time-consuming task for live analysts and drive faster issue resolution by automating escalation workflows and investigative reporting, according to the company.

“Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are under pressure to deliver high-quality security outcomes at scale and with high efficiency,” Jeff Reed, Vectra AI’s chief product officer told ChannelE2E. “Our new agentic AI portfolio directly addresses this challenge.”

Vectra AI’s Agents Have Been in Development Since 2018

Reed said that Vectra AI’s technologies involving AI agents date back to 2018 when the company began using AI “to reason, escalate, and take investigative actions autonomously – mimicking the judgment and decision-making of a seasoned human analyst.”

The Vectra AI agents learn about changing environments as they are used continuously by businesses, said Reed, which allow them to look into intrusion detections and to automate routine tasks. “For MSPs, that means faster time to detection and resolution, reduced alert fatigue, and the ability to support more customers without a proportional increase in staff. It enables MSPs to provide a higher standard of service, with less operational overhead.”

The Vectra AI agent tools, including the latest one, “are a natural evolution of what our customers have always valued in Vectra AI – precision, detection, deep threat context, and meaningful signal clarity,” said Reed. “As threats have grown more sophisticated and security teams face mounting operational pressure, customers have increasingly looked to us for more than just insight – they want action, speed, and scalability. These innovations also represent the extension of our decade-long investment in the use of AI to tackle some of the hardest problems in cybersecurity.”

Jack E. Gold, president and principal analyst for J.Gold Associates, LLC, told ChannelE2E that AI agents are being announced regularly by cybersecurity and other tech companies lately.

“It is the hot button issue,” said Gold. “But it is not if you have one or not, but how well its trained on your specific expertise that matters. In theory if it is done well, you can assist your human staff by elevating some of the mundane tasks, especially if you see the same repetitive things happening.”

But so far, he said, more needs to be seen about how they work for businesses. “The question is, how well will they work with new engineering and zero day attacks. That is not yet clear. But in theory, agents can help speed analysis and reduce load on IT folks. So, all in all, they can be a good thing.”