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GUEST OPINION by Chris Fisher, Regional Director of Australia and New Zealand, Vectra AI: Cybersecurity stands at a fascinating crossroads today, with artificial intelligence (AI) revolutionising the field, acting both as a powerful ally and a formidable adversary. Tools like Copilot and DeepSeek AI may benefit organisations, but they also empower cybercriminals to launch more sophisticated and elusive attacks.

The Vectra AI Scholars Programme will empower students to develop creative solutions that harness the power of AI to identify patterns of attacker behaviour across the expanding hybrid attack surface

COMPANY NEWS: Vectra AI, the leader in AI-driven XDR (extended detection and response), today announced the launch of the Vectra AI Scholars Programme, a scholarship opportunity for high school, undergraduate, and graduate students from around the world with innovative ideas on how to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance cybersecurity.

COMPANY NEWS:  Vectra NDR is powered by Attack Signal Intelligence to cut through alert noise and stop attacks early

GUEST OPINION:  Vectra AI, Inc., the leader in AI-driven XDR (extended detection and response), has released its 2025 security predictions for Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), highlighting the significant role Artificial Intelligence (AI) will play in cybersecurity and the growing focus on achieving measurable results.

Vectra AI adds AI-powered detections that expose attacker behaviours targeting Microsoft Azure cloud services and Microsoft Copilot delivering much needed reinforcements for customers’ native tools

COMPANY NEWS: Vectra AI, Inc.,Vectra AI, Inc., the leader in AI-driven XDR (extended detection and response), today announced the extension of the Vectra AI Platform to include comprehensive coverage for customers’ Microsoft Azure environments. With the addition of over 40 unique attacker behaviour detections for Microsoft Azure, Vectra AI now delivers over 100 AI-driven attacker behaviour detections. Now, Microsoft customers achieve comprehensive hybrid and multi-cloud defence for their entire Microsoft environment - Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft M365, Microsoft Copilot for M365 and now Microsoft Azure.

GUEST RESEARCH: Vectra AI the leader in AI-driven XDR (extended detection and response), today announced the findings of its 2024 State of Threat Detection and Response Research Report: The Defenders’ Dilemma. The report shows that security operations centre (SOC) practitioners believe they are losing the battle detecting and prioritising real threats – due to too many siloed tools and a lack of accurate attack signal. They cite a growing distrust in vendors, believing their tools can be more of a hindrance than help in spotting real attacks. This is at odds with growing confidence in their teams’ abilities and a sense of optimism around the promise of artificial intelligence (AI).

COMPANY NEWS: Vectra AI, the leader in AI-driven XDR (extended detection and response), today announced the expansion of its Vectra AI Platform, which now equips security operations centre (SOC) teams with active posture to proactively discover and pinpoint where their hybrid environment is exposed to attackers. With this expansion, Vectra AI Platform’s patented Attack Signal Intelligence now provides a holistic view with analytics to discover, deter, detect, and disrupt hybrid attackers.

GUEST OPINION: Artificial Intelligence (AI) usage has surged forward relentlessly in the last two years – with its remarkable ability to identify patterns and generate new content. As a result, generative AI (genAI) has emerged as a formidable disruptor within the cybersecurity sector.

COMPANY NEWS: Vectra AI, the leader in AI-driven XDR (extended detection and response), today announced the appointment of Sailesh Munagala as chief financial officer (CFO).

GUEST OPINION: The current business landscape is witnessing an increased deployment of Generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI) – enabled tools like Microsoft Copilot to reimagine business models in the name of innovation. Unfortunately, this has directly contributed to an alarming spike in cyberattack frequency, severity and diversity. In line with this, recent research suggests that 75% of cybersecurity professionals have seen an increase in AI-powered cyberattacks over the past year, with 85% attributing it to threat actors weaponising AI.

COMPANY NEWS: Vectra AI, the leader in hybrid attack detection, investigation, and response, today announced an expansion of the Vectra AI Platform to protect enterprises from new threat vectors introduced by the rapid adoption of Generative AI (genAI) tools. The Vectra AI Platform’s patented Attack Signal Intelligence uses behaviour-based AI to defend against cyber attackers abusing genAI – empowering security operations centre (SOC) teams to fight genAI attacks with AI.

COMPANY NEWS: Vectra AI, the leader in hybrid attack detection, investigation, and response, today announced the appointment of Jeff Reed who has taken on the organisation’s newly created role of chief product officer.

GUEST OPINION: In our ever-evolving digital landscape, the surge in complex cyber risks has become a critical concern for business leaders. Balancing the drive for innovation and growth with the increasing demand for robust cybersecurity presents a formidable challenge—one that many businesses grapple with.

COMPANY NEWS: Vectra AI the leader in hybrid attack detection, investigation and response, today announced the launch of Vectra MXDR (Managed Extended Detection and Response) services, the industry's first global, 24x7 open MXDR service built to defend against hybrid attacks. This comprehensive offering eliminates silos to provide hybrid attack surface visibility across identity, public cloud, SaaS, data centre and cloud networks and endpoints via integrations with leading EDR vendors.

GUEST OPINION: Throughout last year, many Australian and New Zealand businesses made headlines for all the wrong reasons, as even large corporations investing ample funds into security measures were forced to announce breaches and customer data leaks.

GUEST INTERVIEW; It costs the CBA, according to Elizabeth Knight of the Sydney Morning Herald, approximately A$1.4 billion dollars per annum to maintain its branch and ATM network, primarily to handle cash. Around 15 per cent of point-of-sale transactions are now cash according to CEO Matt Comyn.^[1]

COMPANY NEWS: Vectra AI, the leader in hybrid attack detection, investigation and response, today announced advancements to the Vectra AI Platform with the introduction of enhanced Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) for AWS environments. Armed with Vectra AI’s patented Attack Signal Intelligence, Vectra CDR for AWS empowers security operations center (SOC) teams with real-time, integrated attack signal for hybrid attacks spanning network, cloud and identity domains.

COMPANY NEWS: Vectra AI, the leader in AI-driven cyber threat detection and response, today announced the Vectra AI Platform with patented Attack Signal Intelligence to deliver the integrated signal enterprises need to make extended detection and response (XDR) a reality.

GUEST RESEARCH: Vectra AI, the pioneer of AI-driven cyber threat detection and response for hybrid and multi-cloud enterprises, today announced the findings of its 2023 State of Threat Detection Research Report, providing insight into the “spiral of more” that is preventing security operations centre (SOC) teams from effectively securing their organisations from cyberattacks.

GUEST OPINION: Today, the buzzword that’s nothing short of a technological revolution is “Artificial Intelligence” (AI). Although it’s hard to deny that AI has brought many positive advancements across a large variety of industries, there is also some cause for caution. According to reports, there has been a 135% increase in sophisticated and novel social engineering attacks in the first months of 2023, which corresponded with the widespread adoption of AI-run application, ChatGPT.