The problem to solve
Enterprises today are hybrid by design. Applications, workloads, and identities shift constantly between on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments. This reality has created a sprawling attack surface that adversaries know how to exploit.
Attackers don’t think in terms of silos. They see one unified target. With speed and precision, they abuse misconfigurations, steal credentials, and move laterally across hybrid networks. Defenders, however, are left managing disconnected tools: legacy intrusion detection systems that can’t scale, cloud-native services with limited detection depth, and identity systems that can be bypassed.
The result is twofold:
- Missed opportunities to prevent attacks before they start.
- Delayed response to active compromises.
SOC leaders need a way to achieve resilience across the entire attack continuum—pre-compromise and post-compromise.
The approach we take
Vectra Fusion is an add-on to the Vectra AI Platform designed specifically to meet this challenge. It extends the platform to converge cloud-native observability with AI-driven detection and response—enabling security teams to act before and during an attack.
Pre-compromise resilience: exposure management with observability
Fusion orchestrates flow logs, DNS, and cloud telemetry across AWS, Azure, GCP, SaaS, and on-prem—without agents or sensors. This proactive observability helps SOC teams:
- Expose misconfigurations and trust violations before attackers find them.
- Continuously monitor every account, workload, and tenant to shrink attack surface.
- Detect risky lateral movement paths early, enabling security teams to intervene before exploitation.
Post-compromise resilience: detection, investigation, and response
Fusion enriches the Vectra AI Platform’s 170+ behavioral detections with cloud telemetry, creating sharper, high-confidence signals. SOC analysts can:
- Cut through up to 99% of alert noise and surface only true threats.
- Correlate signals across network, cloud, and identity domains for faster triage.
- Move from detection to containment in minutes instead of days.
Operational advantages
- Frictionless onboarding: Agentless, software-defined coverage that adapts as workloads and accounts scale.
- Lower TCO: Eliminates the need for IDS appliances and reduces cloud logging inefficiencies.
- Unified workflows: Converges proactive observability with reactive response in a single, analyst-friendly platform.
The outcomes delivered
Organizations across industries are already seeing measurable results from the convergence of observability and signal clarity:
- FICO replaced costly NDR appliances with Fusion’s SaaS model, achieving complete hybrid visibility and reducing time-to-detect while cutting operational costs.
- Mercury, a cloud-first FinTech, used Fusion to eliminate appliance sprawl, reduce cost, and achieve real-time visibility across AWS environments—helping its SOC differentiate between benign and malicious traffic with confidence.
- A global B2B SaaS provider leveraged Fusion’s automated onboarding to cover thousands of new VPCs and VNets, ensuring that no workload went unmonitored and significantly reducing the potential for compromise.
Industry experts reinforce the value of this approach. Analysts emphasize that NDR must extend beyond packet inspection to include flow logs, cloud telemetry, and identity data. Thought leaders call the convergence of observability and detection the new model for how SOCs will defend hybrid and multi-cloud enterprises.
The net effect for SOC teams
By extending the Vectra AI Platform with Fusion, organizations gain:
- Pre-compromise resilience through observability and exposure management.
- Post-compromise resilience through AI-driven detection, investigation, and response.
- Simplified operations by converging workflows and reducing tool sprawl.
- Future-proofing for AI-accelerated attacks and multi-cloud adoption.
Closing thoughts
Resilience is the defining requirement of the modern SOC. Attackers move fast and exploit every blind spot. Defenders need to move faster—both to close exposures before they are exploited and to stop active threats in their tracks. With Vectra Fusion, SOC leaders, architects, and analysts gain the confidence that comes from a converged platform designed for resilience both pre and post compromise. The result is clear: a stronger, faster, more resilient SOC—ready to defend the hybrid enterprise today and tomorrow.
Additional Resources:
Blog: Vectra AI with Netography Redefining the SOC Platform around Modern Attack Resilience
Press Release: VectraAI Acquires Netography