Unpacking XDR: Coverage, Stitching, Aggregation – and the GenAI Wildcard – Oliver Tavakoli – RSA24 #1
The challenge of evaluating threat alerts in aggregate – what a collection and sequence of threat signals tell us about an attacker’s sophistication and motives – has bedeviled SOC teams since the dawn of the Iron Age. Vectra AI CTO Oliver Tavakoli will discuss how the design principles of our XDR platform deal with this challenge and how GenAI impacts this perspective.
Segment Resources:
Vectra AI Platform Video: https://vimeo.com/916801622
Blog: https://www.vectra.ai/blog/what-is-xdr-the-promise-of-xdr-capabilities-explained
Blog: https://www.vectra.ai/blog/xdr-explored-the-evolution-and-impact-of-extended-detection-and-response
MXDR Calculator: https://www.vectra.ai/calculators/mxdr-value-calculator
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Guest
Oliver Tavakoli is chief technology officer at Vectra AI. He sets the technical strategy for the company. Oliver has overseen the adoption of technology in cybersecurity for over 25 years, the last ten of which have been at Vectra AI. Prior to Vectra, Oliver was the CTO for the security business of Juniper Networks. He joined Juniper as a result of its acquisition of Funk Software, where Oliver was the CTO. Earlier in his career, Oliver worked at IBM, Fluent Machines, and Novell Inc and founded Trilogy Inc, which was acquired by Funk Software.