The battle against cyber threats constantly evolves, and identity has firmly established itself as the new frontline. Recognizing security teams’ overwhelming challenges in keeping up with the sheer volume and sophistication of identity-based attacks, Verosint, a player in Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR), has launched a solution: Vera, an agentic AI security analyst.

This isn’t just another AI-powered tool; Vera is designed to act as a virtual security expert, working alongside existing teams to dramatically improve the speed, efficiency, and effectiveness of detecting, investigating, and responding to threats targeting workforce and customer identities.

The Growing Urgency for AI in Identity Security

Verosint highlights a stark reality: identity security attacks are surging at an alarming rate – over 300% annually – while security budgets and staffing struggle to keep pace. This creates a significant skills and resource gap, leaving security teams drowning in alerts and lacking the specialized identity expertise to investigate and neutralize threats effectively. Compounding this issue is the critical time factor. While it can take organizations 292 days to respond to an identity threat, attackers can further breach a system from an initial account compromise in under an hour.

Vera aims to change this dynamic by providing instant, expert-level analysis and response capabilities to security teams of all sizes. By integrating seamlessly with existing productivity tools like Slack and Teams, Vera acts as a virtual team member, providing real-time alerts, recommending next steps, and even taking decisive actions to contain threats while minimizing the dreaded false positives.

How Vera Transforms Identity Threat Response:

Verosint outlines several key ways Vera is changing the game in ITDR:

• Continuous Investigation: Forget manual, time-consuming investigations. Vera can instantly analyze suspicious accounts in bulk, identify complex patterns, and surface critical insights within seconds, significantly accelerating the investigation process.
• Live Threat Triage and Response: Security teams can directly instruct Vera to take targeted response actions, such as revoking active sessions, suspending compromised users, blocking malicious IP addresses, or enforcing adaptive authentication measures. Vera also warns about potentially overly aggressive actions, ensuring a balanced response.
• On-Demand Reporting and Visualization: Need to understand the scope of an incident or communicate findings? Vera can generate custom incident reports and visual insights directly within the familiar chat interface, streamlining communication and analysis.
• Seamless Integration with Existing Tools: Vera doesn’t require a rip-and-replace approach. Its integration with popular platforms like Slack and Teams allows security teams to interact with the AI analyst as they would with a remote colleague, making adoption and collaboration seamless.
• Automated Playbook Creation: Vera can recommend and even build automated response playbooks based on past incidents and best practices to continuously improve response times and reduce future risk.

Early Access and the Promise of a Faster Response

Verosint’s goal with Vera is ambitious yet crucial: to help security teams neutralize 80% of their identity threats in under five minutes. By combining Vera’s AI-driven expertise with the power of the Verosint ITDR platform, organizations can drastically reduce their Mean Time To Respond (MTTR), alleviate alert fatigue, and proactively stay ahead of attackers – all without significant budget increases or headcount expansion.

Vera is available through an Early Access program for organizations eager to set a new identity security and operational efficiency standard. Suppose you’re ready to empower your security team with an AI-powered analyst that can genuinely change the identity threat detection and response game. In that case, you can learn more and sign up for the Early Access program.