FIVE MINUTES WITH ...
KEVIN KENNEDY
Kevin Kennedy , SVP Products , explains how Vectra AI provides enterprises with real-time attack signal intelligence using the power of its ‘ North Star ’
With more than 27 years in technology product management , and more than half of those spent in security , Vectra ’ s Senior Vice President of Products Kevin Kennedy has seen it all .
Today leading the Threat Detection and Response product vision and strategy for Vectra , Kennedy launched his career in threat intel at IronPort and has also held roles at Juniper , Cisco , and Agari Data .
“ At Vectra , the thing that we do best in the world and why our customers invest , is we give real-time attack signal intelligence using AI ,” Kennedy told AI Magazine . “ Most organisations are in a digital transformation : they are moving to the cloud , and they will be hybrid forever . We give them a consistent view of detection and response across that , and really the clarity of signal that we give is why they choose Vectra .”
As Kennedy describes , Applied AI is central to Vectra ’ s approach . “ The company ' s a little over 10 years old and our technical North Star , from day one , has been using AI , and we ' ve had to do a lot of innovation to figure out how to apply it best to this problem set .
“ While there ' s ChatGPT , most of the AI that is used today is applied AI , so you really have to understand your domain .”
‘ The Windows XP days for cloud ’ “ If you look at the threat landscape today , there are a few things going on ,” Kennedy says . “ One is that there is more of it . So if you think about the typical enterprise going through a digital transformation , they ' ve got their data centre , public cloud identity , workers outside , and it ' s very difficult .
“ With things like the cloud , the understanding of how that will be attacked is really nascent . You can think all the
16 June 2022