Modern cyberattacks rarely rely on malware or zero-day exploits. Instead, attackers evade detection by abusing trusted identities, valid credentials and legitimate workflows across cloud, identity, network and endpoint environments. Fragmented visibility between security controls allows seemingly harmless activities to combine into successful attacks that often go undetected until data is compromised. Understanding attacker behavior, rather than isolated indicators, helps security teams identify threats earlier and close detection gaps. Organizations can strengthen defenses by correlating signals across domains, monitoring identity misuse and combining AI-driven behavioral analytics with human expertise to detect suspicious activity before attackers achieve their objectives.

In this session, Alessio Mercuri of Vectra AI will cover:

• How attackers exploit trusted identities, credentials and legitimate workflows to avoid detection;
• Why fragmented visibility across security controls creates dangerous detection gaps;
• How behavioral analytics, AI and cross-domain visibility improve threat detection and response.