Using Metadata to Enhance Security Posture and Meet Compliance Requirements

In this episode, Tiffany Nip (Product Marketing Manager, Vectra AI) and Julian Kraus (Security Engineer, Vectra AI) discuss how metadata helps security teams meet compliance, audit requirements, and proactively strengthen security posture. Learn how to uncover misconfigurations, monitor external communications, and identify gaps before attackers can exploit them — all through real-world MDR examples.

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00:00 - Introduction
01:06 - Using metadata for compliance & security posture
03:09 - Discovering unexpected external communications
04:42 - Detecting DNS/ NTP misconfigurations and risks
06:06 - Cost savings & troubleshooting via metadata
06:49 - Reverse DNS issues as a security concern
09:47 - More compliance and proactive posture use cases

-- About Vectra AI --
Vectra AI, Inc. is the cybersecurity AI company that protects modern networks from modern attacks. When modern cyber attackers bypass existing controls, evade detection and gain access to customers’ data center, campus, remote work, identity, cloud, and IoT/OT environments, the Vectra AI Platform sees their every move, connects the dots in real-time, and stops them from becoming breaches. With 35 patents in AI security and the most vendor references in MITRE D3FEND, organizations worldwide rely on Vectra AI to see and stop attacks their other tools can’t. For more information, visit www.vectra.ai.