What to Know Before Reading the 2020 Gartner Market Guide for NDR by Vectra AI Security Research team

This article discusses the Gartner Market Guide for Network Detection and Response (NDR), noting the market’s shift from Network Traffic Analysis toward response-focused capabilities and warning against vendors with superficial, bolt-on features. It highlights Vectra’s viewpoint that effective NDR hinges on high-fidelity, behavior-based detections to minimize false positives, prioritization by privilege and risk, and identity-level enforcement, exemplified by its Account Lockdown integration with Active Directory.