Security Analysts Need Help
Imagine a world-class chess grandmaster playing multiple opponents at once—anticipating moves, spotting patterns, and staying steps ahead of every competitor. Now, imagine if that grandmaster had an AI-powered assistant, constantly analyzing past games, predicting threats, and offering guidance in real time.
That is what Exabeam is bringing to security operations. Just as AI has transformed strategy and decision making in other fields, Exabeam is transforming how security teams work, making investigations faster, more accurate, and less of a burden. With the latest New-Scale platform release, security analysts no longer have to dig through endless logs, manually piece together attack timelines, or wait for insights.
Exabeam Nova, a built-in AI security agent that proactively assists analysts, automates complex investigations, and serves as an advisor to the security operations center (SOC) in real time.
Additionally, this launch includes several features that make it easier to investigate threats, integrate intelligence, and keep security teams operating at their best.
Meet Exabeam Nova: The Newest Member of Your SOC Team
Traditional AI tools in security tend to be reactive—they summarize alerts, provide reports, and require analysts to know exactly what they are looking for. Exabeam Nova is different. It is designed to actively help SOC teams by guiding investigations, prioritizing threats, and automating time-consuming tasks. Security analysts split time between gathering/reviewing evidence and writing reports.
Before we explore how Exabeam Nova delivers proactive assistance in security investigations, let’s first address the critical challenge of triage. Security analysts spend approximately 75% of their shifts on alert triage, dedicating an average of 10 minutes per incident. Remarkably, half of this time—around 5 minutes per alert—is spent manually correlating data from multiple sources to gain full context and conduct cross-analysis.
By leveraging detection groupings, event correlation, and dynamic risk scoring, Exabeam Nova can cut triage time in half—from 10 minutes to just 5 minutes per alert. Over an 8-hour shift, this reduction translates to 3 hours saved, improving analyst productivity by 37.5%. This time savings means analysts can focus on higher-value investigations, reducing fatigue and accelerating threat response.
With Exabeam Nova, analysts do not have to waste time manually correlating logs or searching for relevant context. Exabeam Nova analyzes, prioritizes and gathers critical information automatically, cutting down investigation times and reducing frustration. With Exabeam Nova assisting with evidence collection, analysis, and threat summarization, analysts have seen productivity gains of up to 80%.
It is also embedded in Outcomes Navigator, where it offers proactive security recommendations to help teams close gaps and strengthen defenses. Unlike other AI assistants that require additional purchases or separate interfaces, Exabeam Nova is fully integrated into the New-Scale platform at no extra cost.
Beyond its ability to assist with investigations, Exabeam Nova adapts to different roles. A security analyst will get detailed investigative insights, while an executive will see high-level summaries with key takeaways and relevant advice. Exabeam Nova is designed to work alongside teams, not replace them—giving security professionals the tools to work smarter and faster in the face of growing threats.
What will happen to Exabeam Copilot? Great question. With 10 times more training and intelligence, Exabeam Nova replaces Exabeam Copilot, serving as an agentic foundation for rapidly evolving SOC automation. Here’s an example of the giant leap Exabeam is taking with Exabeam Nova. Exabeam Copilot is great at many things, including generative AI threat summaries written in plain language, between 200 and 500 words. Exabeam Nova provides complete investigation reports which, in some cases, can include 10,000 words or more.
More Than Exabeam Nova: Enhancements Across the New-Scale Platform
While Exabeam Nova makes investigations faster and easier, the latest updates across the New-Scale platform further improve identity correlation, threat intelligence integration, network visibility, and compliance support.
True Identity automatically consolidates multiple usernames, asset IDs, and log sources into a single, unified entity. Instead of analysts spending valuable time manually piecing together identities, True Identity does it instantly—reducing false positives and ensuring that teams are investigating the right person or device from the start. This feature removes a common bottleneck in security investigations and allows analysts to focus on identifying threats rather than sorting through redundant data.
- Bring Your Own Threat Intelligence gives security teams the ability to use the intelligence sources they trust most. Many security information and event management (SIEM) solutions lock customers into proprietary threat feeds, but with our new STIX/TAXII support, organizations can integrate threat intelligence from any vendor that follows this industry standard. This means security teams are no longer limited in how they identify and respond to threats. Exabeam also provides pre-built integrations with threat intelligence platforms Recorded Future and Anomali, giving customers immediate access to valuable threat insights.
- Custom REST API Collector removes the frustration of waiting for vendor-built integrations. Many SIEM platforms require customers to rely on their provider to build specific connectors, which slows down the process of getting critical data into security workflows. The Exabeam Custom REST API Collector allows security teams to create their own API-based integrations, making it easier to ingest third-party data in real time. This flexibility ensures that security teams can work with the data they need when they need it, without being held back by vendor limitations.
- NetMon Expansion improves visibility into network activity, helping security teams better detect suspicious behavior. With support for nearly 5,000 applications and more than 1,000 additional protocols, this update provides deep insights into network traffic. By automatically classifying applications and identifying anomalies, security teams gain a clearer picture of potential threats without having to rely on manual analysis. This deeper level of visibility makes it easier to spot attackers who try to blend in with normal network traffic.
- Expanded Cloud Footprint for United Kingdom gives organizations operating in the UK a new option to meet strict data residency requirements. With support for Google Cloud Platform in the UK, companies can now store and analyze security data locally, ensuring compliance while also improving performance. Keeping security data within national borders reduces regulatory headaches and helps security teams maintain fast, effective threat detection without latency issues.
The Future of Security Operations Starts Now
With Exabeam Nova and the latest New-Scale platform enhancements, Exabeam is helping security teams work smarter, faster, and more effectively. Security operations is no longer just about responding to threats as they happen—it’s about responding with speed and precision that would be impossible for humans to do alone.
By bringing together AI-driven investigations, automated identity correlation, open intelligence integrations, and deeper network visibility, Exabeam is giving security teams the tools to operate efficiently and autonomously.
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