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Accelerate Threat Investigations With Machine-Learned Detection and AI-Powered Assistance

  • Jul 01, 2025
  • Heidi Willbanks
  • 3 minutes to read

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    Security teams don’t have the time—or the headcount—to manually investigate every alert. Triage is time consuming. Investigations require context that’s buried in disparate tools. And by the time a threat is confirmed, the damage may already be done.

    Exabeam helps analysts move faster. By combining machine-learned threat detection with AI-driven assistance, Exabeam turns noisy alerts into understandable threat narratives automatically. With Exabeam Nova and New-Scale Analytics, security teams can detect and investigate threats with more clarity, less effort, and greater speed.

    A Smarter Detection Engine Built for What’s Next

    New-Scale Analytics is the behavioral analytics engine from Exabeam. It replaces rigid rules with behavior-based models that learn what’s normal and flags what isn’t.

    Instead of triggering endless alerts based on static thresholds, New-Scale Analytics:

    • Establishes behavioral baselines for each user, entity, and peer group
    • Flags deviations that may indicate risky or malicious activity
    • Assigns risk scores based on rarity, context, and severity
    • Automatically assembles threat timelines to show the full sequence of events

    It detects threats traditional rules often miss, like credential misuse, lateral movement, and insider threats.

    Built-In AI Context, Not Just Another Copilot

    Exabeam Nova adds something analysts rarely get: clarity.

    Exabeam Nova is a built-in AI teammate embedded across the New-Scale Security Operations Platform—including New-Scale SIEM and New-Scale Analytics—as well as LogRhythm Intelligence within the LogRhythm SIEM Platform. It automatically:

    • Generates case summaries to explain what happened and why it matters
    • Maps detections to MITRE ATT&CK® tactics
    • Highlights risk scores, impacted entities, and possible next steps
    • Surfaces the highest-priority threats, reducing alert noise and analyst fatigue

    What powers all this? A coordinated set of six specialized AI agents, each designed to support a different part of the detection and investigation workflow:

    • Advisor Agent delivers daily, leadership-ready reports on security posture, ATT&CK coverage, and outcome alignment. It helps CISOs and security leaders understand where—and how—to improve.
    • Search Agent allows analysts to query security data in natural language across multiple languages—no custom syntax or scripting required.
    • Visualization Agent transforms queries into dashboards and visualizations, helping teams and leaders spot trends and share insights easily.
    • Threat Scoring Agent applies adaptive learning to highlight the most relevant events in your environment, reducing noise and surfacing what matters.
    • Investigation Agent auto-generates detailed case summaries, highlights key threat vectors, classifies activity, and recommends next steps.
    • Analyst Assistant Agent serves as a real-time companion for analysts, answering questions with case-specific insight and reducing time spent searching or pivoting between tools.

    Together, these agents make Exabeam Nova much more than just a copilot. They make it a full-fledged member of your security team, always working behind the scenes to simplify complexity and speed up response.

    Analysts don’t need to pivot between tools or hunt for evidence. Exabeam Nova synthesizes the context and presents a complete picture, ready for action.

    The Investigation Workflow, Reinvented

    Here’s how it works in practice:

    • Detection: New-Scale Analytics flags unusual behavior, such as a user accessing a sensitive server at an odd hour from an unfamiliar device.
    • Context: Exabeam Nova adds a risk score, links related events, builds a timeline, and summarizes the activity. It identifies the user and device, suggests relevant ATT&CK tactics, and flags suspicious patterns.
    • Action: The analyst reviews a complete case with all context in one place. No manual log pulls. No tool hopping. Just a clear narrative of what happened.
    • Response: If the activity is risky, the analyst can escalate, assign, or trigger a response playbook within the same workflow.

    Why It Matters

    SOC teams are overwhelmed. Alert fatigue, staffing gaps, and increasingly complex threats make it hard to keep up, let alone respond effectively.

    Exabeam Nova and New-Scale Analytics change that with:

    • Fewer false positives: Machine-learned detection filters out noise
    • Faster triage: AI highlights what matters most
    • Shorter investigations: Context is built in, not bolted on
    • Improved consistency: Every alert is scored, summarized, and tracked

    And because both Exabeam Nova and New-Scale Analytics are embedded in the New-Scale Platform, there’s no need for additional tools, licenses, or integrations. Everything works together seamlessly, by design.

    Ready to Investigate Faster?

    Learn how Exabeam helps your team detect, investigate, and respond with more speed, context, and confidence using behavioral analytics and built-in AI assistance.

    Don’t miss our upcoming webinar: What’s New in the New-Scale Security Operations Platform

    Join us to explore the latest enhancements designed to help your SOC move faster, close gaps, and safeguard your environment with confidence.

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    Heidi Willbanks

    Heidi Willbanks

    Senior Product Marketing Manager, Content | Exabeam | Heidi Willbanks is the Senior Product Marketing Manager, Content at Exabeam. She manages content strategy and production for product marketing and supports strategic partners, sales and channel enablement, and competitive content, leveraging her product marketing certification, content expertise, and industry knowledge. She has 19 years of experience in content marketing, with nearly a decade in the cybersecurity field. Heidi received a BA in Journalism with a minor in Graphic Design from Cal Poly Humboldt and was awarded Outstanding Graduating Senior in Public Relations Emphasis. She enjoys reading, writing, gardening, hiking, yoga, music, and art.

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