Case Study: Fortune 500 Consumer Goods Company achieves rapid detection and remediation of a credential-based AWS attack with Vectra AI Inc.'s Detect for AWS

Fortune 500 Company Uses AI to Slam the Door on Cyberattack

A global Fortune 500 consumer packaged goods company operating as a cloud-first enterprise on AWS—with 50,000+ EC2 instances, millions of Lambda functions, and massive amounts of PII and HR data—needed stronger post‑exploitation visibility. Despite using Cloud Workload Protection and Cloud Security Posture Management, its SecOps team struggled to build effective in‑house detection rules across the scale and complexity of the environment.

They deployed Vectra Detect for AWS, which gained coverage in minutes and automatically flagged suspicious credential use amid nearly half a billion daily actions. Using Vectra’s Kingpin identity attribution and one‑click Instant Investigations, analysts quickly traced the attacker accessing AWS Secrets Manager from a TOR IP, rotated compromised secrets, reset credentials, and shut the intrusion down within minutes—preventing further lateral movement and potential impact.