Introducing Varonis Triage Agent: An Autonomous Incident Researcher to Amplify MDDR Service

Key takeaways #

• The Varonis Triage Agent is an AI incident researcher that investigates alerts like an analyst, gathering evidence and testing explanations.
• With the Triage Agent, MDDR analysts respond to malicious activity more quickly, saving an average of 16.4 hours per escalation.
• The agent maintains a production recall rate above 96%, reliably surfacing real threats without burying them in false-positive noise.

The average security analyst has minutes to figure out whether a login attempt is a valid employee attempting to gain access or an attacker already inside the network. Every second spent gathering context — checking identity history, cross-referencing data access, ruling out false positives — is a second an attacker can use to move laterally and widen the blast radius of their reach.