SYDNEY, Aug. 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Vectra, the leader
in network threat detection and response, today announced that it
has established business operations in the Asia-Pacific region to arm enterprise
organisations and managed detection and response providers with a
platform to stop in-progress cyberattacks in the cloud.
Establishing regional headquarters in Sydney marks a major global expansion for
Vectra, fueled by the recent closing of a USD$100 million Series E funding round and
increasing demand for the company's industry-leading Cognito
platform. Vectra currently operates throughout North America, Europe, the Middle
East, Africa, and
Japan, and has
research-and-development centers in Dublin, Ireland, Austin, Texas and Cambridge, Mass.
The Cognito platform addresses critical security gaps by
providing 360-degree visibility into cloud, data centre, user and
internet-of-things (IoT) infrastructures, leaving attackers with
nowhere to hide.
Vectra recently announced that its Cognito platform features
Amazon Web Services Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) traffic mirroring.
Enterprises can now natively run the Cognito platform in AWS
environments to rapidly detect and respond to cyberthreats in the
cloud.
In September 2018, company
announced that Cognito can detect cyberattackers in native
Microsoft Azure cloud environments with virtual sensors that
integrate with the Azure Virtual Network Terminal Access Point
(TAP). Both integrations enable Vectra to provide complete
cyberattack visibility without requiring agents.
Leading the expansion into Asia-Pacific is Regional Director Kevin Vanhaelen, a cybersecurity veteran with
more than 20 years of experience. He is responsible for growing the
Vectra presence across the region and is focused on the company's
channel strategy and enterprise customer growth. Vanhaelen joins
Vectra from Telstra, where he was the head of strategy and
operations for global security solutions. Previously, he was
national manager of the security business unit at Dimension Data,
where he worked for over 16 years.
"Our recent funding, coupled with our rapid growth in the global
security market, uniquely positions Vectra to earn significant
business in the Asia-Pacific
region," said Vanhaelen. "We're delivering a disruptive new
approach that enables security operations teams to detect and
respond faster than ever to cyberthreats so that enterprise
organisations and managed detection and response providers can stop
catastrophic data breaches."
According to a report from (ISC)², the cybersecurity skills gap
in the Asia-Pacific region is the
highest in the world with about 2.14 million unfilled positions.
This is due in part to growing economies and new cybersecurity and
data privacy legislation enacted throughout the region.
The Cognito platform makes a considerable contribution to
closing the cybersecurity skills gap. Completely overwhelmed,
security analysts today must manually sift through thousands of
threat alerts and logs each day to find cyberattackers. Driven by
AI, Cognito completely automates these manual and mundane processes
and prioritizes active attacks that pose the highest risk. This
reduces the security operations workload by 37X and enables skilled
analysts to focus their attention on threat hunting and data breach
prevention.
Vectra is a representative vendor in the Gartner Market Guide
for Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems [1]
as well as the Gartner Market Guide for Network Traffic Analysis.
[2]
Vectra is exhibiting in Booth S9 at the Gartner Security &
Risk Management Summit 2019 from Aug.
19-20 at the Hilton Sydney Hotel. Executives and
subject-matter experts from Vectra will showcase the Cognito
platform and be available to discuss how to apply AI to detect and
respond faster to cyberattackers.
For more information about Vectra and the Cognito platform,
please visit vectra.ai.
[1] Source: Gartner Market Guide for
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems, Craig Lawson and John
Watts, July 1,
2019.
[2] Source: Gartner
"Market Guide for Network Traffic Analysis" by Lawrence Orans,
Jeremy D'Hoinne, and Sanjit Ganguli,
February 28, 2019.
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About Vectra
Vectra® is a leader in network
detection and response – from cloud and data center workloads to
user and IoT devices. Its Cognito® platform accelerates
threat detection and investigation using artificial intelligence to
enrich network metadata it collects and stores with the right
context to detect, hunt and investigate known and unknown threats
in real time. Vectra offers three applications on the Cognito
platform to address high-priority use cases. Cognito
Stream™ sends security-enriched metadata to data lakes
and SIEMs. Cognito Recall™ is a cloud-based application
to store and investigate threats in enriched metadata. And Cognito
Detect™ uses AI to reveal and prioritize hidden and
unknown attackers at speed. For more information, visit
vectra.ai.
Media and interview requests contact
Chris Hew
Sling and Stone for Vectra
vectra@slingstone.com
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