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Vectra expands operations
in the Middle East
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After strong growth in
other regions Vectra is
expanding its operations
in the Middle East region.
natively run the Cognito platform in AWS
environments to rapidly detect and respond
to cyberthreats in the cloud.
In September 2018, the company
announced that Cognito can run natively
in 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 cyberattacker detection and
response without requiring agents.
V
ectra, a leader in network threat
detection and response, has
announced it is expanding business
operations in the Middle East to arm
enterprise organisations and managed
detection-and-response providers with a
platform to stop in-progress cyberattacks in
the cloud.
To accommodate its rapidly growing customer
base in the region, Vectra is expanding
customer success, professional services, sales
and security engineering capabilities along
with additional channel partner support.
Fuelled by a recent US$100 million
Series E funding round, Vectra’s regional
headquarters in Dubai is crucial to the
company’s global go-to-market channel
strategy to deliver advanced AI to detect
and respond faster to cyberattacks.
Earlier this year, Vectra strengthened its
presence in Australia and the Asia-Pacific
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Ammar Enaya, Vectra’s Regional Director in
the Middle East, Turkey and North Africa
region. The company also operates
throughout North America and Europe,
and has research-and-development centres
in Dublin, Ireland, Austin, Texas and
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Powered by AI, the Cognito platform from
Vectra enables enterprise organisations
to detect cyberattackers in real time and
empowers threat hunters to perform
conclusive incident investigations. Cognito
provides 360-degree visibility into hidden
threats in cloud, data centres, user and
Internet-of-Things (IoT) infrastructures,
leaving attackers with nowhere to hide.
Vectra recently announced that its
Cognito platform integrates with Amazon
Web Services Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
traffic mirroring. Enterprises can now
“Cloud architectures are plagued by security
vulnerabilities,” said Ammar Enaya, Vectra’s
Regional Director in the Middle East, Turkey
and North Africa. “The SANS Institute
says that one out of five businesses were
hit by unauthorised access to their cloud
environments in the past year. As more
enterprises turn to the cloud for greater
operational scale and cost efficiencies,
it’s critical to address these security
vulnerabilities so businesses can innovate
free from external threats.”
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 prioritises active
attacks that pose the highest risk. This
reduces the security operations workload
by 34X 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 and Vectra is a
representative vendor in the Gartner Market
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