Company:Vectra Networks Inc.

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Vectra Networks
TypePrivately Held
IndustryInformation Security
Founded2012; 12 years ago (2012) (incorporated)
Headquarters
San Jose, California
,
United States
Area served
North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific
Websitewww.vectra.ai

Vectra Networks applies artificial intelligence to detect and respond to cyberattacks in real time.

Cyberattackers operate undetected for an average of 99 days, according to Mandiant, which tracks incident response time.[1]

The company’s Cognito threat detection-and-response platform uses artificial intelligence to find hidden cyberattackers in cloud, data center and enterprise environments, including workloads as well as user and IoT devices – before attackers do damage.[2]

Investors in Vectra include Khosla Ventures, Accel Partners, IA Ventures,[3] AME Cloud Ventures,[4] DAG Ventures, Wipro Ventures,[5] Atlantic Bridge,[6] The Ireland Strategic Investment Fund,[7] and Nissho Electronics.[8]

History

Vectra was founded in 2010 as TraceVector LLC in New York City and was incorporated in 2012 under the name Vectra Networks. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with facilities in Austin, Texas, Cambridge, Mass., Switzerland, Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom and France.[9]

Vectra’s team includes threat researchers, white hats, data scientists, security engineers, and user interface designers.

Key executives are Hitesh Sheth, president and chief executive officer; Oliver Tavakoli, chief technology officer; Howie Shohet, chief financial officer; Kevin Moore, senior vice president of worldwide field operations; Mike Banic, vice president of marketing; Kevin Kennedy, vice president of product management; Jason Kehl, vice president of engineering; and Gerard Bauer, vice president of EMEA sales.

Board members include Hitesh Sheth, president and CEO of Vectra; Kevin Dillon, co-founder and managing partner of Atlantic Bridge; Charles Giancarlo, CEO of Pure Storage; Brad Gillespie, general partner at IA Ventures; Jim Messina, founder and CEO of the Messina Group; and Eric Wolford, venture partner at Accel Partners.

Products

The Cognito platform from Vectra provides continuous, automated threat surveillance to expose hidden and unknown cyberattackers that actively spread inside networks.

Cognito analyzes network traffic[10] in private data centers, public clouds and enterprise environments to detect hidden cyberattacker behaviors. The Cognito platform identifies and prioritizes all threat detections based on severity and certainty scores, which empowers IT security teams to prevent data loss by quickly mitigating the most serious attacks first.[11]

Threat behaviors and cyberattack techniques detected by Cognito include botnet command-and-control communications, botnet monetization, internal reconnaissance, lateral movement, and data theft, or exfiltration.

Using AI for incident detection and triage in its security operations center has helped one Vectra customer – Texas A&M University System – resolve an incident in 10 to 20 minutes, rather than hours or days.[12]

Technology

Vectra AI combines data science, machine learning and network behavioral analysis technologies[13] to identify patterns that characterize malicious behavior within a network.

Cognito uses artificial intelligence, including supervised learning, unsupervised machine learning, and deep learning techniques, to detect and respond to advanced cyberattacks. Remediation actions are taken with security information and event management (SIEMs), firewalls, endpoint security enforcement, network access control, and orchestration, which are integrated with Cognito via an application programming interface.

Vectra was issued five U.S. patents (9237164,[14] 9407647,[15] 9565208,[16] 9602533,[17] and 9628512[18]) for advanced cyber security analytics capabilities automated by AI.

Awards and Honors

Vectra and its customers have received industry recognition, including:

  • 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems[19]
  • 2018 CRN Security 100[20]
  • 2018 SC Media Reboot Leadership Award – Threat Seeker, Dan Basile, executive director, security operations center, Texas A&M University System[21]
  • 2018 SC Awards Finalist “Best Emerging Technology”[22]
  • 2018 SC Awards “Cybersecurity Student of the Year - Erin Kuffel, Texas A&M University”[23]
  • 2018 Info Sec Awards, Cyber Defense Magazine "Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning - Hot Company"[24]
  • Cybersecurity Breakthrough Awards 2017 “Overall Threat Detection Solution of the Year”[25]
  1. ↑ "AI & Hacking Are Already Global Realities". marketMogul. 28 March 2018. https://themarketmogul.com/ai-hacking-danger/. Retrieved 16 April 2018. 
  2. ↑ "Company Overview of IA Ventures". Bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=84936072. Retrieved 16 April 2018. 
  3. ↑ "Company Overview of AME Cloud Ventures". Bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=225458401. Retrieved 16 April 2018. 
  4. ↑ "Company Overview of Wipro Ventures". Bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=257358692. Retrieved 16 April 2018. 
  5. ↑ "Company Overview of Atlantic Bridge". Bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=22366057. Retrieved 16 April 2018. 
  6. ↑ "Company Overview of The Ireland Strategic Investment Fund". Bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/profiles/companies/1305920D:ID-ireland-strategic-investment-fund. Retrieved 16 April 2018. 
  7. ↑ "Company Overview of Nissho Electronics". Bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=883548. Retrieved 16 April 2018. 
  8. ↑ "Contact Vectra". https://info.vectra.ai/contact-us-vectra-ai. Retrieved 16 April 2018. 
  9. ↑ "The road rises up to meet Vectra Networks with $36 million in funding". https://vectra.ai/assets/451_reprint_vectra_22feb2018.pdf. Retrieved 16 April 2018. 
  10. ↑ "Vectra Networks". SDX Central. https://www.sdxcentral.com/listings/vectra-networks/. Retrieved 16 April 2018. 
  11. ↑ "AI is changing SecOps: What security analysts need to know". TechBeacon. https://techbeacon.com/ai-changing-secops-what-security-analysts-need-know. Retrieved 16 April 2018. 
  12. ↑ Maiwald, Eric. "Network Behavior Analysis: Moving Beyond Signatures". https://www.gartner.com/doc/1405498/network-behavior-analysis-moving-signatures. Retrieved 16 April 2018. 
  13. ↑ "Systems and methods for capturing, replaying, or analyzing time-series data". https://www.google.com/patents/US9237164. Retrieved 16 April 2018. 
  14. ↑ "Systems and methods for capturing, replaying, or analyzing time-series data". https://www.google.com/patents/US9407647. Retrieved 16 April 2018. 
  15. ↑ "System and method for detecting network intrusions using layered host scoring". https://www.google.com/patents/US20150264061. Retrieved 16 April 2018. 
  16. ↑ "Detecting network reconnaissance by tracking intranet dark-net communications". https://www.google.com/patents/US20150264078. Retrieved 16 April 2018. 
  17. ↑ "Malicious relay detection on networks". https://www.google.com/patents/US9628512. Retrieved 16 April 2018. 
  18. ↑ Craig Lawson, Claudio Nevia. "Magic Quadrant for Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems". https://www.gartner.com/doc/3844163/magic-quadrant-intrusion-detection-prevention. Retrieved 16 April 2018. 
  19. ↑ "2018 Security 100: 20 Coolest Network Security Vendors". CRN. https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/security/300100056/2018-security-100-20-coolest-network-security-vendors.htm/pgno/0/18. Retrieved 16 April 2018. 
  20. ↑ "Reboot Awards: Threat Seeker – Dan Basile". SC Media. https://www.scmagazine.com/threat-seeker--dan-basile/article/682947/. Retrieved 16 April 2018. 
  21. ↑ "SC Awards Finalists 2018: Best Emerging Technology – Cognito,”". SC Media. https://www.scmagazine.com/sc-awards-finalists-2018/article/737291/. Retrieved 16 April 2018. 
  22. ↑ "The winners of the 2018 SC Awards Honored in the U.S.,”". SC Media. https://www.scmagazine.com/the-winners-of-the-2018-sc-awards-honored-in-the-us/article/759235/. Retrieved 23 April 2018. 
  23. ↑ "Info Sec Awards". http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/infosec-awards-2018-winners/. Retrieved 17 April 2018. 
  24. ↑ "Cybersecurity Breakthrough Awards 2017: Overall Threat Detection Solution of the Year – Vectra". http://cybersecuritybreakthrough.com/award-winners/#unified. Retrieved 16 April 2018. 




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