Jan 16, 2018   SOURCE: PR NewsWire

Gartner Positions Vectra Networks in the Visionaries Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems

SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Vectra, the leader in automating the hunt for in-progress cyberattacks, today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Visionaries quadrant in its 2018 Magic Quadrant for Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems. The report provides a detailed overview of the Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS) market, and evaluates vendors based on completeness of vision and ability to execute.

The Cognito platform from Vectra enables enterprises to detect and respond to cyberattacks in real time. Cognito uses artificial intelligence (AI) to perform non-stop, automated threat hunting with always-learning behavioral models to quickly and efficiently find hidden and unknown attackers before they do damage. Cognito provides full visibility into cyberattacker behaviors from cloud and data center workloads to user and internet-of-things devices, ensuring attackers have nowhere to hide.

"To us, our positioning in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems is validation of our mission to enable customers to use AI to detect and respond to cyberattacks in real time," said Hitesh Sheth, president and CEO of Vectra. "Cognito is a revolutionary AI platform that is transforming cybersecurity and dramatically improving enterprise security operations."

Over the past 12 months, major enhancements and drivers to the Vectra business have included:

    --  Grew CY2017 revenue by 181% over CY2016.
    --  Announced the ability for its customers to integrate threat intelligence
        and indicator-of-compromise (IoC) feeds into its Cognito platform to
        further improve their threat detection coverage.
    --  Introduced Attack Campaigns to further automate threat hunting by
        exposing the relationships between threat detections on separate
        workloads and devices to understand the activity and scope of attack
        campaigns.
    --  Announced the integration of network-based cyberattack detection with
        Carbon Black Cb Response to detect and isolate active threats in
        enterprise networks with unprecedented speed and precision.
    --  Issued five U.S. patents, numbers 9237164, 9407647, 9565208, 9602533 and
        9628512, for advanced cybersecurity analytics capabilities automated by
        AI. These patents demonstrate the effectiveness of security research and
        data science collaborating to enhance visibility into attacker behavior.
    --  Announced a collaboration with VMware to leverage the capabilities of
        VMware NSX(®) to accelerate the detection and mitigation of hidden
        cyberattackers in virtualized data centers, allowing for the mitigation
        of advanced threats close to the source in order to minimize potential
        damage.

Please click here for more information about this announcement or download a complimentary copy of the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems. For more information about Vectra and Cognito, visit vectra.ai.

(([1])) Gartner, Inc., Magic Quadrant for Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems, Craig Lawson, Claudio Neiva, January 10, 2018.

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About Vectra

Vectra(®) is transforming cybersecurity with AI. Its Cognito platform automates cyberattack detection and response from data center and cloud workloads to user and IoT devices. Cognito correlates threats, prioritizes hosts based on risk and provides rich context to empower response with existing security systems, reducing security operations workload by 168x. Vectra was named "Most Innovative Emerging Company" in the Dark Reading Best of Black Hat Awards. InformationWeek also named Vectra one of the Top 125 companies to watch in 2016. Vectra has been issued 5 U.S. patents with 14 additional patents pending for cybersecurity applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Vectra investors include Khosla Ventures, Accel Partners, IA Ventures, DAG Ventures and AME Cloud Ventures. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. and has European regional headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. For more information, visit vectra.ai.

Media Contact:
John Kreuzer
Lumina Communications for Vectra
vectra@luminapr.com
(408) 896-3307

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