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Yahoo
a day ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Vectra AI Named a Leader in the First-Ever Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Network Detection and Response
Recognized for the Strength of its AI-Driven NDR Platform, Vectra AI is Positioned Furthest for Completeness of Vision and Highest for Ability to Execute in the Inaugural Report SINGAPORE, June 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Vectra AI, Inc., the cybersecurity AI company that protects modern networks from modern attacks, today announced it was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Network Detection and Response (NDR). Vectra AI is positioned highest for Ability to Execute and furthest for Completeness of Vision, and is the only vendor in the report to be named a leader in both the Gartner Magic Quadrant for NDR and a Customer Choice Winner for NDR in the 2024 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer. The Vectra AI Platform is purpose-built to defend modern hybrid environments from identity and network-based attacks. As threats accelerate across cloud, data center, remote, and OT domains, Vectra AI provides comprehensive coverage to reduce attack exposure. Its AI agents continuously triage, correlate, and prioritize real threats in real time – eliminating alert fatigue and accelerating response. With Vectra AI, defenders gain control to detect, hunt, investigate, and respond to attacks across the full threat landscape, enabling security teams to focus on maturing their security posture. "Gartner's decision to publish a Magic Quadrant for NDR reflects just how essential this market has become in modern cyber defense," said Hitesh Sheth, founder and CEO of Vectra AI. "Being recognized as a Leader in this inaugural report reinforces Vectra AI's position at the forefront of this critical space. As organizations grapple with growing complexity, identity-based attacks, and AI-driven threats, the Vectra AI Platform delivers what modern defenders need – coverage that reduces exposure, clarity that cuts through the noise, and control to act with speed and confidence." Vectra AI has been recognized by customers for outstanding product performance and support, earning the distinction of Customers' Choice in the 2024 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Network Detection and Response. As of January 2024, Vectra AI holds a 4.8 out of 5 rating based on 96 reviews, with 96% of customers saying they would recommend the platform. This recognition reflects Vectra AI's deep commitment to customer success and ongoing innovation in protecting modern networks from modern attacks. Download the full Magic Quadrant for Network Detection and Response here. View original content: SOURCE Vectra AI Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Techday NZ
a day ago
- Business
- Techday NZ
Vectra AI named leader in 2025 Gartner report for NDR sector
Vectra AI has been recognised as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Detection and Response (NDR). The Gartner Magic Quadrant is a research methodology and graphical representation that evaluates technology vendors within a specific market, in this instance the emerging field of NDR. Vectra AI was positioned highest for Ability to Execute and furthest for Completeness of Vision in this latest report, marking a significant recognition within the cybersecurity sector. The distinction comes as cybersecurity concerns remain prominent for organisations in Australia, with data from PWC indicating that 67% of Australian organisations have identified cyber risk as their top concern in the coming year. Other issues, including inflation, economic volatility, and geopolitical factors, were ranked as lesser priorities. In response to these concerns, half of the organisations surveyed plan to increase their cybersecurity budgets by at least 6% in 2025. Vectra AI's platform is designed to defend hybrid environments against identity and network-based attacks. According to the company, its AI agents continuously triage, correlate, and prioritise genuine threats in real time, an approach intended to accelerate response and reduce alert fatigue for security professionals. The platform provides coverage across cloud infrastructure, data centres, remote workforces, and operational technology domains, supporting security teams in their efforts to mature their security operations. Hitesh Sheth, Founder and CEO of Vectra AI, commented on Gartner's decision to initiate a Magic Quadrant for NDR. "Gartner's decision to publish a Magic Quadrant for NDR reflects just how essential this market has become in modern cyber defence," said Sheth. He added, "Being recognised as a Leader in this inaugural report reinforces Vectra AI's position at the forefront of this critical space. As organisations grapple with growing complexity, identity-based attacks, and AI-driven threats, the Vectra AI Platform delivers what modern defenders need – coverage that reduces exposure, clarity that cuts through the noise, and control to act with speed and confidence." Vectra AI is also the only vendor in the report to have been named both a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for NDR and a Customer Choice Winner in the 2024 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for NDR. According to Gartner Peer Insights, as of January 2024, Vectra AI holds a 4.8 out of 5 rating from 96 customer reviews, with 96% indicating they would recommend the platform. This customer feedback has contributed to its positioning in the latest Magic Quadrant report. The increasing complexity of cybersecurity threats, including the speed at which attackers can move laterally across identity, cloud, and network layers, has heightened demand for integrated security solutions. Sector analysts and Vectra AI alike have noted that traditional, siloed security tools can leave organisations vulnerable, driving the need for unified visibility and AI-driven detection capabilities to respond rapidly to threats. The NDR market has grown as organisations seek to supplement existing security strategies with solutions capable of offering greater detection accuracy and more timely responses. Vectra AI's platform aims to provide security teams with the means to detect, hunt, investigate, and respond to attacks spanning the full threat landscape. The company has been acknowledged for its commitment to customer satisfaction, with product performance and support frequently highlighted in customer reviews. Vectra AI maintains a focus on ongoing development to keep pace with the continuously evolving tactics used by threat actors targeting modern networks. The Gartner report recognises vendors that demonstrate both the ability to execute on their strategy and the completeness of their vision in the NDR market. Vectra AI's dual accolades from both analyst and customer perspectives come as cyber defence continues to be prioritised by organisations concerned about the shifting digital threat landscape.
Techday NZ
21-05-2025
- Business
- Techday NZ
Exabeam partners with Vectra AI to boost cloud threat defence
Exabeam has announced a partnership with Vectra AI to integrate the Exabeam New-Scale Security Operations Platform with the Vectra AI Platform. The collaboration aims to address the challenges faced by security teams in identifying advanced threats, particularly those that move laterally across cloud environments. Many existing solutions, originally developed for on-premises systems, struggle to detect these attacks, resulting in delayed responses and increased manual workloads for analysts. The integration combines Exabeam's SIEM, user and entity behaviour analytics (UEBA), and automated workflows with Vectra AI's network detection and response (NDR) capability. According to Exabeam, this unified solution will centralise visibility, accelerate threat detection, and streamline investigation processes across cloud-based environments. Vectra AI's platform provides visibility into lateral threat movement by monitoring activity both east-west and north-south across a variety of network architectures, including data centres, campus facilities, remote workspaces, cloud, and operational technology (OT) environments. By incorporating Vectra AI's analytics into the Exabeam infrastructure, the two companies aim to give security teams improved detection and response capabilities. Steve Wilson, Chief AI and Product Officer at Exabeam, said, "Teaming up with Vectra AI, isn't just a partnership, it's a power move. We need to shift the balance in cybersecurity, putting defenders back in control. With their cloud threat intel and our AI-driven platform, we're exposing the threats others miss and flipping the script on what modern threat detection looks like." The integration is designed to provide a number of practical benefits. Accelerated threat detection is achieved by consolidating security data from various sources and automating processes throughout the security operations centre (SOC) stack. This allows analysts to identify and respond to incidents faster and with greater accuracy. Enhanced visibility is another feature, with the combined platform able to detect network-based risks throughout cloud infrastructures by leveraging behavioural analytics. This helps security teams spot lateral movement, insider threats, and post-compromise activities that traditional tools might overlook. Streamlined operations are facilitated by out-of-the-box integration features. These include prebuilt mappings, a preconfigured Vectra AI dashboard tile, and webhook collectors, all of which are intended to speed up deployment and reduce ongoing operational complexity for SOC teams. Jeff Reed, Chief Product Officer at Vectra AI, said, "Security teams today need visibility to stay ahead of advanced threats, especially as attacks become more complex and move across hybrid and cloud environments. By integrating Vectra AI's advanced NDR with Exabeam's powerful SIEM and automation capabilities, we're empowering teams with a unified, intelligent platform to quickly identify, investigate, and stop threats before they escalate. This partnership is a major step forward in modernising security operations for the AI-driven threat landscape." The partnership is built on the understanding that today's threat landscape is increasingly shaped by cloud adoption and remote work, where attack vectors are more diverse and attacks often bypass traditional network boundaries. By providing centralised and integrated defence tools, Exabeam and Vectra AI aim to help organisations keep pace with these developments and reduce the burden on security staff. Analysts using the integrated platform are expected to benefit from simplified incident investigations, less manual effort, and improved overall security outcomes. The new solution is positioned as addressing a market demand for unified threat detection and response that adapts to both legacy systems and modern, cloud-native environments.
Channel Post MEA
08-04-2025
- Business
- Channel Post MEA
Westcon-Comstor Expands Partnership With Vectra AI
Westcon-Comstor has expanded its partnership with Vectra AI, the leader in AI-driven XDR (extended detection and response), through the launch of two key initiatives focused on the fast-growing Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) and AWS Marketplace arenas. Westcon-Comstor and Vectra AI are launching a joint support and enablement programme targeting MSSPs with 24×7 Managed Security Operations Centres (SOC). The initiative is specifically tailored to MSSPs managing EDR (endpoint detection and response) for their customers, providing them with the tools and support needed to scale their XDR capabilities. With the cybersecurity managed services market set to have grown by 15% in 2024 to a total of $80.9 billion (Canalys), Vectra AI and Westcon-Comstor are enabling MSSPs to capitalise on this growing demand and gain a competitive advantage, scaling their business at speed. Participating MSSPs will maintain complete independence and control, with full license ownership and no need for deal registrations or upfront quotes. The collaboration comes after Vectra AI announced the launch of its Vectra AI Clarity Programme to help MSSPs meet the increased demand they're seeing from customers for XDR solutions and customised cybersecurity services to address today's modern attack landscape. Through the formalised, scalable programme, Vectra AI is offering flexibility across security solutions, and predictability among profit margins that can be tailored based on the individual needs of the end user. In parallel, Vectra AI has joined Westcon-Comstor's AWS Marketplace programme. The agreement enables channel partners across EMEA to purchase and sell Vectra AI's software, including its AI-driven XDR platform, from Westcon-Comstor via private AWS Marketplace listings and sell directly to their customers in a frictionless, end-to-end process entirely within AWS Marketplace. Forrester has found that partners selling in AWS Marketplace can close deals up to 50% faster, with a 234% return on investment. As the shift towards cloud marketplace procurement accelerates, partners can tap into the projected $85 billion in enterprise software sales through hyperscalers by 2028 (Canalys), with over 50% expected to flow through channel partners by 2027. Both initiatives cover select markets within the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region. The strategic expansion of the relationship between Vectra AI and Westcon-Comstor comes after the two companies last year announced a geographic broadening of their distribution partnership. The UK & Ireland and the Nordics markets of Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway were added to existing agreements covering Germany, France, Spain, Austria, Portugal and Benelux, as well as Africa. 'End-user demand for MSSPs is growing, and simultaneously we're seeing a shift towards AWS Marketplace for software procurement due to the ease and speed on offer,' said Daniel Hurel, Senior Vice President, Westcon EMEA Cybersecurity & Next-Generation Solutions at Westcon-Comstor. 'By targeting these two growth areas in collaboration with a dynamic, innovative vendor like Vectra AI, we are enabling partners to respond and align to their customers' changing needs and behaviour.' 'MSSPs are becoming increasingly important as more organisations turn to industry experts to provide comprehensive cybersecurity services rather than choosing to manage their own suite of solutions, so we're pleased to be partnering with Westcon-Comstor to support them,' said Taj El Khayat, Vice President of Partner Sales and Alliance at Vectra AI. 'We are similarly excited to be collaborating to provide channel partners with a simplified and streamlined route to transacting on the world's leading cloud marketplace. Joining Westcon-Comstor's AWS Marketplace programme creates a significant opportunity for both Vectra AI and our partners to drive incremental growth and new business.' 0 0
Axios
24-03-2025
- Business
- Axios
Microsoft injects AI agents into security tools
Microsoft said Monday it will soon roll out 11 new AI agents for its security-focused Copilot aimed at offloading some of the most repetitive tasks that bog down cybersecurity teams. Why it matters: Microsoft is the latest major vendor to embed autonomous AI agents directly into its security suite in an effort to reduce burnout for cyber pros and boost efficiency through AI-powered automation. The big picture: Security professionals have long hoped that AI could help close the cybersecurity workforce gap and ease analyst burnout. The U.S. only has enough cyber professionals to fill 83% of the available cyber jobs, according to federal data. Security teams spend about three hours a day just responding to alerts, with some teams seeing more than 4,400 alerts daily, according to research from Vectra AI. While many legacy cybersecurity vendors have released AI copilots or assistants, only a small group have rolled out agents that can take autonomous action. Zoom in: Starting next month, Microsoft will make six of its own new agents and five agents from partner companies available for preview in Security Copilot — which is already integrated into all of Microsoft's security tools. Each agent focuses on a different task: One specifically combs through potential phishing emails. Another can craft notification letters to send to different regulators after a data breach. Customers can configure each agent's level of access and autonomy, including whether the agent acts under its own identity (with a unique username and password) or as an extension of a human account. Each agent also has a map of its thinking so human users can review their decisions — and even override or correct their selections. Case in point: If an agent wrongly flags a training email as phishing, the security team can label it a false positive and instruct the agent not to flag messages from that vendor again. Between the lines: Microsoft says the new agents are a direct response to customer feedback. Agents are "an inflection point for us," Vasu Jakkal, corporate VP of security at Microsoft, told Axios at a media preview event on Thursday. "Copilot was more like question-answer, and (customers) always asked us 'Well, we would like it to one-click and get that done.'" Microsoft first made Security Copilot widely available last year, and Jakkal said customers quickly began asking for more autonomous functionality. Partners rolling out agents in Copilot include OneTrust, Aviatrix, BlueVoyant, Tanium and Fletch. What they're saying: "There's just opportunity everywhere," Dorothy Li, corporate VP of Microsoft Security Copilot, told Axios. "These are the [tasks] that had the highest amount of pain, most volume and where agents can make the most impact today and that's where we chose to start." Microsoft also anticipates that it will roll out more security agents in the near future, Li added. The intrigue: Microsoft also relied on an internal generative AI red team to pressure test the new agents for potential security risks. The red team worked closely with product teams throughout the entire development lifecycle, said Victoria Westerhoff, director of AI safety and security red teaming at Microsoft.
