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After strong growth in other
regions Vectra is expanding its
operations in the Middle East
region with additional channel
partner support.
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OPERATIONS IN MIDDLE EAST
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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.
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Earlier this year, Vectra strengthened
its presence in Australia and the Asia-
Pacific 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
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