Intelligent Tech Channels Issue 27 | Page 24

MID E EAS DL ID AL I O N E L S G E R ANN CH DLE E After strong growth in other regions Vectra is expanding its operations in the Middle East region with additional channel partner support. VECTRA EXPANDS OPERATIONS IN MIDDLE EAST WITH PARTNER SUPPORT V Ve ct ra ’s R egi o 24 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. na l D irector in t a ey rk , Tu t s a le E he Midd 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