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Nomination Category: Company / Organization Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Most Innovative Tech Company of the Year - Up to 2,500 Employees
 Nomination Title: Vectra AI
- Which will you submit for your nomination in this category, a video of up to five (5) minutes in length about the achievements of the nominated organization since January 1 2020, OR written answers to the questions for this category? (Choose one):
Written answers to the questions
- If you are submitting a video of up to five (5) minutes in length, provide the URL of the nominated video here, OR attach it to your entry via the "Add Attachments, Videos, or Links to This Entry" link above, through which you may also upload a copy of your video.
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this first question: Briefly describe the nominated organization: its history and past performance (up to 200 words):
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The Vectra platform enables enterprises to automatically detect and respond to hidden cyberattack behaviors in cloud/data center workloads and SaaS applications as well as host/user identities and account privileges. Its AI-assisted threat hunting capabilities allow organizations to conduct fast, conclusive incident investigations in real-time that prevent in-progress threats from becoming a data breach.
The Vectra Platform consistently reveals the earliest phases of complex, multistage attacks. Unlike other solutions, Vectra is the only provider that can deliver complete threat detection and response initiatives across an entire enterprise, which can reduce threat detection times from days to minutes.
The world’s largest financial institutions, manufacturers, energy, technology, software, and media companies plus federal agencies, service providers, educational institutions and healthcare organizations use Vectra solutions.
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this second question: Outline the organization's achievements since the beginning of 2020 that you wish to bring to the judges' attention (up to 250 words):
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In the past year, Vectra has stopped ransomware attacks on Pharmaceutical companies working on the COVID-19 vaccine and also protected numerous customers from the most detrimental supply chain attack in history (SolarWinds).
Further to this, Vectra is continuing to grow at a rapid rate. In 2020, the company experienced a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) exceeding 100 percent, while sales of Cognito Detect™ for Microsoft Office 365 have grown at a rate of over 700 percent.
In April 2021, Vectra achieved the elite unicorn status as the company announced its latest funding round of $130 million, led by funds managed by Blackstone Growth, which increased the company’s total funding to more than $350 million and a post-money valuation of $1.2 billion.
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this third question: Explain why the achievements you have highlighted are unique or significant. If possible compare the achievements to the performance of other players in your industry and/or to the organization's past performance (up to 250 words):
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Vectra is the only provider of a solution that can deliver complete threat detection and response initiatives across an entire enterprise, which can reduce threat detection times from days to minutes.
As SaaS application providers such as Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) continue to grow and become rich repositories for critical business data, Vectra continues to develop solutions that work to harden the security measures of such applications. Its Cognito Detect™ for Office 365 solution can automatically identify and stop cyberattackers who leverage Office 365 to steal critical resources. In its first 90 days of availability, it was deployed to protect over 4 million accounts with zero data breaches to date. Detect for Office 365 offers broad coverage across Office 365 attack vectors by leveraging AI-derived machine learning algorithms that understand attacker and account privileges behaviors.
- You have the option to answer this final question: Reference any attachments of supporting materials throughout this nomination and how they provide evidence of the claims you have made in this nomination (up to 250 words):
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Vectra is highly acclaimed and valued by its customers for being a vital tool for their organizations as noted in their many recent customer case studies including:
Greenhill: https://content.vectra.ai/rs/748-MCE-447/images/CaseStudy_Greenhill.pdf
Fenaco: https://content.vectra.ai/rs/748-MCE-447/images/CaseStudy_Fenaco.pdf
NHS: https://content.vectra.ai/rs/748-MCE-447/images/CaseStudy_GMMH.pdf
The company also continues to innovate, launching several new products (and product enhancements) over the last 12 months. This includes:
The launch of Detect for AWS, a cloud-native SaaS solution that provides continuous, scalable agentless threat detection, prioritization, investigation, and response to attacks targeting applications running on AWS: https://www.vectra.ai/news/detect-for-aws
The announcement of extended cloud identity detection capabilities with Microsoft Azure AD: https://www.vectra.ai/news/vectra-extends-cloud-identity-detection-capabilities-with-microsoft-azure-ad
The release of extended endpoint detection and response (EDR) native integration support in the Vectra Platform to enhance the user experience for the security tools:
https://www.vectra.ai/news/vectra-expands-integration-ecosystem-to-provide-100-visibility-and-automated-response
Vectra also continues to partner with technology powerhouses such as Microsoft, Splunk and SentinelOne.
https://www.vectra.ai/partners/microsoft
https://www.vectra.ai/partners/splunk
https://www.vectra.ai/technology-partners/crowdstrike
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