ectra , a leader in network

( NDR ), has announced broader and deeper cloud capabilities to track and link accounts and data in hybrid environments . Current security approaches lose visibility when environments expand to the cloud where users leverage multiple different accounts and may access resources from shadow IT devices . Historically , users and hosts were on-premises and tightly controlled . Vectra ’ s enhanced capabilities mark the first , and only , NDR solution that can detect and stop threats across the entire network , tying together attacker activities and progression between cloud , hybrid and on-premises networks .

The increasing number of remote workers , combined with the number of IoT devices accessing corporate and cloud networks , make both traditional network security solutions , including intrusion detection and endpoint protection , blind to activity and data in cloud applications . The rise of targeted credential-based attacks negate email security , multifactor authentication ( MFA ), cloud access security brokers ( CASBs ) and other threat-prevention approaches normally established to protect users because these malicious account-based attacks look like legitimate user actions .

Oliver Tavakoli , Chief Technology Officer at Vectra

at Vectra . “ Vectra is uniquely positioned to protect this network of hybrid onpremises and cloud connectivity with our learning behavioural models that stitch together hosts and on-premises and cloud identities to stop attacks earlier in the kill chain .”

Vectra empowers security teams with continued analysis of how users are accessing , using and configuring cloud services based on logs from SaaS and account usage from Identity Providers

( IdPs ) like Microsoft Azure AD . Vectra is the only solution that ties together all host and account interactions as they move between cloud and on-premises environments in one consolidated view , to drastically reduce the overall risk of a breach .

This announcement comes on the heels of Vectra ’ s release of Cognito Detect for Office 365 earlier this year , the rapid adoption of which led to an accelerated effort to deepen and enhance this service . By seamlessly integrating with SaaS applications like Office 365 , IaaS providers , IdPs and cloud virtualisation platforms , Vectra is giving visibility into who and what is accessing data , regardless of how and where .

Even before the rise of COVID-19 , the Microsoft Q1 FY20 earnings call reported more than 200 million monthly Office 365 users . As of June , Teams reported 115 million daily active users , exceeding Zoom . The sheer growth of individuals using the service increases the chance that cyber hygiene will fall by the wayside , and knowledgeable attackers will exploit human behaviour to gain high-privilege access to critical business data . u

“ Private and trusted networks cannot be protected by old network security focused on malware signatures and anomaly detection alone . As workload shifts from clients , servers and endpoints to the public cloud , this proliferation has created a network where user identity has become the new perimeter ,” said Oliver Tavakoli , Chief Technology Officer intelligent CLOUD SECURITY www . intelligentciso . com

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