Vectra AI

Vectra AI

Formerly	Vectra Networks
Company type	Privately held
Industry	Information Security
Founded	2011 (2011) (incorporated)
Founders	Mark Abene, James Harlacher, Marc Rogers, Ivan Wick
Headquarters	San Jose, California , U.S.
Number of locations	11 offices; 3 Security Operations Centers (2023)
Area served	North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Australia/New Zealand, Japan and Asia-Pacific
Key people	Hitesh Sheth (CEO) Scott Dussault (CFO) Willem Hendrickx (CRO) Oliver Tavakoli (CTO)
Products	Vectra AI Platform (formerly Cognito Platform), Vectra Detect, Vectra Recall, Vectra Stream
Services	MDR (Managed security service)
Website	www.vectra.ai

Vectra AI, Inc. is a cybersecurity company specializing in AI applied to network detection and response (NDR) solutions. Established in 2012, Vectra AI operates from its headquarters in San Jose, California.

History

Vectra AI was founded in 2010 as TraceVector LLC in New York City and was incorporated in 2011 under the name Vectra Networks. The company changed its name to Vectra AI in 2018.

In April 2021, Vectra raised $130 million.

Former Vectra Networks Logo before rebranding to Vectra AI

Product

Vectra AI employs a unique array of artificial intelligence techniques, including supervised (pre-trained), unsupervised machine learning and deep learning techniques, to detect and respond to in-progress cyberattacks in real time.

Vectra AI's x-series appliance

The product’s algorithms continuously learn the behavioral norms of devices, user accounts, ports and protocols to identify signs of compromise across enterprise infrastructure. Threats are automatically triaged, scored and correlated to compromised hosts, and attack behaviors are correlated across hosts to provide the “narrative” of developing attacks. These threats are prioritized on an intuitive user interface while alerting and remediation actions are taken with other security technologies.

Vectra AI Patents

Here is the list of patents assigned to Vectra Networks and Vectra AI:

	Patent Number	Name	Filled date	Assignee	Inventors	Type	Date of publication/Patent
1	20150082433	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CAPTURING, REPLAYING, OR ANALYZING TIME-SERIES DATA	June 19, 2014	Vectra Networks, Inc.	James Harlacher, Mark Abene	Application	March 19, 2015
2	20150264073	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING INTRUSIONS THROUGH REAL-TIME PROCESSING OF TRAFFIC WITH EXTENSIVE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE	March 10, 2015	Vectra Networks, Inc.	Oliver Kourosh Tavakoli, Tao Ma, Panning Huang, Jeffrey Charles Venable	Application	September 17, 2015
3	20150264068	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING BOT BEHAVIOR	March 10, 2015	Vectra Networks, Inc.	Nicolas Beauchesne	Application	September 17, 2015
4	20150264078	DETECTING NETWORK RECONNAISSANCE BY TRACKING INTRANET DARK-NET COMMUNICATIONS	March 10, 2015	Vectra Networks, Inc.	Nicolas Beauchesne, Sungwook Yoon	Application	September 17, 2015
5	20150264069	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING EXTERNAL CONTROL OF COMPROMISED HOSTS	March 10, 2015	Vectra Networks, Inc.	Nicolas Beauchesne, Ryan James Prenger	Application	September 17, 2015
6	20150264070	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING ALGORITHM-GENERATED DOMAINS	March 10, 2015	Vectra Networks, Inc.	James Patrick HARLACHER, Aditya SOOD, Oskar IBATULLIN	Application	September 17, 2015
7	20150264083	MALICIOUS RELAY DETECTION ON NETWORKS	March 10, 2015	Vectra Networks, Inc.	Ryan James Prenger, Nicolas Beauchesne, Karl Matthew Lynn	Application	September 17, 2015
8	20150264061	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING NETWORK INTRUSIONS USING LAYERED HOST SCORING	March 10, 2015	Vectra Networks, Inc.	Oskar IBATULLIN, Ryan James PRENGER, Nicolas BEAUCHESNE, Karl Matthew LYNN, Oliver Kourosh TAVAKOLI	Application	September 17, 2015
9	20150312211	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING DURABLE HOST IDENTIFIERS USING NETWORK ARTIFACTS	March 10, 2015	Vectra Networks, Inc.	Nicolas Beauchesne, Monty Sher Gill, Oliver Kourosh Tavakoli	Application	October 29, 2015
10	9237164	Systems and methods for capturing, replaying, or analyzing time-series data	June 19, 2014	Vectra Networks, Inc.	James Harlacher, Mark Abene	Grant	January 12, 2016
11	20160149936	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING THREATS USING PASSIVE CLUSTER MAPPING	November 17, 2015	Vectra Networks, Inc.	David Lopes Pegna, Nicolas Beauchesne	Application	May 26, 2016
12	20160191563	SYSTEM FOR DETECTING THREATS USING SCENARIO-BASED TRACKING OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL NETWORK TRAFFIC	November 2, 2015	Vectra Networks, Inc.	Nicolas Beauchesne, David Lopes Pegna	Application	June 30, 2016
13	20160191559	SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING THREAT DETECTION USING THREAT AND RISK ASSESSMENT OF ASSET-ACTOR INTERACTIONS	November 2, 2015	Vectra Networks, Inc.	Himanshu Mhatre, David Lopes Pegna	Application	June 30, 2016
14	20160191551	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING THREATS USING METADATA VECTORS	November 17, 2015	Vectra Networks, Inc.	Nicolas Beauchesne, David Lopes Pegna, Karl Lynn	Application	June 30, 2016
15	20160191560	SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING THREAT DETECTION USING DAILY NETWORK TRAFFIC COMMUNITY OUTLIERS	November 2, 2015	Vectra Networks, Inc.	David Lopes Pegna, Himanshu Mhatre, Oliver Brdiczka	Application	June 30, 2016
16	9407647	Method and system for detecting external control of compromised hosts	March 10, 2015	Vectra Networks, Inc.	Nicolas Beauchesne, Ryan James Prenger	Grant	August 2, 2016
17	9565208	System and method for detecting network intrusions using layered host scoring	March 10, 2015	Vectra Networks, Inc.	Oskar Ibatullin, Ryan James Prenger, Nicolas Beauchesne, Karl Matthew Lynn, Oliver Kourosh Tavakoli	Grant	February 7, 2017
18	9602533	Detecting network reconnaissance by tracking intranet dark-net communications	March 10, 2015	Vectra Networks, Inc.	Nicolas Beauchesne, Sungwook Yoon	Grant	March 21, 2017
19	9628512	Malicious relay detection on networks	March 10, 2015	Vectra Networks, Inc.	Ryan James Prenger, Nicolas Beauchesne, Karl Matthew Lynn	Grant	April 18, 2017
20	9807110	Method and system for detecting algorithm-generated domains	March 10, 2015	Vectra Networks, Inc.	James Patrick Harlacher, Aditya Sood, Oskar Ibatullin	Grant	October 31, 2017
21	9847968	Method and system for generating durable host identifiers using network artifacts	March 10, 2015	Vectra Networks, Inc.	Nicolas Beauchesne, Monty Sher Gill, Oliver Kourosh Tavakoli	Grant	December 19, 2017
22	9853988	Method and system for detecting threats using metadata vectors	November 17, 2015	Vectra Networks, Inc.	Nicolas Beauchesne, David Lopes Pegna, Karl Lynn	Grant	December 26, 2017
23	9900336	System for detecting threats using scenario-based tracking of internal and external network traffic	November 2, 2015	Vectra Networks, Inc.	Nicolas Beauchesne, David Lopes Pegna	Grant	February 20, 2018
24	20180077178	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING MALICIOUS PAYLOADS	September 12, 2017	Vectra Networks, Inc.	Nicolas Beauchesne, John Steven Mancini	Application	March 15, 2018
25	20180077186	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING SUSPICIOUS ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITY	September 12, 2017	Vectra Networks, Inc.	Nicolas Beauchesne, Kevin Song-Kai Ni	Application	March 15, 2018
26	9930053	Method and system for detecting bot behavior	March 10, 2015	Vectra Networks, Inc.	Nicolas Beauchesne	Grant	March 27, 2018
27	20180115570	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CATEGORIZING MALWARE	October 26, 2017	Vectra Networks, Inc.	Gunter Daniel Ollmann	Application	April 26, 2018
28	9985979	Method and system for detecting threats using passive cluster mapping	November 17, 2015	Vectra Networks, Inc.	David Lopes Pegna, Nicolas Beauchesne	Grant	May 29, 2018
29	10033752	System for implementing threat detection using daily network traffic community outliers	November 2, 2015	Vectra Networks, Inc.	David Lopes Pegna, Himanshu Mhatre, Oliver Brdiczka	Grant	July 24, 2018
30	20180219895	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LEARNING REPRESENTATIONS OF NETWORK FLOW TRAFFIC	January 27, 2018	Vectra Networks, Inc.	Matthew R. Silver, Sohrob Kazerounian	Application	August 2, 2018
31	10050985	System for implementing threat detection using threat and risk assessment of asset-actor interactions	November 2, 2015	Vectra Networks, Inc.	Himanshu Mhatre, David Lopes Pegna, Oliver Brdiczka	Grant	August 14, 2018
32	20190149560	MALICIOUS RELAY AND JUMP-SYSTEM DETECTION USING BEHAVIORAL INDICATORS OF ACTORS	October 18, 2018	Vectra Networks, Inc.	Himanshu Mhatre, Nicolas Beauchesne	Application	May 16, 2019
33	10404730	High-volume network threat trace engine	February 21, 2017	Vectra Networks, Inc.	Jeffrey Charles Venable, Sr.	Grant	September 3, 2019
34	10623428	Method and system for detecting suspicious administrative activity	September 12, 2017	Vectra Networks, Inc.	Nicolas Beauchesne, Kevin Song-Kai Ni	Grant	April 14, 2020
35	20200329062	PRIVILEGED ACCOUNT BREACH DETECTIONS BASED ON BEHAVIORAL ACCESS PATTERNS	April 15, 2019	Vectra Networks, Inc.	Nicolas Beauchesne, Himanshu Mhatre, Daniel Carlton Hannah	Application	October 15, 2020
36	11184369	Malicious relay and jump-system detection using behavioral indicators of actors	October 18, 2018	Vectra Networks, Inc.	Himanshu Mhatre, Nicolas Beauchesne	Grant	November 23, 2021
37	20200374308	METHOD, PRODUCT, AND SYSTEM FOR MAINTAINING AN ENSEMBLE OF HIERARCHICAL MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR DETECTION OF SECURITY RISKS AND BREACHES IN A NETWORK	April 28, 2020	Vectra AI, Inc	Hsin Chen, Nicolas Beauchesne, Himanshu Mhatre, John Steven Mancini	Application	November 26, 2020
38	10880321	Method and system for learning representations of network flow traffic	January 27, 2018	Vectra AI, Inc	Matthew R. Silver, Sohrob Kazerounian	Grant	December 29, 2020
39	20210092140	METHOD, PRODUCT, AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING MALICIOUS NETWORK ACTIVITY USING A GRAPH MIXTURE DENSITY NEURAL NETWORK	September 23, 2020	Vectra AI, Inc	Sohrob Kazerounian, Daniel Carlton Hannah, Tuomas P. Oikarinen	Application	March 25, 2021
40	20210105290	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING MALICIOUS PAYLOADS	November 24, 2020	Vectra AI, Inc	Nicolas Beauchesne, John Steven Mancini	Application	April 8, 2021
41	11330005	Privileged account breach detections based on behavioral access patterns	April 15, 2019	Vectra AI, Inc	Nicolas Beauchesne, Himanshu Mhatre, Daniel Carlton Hannah	Grant	May 10, 2022
42	11595416	Method, product, and system for maintaining an ensemble of hierarchical machine learning models for detection of security risks and breaches in a network	April 28, 2020	Vectra AI, Inc	Hsin Chen, Nicolas Beauchesne, Himanshu Mhatre, John Steven Mancini	Grant	February 28, 2023

Patents references

US application 20160149936, Lopes Pegna, David & Beauchesne, Nicolas, "METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING THREATS USING PASSIVE CLUSTER MAPPING", published 2016-05-26, assigned to Vectra Networks, Inc. 

US application 20150264068, Beauschesne, Nicolas, "METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING BOT BEHAVIOR", published 2015-09-17, assigned to Vectra Networks, Inc. 

US application 20150312211, Beauchesne, Nicolas; Sher Gill, Monty & Kourosh Tavakoli, Oliver, "METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING DURABLE HOST IDENTIFIERS USING NETWORK ARTIFACTS", published 2015-10-29, assigned to Vectra Networks, Inc. 

US application 20160191551, BEAUCHESNE, NICOLAS; PEGNA, DAVID LOPES & LYNN, KARL, "METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING THREATS USING METADATA VECTORS", published 2016-06-30, assigned to VECTRA NETWORKS INC 

US application 2015264083, PRENGER, RYAN JAMES; BEAUCHESNE, NICOLAS & LYNN, KARL MATTHEW, "MALICIOUS RELAY DETECTION ON NETWORKS", published 2015-09-17, assigned to VECTRA NETWORKS INC 

US patent 10033752, PEGNA, DAVID LOPES; MHATRE, HIMANSHU & BRDICZKA, OLIVER, "System for implementing threat detection using daily network traffic community outliers", issued 2018-07-24, assigned to VECTRA NETWORKS 

US application 2015264078, BEAUCHESNE, NICOLAS & YOON, SUNGWOOK, "DETECTING NETWORK RECONNAISSANCE BY TRACKING INTRANET DARK-NET COMMUNICATIONS", published 2015-09-17, assigned to VECTRA NETWORKS INC 

US application 2016191563, BEAUCHESNE, NICOLAS & PEGNA, DAVID LOPES, "SYSTEM FOR DETECTING THREATS USING SCENARIO-BASED TRACKING OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL NETWORK TRAFFIC", published 2016-06-30, assigned to VECTRA NETWORKS INC 

Further reading

• Lawson, Craig; Nevia, Claudio. "Magic Quadrant for Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems". Gartner.
• "Global and United States Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software Market Size, Status and Forecast 2021-2027". Kingpin Market Research. 20 September 2021.
• "Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IPS) Software Market Analysis 2022: Industry Size, Share, Emerging Trends, Growth Opportunities And Forecast To 2028". Stratagem Market Insights. January 2022.