Vectra wins four Gold Stevie Awards at the 2018 American Business Awards

Vectra today announced that the company has been named the winner of four Gold Stevie Awards, including the Most Innovative Tech Company of the Year, in the 16th Annual American Business Awards.

The American Business Awards is the premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the United States are eligible to submit nominations – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small.More than 3,700 nominations were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories.

Vectra was named the Gold winner in the following categories:

• Most Innovative Tech Company of the Year – up to 2,500 employees
• New Product or Service of the Year (software) – artificial intelligence/machine learning solution
• New Product or Service of the Year (software) – network security solution
• Technical Innovation of the Year – organizations with up to 1,000 employees

“Vectra is honored to have the distinction of winning Gold Stevie Awards in multiple categories from the 2018 American Business Awards,” said Vectra CEO Hitesh Sheth. “We owe our success to an immensely talented team of employees and to the hundreds of customers who continue to bet the security of their business on Vectra.”

The Cognito platform from Vectra enables enterprises to detect and respond to cyberattacks in real time. Cognito uses artificial intelligence (AI) to perform non-stop, automated threat hunting with always-learning behavioral models to quickly and efficiently find hidden and unknown attackers before they do damage. Cognito provides full visibility into cyberattacker behaviors from cloud and data center workloads to user and internet-of-things devices, ensuring attackers have nowhere to hide. Vectra Networks was positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Visionaries quadrant in its 2018 Magic Quadrant for Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems

“The nominations submitted for the 2018 American Business Awards were outstanding. The competition was intense, and those recognized as Stevie Award winners should be immensely proud of this accomplishment,” said Michael Gallagher, president and founder of the Stevie Awards.