Hitesh Sheth

President and CEO

Hitesh Sheth is the president and CEO of Vectra AI. Previously, he held the position of Chief Operating Officer at Aruba Networks. Hitesh joined Aruba from Juniper Networks, where he was EVP/GM for its switching business and before that, SVP for the Service Layer Technologies group, which included security. Prior to Juniper, he held a number of senior management positions in the switching organization at Cisco, including running its metro Ethernet business. Before Cisco, he held executive and engineering management positions at Liberate Technologies and Oracle Corporation. He started his career as a Unix programmer at the Santa Cruz Operation. Hitesh holds a BA degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.

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What Do Customers Want from XDR? Spoiler alert – it's not tech

What does extended detection and response (XDR) security mean?

Needed: 700,000 Innovators. Wanted: a Safer and Fairer World

A major apprenticeship program from the US government could fill vacant cybersecurity jobs - and we're here for it.

Prevention and Preparedness Revisited: Cyber Defense after Kaseya Ransomware Attack

There should be fresh scrutiny of SaaS subscription relationships, and the security policies of managed service providers; you're only as secure as your provider.

How a Global Retailer Passed Red Team Tests with Vectra

Every year, this global retail giant in the beauty industry failed to pass red team exercises-until they deployed Vectra. Get the full story on how they use the Cognito platform to pass Red Team testing and ensure the overall security of its data.

Choosing to Challenge 2021: Women in Cybersecurity

For us as Vectra, equality and inclusivity are key components of our culture. This International Women's Day, we want to celebrate the women in cybersecurity and highlight the opportunities available in the industry.

Sanofi Uses Vectra to Stop Cyberattack in Real Time

The pandemic has made threat actors eager to exploit information about COVID-19. Find out how an ordinary LinkedIn message set off a chain reaction that escalated into a widespread, sophisticated attack at one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies.

Vectra Will Keep Working to Secure the Cloud with the Just Announced $100 Million in Funding

Today, I am thrilled to share the news that Vectra has completed a $100 million Series E funding round led by TCV, one of the largest growth equity firms backing private and public technology companies.

Cybersecurity Sensors – Threat Detection Throughout a Distributed Network

Keeping data from getting out into the wild or being damaged by cyber attackers is what keeps CISOs, the executive team and boards of directors up at night. To protect organizations, cybersecurity needs to be automated and real-time, it needs to learn contextually like we do and it needs to monitor for threats at every corner of the network in a way that organizations can afford without sacrificing coverage.

Helping the Cybersecurity Community in Light of Russian Cyber Attacks

Over the last week, we have seen Russia use a combination of tactics in warfare that has not been seen before. From the use of cellular telephone networks for distribution of information that was designed to incite panic among the general population to manipulation of enterprise networks and computers to disrupt critical government departments and private industry. Vladimir Putin has proven that there are no boundaries that he is unwilling to cross when it comes to promoting his self-serving view of the world.