Network detection and response (NDR) provides a lot of business value yet what are the facts and the supporting data? The IDC Business Value Analysis provides the facts and the data. While commissioned by Vectra to do the analysis, IDC independently interviewed and analyzed Vectra large enterprise customers to demonstrate the significant value and IT impact organizations can achieve by leveraging the Vectra Cognito network detection and response platform.

Interviewed organizations reported they are able to be more proactive in identifying, prioritizing and addressing security threats, minimizing business risk and reducing security-related IT costs. Here's a summary of the paper.

IDC shares how organizations using the Cognito platform will:

• Experience 63% lower risk of a major security event
• Be 85% more efficient in identifying actual threats
• Have 85% less unplanned outages
• Achieve payback in 5 months
• Realize an annual value of $2.62 million
• Vectra provides visibility for security analysts, it prioritizes alerts, presents the information for an optimal investigation, and then indirectly or directly through integrations initiates the proper response.

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"Every quarter, I present to the board the risk and threats that we see regarding the ones we had to take actions, and the ones that we didn't have to take actions, because they were prevented. . . A serious security breach could potentially cost us millions of dollars and we’ve reduced that risk by close to 100% with Vectra."

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"Before Vectra, an investigation would realistically take about 2 hours. If something was malicious, it would be able to encrypt pretty much our whole estate. Now, we know in minutes, and then we can automatically isolate that end point or that server, which means that containment is very quick."