Customer story
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Energy and Utilities

Hydro Ottawa

Hydro Ottawa automates threat detection and response to dramatically reduce the time spent on threat investigations

Challenge

Close the gap between infection and detection

Selection criteria

Automate threat management that is simple to use and integrates easily withother security tools

Results

  • Faster threat detection and response
  • Eliminates manual threat hunting and speeds-up threat investigations
  • Highest-risk threats are automatically scored and prioritized so security teams can quickly stop attackers before damage is done
  • Advanced cybersecurity protection based on the NIST framework

How Hydro Ottawa reduced time spent on threat investigations

Challenge

Hydro Ottawa faced the challenge of escalating cyberattacks on electrical grids, requiring efficient threat detection and response to safeguard its corporate IT and critical infrastructure systems from cyber threats.

Solution

To overcome this challenge, Hydro Ottawa adopted Vectra AI's Network Detection and Response platform, leveraging artificial intelligence and data science to automate threat hunting and rapidly detect cyber attackers that evaded traditional security measures.

Customer benefits

The Vectra AI platform streamlined threat investigations, curbing the spread of targeted attacks, improving remediation efficiency, offering comprehensive visibility into cyberattacks, and enhancing security operations and compliance audits through the Threat Certainty Index™.

"Vectra automates tedious, labor-intensive threat hunting and detects, scores and prioritizes the highest-risk threats."

Jojo Maalouf
IT Security Manager at Hydro Ottawa

“Vectra is a security analyst in software that handles tedious, labor-intensive threat hunting and automatically detects, scores and prioritizes the highest-risk threats. This dramatically reduces the time we spend on threat investigations.”

Jojo Maalouf
IT Security Manager at Hydro Ottawa