Industry’s Top Performers: Optimising AI-driven threat detection and response

Taj El-khayat, Managing Director South EMEA, Vectra AI.
Taj El-khayat, Managing Director South EMEA, Vectra AI.
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The Vectra Threat Detection and Response platform combines complete attack surface coverage across public cloud, SaaS, identity, and network. By harnessing the Attack Signal Intelligence, organisations can get unmatched signal clarity that puts them in control of defending against modern, evasive, and sophisticated cyberattacks.

Vectra delivers cyber threat detection and response with Attack Signal Intelligence. It optimises Security AI to see and stop attacks across public cloud, SaaS, identity, and networks in a single platform. It goes beyond simple anomaly detection to understand attacker behaviour exposing the complete narrative of an attack. The resulting high-fidelity signal and contextual intelligence enable security operations teams to prioritise, investigate and respond to attacks in progress faster. Organisations worldwide partner with Vectra to get ahead and stay ahead of modern attacks.

Vectra optimises Security AI to stop attacks across public cloud, SaaS, identity, and network in a single platform

Vectra thinks like an attacker: AI-driven detections go beyond signatures and anomalies to understand attacker behaviour and expose the complete narrative of an attack.

Vectra focuses on the malicious: AI Triage reduces alert noise by distinguishing malicious from benign threat activity to expose malicious true positives while logging the benign.

Vectra knows what threats matter: AI-driven prioritisation reduces noise, automates alert triage and is 85% more effective at prioritising the threats that matter most to the business.

The Vectra global channel partner programme offers three categories based on the organisation’s market approach: sell and or resell Vectra, deliver Vectra services with partner solutions, and manage services by implementing its solutions as a managed service.

The AI-driven detections go beyond signatures and anomalies to understand attacker behaviour

The programme is further customised into tiers based on each partner’s level of commitment, ensuring they can design the programme to fit their unique needs. Ambassador partners are industry-leading professionals who have demonstrated higher levels of capability and performance. Authorised partners are in the early stages of their relationship with Vectra and will take part in the new sales accreditation and technical certification training.

Going ahead, Vectra plans to continue investing and innovating around delivering the industry’s most effective and accurate Attack Signal Intelligence. The company is focusing on unifying attack signals across the public cloud, SaaS, identity, networks, and endpoints to automate the detection and prioritisation of threats in a single user interface.

It is also working towards unifying attack remediation by integrating investigation processes, automating manual workflows, and delivering flexible but targeted response actions and attack management via a shared responsibility model fostering real-time collaboration between customer SecOps and Vectra MDR analysts.

TOP EXECUTIVE

Taj El-khayat, Managing Director South EMEA, Vectra AI.
Taj El-khayat, Managing Director South EMEA, Vectra AI.

As the Managing Director for the South EMEA area and part of the EMEA leadership team, El-khayat is responsible for driving and executing the company’s global strategy and go-to-market initiatives in the region, by closely working with his teams in different countries to enable customers, partners, and cybersecurity regulatory authorities to strengthen their cybersecurity strategy.

El-khayat has over 25 years of experience working with some of the world’s largest global software, infrastructure, security, and networking companies with exposure to the US, European and emerging markets. He has built his experience working in sales, marketing, and channel. During the past 18 years, he had the opportunity to attract and develop talent within the organisations he worked for.

Having joined Vectra AI recently, El-khayat is focused on solidifying the foundation on which his organisation is to be built and creating a structure that is scalable to support customers and partners alike. His mission is to ensure that Vectra AI is not only a technology platform but a contributor to the well-being of the community it belongs to, as well as a trusted security advisor to everyone.

DREAM ROLE

El-khayat aspires to a role where he can share his experience, knowledge, and learnings over the years with the young generations, encouraging them to become active and make valuable contributions to their societies. Be it through coaching, teaching, or mentoring, this is where he finds happiness and a sense of fulfilment.

ROLE MODEL

El-khayat is fascinated by the amazing and well-structured development of the UAE. Having spent half of his life and almost his entire career in Dubai, he is inspired by the commitment, dedication, wisdom and more importantly humbleness of the leadership of this country. The UAE is a role model country, institution, and in terms of leadership in his view.

OFFLINE

Culinary arts is his interest and passion outside of work activities. When El-khayat needs his personal space and time to disconnect, one can find him in the kitchen creating a dish or preparing a feast for family and friends. He believes that food brings people together, bridges cultures, and is an excellent way to express one’s personality.

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