In his new role, he is responsible for the commercial strategy and development of Vectra's distribution network, with the support of Paolo Lauretti, Regional Partner Manager for the Southern Europe Region, who will assist in the selection of Partners in the Iberian Peninsula.
 
Vectra AI has also appointed Antonio Huertas as System Engineer for Spain and Portugal. A computer engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Antonio Huertas has spent over 20 years in the cybersecurity sector at companies such as Check Point and Palo Alto Networks. He is currently responsible for pre-sales in the Iberian Peninsula at Vectra AI.
 
Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Vectra AI has offices in Austin, Texas; Boston, Massachusetts; Ireland; Switzerland; Germany; the United Kingdom; and France. Powered by AI (Artificial Intelligence), Vectra and its flagship threat detection and response platform, Cognito®, enable the world’s most forward-thinking organizations to automatically detect and rapidly respond to cyberattacks hidden in the cloud, data center, and enterprise environments.
 
The Cognito platform consists of Cognito Detect™ and its equally powerful AI counterparts, Cognito Recall™ and Cognito Stream™.
 
Cognito Detect automates real-time detection of hidden attackers, from cloud workloads and data centers to user devices and the Internet of Things (IoT).
 
Cognito Recall is a cloud-based investigation environment that enables AI-assisted threat hunting and forensic incident investigation, using metadata and detections provided by Cognito Detect.
 
Cognito Stream delivers enterprise-scale network metadata enriched with Zeek-formatted security information to security information and event management (SIEM) applications and data lakes without the complexity, constant tuning, and scalability limitations of open-source Zeek.