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Vectra improves cloud services to protect complex hybrid networks

Vectra improves cloud services to protect complex hybrid networks

With more people working remotely, plus high numbers of IoT devices accessing corporate and cloud networks, traditional network security solutions struggle to cope and are blind to activity and data in cloud applications. Network threat detection and response company Vectra has launched a new range of cloud services with broader and deeper cloud capabilities to track and link accounts and data in

hybrid environments. Vectra employs continued analysis of how users are accessing, using and configuring cloud services based on logs from SaaS, and account usage from identity providers like Microsoft Azure AD. The solution ties together all host and [Continue Reading]

Author: Ian Barker

Date: 2020-11-23

URL: https://betanews.com/2020/11/23/vectra-cloud-services-protect-networks/

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