What Happened?
San Jose, CA-based Vectra Networks Appointed Hitesh Sheth as Chief Executive Officer
About the Company
Vectra is the cybersecurity leader in threat detection and response – from cloud and data center workloads to user and IoT devices. Its Cognito® platform accelerates threat detection and investigation using AI to enrich network metadata it collects and stores with the right context to detect, hunt and investigate known and unknown threats in real time. Vectra offers four applications on the Cognito platform to address high-priority use cases. Cognito Stream™ sends security-enriched metadata to data lakes and SIEMs. Cognito Recall™ is a cloud-based application to store and investigate threats in enriched metadata. Cognito Detect™ uses AI to reveal and prioritize hidden and unknown attackers at speed. And Cognito Detect for Office 365 and Azure AD™ finds and stops attacks in enterprise SaaS applications and the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
About the Person
Hitesh Sheth is the president and CEO of Vectra. Previously, he held the position of chief operating officer at Aruba Networks. Hitesh joined Aruba from Juniper Networks, where he was EVP/GM for its switching business and before that, SVP for the Service Layer Technologies group, which included security. Prior to Juniper, he held a number of senior management positions in the switching organization at Cisco Systems, including running its metro Ethernet business. Before Cisco, he held executive and engineering management positions at Liberate Technologies and Oracle Corporation. He started his career as a Unix programmer at the Santa Cruz Operation. Hitesh is originally from Kenya and is often asked if he can run the marathon in under 3 hours (he cannot). He has a passion for wildlife conservation and is very particular about his coffee (only East African and caffeinated will do). He is on a continuous self discovery journey to find patience and balance. Decaf has been recommended to him by his team, along with meditation. Hitesh holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin.
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