Research & Insights

AI security research and innovation to fuel your cybersecurity strategy

Collaborative study, modeling, and analysis led by the world’s most sophisticated data scientists and security researchers is at the foundation of everything we do.
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We have more patents in AI-driven threat detection than any other cybersecurity company on the planet

With 35 patents in AI-driven threat detection and more references than any other vendor in MITRE D3FEND, we provide advanced signal intelligence your SOC can trust.

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Hierarchical ML Models for Detection

Our improved approach for identifying breaches by applying machine learning methods designed to learn access patterns in your network.

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Privileged Account Breach Detections

Our advanced approach for detecting potentially malicious activity by focusing on accounts most useful to attackers.

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Relay and Jump System Detection

Our enhanced program for detecting hosts and connections between hosts that are being used as relays to gain control.

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Our front line experts

These are our frontline experts from Vectra AI, the voices representing our culture of research and data science in the core areas of cybersecurity strategy, threat research, and AI & machine learning. Our experts bring that deep insight to you – made possible by standing on the shoulders of the almost 600 Vectra AI technical professionals that make this expertise their primary mission.

Christian Borst
EMEA CTO

Christian Borst, EMEA CTO at Vectra AI has more than 15 years of experience in IT and Cyber Security. Before joining Vectra AI in 2022 he built and executed the global cyber security strategy for Richemont – a leading luxury goods group. As a former consultant and current Advisory Board & Board Member, he is actively engaged in the cyber security community across different countries & industries. He holds a university degree from Freiburg University in Computer Science specializing in AI & Psychology.

Brian Neuhaus
Americas CTO

Brian Neuhaus, Americas CTO at Vectra AI, brings over 20 years of CISO experience to the table, in addition to a background that involves founding multiple companies through the dot com boom of the 1990s and 2000s.  As a CISO, Brian helped his organization steer through IPO, activist investors, and M&A to ultimately become a Gartner leading enterprise data management company.  In his current role, he parlays that experience and his passion for cyber security into helping companies small and large navigate the dangerous coasts of digital transformation and the threat actors that lurk beyond its shores.

Oliver Tavakoli
Chief Technology Officer, Vectra AI

Oliver Tavakoli is chief technology officer at Vectra AI. He sets the technical strategy for the company. Oliver has overseen the adoption of technology in cybersecurity for over 25 years, the last ten of which have been at Vectra AI. Prior to Vectra, Oliver was the CTO for the security business of Juniper Networks. He joined Juniper as a result of its acquisition of Funk Software, where Oliver was the CTO.

Earlier in his career, Oliver worked at IBM, Fluent Machines, and Novell Inc and founded Trilogy Inc, which was acquired by Funk Software.

Tim Wade
Deputy Chief Technology Officer

Tim Wade is Vectra AI's Deputy Chief Technology Officer and is an advocate for a vision of technology which places human dignity at the core of its mission. Tim traces much of his career in cybersecurity and technology leadership through the U.S. DoD and Federal sectors, having begun that journey as a uniformed member of the United States Air Force. He joins Vectra AI most recently from Bridgepoint Education Inc. having served as the Head of Application and Information Security. Tim holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, an MBA from Arizona State University, and maintains industry credentials issued by Offensive Security and (ISC)2.

Dmitriy Beryoza
Senior Security Researcher

Dmitriy Beryoza is a Senior Security Researcher with Vectra, working on threat detection in the cloud and on-prem networks. Before that, he was a penetration tester and secure software development advocate at IBM. Before switching to security full-time, Dmitriy has been a software developer for many years. He spoke at DEF CON, BSides Las Vegas, BSides SF, Hackfest, and other security conferences. Dmitriy holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and OSCP, CISSP, CCSP and CEH certifications. His interests include reverse engineering, secure software development, and CTF competitions.

Joshua St. Hilaire
Director of Security Research

Joshua St.Hilaire is currently a Director of Security Research at Vectra where he currently leads research on adversarial detection models. He has twenty years of experience in computer security focused on incident response, threat hunting and reverse-engineering. Additionally, Joshua St. Hilaire began his career serving the United States Air Force and was responsible for keeping U.S. DoD information systems secure on a global scale.

Luke Richards
Threat Intelligence Lead

Luke is the Threat Intel Lead for Vectra. He has been with the company for 7 years, joining as a consultant analyst and working with customers and high level incident response directly. Before joining Vectra, Luke was a senior Security Analyst for an international Engineering and Defence contractor where he developed SOC toolsets, processes, and incident response playbooks.

Arpan Sarkar
Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

Arpan Sarkar is a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at Vectra AI. Arpan is a engineer at core with a passion to create simple solutions for hard problems in cyber security. Arpan brings extensive experience in threat research, threat hunting and threat detection engineering. Prior to joining Vectra AI, Arpan worked on developing behavior based threat detection, creating  new threat hunting services and consulting organizations on threat hunting and insider threat programs. Arpan holds a MS in Cyber Security from Rochester Institute of Technology and a Bachelors in Computer Science from SRM University.

Daniel Hannah
Principal Data Scientist

Daniel Hannah is a Principal Data Scientist at Vectra AI, where he works to apply artificial intelligence to real-time cyberattack detection and signal integration. Dan’s professional interests encompass both novel machine learning approaches and the design of extensible, AI-driven technology platforms. Prior to joining Vectra in 2018, Dan worked as a researcher applying data-driven approaches to problems in the sciences. He holds a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Northwestern University.

Sohrob Kazerounian
Distinguished AI Researcher

Sohrob Kazerounian is a Distinguished AI Researcher at Vectra AI where he develops and applies novel machine learning architectures in the domain of cybersecurity. After realizing that his goal of becoming a skilled hacker was not meant to be, he focused his studies on Artificial Intelligence, with a particular interest in neural networks. After receiving his Ph.D. in  Cognitive and Neural Systems at Boston University, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Swiss AI Lab (IDSIA) working on Deep Learning, Recurrent Neural Networks, and Reinforcement Learning.

Dmitriy Beryoza
Senior Security Researcher

Dmitriy Beryoza is a Senior Security Researcher with Vectra, working on threat detection in the cloud and on-prem networks. Before that, he was a penetration tester and secure software development advocate at IBM. Before switching to security full-time, Dmitriy has been a software developer for many years. He spoke at DEF CON, BSides Las Vegas, BSides SF, Hackfest, and other security conferences. Dmitriy holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and OSCP, CISSP, CCSP and CEH certifications. His interests include reverse engineering, secure software development, and CTF competitions.

Christian Borst
EMEA CTO

Christian Borst, EMEA CTO at Vectra AI has more than 15 years of experience in IT and Cyber Security. Before joining Vectra AI in 2022 he built and executed the global cyber security strategy for Richemont – a leading luxury goods group. As a former consultant and current Advisory Board & Board Member, he is actively engaged in the cyber security community across different countries & industries. He holds a university degree from Freiburg University in Computer Science specializing in AI & Psychology.

Daniel Hannah
Principal Data Scientist

Daniel Hannah is a Principal Data Scientist at Vectra AI, where he works to apply artificial intelligence to real-time cyberattack detection and signal integration. Dan’s professional interests encompass both novel machine learning approaches and the design of extensible, AI-driven technology platforms. Prior to joining Vectra in 2018, Dan worked as a researcher applying data-driven approaches to problems in the sciences. He holds a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Northwestern University.

Joshua St. Hilaire
Director of Security Research

Joshua St.Hilaire is currently a Director of Security Research at Vectra where he currently leads research on adversarial detection models. He has twenty years of experience in computer security focused on incident response, threat hunting and reverse-engineering. Additionally, Joshua St. Hilaire began his career serving the United States Air Force and was responsible for keeping U.S. DoD information systems secure on a global scale.

Sohrob Kazerounian
Distinguished AI Researcher

Sohrob Kazerounian is a Distinguished AI Researcher at Vectra AI where he develops and applies novel machine learning architectures in the domain of cybersecurity. After realizing that his goal of becoming a skilled hacker was not meant to be, he focused his studies on Artificial Intelligence, with a particular interest in neural networks. After receiving his Ph.D. in  Cognitive and Neural Systems at Boston University, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Swiss AI Lab (IDSIA) working on Deep Learning, Recurrent Neural Networks, and Reinforcement Learning.

Brian Neuhaus
Americas CTO

Brian Neuhaus, Americas CTO at Vectra AI, brings over 20 years of CISO experience to the table, in addition to a background that involves founding multiple companies through the dot com boom of the 1990s and 2000s.  As a CISO, Brian helped his organization steer through IPO, activist investors, and M&A to ultimately become a Gartner leading enterprise data management company.  In his current role, he parlays that experience and his passion for cyber security into helping companies small and large navigate the dangerous coasts of digital transformation and the threat actors that lurk beyond its shores.

Luke Richards
Threat Intelligence Lead

Luke is the Threat Intel Lead for Vectra. He has been with the company for 7 years, joining as a consultant analyst and working with customers and high level incident response directly. Before joining Vectra, Luke was a senior Security Analyst for an international Engineering and Defence contractor where he developed SOC toolsets, processes, and incident response playbooks.

Arpan Sarkar
Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

Arpan Sarkar is a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at Vectra AI. Arpan is a engineer at core with a passion to create simple solutions for hard problems in cyber security. Arpan brings extensive experience in threat research, threat hunting and threat detection engineering. Prior to joining Vectra AI, Arpan worked on developing behavior based threat detection, creating  new threat hunting services and consulting organizations on threat hunting and insider threat programs. Arpan holds a MS in Cyber Security from Rochester Institute of Technology and a Bachelors in Computer Science from SRM University.

Oliver Tavakoli
Chief Technology Officer, Vectra AI

Oliver Tavakoli is chief technology officer at Vectra AI. He sets the technical strategy for the company. Oliver has overseen the adoption of technology in cybersecurity for over 25 years, the last ten of which have been at Vectra AI. Prior to Vectra, Oliver was the CTO for the security business of Juniper Networks. He joined Juniper as a result of its acquisition of Funk Software, where Oliver was the CTO.

Earlier in his career, Oliver worked at IBM, Fluent Machines, and Novell Inc and founded Trilogy Inc, which was acquired by Funk Software.

Tim Wade
Deputy Chief Technology Officer

Tim Wade is Vectra AI's Deputy Chief Technology Officer and is an advocate for a vision of technology which places human dignity at the core of its mission. Tim traces much of his career in cybersecurity and technology leadership through the U.S. DoD and Federal sectors, having begun that journey as a uniformed member of the United States Air Force. He joins Vectra AI most recently from Bridgepoint Education Inc. having served as the Head of Application and Information Security. Tim holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, an MBA from Arizona State University, and maintains industry credentials issued by Offensive Security and (ISC)2.

Our research

Expert insights from Vectra AI data scientists, product engineers and security researchers empower your SOC analysts to make faster, smarter decisions.

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SANS Report - AI in XDR: What It Means and Where It Fits

The threat landscape is changing dramatically — is your SOC team prepared? With AI-driven extended detection and response (XDR), you can be.

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2023 State of Threat Detection

71% of analysts admit the organization they work in may have been compromised and they don't know it yet. Threat detection is fundamentally broken.

Why do SOC analysts believe the tools they use are effective, when those same tools leave them unable to effectively stop cyberattacks? Discover the disconnect, and how to fix it in the State of Threat Detection Report.

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Are Cybersecurity Teams at Breaking Point?

The struggle is real. The global cybersecurity skills shortfall now stands at 2.7 million workers globally, including nearly 200,000 in Europe and 33,000 in the UK alone. Exacerbating the issue, the global pandemic is rolling into its third year with no clear signs of ending. This is creating even more staffing demands – individuals are being signed off sick, while work from home mandates are disrupting traditional patterns, making many everyday tasks more difficult and time-consuming.

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Security Leaders Research Report: Fit for Purpose or Behind the Curve?

From the rapid proliferation of cloud to the growing adoption of micro-services, DevOps, and APIs, new pockets of opportunity are opening up for threat actors to take advantage of. This e-Book contains analysis and findings from a global survey of IT security decision makers on how they are tackling these dynamic threats.