Case Study: Pennine Care NHS achieves automated detection and rapid threat response with Vectra AI Inc.'s Cognito platform

Pennine Care NHS counts on Vectra to stop cyberattacks

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, which provides mental health and learning disability services in Greater Manchester and Derbyshire, needed to stop hidden cyberthreats that could disrupt operations or patient care. After finding open-source monitoring too complex and costly to maintain, ICT security manager Rizwan Majeed sought an automated solution that would detect in-progress attacks, reduce log noise, and preserve data privacy and GDPR compliance.

They deployed Vectra’s Cognito platform—Cognito Detect for AI-driven, prioritized detection and automated response, and Cognito Recall for security-enriched metadata storage and fast investigations. The system rolled up alerts into actionable incidents, stored host-based metadata (not packet payloads) to protect privacy, and made one‑click hunting and compliance checks possible; results included faster threat discovery and remediation, easier investigations, and improved visibility that exposed issues like weak VPN ciphers and large unexpected data uploads.

Pennine Care NHS

Rizwan Majeed

ICT Security Manager