Case Study: Securities and Exchange Commission achieves real-time threat visibility and stops attacks with Vectra AI Inc.'s Cognito platform

Securities and Exchange Commission - Customer Case Study

A leading U.S. securities exchange faced sophisticated opportunistic and targeted attacks where adversaries could already be inside the network and traditional defenses left security operations largely blind. The deputy CISO needed to augment the cyber kill chain, prioritize real threats, and meet increasing regulatory and audit requirements.

The exchange deployed Vectra Cognito, a network detection and response platform that uses machine learning to profile normal behavior, surface anomalous activity, and score threats with a Threat Certainty Index. Cognito delivered immediate visibility—helping stop in-progress attacks, uncover a Kerberos misconfiguration, reduce alert noise, and enable focused investigations—becoming the core of the exchange’s security operations and improving compliance.

Securities and Exchange Commission