Case Study: Beauty Industry Retailer achieves first-time red-team pass and faster threat detection with Vectra AI Inc.

Vectra gives beauty industry retailer a cybersecurity makeover

A global beauty-industry retailer with hundreds of stores and a busy online business was struggling to detect attackers inside its network. A seven-person SOC with a limited budget repeatedly failed annual red-team exercises and relied on SIEM and EDR that didn’t reveal hidden intrusions. The team needed network visibility and real-time detection to find attackers who bypassed perimeter defenses.

They selected Vectra’s Cognito NDR after a proof-of-concept in which Vectra detected red-team activity that other vendors missed. Cognito Detect’s AI-driven detection and Cognito Recall’s forensic context let the SOC automatically triage and investigate incidents, reducing manual Tier‑1/2 work and cutting investigation time from months to minutes. As a result the retailer passed red-team tests for the first time, quickly isolated live attacks in stores, and gained the visibility needed for proactive threat hunting.