Case Study: ROSSMANN halts data breaches and prioritizes critical threats with Vectra AI Inc.'s Cognito NDR

Vectra stops data breaches across one of Europe’s largest drug store chains

ROSSMANN, one of Europe’s largest drugstore chains with 4,088 stores and 56,200 employees, needed to detect threats inside its network while complying with strict data‑protection rules that rule out deep packet inspection. After a red‑team exercise and a proof‑of‑concept evaluation of multiple vendors, the IT security team selected Vectra’s Cognito network detection and response platform.

Cognito analyzes security‑enriched metadata (no payload inspection), automatically scoring and prioritizing detections with the Threat Certainty Index to consolidate hundreds of events into high‑risk host alerts. The solution exposed red‑team behavior quickly, reduced noise and alert fatigue, improved context for every threat, sped incident response, and freed analysts to focus on remediation.

ROSSMANN

Daniel Luttermann

Security Team Lead