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About Our team of highly trained cybersecurity professionals provides expertise in compliance, tool assessments, threat hunting, incident response and more. Critical Start is leading the way in Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services. With a unique approach that treats every security alert as equal, Critical Start's proprietary Trusted Behavior Registry allows security analysts to resolve every alert. Our mission is simple: protect our customers’ brand while reducing their risk. We do this for organizations of all sizes through our award-winning portfolio, from the delivery of managed security services to security-readiness assessments using our proven framework, the Defendable Network, professional services, and product fulfillment. TEAMARES, a specialized group within Critical Start, that focuses on understanding your environment more deeply, assess how today’s attacks can impact your organization and better defend your environment.	About Vectra enables enterprises to immediately detect and respond to cyberattacks across cloud, data center, IT and IoT networks. As the leader in network detection and response (NDR), Vectra uses AI to empower the enterprise SOC to automate threat discovery, prioritization, hunting and response. Vectra is Security that thinks. We have developed an AI-driven cybersecurity platform that detects attacker behaviors to protect your hosts and users from being compromised, regardless of location. Unlike other solutions, Vectra Cognito provides high fidelity alerts instead of more noise, and does not decrypt your data so you can be secure and maintain privacy. Today’s cyberattacks will use any means of entry, so we provide a single platform to cover cloud, data center, enterprise networks, and IoT devices, not just critical assets. The Vectra NDR platform is the ultimate AI-powered cyberattack detection and threat-hunting platform.
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Audience Companies wanting to reduce risks and manage the cybersecurity of their teams	Audience Security centers or IT administrators who want an AI cybersecurity platform to protect their SaaS, cloud and on-premises deployments
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Training Documentation Supported Webinars Supported Live Online Not Supported In Person Supported	Training Documentation Supported Webinars Supported Live Online Supported In Person Not Supported
Company Information Critical Start Founded: 2012 United States www.criticalstart.com	Company Information Vectra Founded: 2010 United States www.vectra.ai/
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Categories Cybersecurity Supported IT Security Supported Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Supported SIEM Supported Threat Hunting Supported	Categories AI Cybersecurity Supported AI Security Supported Cybersecurity Supported Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Supported Incident Response Supported Network Detection and Response (NDR) Supported Network Security Supported Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) Supported Threat Hunting Supported
Cybersecurity Features AI / Machine Learning Supported Behavioral Analytics Supported Endpoint Management Supported Incident Management Supported IOC Verification Supported Tokenization Supported Vulnerability Scanning Supported Whitelisting / Blacklisting Supported	Cybersecurity Features AI / Machine Learning Supported Behavioral Analytics Supported Endpoint Management Not Supported Incident Management Supported IOC Verification Not Supported Tokenization Not Supported Vulnerability Scanning Not Supported Whitelisting / Blacklisting Not Supported Show More Features Network Security Features Access Control Not Supported Analytics / Reporting Not Supported Compliance Reporting Not Supported Firewalls Not Supported Internet Usage Monitoring Not Supported Intrusion Detection System Supported Threat Response Supported VPN Not Supported Vulnerability Scanning Not Supported
Integrations Revelstoke Supported Amazon Web Services (AWS) Not Supported Azure Marketplace Not Supported Check Point Cloud Firewall Not Supported Cybereason Not Supported Cybraics Not Supported Forescout Not Supported Fortinet SD-WAN Not Supported GigaSECURE Not Supported IBM QRadar SIEM Not Supported Microsoft Azure Not Supported OpenText Enterprise Security Manager Not Supported OverSOC Not Supported Pentera Not Supported SentinelOne Singularity Not Supported Swimlane Not Supported VMware Cloud Not Supported WatchTower Security Management App Not Supported Wraith Not Supported Zscaler Not Supported Show More Integrations View All 1 Integration	Integrations Revelstoke Supported Amazon Web Services (AWS) Supported Azure Marketplace Supported Check Point Cloud Firewall Supported Cybereason Supported Cybraics Supported Forescout Supported Fortinet SD-WAN Supported GigaSECURE Supported IBM QRadar SIEM Supported Microsoft Azure Supported OpenText Enterprise Security Manager Supported OverSOC Supported Pentera Supported SentinelOne Singularity Supported Swimlane Supported VMware Cloud Supported WatchTower Security Management App Supported Wraith Supported Zscaler Supported Show More Integrations View All 34 Integrations
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