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Vectra AI achieves FedRAMP High Authorization through partnership with Knox Systems, bringing ai-native security to federal agencies. Aug 06, 2026, 09:01 ET Authorization enables agencies to modernize cyber defense with AI-native attack signal correlation, unified observability, and accelerated Zero Trust initiatives SAN JOSE, Calif. and WASHINGTON, Aug. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Vectra AI, the leader in AI-native security and observability, today announced it has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High Authorization through its partnership with Knox Systems (Knox), the largest, longest-running federal managed cloud. With this authorization, U.S. federal agencies can continuously understand cyber risk across modern federal environments, prioritize real attacker activity, and act before threats become mission impact. "Federal cyber defense has entered a new era," said Hitesh Sheth, CEO of Vectra AI. "AI is changing both sides of cybersecurity. Attackers are using AI to move faster, automate reconnaissance, and overwhelm defenders with noise. AI should help security teams understand what matters, reduce investigation burden, and act before cyber risk becomes mission impact. Achieving FedRAMP High means federal organizations can now adopt an AI-native platform that strengthens mission resilience, accelerates Zero Trust, and helps security teams stay ahead of modern threats." Federal missions no longer operate across isolated networks, applications, and devices. Today's environments span identities, cloud workloads, contractors, operational technology, AI systems, and critical infrastructure that function as one interconnected mission environment. While agencies have invested heavily in cybersecurity tools and modernization initiatives, defenders still face a fundamental challenge: turning fragmented activity into a continuous understanding of where cyber risk is building and what action matters most. With FedRAMP High Authorization, federal agencies can now deploy the Vectra AI Platform to: * Correlate attack signals across network, identity, cloud, SaaS, operational technology (OT), and AI infrastructure to identify real attacks faster. * Proactively reduce attack exposure by identifying identity risks and attack paths before they are exploited. * Accelerate investigations and response through AI-driven prioritization and automation. * Produce audit-ready evidence supporting continuous monitoring, Zero Trust initiatives, and cyber resilience. "Federal agencies don't need another dashboard - they need continuous understanding of what's happening across their mission environment," said John Klopacz, Vice President of Federal at Vectra AI. "Vectra AI's FedRAMP High Authorization enables agencies to deploy AI-native security that continuously observes behavior across identities, networks, cloud services, and critical infrastructure at machine speed, giving defenders the trusted signal with context they need to effectively contain exposure, accelerate response, and ultimately, protect mission continuity." Vectra AI achieved FedRAMP High Authorization through its partnership with Knox, whose managed federal cloud accelerated the authorization process and enabled faster delivery of modern cybersecurity capabilities to government customers. "Federal missions depend on defenders who can move as fast as their adversaries, and that's no longer possible with fragmented, siloed tools," said Irina Denisenko, CEO of Knox Systems. "By partnering with Knox to achieve FedRAMP High Authorization, Vectra AI is helping accelerate the secure adoption of AI-native cybersecurity across government while removing barriers that have historically slowed innovation." FedRAMP High Authorization builds on Vectra AI's continued investment in helping public sector organizations modernize cyber defense for the AI era. FedRAMP High Authorization marks another step in Vectra AI's commitment to helping federal agencies continuously understand cyber risk, reduce exposure, and protect mission continuity in an increasingly interconnected world. About Vectra AI Vectra AI is the leader in AI-native security and observability for the AI enterprise. As artificial intelligence changes who and what works inside the enterprise, attackers are exploiting more attack paths, abusing trusted identities, and automating attacks at unprecedented speed and scale. Rooted in more than a decade of behavioral AI and machine learning innovation, Vectra AI helps security teams observe behavior across the enterprise, understand attacker activity, signal what matters, and act with confidence. The result is reduced attack exposure, faster attack response, and improved SOC efficiency. With 39 patents, recognition as a Leader in the 2025 and 2026 Gartner(R) Magic Quadrant(TM) for Network Detection and Response, and the trust of more than 2,000 organizations worldwide, Vectra AI helps organizations build attack resilience in the AI era. About Knox Systems Knox Systems operates the largest managed federal cloud, trusted by top agencies and partners across defense and civilian sectors. Built for speed, resilience, and compliance, Knox delivers FedRAMP authorization in 90 days - turning the biggest bottleneck in government IT into the fastest path to modernization. Knox proudly serves Adobe, Celonis, OutSystems, Armis, BigID, and more AI and SaaS providers, accelerating secure innovation across the federal landscape. Learn more at knoxsystems.com. SOURCE Knox Systems, Inc

Vectra AI unveils new AI Pro platform for smarter SOCs. Vectra AI introduced Vectra AI Pro, enabling safer AI adoption across SOCs through trusted signal intelligence and AI-native security. Black Hat USA - Vectra AI, the leader in AI-native security and observability, today announced Vectra AI Pro, a new offering designed to help organizations adopt AI safely across the SOC through trusted signal intelligence. In a post-Mythos world, attacks are executed at machine speed, forcing security teams to adopt AI-powered workflows simply to keep pace. But AI agents are only as effective as the signal they reason from. Unlike platforms that rely on isolated telemetry, Vectra AI Pro continuously correlates network, identity, cloud, SaaS, EDR and SASE signals into a unified understanding of attacker behavior. This cross-domain signal intelligence gives AI agents the context they need to reason accurately and act confidently. "Everyone has AI today. Vectra AI's advantage isn't that it uses AI. It's that it applies AI to understand attacker behavior. As attackers themselves become AI-powered, the winning defense won't be the one with the most detections, it will be the one that delivers trusted signal intelligence," said Hitesh Sheth, President and CEO of Vectra AI. "Our attack signal intelligence arms humans and AI agents to proactively remove attack exposure and rapidly stop active attacks in progress." "AI is changing the speed of attacks, so defenders have to respond at that same pace," said AJ Wiggan, Security Operations Manager at Gamma. "For us, Vectra AI brings together correlated network, identity, and cloud signals with the context to understand what happened before, what happened afterwards, and the full attack story. That helps us compress investigation and response, act with greater confidence, and stay ahead of attackers." The Agentic SOC runs on trusted signal intelligence. Vectra AI Pro provides trusted signal intelligence that uniquely combines: * Behavioral intelligence - detects attacker behaviors across the attack lifecycle, including reconnaissance, credential abuse, privilege escalation, lateral movement, command-and-control, and data exfiltration. * Identity and Device Intelligence - attributes activity across users, AI agents, service accounts, workloads, hosts, devices, cloud resources and unmanaged systems while correlating network, identity, cloud, SaaS, SASE and EDR telemetry into a unified attack story. * Risk and Forensic Intelligence - prioritizes the entities, behaviors and attack paths that matter most while providing the contextual details AI agents need to understand what happened, who was involved and why it matters. * Exposure Validation - enables AI agents to investigate, hunt, respond, report, and prove attack exposure is reduced, attack paths are removed, active attacks are mitigated, and controls are effective. Gartner recently recognized Vectra AI's strength in signal intelligence in the Gartner(R) Critical Capabilities for Network Detection and Response, 2026. One platform. Three paths to the Agentic SOC. Vectra AI Pro empowers customers to adopt an agentic SOC in three practical ways. Build your own agentic SOC. Teams building their own AI-powered SOC can use Vectra AI Pro as the trusted signal layer for custom AI agents, copilots and automations through REST APIs, MCP Server, and curated AI skills including IOC enrichment, PCAP retrieval and forensic investigation, hunting, and reporting. This gives customers a documented, extensible path to feed trusted signals into internal AI agents, SOC copilots, data pipelines, detection engineering, and custom automations. Add agentic workflows to your SOC. For teams strengthening an existing SOC, Vectra AI Pro's agents automatically detect, correlate, triage, prioritize and generate natural-language cases that explain why the entity was prioritized with deep context to investigate and hunt for what happened, who did it, how it connects across entities and domains, and the recommended actions to take. Operationalize AI agents in your SOC. Many organizations know they need AI in the SOC but struggle to operationalize it. Vectra AI experts help customers integrate trusted signal intelligence into existing tools and workflows, operationalize threat hunting, optimize investigation and response processes, and demonstrate measurable reductions in attack exposure. Published August 05, 2026