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Nissho Electronics stops data breaches from enterprise to cloud

Customer Company Size

Large Corporate

Region

Asia

Country

Japan

Product

Cognito Detect
Cognito Detect for Office 365

Tech Stack

AI-based network detection and response (NDR)
Machine Learning

Implementation Scale

Enterprise-wide Deployment

Impact Metrics

Cost Savings
Digital Expertise
Productivity Improvements

Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Machine Learning

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Cybersecurity
Intrusion Detection Systems

Services

Cybersecurity Services

About The Customer

Nissho Electronics Corp. is a company based in Japan that is dedicated to making cutting-edge U.S. technology available to enterprise organizations in the country. The company partners and invests in early-stage startups like Vectra that develop innovative new technologies and disruptive business models. Nissho Electronics Corp. offers a range of products and services, including security products and services. The company is committed to providing its customers with the latest and most effective technology solutions to help them stay ahead in the rapidly evolving digital landscape. Nissho Electronics Corp. is an early adopter of new technologies and is always on the lookout for innovative solutions that can enhance its offerings and provide greater value to its customers.

The Challenge

Nissho Electronics Corp., a company that makes cutting-edge U.S. technology available to enterprise organizations in Japan, was facing growing concerns about its own network and cloud security posture due to the rise in advanced cyberattacks. These hidden threats easily evade firewalls, IDS and other legacy security systems and spread inside networks in search of assets to steal. Nissho had used its SIEM to analyze firewall logs, which was a manual, time-consuming operation. The company was also concerned about the recent spike in credential abuse and account takeovers in SaaS-based Microsoft Office 365, which affects more than 30% of organizations each month. Attackers use social engineering to exploit human behavior, elevate account privileges and steal critical business-data. The company understood that it needed visibility inside the network and public cloud to identify and stop hidden cyberattackers who move laterally in traffic to spy, spread and steal.

The Solution

To combat these response and cloud security challenges, Nissho became an early adopter of Cognito Detect™ from Vectra®. Cognito Detect leverages AI to instantly identify and stop cyberattackers in cloud and data center workloads, SaaS offerings like Microsoft Office 365, and user and IoT devices. By automating threat detections, prioritization, and other manual Tier-1 and Tier-2 security tasks, Cognito Detect significantly reduced the security operations workload at Nissho. And its compliance reporting capabilities ensure that top management is always up to date on business risk as it relates to cybersecurity. To speed up AI-assisted threat hunting and incident investigations, Cognito Detect collects relevant logs and metadata from all network traffic. The collected metadata is then enriched with deep security insights and detailed context about each attack, including all compromised users, accounts, devices, and whether the attack is part of a larger campaign. To stop account takeovers, Nissho is planning to deploy Cognito Detect for Office 365 from Vectra, which ingests activity logs from multiple Office 365 SaaS services like Microsoft Azure Active Directory, Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Exchange.

Operational Impact

Dramatically reduced the time to detect and respond to alerts and improved the threat-hunting accuracy of their SOC team.
Can disclose information to members of their board as soon as possible.
Confidence that Vectra will detect the earliest signs of a cyberattack and prevent data breaches.