Vectra extends cloud identity detection capabilities with Microsoft Azure AD Answers industry need for universal SaaS coverage with cloud-to-ground data control News provided by Share this article Share this article SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Vectra AI, a leader in network detection and response (NDR), today announced enhanced cloud identity detection capabilities using Azure AD within its Cognito Detect for Office 365. By integrating at the identity layer, Vectra gives complete cloud-to-ground security coverage over an organization's entire SaaS ecosystem. This single configuration effectively puts an end to lateral movement between ground and cloud. In the rapidly adopted remote work environment, data is stored and distributed across countless cloud applications. For many organizations, Azure AD holds the keys to the kingdom because it is leveraged for federated authentication to their SaaS applications. The adoption of Azure AD reached 425 million active users by the end of 2020 and last month Microsoft reported a 50 percent increase in Azure sales in its second fiscal quarter of 2021. This means that compromising a single Azure AD account can give an attacker access to a vast trove of data housed across multiple SaaS applications. With the Vectra extended support for Azure AD, Cognito Detect for Office 365 fills an unanswered security gap by drastically reducing the consequences of a large-scale supply chain breach while offering a simple and comprehensive way to secure users' cloud identities.