Vectra AI Launches Ascent to Help Address New Era of AI-Driven Attacks

Vectra AI announced Vectra AI Ascent, a new global partner program designed to address the growing challenge of AI-driven attacks. The program aims to build a broader ecosystem of partners – including solution providers, MSSPs, and cloud partners – to help organizations understand and respond to these increasingly complex threats. Ascent focuses on co-selling, co-marketing, co-delivery, and co-innovation to deliver enhanced security outcomes and maximize the value of existing technology investments.

Attackers are leveraging AI to operate at machine speed, exploiting gaps across the security stack and moving through identities, legitimate credentials, cloud services, and trusted tools. As a result, organizations need greater visibility into where AI is operating across their environments and stronger security outcomes from the technologies they already have rather than simply adding more tools.

Vectra AI is expanding its global partner strategy to meet this shift by building an ecosystem that combines technology, expertise, and services to help customers identify security gaps, modernize security operations, and strengthen resilience. Ascent brings together solution providers, MSSPs, systems integrators, distributors, cloud partners, and strategic technology alliances around that opportunity.

“AI is accelerating how attacks unfold, raising the stakes for organizations that need to understand where they are exposed and how to respond before risk becomes business impact,” said Mark Thornberry, senior vice president of partnerships at GuidePoint Security. “Vectra AI gives us a strong foundation to help customers address that challenge across increasingly connected environments. With Ascent, we can build on that foundation with differentiated services and expertise that help customers reduce exposure, respond faster, and build greater resilience against modern attacks.”

Partners can progress through three levels: Basecamp, Elevate and Summit — unlocking deeper benefits and joint investment as their business with Vectra AI grows. To learn more about Vectra AI Ascent, visit: www.vectra.ai/partners/overview.

About Vectra AI Vectra AI is the leader in AI-native security and observability. 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, removal of attack paths, and faster detection, investigation and response through agentic SOC automation. With 39 patents, recognition as a Leader in the 2025 and 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Detection and Response, and the trust of more than 2,000 organizations worldwide, Vectra AI secures the AI enterprise.