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Darktrace
Applying AI
to tackle cyber
defense challenges
Nicole Eagan, Co-CEO
T
he rise of cloud computing,
SaaS applications, and the
increase in IoT has created
a rapid expansion of workloads
and systems across diverse digital
infrastructures. The dissolution
of the corporate perimeter has
expanded the attack surface,
leaving many areas vulnerable
to a breach. The application of
artificial intelligence to the cyber
defense challenge has marked a
fundamental shift in our ability
to protect critical data systems
and digital infrastructures. For
strained security teams, it offers
the possibility to keep pace with an
ever-evolving threat landscape.
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Darktrace is recognized as the
world’s leading AI Company for
cybersecurity. Founded in 2013 by
mathematicians from the University
of Cambridge and government
cyber intelligence experts in the US
and the UK, with deep expertise in
mathematics and machine learning,
Darktrace empowers organizations
to defend their systems against
the most sophisticated cyber-
threats. The company’s pioneering
technology, the Enterprise Immune
System, applies AI to the cyber
defense challenge for the first
time and has proven successful
in detecting cyber-threats that
existing, legacy systems cannot.
Technologies furnished
by Darktrace that’s
creating a difference
Cyber AI Platform
Darktrace has identified a
new form of cybersecurity that
moves the whole industry forward
beyond current defense models.
By applying advanced machine
learning methods to a novel
software application, it has
established a world-beating
company that has no significant
competitor.
Autonomous Response
Darktrace’s Autonomous Response
technology, Darktrace Antigena,
uses Cyber AI to calculate the best
action to take, in the shortest period
of time, to effectively respond to a
cyber-attack. Because Darktrace’s
Cyber AI learns the ‘self’ for your
enterprise from scratch and has a
highly evolved understanding of
what’s normal, it can even respond
to subtle threats that have never
been seen before, but that could
jeopardize key systems or data.
Cloud Security
Darktrace’s Cyber AI Platform offers
a cloud-native security solution
that protects workloads and
services across hybrid and multi-
cloud environments, as well as all
major SaaS applications. Delivering
unique, enterprise-wide security,
Darktrace detects and responds
to cloud-based attacks that others
miss, from malicious insiders and
external attacks, through to critical