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Meet the leaders behind the glory of Darktrace
Nicole Eagan is Co-Chief Executive Officer of Darktrace. Her
extensive career spans 25 years working for Oracle and early to late-
stage growth companies. Named ‘Cybersecurity CEO of the Year 2019’
(Global CEO Excellence Awards) and one of HMG’s ‘Top 100 Technology
Executives to Watch’ in 2019, Nicole has introduced disruptive machine
learning to enterprises of all sizes. Under her leadership, Darktrace
has won more than 100 awards and the company has been named one
of WSJ’s ‘Tech Companies to watch’, Fast Company’s ‘Most Innovative
Companies’, and a CNBC ‘Disruptor 50’.
Poppy Gustafsson OBE is Co-Chief Executive Officer of
Darktrace, which under her leadership has reached a $1.65 billion
valuation in under five years, was named Europe’s 9th ‘Fastest Growing
European Company’ by The Financial Times, and named ‘Fastest Growing
Super Scale-up’ by Tech Tour. Poppy is a qualified chartered accountant
and previously served as the company’s CFO. Prior to Darktrace, Poppy
held financial controller positions in the technology and venture capital
sector. She was the winner of the ‘VeuveClicquot Business Woman Awards
2019,’ and recognized in Management Today’s ‘30 Women under 35’ list
in 2018, whose alumnae include Martha Lane Fox and Karen Blackett.
misconfigurations that can expose
the business to future compromise.
Darktrace’s products for
enterprises
Darktrace Antigua
Darktrace Antigena is the world’s
first Autonomous Response
solution. Powered by award-
winning Cyber AI, it responds
to cyber-attacks in a matter of
seconds — when security teams
are overwhelmed or simply
aren’t around. The technology
works like a digital antibody,
intelligently generating a targeted
and proportionate response
whenever a threatening incident
arises in-network, email or cloud
environments.
The Enterprise Immune
System
The Enterprise Immune System is
a self-learning cyber AI technology
that detects novel attacks and
insider threats at an early stage.
Modeled on the human immune
system, the Enterprise Immune
System learns and understands
‘self’ for everyone and everything
in the business, and can spot the
subtle signals of an advanced
attack — without relying on rules,
signatures, or prior assumptions.
The Industrial Immune
System
The Industrial Immune System is a
fundamental AI technology for OT
cyber defense. It works by passively
learning what ‘normal’ looks like
across OT, IT and industrial IoT,
allowing it to detect even the
subtlest signals of emerging cyber-
threats in real-time. This self-
learning technology is protocol-
agnostic and can be deployed
across a range of OT environments,
providing full coverage of the
organization without disrupting
daily operations.
SR
Poppy Gustafsson OBE, Co-CEO
“Darktrace
empowers
organizations
to defend
their systems
against
the most
sophisticated
cyber-threats.”