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DARKTRACE CYBER AI
AN IMMUNE SYSTEM FOR EMAIL
iIntroduction
Email and collaboration platforms
represent the connective tissue of any
digital business. Information is shared,
plans are hatched, and alliances are
formed in the digital realm of written
correspondence. Yet as a human-driven
medium, email will always be fueled by a
pervasive assumption of trust that stands
as the ‘weakest link’ in an organization’s
security strategy.
While this assumption of trust is critical
for collaboration and growth, it means
that email more than any other area of
the business will remain structurally
resistant to the modern-day spirit of
‘zero trust’, and it is therefore hardly
surprising that 94% of cyber-threats still
originate in email.
To minimize the influence of human
fallibility in this area, the industry has
generally come around to the idea
that technology must be relied upon to
identify malicious emails that even the
most discerning, well-trained employees
fail to spot. However, until recently,
traditional defenses have struggled to
keep pace with innovations in the cyberthreat
landscape.
Spear phishing, impersonation attacks,
and account takeovers in particular
remain fruitful avenues of attack for
cyber-criminals aiming to infiltrate an
organization with ease. Targeted email
attacks of this kind, together with the
limitations of traditional defenses, remain
a burning challenge for organizations
with even the most layered and mature
security strategies.
Peter Firstbrook, VP Analyst at
Gartner, summarizes the market
dynamic well: “Common controls, such
as standard, reputation-based, antispam,
and signature-based antivirus,
are fine for widespread attacks and
scam campaigns, but they’re not
good enough for protection against
more targeted, sophisticated, and
advanced attacks.” u
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