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Updated statement regarding LockBit claims
We have completed a thorough security investigation following yesterday’s tweets by LockBit claiming they had compromised Darktrace’s internal systems. We can confirm that there has been no compromise of our systems or any of our affiliate systems. Our service to our customers remains uninterrupted and is operating as normal and no further action is required.
Press Release
Statement regarding LockBit claims
Earlier this morning we became aware of tweets from LockBit, the cyber-criminal gang, claiming that they had compromised Darktrace’s internal security systems and had accessed our data. Our security teams have run a full review of our internal systems and can see no evidence of compromise. None of the LockBit social media posts link to any compromised Darktrace data. We will continue to monitor the situation extremely closely, but based on our current investigations we are confident that our systems remain secure and all customer data is fully protected.
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Darktrace Introduces New Global Partner Program
- Darktrace Defenders Partner Program builds upon strategic investments to accelerate partner-first go-to-market strategy
Darktrace, a global leader in cybersecurity AI, today introduced its new global partner program, the Darktrace Defenders Partner Program, to encourage deeper collaboration, empower partners, and help organizations improve cyber resilience with the Darktrace ActiveAI Security Platform™ and products.
“At Darktrace, partners are critical to our strategy and play an essential role helping customers use AI to increase cyber resilience in the face of a rapidly changing threat landscape,” said Denise Walter, Chief Revenue Officer, Darktrace. “We have made several strategic investments over the last year to transform how we go-to-market with the global partner community to drive deeper collaboration and long-term, sustained growth. With the introduction of the Darktrace Defenders Partner Program, alongside our investments in people and technology to support the program, we are poised to accelerate and drive joint success with our partners.”
Introducing the Darktrace Defenders Partner Program
Channel partners play a critical role in supporting businesses as they navigate the dynamic threat landscape. Darktrace’s State of AI Cybersecurity 2024 report found that 74% of security professionals surveyed believe AI-augmented cyber threats are already having a significant impact on their organization, yet 60% believe they are currently unprepared to defend against these attacks. Partners can help customers overcome these barriers and understand how to select the right AI solutions for the right cybersecurity challenges to take a more proactive approach to cyber resilience. Partnering effectively with the channel is critical to supporting the needs of customers.
Against this backdrop, Darktrace is introducing the Darktrace Defenders Partner Program to better support partners as they go-to-market with Darktrace. The program features three tiers – Elite, Premier, Preferred – with requirements for entry and benefits varying by tier. Key features include:
- Darktrace Services Authorized Partner Program: Partners can become authorized to deliver their own differentiated Darktrace-focused services. The program provides training and tools needed to gain expertise in the Darktrace ActiveAI Security Platform, and validates that partners authorized in the program have met high standards for product knowledge with certified individuals on staff. Darktrace currently offers authorization for partners to provide managed detection and response services for network and email.
- Personalized Learning Paths & Enablement: The program offers specialized role-based training and enablement to partners at no cost, including both web-based and instructor-led training, to empower partners with the knowledge, skills and tools needed to effectively sell Darktrace solutions.
- Access to Technical Sales Tools: To help lead and accelerate sales cycles, partners will have access to Darktrace-specific technical sales tools, including demos and product trials, with training and support from Darktrace technical and cyber intelligence experts.
- Program Discounts and Access to Market Development Funds (MDF): Partners will be eligible to receive a range of price advantages for deal registration and varying discounts on fees associated with Darktrace certification tests and not-for-resale solutions, as well as support for joint marketing initiatives.
“As the threat landscape continues to grow more challenging, security teams are grappling with monitoring increasingly complex environments,” said Brian Martin, Director of Product Management at Integrity360. “We are excited to be one of the first partners to leverage Darktrace’s new Services Authorized Partner program and integrate Darktrace’s innovative products into our managed detection and response offerings to provide robust defense to our customers. Our partnership combines Integrity360’s deep cybersecurity expertise and support services with Darktrace’s advanced Self-Learning AI engine, enabling a proactive approach that allows customers to stay one step ahead.”
The launch of the Darktrace Defenders Partner Program builds on the investments Darktrace has made over the last year to grow and evolve its Global Partner Organization (GPO) team and strategy. Darktrace has tripled the size of the GPO team across key functions such as sales operations, marketing and technical partner enablement, and put in place new systems and technology to better support partners, including a new partner portal. To further accelerate this transformation, Darktrace is also introducing an accelerator on commission for its sellers when they transact through a partner, encouraging deeper collaboration and engagement.
Since inception, Darktrace’s Global Partner Organization has worked with thousands of partners worldwide, including value-added resellers (VARs), global systems integrators (GSIs), managed security service providers (MSSPs), distributors, and consulting organizations, like Integrity360, Bechtle, Softchoice, Technologent, Bytes Software Services, SIS International, CDW UK&I and others. Darktrace has deep partnerships with AWS, as an AWS Security Competency Partner and part of the AWS ISV Accelerate program, and Microsoft, recently winning the UK 2024 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award. Darktrace also has a wide array of technology alliances, such as integrations with Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Netskope, SentinelOne and others that enable mutual customers to harness the value of Darktrace alongside complementary technologies.
To learn more about the new Darktrace Defenders Partner Program, visit: https://darktrace.com/partners.
ABOUT DARKTRACE
Darktrace (DARK.L), a global leader in cybersecurity artificial intelligence, is on a mission to free the world from cyber disruption. Breakthrough innovations from our R&D teams in Cambridge, UK, and The Hague, Netherlands have resulted in over 200 patent applications filed. Rather than study historic attacks, Darktrace's technology continuously learns and updates its knowledge of your business data and applies that understanding to help transform security operations to a state of proactive cyber resilience. The Darktrace ActiveAI Security Platform™ provides a full lifecycle approach to cyber resilience that can autonomously spot and respond to known and unknown in progress threats within seconds across the entire organization, including cloud, apps, email, endpoint, network and operational technology (OT). Darktrace, which listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2021, employs over 2,400 people around the world and protects over 9,700 customers globally from advanced cyber threats. To learn more, visit https://darktrace.com/.
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Darktrace named a Challenger in first Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Email Security Platforms · Evaluated on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute Darktrace, a global leader in AI for cybersecurity,today announces that Darktrace / EMAIL™, has been recognized in thefirst ever Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Email Security Platforms (ESP) as a Challenger. Chris Kozup, Chief Marketing Officer, Darktrace, said of therecognition: “We are extremely proud to have been recognized in the first MagicQuadrant for ESP. We believe the factthat wehave seen such wide scale adoption is testament to the unique way in which wedevelop products to keep our customers safe from even the most sophisticated emailcompromises. We believe our placement reaffirms our dedication to deliveringexceptional customer service, and innovations that safeguard against the emailchallenges of today—and tomorrow.” Darktrace customers consistently acknowledge its exceptional customersupport, delivered by an award-winning[1]service team. Darktrace has the highest percentage of 5-star ratings with a 4.8rating on Gartner® Peer Insights™ out of 249 reviews as on[MW1] 19th December. We feel this unwavering commitment to customersatisfaction is evident in strong renewal rates and accelerated growth inDarktrace / EMAIL over the past few years, gaining almost 5,000 customers sinceits launch in 2019. Darktrace / EMAIL, one of the fastest-growing emailsecurity products on the market, is built on Darktrace’s unique Self-LearningAI, a multi-layered AI engine that leverages different types of AI includingNLP and behavioral analysis to detect threats, instead of traditional securitymeasures such as signatures and sandboxing. This approach enables Darktrace todetect and stop threats like business email compromise attacks and noveltechniques, including some 56% of which passed through customers’ other emailsecurity layers. This pioneering approach has enabled Darktrace to introduce industry-leadingcapabilities such as QR code analysis and automated incident investigations, alongsidedifferentiated functionality to help teams add new depth to their emailsecurity, including: Account take over and Lateral mail account compromise protection. Contributing yet another layer to the AI behavioural profile for each user, security teams can now spot early symptoms of account compromise or malicious insiders before a link or attachment payload is sent, and exfiltration occur Microsoft Teams security with advanced messaging analysis: Advancing beyond simple text analysis to behavioral and natural language content analysis that tracks context across both email and instant messaging to identify the approximately 38% of phishing, sophisticated social engineering and novel insider threats other solutions fail to capture · Drastically improveend user reporting with Cyber AI Analyst narratives: Real-time awareness training capabilities reduce falsepositives in phishing investigations by up to 60% by providing context specificanalysis of each received email to each employee as they interact with their mail.· MailboxSecurity Assistant to increase security team operational efficiency: All forms ofsecondary investigations can now automatically perform advanced behavioralbrowser analysis and stop malicious links within webpages, reducing manualeffort of security analysts to detecting phishing links, and allowing them to remediateup to 70% more malicious phishing links than before.· AI based,autonomous data loss prevention: to immediately protect organizations from misdirected emails,insider threats, and data loss—both classified and unclassified – using userbehavior and dynamic content analysis to determine sensitivity, removing administrativeoverhead from manual expressions and labeling.Marco Cavallo, IT Manager at Darktrace / EMAIL customer Arpa Industries comments:“During the POV, Darktrace / EMAIL showed how specific attacks weresurgically blocked. We realized that other tools wouldn’t have detected thesethreats.” Darktrace / EMAIL is part of Darktrace’s ActiveAI Security Platform™,offering network, cloud, endpoint, identity and operational technologyprotection from a single shared architecture, all built on Darktrace’s uniqueAI engine – providing a strong, integrated approach to threat prevention,detection and response across an organization’s entire digital footprint. Darktrace’s global presence supports a diverse and varied customer base,and adapts proactively to customer pain points of all kinds. Darktrace’sadaptability across all market segments, from SMBs to large enterprisessupports both first time email security buyers and mature email securitystacks. It is able to meet varied security needs with lower setuprequirements, includes capability for advanced depth in configuration and,particularly for mature organizations, can augment existing security providerswith additional protections. Download the fullMagic Quadrant for Email Security Platforms here Resources:· Read more onthe Darktrace Blog· Read more abouthow business email compromise attacks are evolving on The Inference Gartner disclaimersGartner, Magic Quadrant for EmailSecurity Platforms, Max Taggett, Nikul Patel, Franz Hinner, Deepak Mishra, 16December 2024 GARTNER is a registered trademarkand service mark of Gartner and Magic Quadrant and Peer Insights are aregistered trademark, of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. andinternationally and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved.
Gartner Peer Insights content consists of the opinions of individual endusers based on their own experiences with the vendors listed on the platform,should not be construed as statements of fact, nor do they represent the viewsof Gartner or its affiliates. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product orservice depicted in this content nor makes any warranties, expressed orimplied, with respect to this content, about its accuracy or completeness,including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particularpurpose. Gartner does not endorse any vendor,product or service depicted in its research publications and does not advisetechnology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or otherdesignation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’sresearch organization and should not be construed as statements of fact.Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to thisresearch, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for aparticular purpose. About DarktraceDarktrace is a global leader in AI for cybersecurity that keepsorganizations ahead of the changing threat landscape every day. Founded in2013, Darktrace provides the essential cybersecurity platform protectingorganizations from unknown threats using its proprietary AI that learns fromthe unique patterns of life for each customer in real-time. The DarktraceActiveAI Security Platform™ delivers a proactive approach to cyber resiliencewith pre-emptive visibility into security posture, real-time threat detection,and autonomous response – securing the business across cloud, email,identities, operational technology, endpoints, and network. Breakthroughinnovations from our R&D teams in Cambridge, UK, and The Hague, Netherlandshave resulted in over 200 patent applications filed. Darktrace’s platform andservices are supported by over 2,400 employees around the world who protectnearly 10,000 customers across all major industries globally. To learn more,visit http://www.darktrace.com. ----
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