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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.
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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 Named a Leader in the 2024 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Network Detection and Response
- Report noted, “Darktrace achieves roughly one-fifth of all global NDR revenue.”
- Darktrace also named an overall leader in KuppingerCole’s 2024 Leadership Compass for NDR
Darktrace, a global leader in AI for cybersecurity, today announced it has been recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Network Detection and Response (NDR) 2024 Vendor Assessment[1].
This recognition follows similar accolades from KuppingerCole, naming Darktrace as an Overall Leader, Product Leader, MarketLeader and Innovation Leader in the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass: Network Detection and Response (2024), underscoring Darktrace’s role as a pioneer in the industry.
The IDC MarketScape notes, “Darktrace is unique in that it does not rely on rules and signatures but rather learns what constitutes as normal for an organization and generates alerts when there is a deviation from that previously established baseline.”
The report goes on to say, "Darktrace NDR will be as close to plug-and-play as any NDR solution in the industry." Additional strengths for Darktrace / NETWORK identified in the report include:
- “Darktrace achieves roughly one-fifth of all global NDR revenue. This is important because other IT and cybersecurity solutions providers necessarily want to have integration with Darktrace.”
- “The AI algorithms that Darktrace uses for NDR have had 10 years of deployments, tuning, and learning to draw from.”
- “Darktrace integrates with 30+ different interfaces including SIEM, SOAR, XDR platforms, IT ticketing solutions, and their own dashboards.” “According to our RFP process, Darktrace has the most integrations in the NDR industry.”
- “Darktrace / NETWORK charts the progress that the SOC is making over time with key metrics such as MTTD/MTTR, alerts generated and processed, and other criteria.”
According to the IDC MarketScape, "The network is the hub of business and employee productivity.” Darktrace / NETWORK delivers full visibility and threat detection capabilities across an organization’s on-premises, cloud, hybrid and virtual environments, including remote worker endpoints, analyzing every network connection to uncover unusual activity in real time. Leveraging Darktrace’s unique Self-Learning AI engine, Darktrace / NETWORK learns what is normal behavior for an organization’s entire network, continuously analyzing, mapping and modeling every connection to create a full picture of your devices, identities, connections and potential attack paths. Darktrace uses this deep business understanding to identify suspicious behavior and autonomously respond to both known and novel threats in real time, taking targeted actions without disrupting business operations.
“As an emergency services dispatch authority, operational continuity and resilience of our systems is absolutely critical to ensuring the safety and health of the communities we serve,” said, Henry Kozik, IT Systems Administrator at Heartland Communications Facility Authority, a public safety communications service in California. “Using Darktrace’s AI is like having an additional member of our team protecting our network 24/7, dramatically reducing our day-to-day workload. This has given our team members both the confidence and freedom to prioritize other strategic proactive initiatives across our organization, like end-user training and policy development.”
Darktrace/ NETWORK leverages the power of Cyber AI Analyst™ (AIA), a patented investigative AI unique in the industry, that saves time and resources, freeing security teams up for more strategic tasks to harden defenses and improve overall cyber resilience. Darktrace / NETWORK integrates with Darktrace / Attack Surface Management™ to help deliver continuous, customized detection of externally exposed assets. When combined with Darktrace / Proactive Exposure Management™, security teams can proactively assess their enterprise security and identify, analyze, prioritize and mitigate internal and external threats, vulnerabilities, and operational security risks.
"Traditional NDR solutions rely on historical attack data and operate independently of other security technologies, making them blind to novel threats and attacks that traverse multiple areas of an organization’s environment. As cyber threats become increasingly sophisticated, this approach continues to fall short, leaving organizations vulnerable," said Chris Kozup, Chief Marketing Officer, Darktrace. “Darktrace has been leading innovation in the NDR space for over a decade, with Darktrace / NETWORK representing our pioneering product. Our unique approach ensures organizations can identify and stop unknown or known threats in real time across an organization's entire digital estate, keeping security teams one step ahead of the evolving threat landscape.”
The KuppingerCole Leadership Compass: Network Detection and Response 2024 highlights various strengths for Darktrace / NETWORK, including its complete network traffic analysis (NTA) capabilities that allow extensive analysis into components like application use/type, fingerprinting, source/destination communication, in addition to comprehensive protocol support across a range of network device types from IT, OT, IoT and mobiles and detailed MITRE ATT&CK mapping.
Resources:
- To learn more about the 2024 IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Network Detection and Response, check out our blog and download an excerpt of the report here.
- Read more about the KuppingerCole 2024 Leadership Compass for Network Detection and Response on the Darktrace blog here or download the full report here.
About IDC MarketScape
IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of technology suppliers can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective suppliers.
About Darktrace
Darktrace is a global leader in AI for cybersecurity that keeps organizations ahead of the changing threat landscape every day. Founded in 2013, Darktrace provides the essential cybersecurity platform protecting organizations from unknown threats using its proprietary AI that learns from the unique patterns of life for each customer in real-time. The Darktrace ActiveAI Security Platform™ delivers a proactive approach to cyber resilience with 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. Breakthrough innovations from our R&D teams in Cambridge, UK, and The Hague, Netherlands have resulted in over 200 patent applications filed. Darktrace’s platform and services are supported by over 2,400 employees around the world who protect nearly 10,000 customers across all major industries globally. To learn more, visit http://www.darktrace.com.
[1] IDCMarketScape: Worldwide Network Detection and Response 2024 Vendor Assessment (doc #US51752324, November 2024).”
Darktrace Named a Leader in the 2024 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Network Detection and Response
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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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