Overview

Cyber security is one of the greatest technical challenges of our day. In a rapidly evolving threat landscape faced by lean security teams, organizations need to adopt a radically different approach. Darktrace has answered this challenge by using AI to embrace the uncertainty and unpredictability of this new threat landscape, ushering in a new era of cyber defense.

Whereas traditional security focused on protecting network borders and looking for known ‘bad’, Darktrace works by establishing a ‘pattern of life’ for every network, device, and user. From this ever-evolving understanding of normal, the Enterprise Immune System can detect and respond to subtle threats within the network in real time. With this technology, companies can take a proactive approach to security with the ability to detect cyber-threats before they can do damage, across their entire network infrastructure.

However, Darktrace’s capabilities are not limited just to threat detection. Antigena, Darktrace’s fundamentally unique autonomous response system, generates ‘digital antibodies’ that take targeted action to neutralize in-progress cyber-threats. Since its launch, Antigena has proven to work at scale in enterprise networks around the world. For example, during the global WannaCry epidemic in May 2017, Darktrace successfully detected and neutralized the ransomware strain within minutes of it emerging in a number of customers, including an NHS agency.

In order to continue pushing for innovation, Darktrace has a dedicated team of 30+ PhD mathematicians and software engineers in a machine learning R&D center. Their research focuses on how to automate more processes for the cyber analyst and understand how the mind of the analyst works to investigate cyber-incidents. While smaller teams work on more specific projects, such as unknown URL analysis, malicious email classification, and DNS tunneling attack detection, one larger team works on “The Turing Brain”, a deep learning project that aims to automate the analyst.