Darktrace is one of the fastest-growing cyber security companies in the world, and a global leader in AI for the enterprise. Founded in 2013 by mathematicians from the University of Cambridge and cyber intelligence experts, the company’s flagship AI platform, the Enterprise Immune System, is widely recognized for its innovation in allowing organizations from all industries to protect against the most advanced cyber-threats. The company is valued at $1.65 billion, with over 800 employees and 40 offices worldwide. It is headquartered in San Francisco and Cambridge, UK.

Detects and responds to cyber-threats – across the digital enterprise

The application of artificial intelligence to the cyber defense challenge has marked a fundamental shift in our ability to protect critical data systems and digital infrastructures. For strained security teams, it offers the possibility to keep pace with an ever-evolving threat landscape.

While rule and signature-based solutions offer some protection against pre-identified threats, the reality is that attacks consistently evade these and get inside your network. Powered by unsupervised machine learning, Cyber AI responds to these threats before they become a crisis.

Cyber AI is a self-learning technology – like the human immune system, it learns ‘on the job’, from the data and activity that it observes in situ. This means making billions of probability-based calculations in light of evolving evidence.

This self-learning ability enables Cyber AI to uncover rare and previously unseen patterns in information, amid the noise of everyday activity across an organization’s digital systems. By detecting subtle deviations from the organization’s ‘pattern of life’, it can distinguish friend from foe – and highlight true cyber-threats or attacks that would otherwise go unnoticed.

Darktrace’s artificial intelligence is world-renowned for its ability to uncover never-seen-before cyber-attacks within an organization and neutralize them in real time.

Based on advances in machine learning and mathematics developed in Cambridge, UK, Darktrace’s technology works by observing digital patterns and behaviors, and establishing an understanding of the organization’s evolving ‘pattern of life’. From this, it can detect novel cyber-threats as they emerge

Darktrace’s AI has also heralded a new era of autonomous response, where a machine system is sufficiently intelligent to understand when and how to ‘fight back’ against in-progress cyber-threats. It can do this faster than a human, giving security teams precious time to catch up.

The Enterprise Immune System is Darktrace’s multi-award-winning technology platform for cyber defense, allowing for the detection, inves-tigation and neutralizing of cyber-threats across the digital enterprise, including the cloud, virtualized environments, SaaS applications, and industrial control systems.

Powered by AI, and inspired by the human immune system, the Enterprise Immune System does not require knowledge about past threats to detect future ones. Instead, it is a self-learning system that identifies the sophisticated threats that exist within the network perim-eter, and which bypass traditional security controls. These include:

The Threat Visualizer is Darktrace’s graphical and interac-tive 3D interface, which visualizes activity across the entire digital business and enables users to investigate anomalies in real time. With its cutting-edge user interface, the Threat Visualizer automatically alerts the security team to signifi-cant threats in their environment, helping them to proactively investigate and respond.

The Enterprise Immune System not only detects threats but can intervene to stop them in their tracks. The solution named Darktrace Antigena acts like the antibody of the immune system, taking swift, surgical action to stop the spread of in-progress cyber-attacks. A game changer for security executives, Darktrace Antigena allows them the critical time that they need to catch up, in the face of an ever faster-paced threat environment, where some automated attacks can hit in just seconds.