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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 Reports 600% Growth in Asia-Pacific Deployments in Last Quarter
Darktrace, the leader in Enterprise Immune System technology for cyber security, today announced strong business momentum in Asia-Pacific with a 600 percent increase of deployments in the region from July to September 2016. To further promote its self-learning technology to local organizations, Darktrace will be participating as part of a select group in the UK Department for International Trade’s ‘Singapore International Cyber Week’ trade mission this week.
Darktrace continues to build its partner network across the region with Samsung SDS; telco giant Telstra; and India’s leading solutions integrator company, AGC Networks; all recently becoming resellers and distributors.
Darktrace’s Enterprise Immune System now has 200 deployments in Asia-Pacific and latest regional customers include major communications company, M1 Limited; regional info-communications service provider, TeleChoice International; the United World College of South East Asia (UWCSEA), an independent international school in Singapore; Ramada and Days Hotels Singapore At Zhongshan Park; a Singapore-based printing company; a top 10 law firm in Australia; a leading bank in New Zealand, and an elite high technology firm in Japan.
“With an increasingly complex cyber security landscape and a substantial rise in inside threat, perimeter defenses are no longer enough to protect the network. Organizations are waking-up to the fact that a different approach is needed and are seeking intelligent technologies to stay ahead of the evolving threat,”said Sanjay Aurora, Managing Director, APAC, Darktrace. “Using advanced maths and machine learning, Darktrace is responding to growing demand and has doubled the size of its regional team across nine offices, providing customers with access and counsel from local cyber experts.”
Darktrace has been selected to participate in the UK Department for International Trade’s Singapore International Cyber Week trade mission, and will also be part of this week’s GovWare 2016 and Cloud Expo Asia conventions. This will also include a visit to Singapore’s Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) to showcase its technology.
Ahead of the trade mission, Sanjay Aurora shares two key cyber security observations for organizations from recent months:
1. Cloud Services and SaaS Applications Increases the Scope for Threat Actors and Security Operators
In 2016, Asia-Pacific organizations have continued to embrace the latest virtual tools, especially cloud-based systems. The region’s public cloud services market is on pace to grow 12.8 percent in 2016 to total US$8.11 billion, up from US$7.19 billion in 2015
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SaaS applications from the likes of Salesforce, Box, Dropbox, Google and Microsoft have allowed firms to optimize resource utilization and streamline processes to improve customer experience, reduce costs, and generate revenue in new markets. However, this has also created significant blind spots for security operators, with critical data and user interactions often falling out of sight.
“SaaS applications allow employees the luxury of working anytime and anywhere. This is crucial when we consider the mobility preferences of the millennial workforce and how quickly small- and medium-sized businesses across Asia-Pacific are looking to scale. However, this also means that user logins, data transfers and downloads over less secure home networks or public Wi-Fi increases the scope for threats to propagate,” said Sanjay Aurora.
“40 percent of all enterprise workloads are already running in public or private clouds, with nearly one-quarter of all workloads expected to run over SaaS applications by 2018
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2. Growing IoT Adoption Means Lapses in Security Can Have Serious Offline Consequences
Asia-Pacific organizations are often unaware of all the latent cyber risks in their business operations, which is illustrated by the fact that in every organization where Darktrace has been deployed, the technology has identified previously unknown threats. This will be exacerbated by the growth of IoT, which is set to see the number of connected devices across the region increase from 3.1 billion to 8.6 billion by 2020
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“Most organizations do not recognize the true breadth of their digital businesses. When we first install our technology on our customer networks, the first realization is often that the number of connected devices has been grossly underestimated. This can be due to existing connections to devices of employees who have left the company, or the failure to factor in connections to non-standard devices, like air conditioning, biometric sensors or printers,” said Sanjay Aurora.
At one company in Asia, for example, Darktrace detected that a fingerprint scanner used for access to a building was connecting to the internet in an unexpected way. Cyber-attackers had been exploiting a published security vulnerability in the fingerprint sensor to upload data that would have given them physical access to the building if the exploit had remained undetected. Through the biometric sensor, the attacker had also installed malware on the system that they planned to use to establish a foothold in the organization’s IT network.
“Organizations must now monitor everything that is going on in a digital enterprise and look for the unexpected. This can be challenging due to the sheer scale of the network and the number of connected devices. Instead of falling victim to complexity, businesses need to adopt an ‘immune system’ approach to cyber security and gain full visibility of their network using machine learning to spot cyber-threats early, before they do financial or reputational damage,” added Sanjay Aurora.
Powered by advanced mathematics and unsupervised machine learning technology developed by specialists from the University of Cambridge, Darktrace detects and defends against unidentified cyber-threats on the network in real time.
1 Gartner. Gartner Says Public Cloud Services in Mature Asia/Pacific Forecast to Reach $8.1 Billion in 2016.
2 Gartner. Gartner Says Public Cloud Services in Mature Asia/Pacific Forecast to Reach $8.1 Billion in 2016.
3 451 Research. Enterprise IT Executives Expect 60 Percent of Workloads Will Run in the Cloud by 2018.
4 IDC Asia-Pacific. Asia-Pacific Becomes the Frontline for IoT, with Industry to Connect 8.6 Billion Things and Create an USD583 Billion Market Opportunity by 2020.
About Darktrace
Darktrace is a world-leading cyber-threat defense company. Its multi-award-winning Enterprise Immune System technology automatically detects and responds to emerging threats, powered by machine learning and mathematics developed by specialists from the University of Cambridge. Without using rules or signatures, Darktrace models the ‘pattern of life’ of every device, user and network within an organization, identifying and mitigating cyber-threats before damage is done. Darktrace’s self-learning technology has been deployed globally and across all sectors, including energy, retail, telecommunications, manufacturing, financial services and healthcare. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and Cambridge, UK, with over 20 global offices including London, New York, Milan, Mumbai, Paris, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo and Toronto.
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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.
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