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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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Aviso Transforms Risk into Resilience with Darktrace ActiveAI Security Platform™
- Leading Canadian wealth services supplier selects Darktrace as part of its modern cybersecurity strategy
Darktrace, a global leader in AI for cybersecurity, today announced that Aviso, one of Canada's leading wealth services suppliers, has selected the Darktrace ActiveAI Security Platform™ to secure its organization’s digital ecosystem.
With over CAN$140 billion in assets under administration and management, Aviso is a leading wealth services supplier for the Canadian financial industry. The organization provides services to nearly all credit unions across Canada and to a wide range of portfolio managers, investment dealers, insurance and trust companies and introducing brokers. Seeing digital transformation and modernization as strategic opportunities to differentiate and drive growth, Aviso is focused on building a technology-enabled, client-centric wealth management ecosystem. Implementing a robust, modern cybersecurity strategy that keeps networks, systems, people and data secure is vital for excellent client service and Aviso’s overall growth journey.
“At Aviso, we are in the business of trust. There is no room for error, making cybersecurity a critical business imperative,” said George Ho, Chief Digital & Technology Officer at Aviso. “Darktrace is a modern solution uniquely fit for the digital age that gives us comprehensive visibility, real-time detection and response, and AI-driven automation to strengthen our cybersecurity posture while also improving efficiency and productivity. With Darktrace, I have peace of mind knowing that although my team can’t monitor our systems all the time, Darktrace can.”
Financial services organizations are often a top target for cyber-criminals, with this industry subject to attacks from a broad range of threat actors ranging from organized and well-funded cyber-criminal groups with financial motivations to hacktivist groups seeking to cause disruption and wreak havoc in the markets.
Faced with a rapidly evolving threat landscape, Aviso wanted to free its security team from time-consuming manual processes, including investigating an overwhelming volume of security alerts. As part of its plan to create a modern cybersecurity strategy, Aviso turned to Darktrace’s pioneering AI technology to help their security team overcome alert fatigue, while freeing up time to focus on more proactive efforts like vulnerability management and enhancing business practices in other areas such as service, operations and compliance.
Aviso is using a variety of components of the Darktrace ActiveAI Security Platform, including Darktrace / EMAIL™ for user-focused and business-centric approach to email security, Darktrace / NETWORK™ and Darktrace / ENDPOINT™ for industry leading network detection and response capabilities, Darktrace / IDENTITY™ for robust identity management and Darktrace Managed Detection and Response. The Darktrace ActiveAI Security Platform, underpinned by Darktrace’s unique Self-Learning AI engine, learns what is normal behavior for Aviso’s entire network, continuously analyzing, mapping and modeling every connection to create a full picture of devices, identities, connections and potential attack paths. Darktrace uses this deep understanding of Aviso’s enterprise network to identify suspicious behavior and autonomously respond without disrupting business operations to secure Aviso’s entire digital footprint.
In just one month, Aviso tracked 6.7 billion network events using Darktrace / NETWORK; of those events, Darktrace autonomously investigated 23 million alerts, saving Aviso's team an estimated 1,104 hours of manual investigation.
“We are delighted to partner with Aviso to help defend their digital ecosystem against the full range of unknown and known cyber-threats using our AI technology that continuously learns a business,” said Jill Popelka, CEO, Darktrace. “Working together, we will deliver a modern approach to cybersecurity which uplifts Aviso’s human security team and shifts its cyber strategy from reactive to proactive, enabling this leading financial institution to innovate safely and securely across its business as it pursues its growth agenda.”
To learn more about how Darktrace helps protect Aviso, check out the case study.
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.
Aviso Transforms Risk into Resilience with Darktrace ActiveAI Security Platform™
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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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