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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 Inaugural Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Detection and Response
- Darktrace evaluated for its Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute
Darktrace, a global leader in AI for cybersecurity, today announced Darktrace has been recognized as a Leader in the first ever Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Detection and Response (NDR).
“As digital environments become more complex and traditional network perimeters dissolve, organizations rely on Darktrace’s differentiated AI-based approach to detect and autonomously respond to known and novel threats,” said Chris Kozup, Chief Marketing Officer at Darktrace. “We believe that being named a Leader in Gartner’s inaugural Magic Quadrant for NDR is powerful validation of our ongoing innovation, market leadership and commitment to our customers. With the largest market share in the NDR market according to IDC, we’ve proven our ability to meet the demands of modern enterprises—empowering organizations to build proactive network resilience and scale security operations with AI.”
Darktrace / NETWORK™ takes a fundamentally different approach to NDR with its Self-Learning AI which learns what is normal for an organization’s entire network, to enable detection of both known and novel threats without relying on rules, signatures or historical attack data. This unique approach means that Darktrace / NETWORK excels at detecting sophisticated threats like previously unknown attacks, insider threats, or simply those missed by other approaches. We’ve regularly demonstrated the ability to detect malicious activity up to 11 days before public disclosure of a vulnerability.
Darktrace / NETWORK is not limited to traditional networks, it expands its full visibility and precise threat detection, investigation and response across the modern enterprise, spanning on-premises networks, virtual, cloud and hybrid environments, SaaS productivity tools, air-gapped OT and IoT devices, tracks identities, extends to remote worker endpoints natively or through Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) technologies, and has recently expanded support for encrypted traffic.
Designed to drive greater efficiency across the SOC, Darktrace / NETWORK leverages Cyber AI Analyst™, a patented agentic AI system that autonomously performs end-to-end investigations. It can automatically triage all relevant alerts from Darktrace and 3rd party security tools, then prioritizes incidents, elevating security teams to focus on more proactive tasks. Cyber AI Analyst provides SOCs with the equivalent of up to 30 additional full-time employees performing Level 2 analysis and written reporting annually.
“Anomalies that seemed harmless to us were immediately flagged,” said Edward Massey, Department Head for Network Engineering, Telecommunications at DTC Communications, a leading provider of advanced telecommunication solutions. “Darktrace’s AI responded to those in real time, stopping incidents to give us time to investigate before they spread laterally or caused real damage. It’s a true game changer.”
“Darktrace handles multiple incidents simultaneously, alerting us only to the critical few while autonomously managing the rest,” added Massey.
As a core component of the Darktrace ActiveAI Security Platform™, Darktrace / NETWORK extends beyond the boundaries of traditional NDR solutions—enabling customers to build and maintain proactive resilience. It allows security teams to proactively assess their security posture and identify, prioritize, and mitigate internal and external risks across the enterprise. Leveraging Darktrace’s deep understanding of each organization’s unique environment, attack path discovery, vulnerability prioritization, and tailored playbooks can help teams anticipate, detect, contain, and recover from cyber incidents more effectively.
Darktrace has received several recent acknowledgements highlighting the strength and innovation of its NDR solution. Darktrace was recognized as a Leader in the 2024 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Network Detection and Response, as well as an overall leader in KuppingerCole’s 2024 Leadership Compass for NDR and was recently awarded Best Insider Threat Solution at the 2025 SC Awards.
Darktrace customers also consistently recognize the value of its solutions—which we believe is reflected in Darktrace / NETWORK’s 4.7 rating on Gartner® Peer Insights™, based on 385 reviews as of May 22, 2025.
Resources
- Download the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Detection and Response here.
- To read more about Darktrace’s recognition, check out our blog here.
- Learn more about Darktrace / NETWORK on our website here.
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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 to secure the business across the entire digital estate – from network to cloud to email. It provides pre-emptive visibility into the customer’s security posture, transforms operations with a Cyber AI Analyst™, and detects and autonomously responds to threats in real-time. 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.
Darktrace Named a Leader in Inaugural Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for 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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