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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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Darktrace announces opening of new deployment center and corporate office in Dallas, Texas and key executive hires
Darktrace, a global leader in AI for cybersecurity, today announced plans for anew 7,555-square-foot deployment center in Dallas, Texas as part of an ongoing expansion effort for the business in the U.S. that includes additional U.S.-based appointments to Darktrace’s executive team and a series of new and upgradedoffices nationwide. The new deployment facility, set to be fully operational bySeptember 2025, will significantly enhance Darktrace’s ability to serve its expanding U.S. customer base. In addition to the deployment center, Darktrace will open a new corporate office in Dallas.
Darktrace today also announces the appointments of Eve Saltman as Chief Legal Officer & CompanySecretary and Marty Overman as Executive Vice President, Sales, Americas to the Darktrace Executive Committee. These appointments will help Darktrace reach and serve even more organizations in the U.S. as they look to combat escalating cyber threats. In 2024, the average cost of a U.S. data breach reached $9.4million—nearly double the global average.[1]
“The U.S. is the world’s largest cybersecurity market and Darktrace is uniquely placed to help organizations protect themselves against novel cyberattacks, so we see enormous opportunity for our business to grow its market share in the U.S. and across the Americas,” saidJill Popelka, CEO of Darktrace.
“In addition to these new senior hires and expanded facilities in the U.S., we are also making strategic investments to deepen our relationships with the leading channel resellers, to enhance our customer experience, to supportFederal customers with their increasingly complex cybersecurity needs, and to build our brand awareness in this critical market for cybersecurity.
I am delighted to welcome Eve and Marty to our Executive team. Eve brings deep experience leading global legal and commercial teams and helping to guide businesses on their scaling journey. Marty has an extensive background leading high-performing sales teams for some of the most exciting companies in cybersecurity. We are fortunate to have leaders of this caliber join our Executive team at such a critical time for our business.”
"Texas continues to prove that when you create a business-friendly environment, the best and brightest companies will come," said U.S. Congressman Jake Ellzey for Texas’s 6th Congressional District, where the new Darktrace deployment center will be based. "Darktrace expanding in FarmersBranch is yet another example showing that Texas is open for business and the world is taking notice. In a time when cyberattacks are becoming more frequent and sophisticated, companies like Darktrace, who are investing in not just preventing these attacks but also using AI to anticipate them, are more crucial than ever. We're proud to have them here in our backyard. Welcome toTexas."
Faster U.S. deployment for commercial and government customers
Darktrace protects a customer’s network, cloud, email or operational technology environments, based on each customer’s unique requirements. Its industry leading AI cybersecurity solutions can be deployed either via cloud or physical appliances. As organizations increasingly embrace hybrid environments with both on-premise and cloud deployments, demand for physical appliances remains high. The new Dallas deployment center will have the capacity to ship up to 40,000 appliances a year, positioning Darktrace for future growth. The facility is also expected to halve the delivery time of Darktrace’s appliances for U.S. customers.
In addition to serving Darktrace’s private sector clients, the center will provide dedicated deployment and physical security capabilities to support the compliance requirements of Darktrace Federal customers, the company's Arlington, Virginia-based affiliate servingU.S. Federal government agencies. Meeting stringent ISO 27001, NIST, and CMMC standards, the facility also substantially increases storage and production capacity for Trade Agreements Act-compliant hardware, enabling Darktrace Federal to effectively address the growing demand from the U.S. Federal government amid an increasingly complex threat landscape. The recent attainment of FedRAMP® High authorization further underscores Darktrace Federal’s ongoing commitment to delivering secure, AI-powered cybersecurity solutions, whether deployed on-premises or in the cloud.
Appointment of new U.S.-based executive leadership
Alongside expanding its U.S. footprint, Darktrace is also welcoming two US-based leaders to its executive team.
Eve Saltman joins Darktrace as Chief Legal Officer & Company Secretary from GoPro, Inc., where she served as Senior Vice President, Corporate and Business Development, ChiefLegal Officer, and Secretary. With deep expertise from leadership roles at prominent technology firms including Asana and Siebel Systems (acquired byOracle), Saltman brings deep experience of building legal, commercial and compliance strategies that support fast growing international businesses in complex industries. Her remit will include all commercial and corporate legal matters, compliance, privacy, risk and governance across the business.
Marty Overman will lead Darktrace’s Americas sales team, building and executing on the company’s ambitious go-to-market plans for the region. She joins from Entersekt, a leading provider of secure customer authentication and digital fraud prevention solutions, where she has been Chief Revenue Officer, overseeing the global sales team and leading the company’s go-to-market strategy. Overman brings extensive cybersecurity experience built from sales leadership positions at McAfee, PaloAlto Networks, and Imperva.
Commenting on her appointment, Saltman said, "I’m thrilled to join Darktrace at a pivotal moment for the company and I look forward to contributing my experience to helping Darktrace scale in the U.S. and globally. As cyber threats grow more sophisticated, Darktrace’s unique approach is more essential than ever. I’m excited to work with Jill and the entire Darktrace team to continue growing Darktrace’s position as a leader in AI-driven cybersecurity."
Commenting on her appointment, Overman said, “Darktrace has an incredible product set covering the areas where organizations are most vulnerable to cyberattack, including network, email, cloud and operational technology. I can see the tremendous opportunities to bring this market-leading technology to more organizations across theAmericas region and am looking forward to joining this dynamic team.”
Nationwide office upgrade
In addition to the new deployment center, Darktrace also plans to open a new corporate office in Dallas. This underscores Darktrace's commitment to expanding its U.S. operations as part of its long-term growth strategy following the 2024acquisition by Thoma Bravo.
Darktrace operates12 offices across the US, with approximately 800 employees nationwide. In the last reported full financial year (year ending 30 June 2024), the U.S. business made up 35% of Darktrace’s annual revenues. The Dallas deployment center and office are the latest investments for Darktrace in the US, building on office upgrades in Austin, Chicago, and the Washington, DC-area in recent months.
About Darktrace
Darktrace is a global leader in AI for cybersecurity that keeps organizations ahead of the changing threat landscape every day. Founded in2013, 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 DarktraceActiveAI 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.
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· Darktrace customer names and case studies can be found on the Darktrace website
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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.
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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