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April 14, 2023 11:42 AM

Updated statement regarding LockBit claims

Mike Beck, Chief Information Security Officer, Darktrace

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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April 13, 2023 9:30 AM

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 the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Detection and Response for Second Consecutive Year 

Cambridge, UK
May 21, 2026

Darktrace, a global leader in AI for cybersecurity, today announced it has been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Detection and Response (NDR) for the second consecutive year.  

Darktrace is the only vendor to be recognized as both a Leader in the 2025 and 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ and a 2025 Customers’ Choice for Network Detection and Response (NDR). We believe this recognition reflects Darktrace’s sustained ability to execute, adapt and deliver outcomes as the NDR market evolves, while underscoring continued confidence in our approach to helping organizations detect, investigate and respond to threats across complex environments.

Darktrace takes a unique approach to NDR, using Self-Learning AI™ to continuously learn each organization’s normal patterns of activity and detect deviations in real time. This enables a more proactive and pre-emptive model of network security, helping teams identify early signs of risk, including identifying malicious activity before public vulnerability disclosures, and respond before threats escalate.  

Darktrace continues to innovate across its NDR capabilities, advancing how AI can help security teams detect, understand and respond to emerging threats. Recent innovations include DIGEST, a new machine learning model used by Darktrace’s Cyber AI Analyst™, that is trained on over one million anonymized incident graphs to predict which incidents are most likely to escalate. DIGEST combines Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to interpret incident structure with Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) to analyze how incidents evolve over time, helping to reliably identify high-risk threats at the earliest stages – a key element in Darktrace’s ability to detect unknown and zero-day threats. Darktrace believes this recognition underscores the strength of its unique multi-layered approach to AI, first introduced in 2013, combining supervised and unsupervised machine learning, behavioral analysis, autonomous investigation and response to help organizations stay ahead of evolving threats that may be missed by traditional tools.

Darktrace’s inclusion in this Magic Quadrant follows recent recognition from customers, with Darktrace / NETWORK™ recognized as the only Customers Choice Vendor in the 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ for Network Detection and Response. Darktrace is the most-reviewed NDR solution on Gartner® Peer Insights™ with a 4.8 out of 5 rating based on 612 real customer reviews as of 20th May 2026. Customers highlight:  

  • “The product excels at detecting anomalous network behavior using AI-driven models and provides real-time visibility into inbound/outbound traffic. The real advantage is the autonomous response feature, helping contain threats without manual intervention. The dashboards are intuitive and offer clear visualization of network activities.” - IT Security & Risk Management Associate, Software Industry  
  • “The system learns our network behavior and identifies unusual patterns without relying solely on predefined signatures. This gives us confidence in identifying emerging threats early.” - IT Security and Risk Management Manager, Retail Industry
  • "Darktrace NDR has excellent model-based detection capabilities across various MITRE attack scenarios and support with many third-party integrations. It has assisted with proactive detection of real-world threats to ensure prompt incident response actions." - Cyber Operations Lead, Media Industry
  • "Darktrace Network provides strong visibility and protection across the entire network, using AI-driven analysis to detect anomalous and abnormal behaviours and potential threats in real time. Its ability to adapt dynamically makes it a powerful solution for defending against both known and unknown attacks." - Cybersecurity Specialist, IT Services Industry  
“As AI adoption accelerates, organizations are securing increasingly complex environments where identities, SaaS applications, cloud services, and network activity are more interconnected than ever,” said Chris Kozup, Chief Marketing Officer, Darktrace. “Darktrace helps security teams move beyond reactive detection by learning each organization’s unique business, identifying both known and unknown threats and responding autonomously before incidents escalate. We are proud to be recognized as a Leader by Gartner for the second year in a row, and believe our position reflects our continued AI innovation and proven delivery of security outcomes for customers and partners worldwide.”

Darktrace has received a number of recognitions from Gartner over the past year including being named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Email Security Platforms and recognized as a 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Email Security Platforms. Darktrace was also positioned as the only Visionary in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Protection Platforms.

Additional Resources

  • Download a copy of the 2026 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.  

Disclaimer: The 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Detection and Response (NDR), Thomas Lintemuth, Charanpal Bhogal, Nahim Fazal, 18 May 2026.

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s business and technology insights organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Gartner and Magic Quadrant are trademarks of Gartner, Inc., and/or its affiliates.

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 250 patent applications filed. Darktrace’s platform and services are supported by over 2,300 employees around the world who protect nearly 10,000 customers across all major industries globally.

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Darktrace Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Detection and Response for Second Consecutive Year 

May 21, 2026

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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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