Press Release

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.

Press Release

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 Names Three Senior Executives to Strengthen Finance, Revenue, and Customer Leadership 

Cambridge, UK
October 13, 2026
  • New leaders bring experience scaling global software businesses and strengthening the governance and operating discipline needed for sustainable growth

Darktrace, a global leader in behavioral security, today announced three appointments to its Executive Leadership Team: Adam Towns as Chief Financial and Operating Officer (CFOO), Mike McGuinness as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), and Beth Shea as Chief Customer Officer (CCO). All three report to President and CEO Ed Jennings.

The appointments strengthen Darktrace’s leadership across the customer lifecycle, commercial execution, and business operations as the company builds the capabilities, governance, and operating discipline needed to drive sustainable growth.

Towns will oversee Darktrace’s global finance organization and key operating capabilities across business performance, systems, data, and analytics with a focus on strengthening financial discipline, capital allocation, decision-making, and execution discipline. McGuinness will lead the global revenue organization and the company’s go-to-market strategy. Shea will lead Darktrace’s global post-sales organization and customer strategy, focused on unifying the customer journey and accelerating time-to-value.  

“Adam, Mike, and Beth bring deep experience scaling global software businesses and leading through growth,” said Ed Jennings, President and CEO of Darktrace. “They are strong operators who know how to stay close to customers, create accountability, and execute consistently. Their leadership gives us a stronger foundation to build a mature, durable operating model and help customers secure what AI can do.”

Towns brings extensive experience scaling high-growth enterprise software businesses across AI, analytics, and cybersecurity. He most recently served as Chief Financial Officer of Dataiku, an enterprise AI platform. Before Dataiku, he was Chief Financial Officer of Sisense, an AI-powered analytics platform, where he led global finance and business operations. Earlier in his career, he held senior finance leadership roles at Mimecast, supporting the company through significant international growth, its initial public offering, and several years as a public company.

“Darktrace has strong technology, a global business, and a significant opportunity ahead,” said Towns. “My focus is on strengthening the financial and operational foundations of the business, from governance and capital allocation to data and systems, so we can make better decisions, manage complexity, execute with discipline, and scale sustainably.”  

McGuinness brings more than 25 years of experience building and scaling go-to-market organizations across enterprise software and cybersecurity. McGuinness previously served as an advisor to Darktrace, helping shape the company’s sales organization, operating model, and commercial strategy.

Before that, McGuinness was Chief Commercial Officer at Quickbase, where he led global sales, customer success, support, and services. He has also held senior leadership roles at Veracode, Sophos, and PTC.

“AI is changing what customers need to protect and creating a major opportunity for Darktrace,” said McGuinness. “My focus is on building a consistent, customer-led go-to-market engine that can scale and capture that opportunity.”

Shea brings more than 30 years of experience leading global customer organizations. Most recently, she was Chief Customer Officer at developer security company Snyk, where she led the global customer organization and drove operational improvements, AI-enabled innovation, and a more connected end-to-end customer experience. Previously, she was Chief Customer Officer at Puppet, leading its customer-facing teams and Revenue Operations. She has also held executive roles at Veeam and VMware.

“My priority is to create a more connected and consistent experience for Darktrace customers around the world,” said Shea. “By bringing our customer-facing teams together around customer outcomes, we can help organizations realize value faster, accelerate adoption of the Darktrace Behavioral Defense Platform, and build greater resilience against an increasingly complex threat landscape.”

About Darktrace

Darktrace secures the modern enterprise by protecting AI, people and infrastructure with behavioral security. Founded in 2013, Darktrace uses Adaptive AI to understand what is normal for an organization, detect known, unknown and novel threats, and respond autonomously in real time. The Darktrace Behavioral Defense Platform delivers unified visibility, continuous behavioral monitoring and autonomous response across the enterprise. Darktrace protects nearly 10,000 customers across major industries globally, helping organizations defend against AI-powered threats across AI and agents, email and collaboration tools, and hybrid networks, while enabling them to innovate with AI securely.

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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.
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