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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 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Email Security Platforms

Cambridge, UK
December 3, 2025
  • Darktrace evaluated as a Leader for its Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute

Darktrace, a global leader in AI for cybersecurity, today announced that Darktrace / EMAIL™ has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Email Security Platforms (ESP). Gartner® Peer Insights™ lists 97 products in the ESP market as of November 2025, and Gartner evaluated 14 of those vendors for the 2025 Magic Quadrant.

Darktrace / EMAIL is trusted by over 6,000 organizations across the globe, delivering business-centric behavioral anomaly detection across inbound, outbound, and lateral communications in both email and Microsoft Teams to identify threats across the entire messaging ecosystem. By continuously learning what “normal” looks like for each user, mailbox and organization independently, it identifies sophisticated threats, including BEC, ransomware, phishing, and supply-chain attacks, without duplicating existing capabilities or relying on traditional rules and signatures. Darktrace / EMAIL can take a range of precise targeted actions, including rewriting links, removing attachments, unspoofing senders, or moving to junk, to maintain productivity while reducing risk.

“Darktrace / EMAIL provides precise targeting of cyber anomalies and threats while giving administrators an intelligent analysis of email flow. Darktrace does this all while simultaneously removing cyber-threats such as phishing links, MIM attacks, infected attachments, spam, and more," said Stephen Shaw, IT Manager at Satake USA Inc., an agricultural equipment manufacturer. "The Darktrace email module is irreplaceable for our network. Darktrace has saved our IT team and users an incredible amount of productivity time. And for our users, that is more important than ever because it allows our teams to focus on our customers’ needs and vendor communications without worry or delay.”

Darktrace’s inclusion in this Magic Quadrant follows recent recognition from customers, with Darktrace / EMAIL being named a 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Email Security Platforms in July 2025. Darktrace / EMAIL has an overall rating of 4.8 out of 5 in the ESP market, based on 340 verified reviews as of November 2025 from end users who have adopted the solution. Customers consistently highlight the power of our unique AI-native approach:

  • "I've had the opportunity to work with several email security solutions, among them Darktrace is much ahead and superior. The AI that comes with Darktrace is very powerful and works brilliantly in identifying email threats. If I was asked to compare it to other tools, Darktrace is in a league of its own.” - Cybersecurity Administrator, Government Industry
  • “Darktrace EMAIL is the best email protection tool I have come across; it is completely based on AI with self-learning. The email filtering is so efficient and accurate that no other tool can compete in the market. It automatically detects and applies actions to emails, including links and attachments within them. This tool requires minimal human intervention, which is only when required.” - System Security Engineer, IT Services Industry
“Email attacks are getting more sophisticated, and adversaries are moving beyond the inbox into collaboration tools like Teams, underscoring the need for cross-domain visibility and understanding,” said Chris Kozup, Chief Marketing Officer, Darktrace. “We’re proud to be recognized as a Leader by Gartner, and as the only vendor named in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ reports for ESP, Network Detection and Response (NDR), and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Protection Platforms, which we feel validates our business-centric, AI-native approach. This recognition, we believe, sets Darktrace apart in the industry and underscores the value we deliver to security teams facing advanced, never-before-seen attacks.”

In addition to recognition for Darktrace / EMAIL, Gartner has recognized Darktrace’s capabilities across other key areas of the Darktrace ActiveAI Security Platform™. Darktrace was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Detection and Response (NDR) and recognized as the only Customer’s Choice Vendor in the 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ for NDR. Darktrace was also positioned as the only Visionary in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Protection Platforms.

Additional Resources

  • Download a copy of 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Email Security Platforms report here.
  • To learn more about Darktrace’s recognition, check out our blog.
  • Download a copy of the 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Email Security Platforms report here.  
  • Learn more about Darktrace / EMAIL’s capabilities 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 2,300 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 Named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Email Security Platforms

December 3, 2025

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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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