Darktrace Announces Availability of PREVENT/OTT

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Darktrace PLC
09 February 2023
 

 

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darktrace ANNOUNCES PREVENT/ot™  to pre-empt cyber attacks on The world's most CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

 

Darktrace closes its largest deal to date with a critical infrastructure organization to get ahead of state-sponsored attacks and support digital transformation

 

 

Cambridge, UK - [Thursday 9th February, 2023] - Darktrace, a global leader in cyber security AI, today announces availability of Darktrace PREVENT/OT™, a product that identifies the paths adversaries may take to attempt to disrupt the operations of critical infrastructure. This unique approach uses AI to "think like an attacker" to visualize pathways within information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) that lead to critical infrastructure assets, empowering defenders to harden environments and stay steps ahead of the adversary.

 

PREVENT/OT is part of the Darktrace/OT product family, protecting complex industrial environments against known and unknown attacks, using self-learning AI to discover and identify assets and detect subtle deviations that point to a cyber-threat. First launched in 2015, Darktrace/OT DETECT and RESPOND™ are currently used by hundreds of critical infrastructure companies in utilities including electric, water, oil & gas, maritime, and transportation.

 

"In one of our early adopters Darktrace AI found a complete viable attack path from a public email account to a deeply protected and active production PLC (Programmable Logic Controller): a vital component of all Industrial Control Systems. The organization was not aware this long, but complete path spanning both IT and OT systems existed. Some steps were not simple to exploit, but fundamentally a committed attacker could have followed this path and could have manipulated the controller logic, sound alarms, or even worse start and stop processes impacting the operation of the entire facility" said Jeffrey Macre, Industrial Security Solutions Architect at Darktrace. "We are incredibly proud to support the many critical infrastructure organizations that we do today and excited to deliver this new capability to prevent the worst-case attacks before they can happen. We are seeing great interest from customers in these capabilities."

 

The company signed several new deals with critical infrastructure organizations across the globe in the last three months including new customers, renewals and expanded contracts within the critical infrastructure industry. Darktrace already defends customers across all 16 critical infrastructure sectors designated by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in the US. The deals underscore a paradigm shift occurring around the globe that sees governments putting in place new mandates and rules requiring more robust cyber protections in critical industries, including healthcare, financial services, energy and chemicals.

 

The deals include, among others:

· A major provider of critical infrastructure services which has signed a multi-million-dollar, multi-year deal with Darktrace in Q2 of fiscal year 2023 - the single largest deal signed by the business to date

· A leading power transmission company with a majority stake in its National Power Grid 

· An energy supplier with over 500 gas stations

· A not-for-profit electric power supplier with over 150,000 member-owned accounts 

· A global chemicals company operating across 20+ countries 

· A major provider of crude oil and natural gas listed on the NYSE

"We are thrilled to have closed our largest deal to date with a major critical infrastructure organization," commented CEO Poppy Gustafsson. "Critical infrastructure is a top target for the world's most sophisticated and well-resourced cyber-attackers. Now with our PREVENT/OT product, defenders can prioritize and test the routes adversaries might take to get to the 'crown jewels'. Crucially, we can then harden defenses against that attack in advance of the worst happening. That is truly game changing in the ongoing battle for control of the world's critical infrastructure and I am delighted that Darktrace has continued to evolve its product family to address this global challenge."

 

About Darktrace

 

Darktrace (DARK.L), a global leader in cyber security artificial intelligence, delivers complete AI-powered solutions in its mission to free the world of cyber disruption. Breakthrough innovations from the Darktrace Cyber AI Research Centre in Cambridge, UK and its R&D centre in The Hague, The Netherlands have resulted in over 125 patent applications filed and significant research published to contribute to the cyber security community. Darktrace's technology continuously learns and updates its knowledge of 'you' for an organization and applies that understanding to achieve an optimal state of cyber security. It is delivering the first ever Cyber AI Loop, fuelling a continuous end-to-end security capability that can autonomously prevent, detect, and respond to novel, in-progress threats in real time. Darktrace employs over 2,200 people around the world and protects over 8,100 organizations globally from advanced cyber-threats. It was named one of TIME magazine's 'Most Influential Companies' in 2021.

 

 

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