DARKTRACE REPORTS 600%
GROWTH IN ASIA-PACIFIC DEPLOYMENTS IN LAST QUARTER

Record Quarter As
Demand For Enterprise Immune System Technology Booms

Singapore, October 10, 2016 – Darktrace, the
leader in Enterprise Immune System technology for cyber security, today
announced strong business momentum in Asia-Pacific with a 600 percent increase
in deployments in the region from July to September 2016. To further promote
its self-learning technology to local organisations, Darktrace will be
participating as part of a select group in the UK Department for International
Trade’s ‘Singapore International Cyber Week’ trade mission this week.

Darktrace continues to
build its partner network across the region with Samsung SDS; telco giant
Telstra; and India’s leading solutions integrator company, AGC Networks; all
recently becoming resellers and distributors.

Darktrace’s Enterprise
Immune System now has 200 deployments in Asia-Pacific and latest regional
customers include major communications company, M1 Limited; regional
info-communications service provider, TeleChoice International; the United
World College of South East Asia (UWCSEA), an independent international school
in Singapore; Ramada and Days Hotels Singapore At Zhongshan Park; a
Singapore-based printing company; a top 10 law firm in Australia; a leading
bank in New Zealand, and an elite high technology firm in Japan.

“With an increasingly
complex cyber security landscape and a substantial rise in insider threat,
perimeter defences are no longer enough to protect the network. Organisations
are waking up to the fact that a different approach is needed and are seeking
intelligent technologies to stay ahead of the evolving threat,” said Sanjay
Aurora, Managing Director, APAC, Darktrace. “Using advanced mathematics and
machine learning, Darktrace is responding to growing demand and has doubled the
size of its regional team across nine offices, providing customers with access
and counsel from local cyber experts.”

Darktrace has been
selected to participate in the UK Department for International Trade’s
Singapore International Cyber Week trade mission, and will also be part of this
week’s GovWare 2016 and Cloud Expo Asia conventions. This will also include a
visit to Singapore’s Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) to showcase
its technology.

Ahead of the trade
mission, Sanjay Aurora shares two key cyber security observations for organisations
from recent months:

1. Cloud Services and
SaaS Applications Increases the Scope for Threat Actors and Security Operators

In 2016, Asia-Pacific organisations have continued to embrace the latest
virtual tools, especially cloud-based systems. The region’s public cloud
services market is on pace to grow 12.8 percent in 2016 to total US$8.11
billion, up from US$7.19 billion in 2015[1]. SaaS is also the
fastest growth segment of the public cloud services market in the Asia-Pacific
region, with a projected growth rate of 22.5 percent and a revenue projection
of US$1.67 billion[2].

SaaS applications from
the likes of Salesforce, Box, Dropbox, Google and Microsoft have allowed firms
to optimise resource utilisation and streamline processes to improve customer
experience, reduce costs, and generate revenue in new markets. However, this
has also created significant blind spots for security operators, with critical
data and user interactions often falling out of sight.

“SaaS applications
allow employees the luxury of working anytime and anywhere. This is crucial
when we consider the mobility preferences of the millennial workforce and how
quickly small- and medium-sized businesses across Asia-Pacific are looking to
scale. However, this also means that user logins, data transfers and downloads
over less secure home networks or public Wi-Fi increases the scope for threats
to propagate,” said Sanjay Aurora.

“40 percent of all
enterprise workloads are already running in public or private clouds, with
nearly one-quarter of all workloads expected to run over SaaS applications by
2018[3]. At the same time,
the recent Dropbox hack highlights a pressing need for firms to invest in
security technology that provides full and real time visibility over these critical,
yet commonly-unmonitored areas of the infrastructure,” added Sanjay Aurora.

2. Growing IoT
Adoption Means Lapses in Security Can Have Serious Offline Consequences

Asia-Pacific
organisations are often unaware of all the latent cyber risks in their business
operations, which is illustrated by the fact that in every organisation where
Darktrace has been deployed, the technology has identified previously unknown
threats. This will be exacerbated by the growth of IoT, which is set to see the
number of connected devices across the region increase from 3.1 billion to 8.6
billion by 2020[4].

“Most organisations do
not recognize the true breadth of their digital businesses. When we first
install our technology on our customer networks, the first realisation is often
that the number of connected devices has been grossly underestimated. This can
be due to existing connections to devices of employees who have left the
company, or the failure to factor in connections to non-standard devices, like
air conditioning, biometric sensors or printers,” said Sanjay Aurora.

At one company in
Asia, for example, Darktrace detected that a fingerprint scanner used for
access to a building was connecting to the Internet in an unexpected way.
Cyber-attackers had been exploiting a published security vulnerability in the
fingerprint sensor to upload data that would have given them physical access to
the building if the exploit had remained undetected. Through the biometric
sensor, the attacker had also installed malware on the system that they planned
to use to establish a foothold in the organisation’s IT network.

“Organisations must
now monitor everything that is going on in a digital enterprise and look for
the unexpected. This can be challenging due to the sheer scale of the network
and the number of connected devices. Instead of falling victim to complexity,
businesses need to adopt an ‘immune system’ approach to cyber security and gain
full visibility of their network using machine learning to spot cyber-threats
early, before they do financial or reputational damage,” added Sanjay Aurora.

Powered by advanced
mathematics and unsupervised machine learning technology developed by
specialists from the University of Cambridge, Darktrace detects and defends
against unidentified cyber-threats on the network in real time.