INDUSTRIAL IMMUNE SYSTEM INCREASINGLY DEPLOYED TO PROTECT CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

INDUSTRIAL IMMUNE SYSTEM INCREASINGLY
DEPLOYED TO PROTECT CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

City of Las Vegas and Truckee Public
Utility District Join Darktrace ICS Customers

Singapore, March
15, 2017 – Darktrace, the leader in Enterprise and Industrial Immune
System technology, has today announced that top organisations are rapidly
deploying its self-learning platform to protect their critical infrastructure.
Leading organizations such as Drax, City of Las Vegas and Truckee Donner Public
Utility District are now using Darktrace’s Industrial Immune System technology
for cyber defense.

Industrial
Control Systems (ICS) are at the heart of modern industry. They maintain
control over facilities such as power stations, water distribution, and
manufacturing production lines, monitoring complex processes and equipment. As
Operational Technology (OT) and IT networks converge, organisations across all
industries are realising the limitations of perimeter defenses to protect their
critical infrastructure. Now open to the same attack vectors as traditional
networks, industrial control systems are inherently less secure but their
compromise can lead to catastrophic consequences.

Powered
by unsupervised machine learning, the Industrial Immune System autonomously
learns about the normal ‘pattern of life’ of each user and device across the
entire network and uses that baseline to detect threatening anomalies in real
time. Created by mathematicians from the University of Cambridge, the
Industrial Immune System is a self-configuring platform that requires no prior
set-up and uses AI algorithms that mimic the human immune system to detect and
defend against the most sophisticated threats, including ‘unknown unknowns’.

“We
no longer live in an era where cyber-attacks are limited to the desktop or
server,” commented Michael Sherwood, CIO, City of Las Vegas. “IT and OT
networks have never been more connected and as a result, threat-actors are
setting their sights on critical infrastructure, where the decentralised
facilities make the network hard to physically secure. Darktrace’s machine
learning approach provides unprecedented awareness across both our IT and OT
networks, making it uniquely capable of fighting the battle before it has truly
begun.”

“Sophisticated
threat-actors now have both the motivation and capability to compromise
critical infrastructure,” commented Nicole Eagan, CEO, Darktrace. “As ICS
facilities become increasingly connected to the corporate network and the internet,
the security of OT environments has never been more at risk. Unsupervised
machine learning and AI algorithms will be crucial to detecting these emerging
threats within critical infrastructure, before they do damage.”

To
learn more about Darktrace’s capabilities for ICS, watch our next webinar here.