DARKTRACE ENTERS INTO STRATEGIC CYBER SECURITY PARTNERSHIP WITH SIEMENS

DARKTRACE ENTERS INTO STRATEGIC CYBER SECURITY
PARTNERSHIP WITH SIEMENS

Fast-tracks AI Cyber Defense Platform to
Utilities, Oil and Gas Industry

Singapore, May 3, 2017 – Darktrace, the leader in Enterprise and
Industrial Immune System technology, and Siemens, a global engineering and
technology leader, have today announced they have entered into a strategic
partnership to bring cutting-edge cyber defense for operational technology (OT)
to electric utilities and the oil and gas industry. With Darktrace’s Industrial
Immune System and Siemens’ extensive domain OT security expertise, the
partnership will enable customers to enhance their agility in detecting and
responding to cyber-attacks.

As these sectors become increasingly digital
to achieve revenue and efficiency gains, there is a corresponding need to
identify cyber-threats at their earliest stages – going beyond compliance
regulations to secure operations. Utilities and oil and gas organizations must
defend their entire networks, including all OT, against persistent and highly
sophisticated cyber-threats without disrupting business processes. In the oil
and gas industry, for instance, digitalization brings a convergence of IT and
OT with critical data travelling from the field, to the control room, to the
enterprise network.

Leveraging advances in machine learning and
probabilistic mathematics, Darktrace’s Industrial Immune System platform can
detect and remediate in-progress cyber-threats at their nascent stages. By
learning the ‘pattern of life’ for every network, device, and user across both
OT and IT networks, the AI algorithms can identify and automatically take
action against emerging attacks that other tools consistently miss, all in real
time.

As an industrial technology provider for more
than 165 years, Siemens has an inherent and holistic understanding of how to
manage cyber risk in complex operating environments. A leader in the OT
industry, Siemens brings to the partnership deep domain know-how and solutions
for OT cyber, including security program design, security lifecycle management,
plant security monitoring, and incident response.

“As energy infrastructure becomes increasingly
data-driven, it is critical for operators to quickly detect and disrupt
cyber-threats,” commented Aymeric Sarrazin, Senior Vice President, Controls and
Digitalization at Siemens Power Generation Services. “Through this strategic
collaboration, Siemens and Darktrace will give customers actionable insights
and intelligence to be faster in identifying and neutralizing those threats,
protecting critical assets from harmful and costly attacks.”

“As OT environments become more digital, they
open a new and glaring vulnerability in organizations of all sizes,” commented
Nicole Eagan, CEO, Darktrace. “With over 2,400 deployments to date, Darktrace’s
immune system technology is uniquely capable of not only identifying in-progress
threats, but also neutralizing them. We are pleased to be partnering with
Siemens to fast-track the delivery of our globally recognized Industrial Immune
System to additional customers in utilities and the oil and gas industry. This
new era of cyber warfare has resulted in an increased demand for our machine
learning technology, which is uniquely capable of providing automated security
to environments that extend beyond the corporate network.”

About Darktrace

Darktrace is
the world’s leading machine learning company for cyber security. Created by
mathematicians from the University of Cambridge, the Enterprise Immune System
uses AI algorithms to automatically detect and take action against
cyber-threats within all types of networks, including physical, cloud and
virtualized networks, as well as IoT and industrial control systems. A
self-configuring platform, Darktrace requires no prior set-up, identifying
advanced threats in real time, including zero-days, insiders and stealthy,
silent attackers. Headquartered in San Francisco and Cambridge, UK, Darktrace
has 24 offices worldwide. For more information, please visit www.darktrace.com.

About Siemens

Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a global technology powerhouse that
has stood for engineering excellence, innovation, quality, reliability and
internationality for more than 165 years. The company is active in more than
200 countries, focusing on the areas of electrification, automation and
digitalization. One of the world’s largest producers of energy-efficient,
resource-saving technologies, Siemens is a leading supplier of efficient power
generation and power transmission solutions and a pioneer in infrastructure solutions
as well as automation, drive and software solutions for industry. The company
is also a leading provider of medical imaging equipment – such as computed
tomography and magnetic resonance imaging systems – and a leader in laboratory
diagnostics as well as clinical IT. In fiscal 2016, which ended on September
30, 2016, Siemens generated revenue of €79.6 billion and net income of €5.6
billion. At the end of September 2016, the company had around 351,000 employees
worldwide. Further information is available on the Internet at www.siemens.com.