KOREAN INSURANCE GIANT EMBRACES AI FOR CYBER SECURITY WITH DARKTRACE

SINGAPORE, August 23, 2017 – Darktrace, the leader in Enterprise
Immune System technology, has today announced that Korean industry leader, KB
Life Insurance Co., Ltd., subsidiary of KB Financial Group Inc., has deployed
its machine learning technology to detect emerging cyber-threats, at the
earliest sign of infection.

Headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, KB Life
Insurance was established in 2004 and belongs to one of the country’s largest
financial groups. The company serves over 400,000 customers across 34 branches
offering life, health and critical illness products. KB Life Insurance holds
large amounts of personal and financial customer information in order to
provide its expert service.

Despite employing traditional security tools
at the perimeter, KB Life Insurance was concerned about possible risks
inherited from third-party vendors with authorized network access. If the
organization’s network were to become infected, the company would risk damaging
stakeholder trust. KB Life Insurance was also aware of the risk of insider threat,
and the rise in unpredictable zero-day attacks and fast-spreading ransomware,
and adopted Darktrace to enhance its defenses.

“As a growing business with a large
distribution channel, we needed a technology that could proactively seek out
threats from within. Darktrace’s AI goes above and beyond in solving this
challenge,” commented Daejoong Kim, CISO of KB Life Insurance Managing
Director. “The Enterprise Immune System empowers us to stop threats in their
tracks and eliminate them, before they escalate. It also gives us network
visibility that we did not think possible.”

A few weeks after deployment, the power of
Darktrace’s self-learning technology was proven when it discovered an
authorized network user behaving in a highly anomalous way. It transpired that
the user’s desktop was connecting to a malicious website without triggering any
legacy security controls. Using Darktrace’s AI, the security team were able to
identify the abnormal activity and stop the connection in its very early
stages, before damage was done.

Leveraging machine learning and AI algorithms,
Darktrace works by learning the ‘pattern of life’ for every user, device and
network. Establishing a sense of ‘self’ for the organization, the technology
detects subtle abnormalities within the network in real time, allowing the
security team to remediate threats quickly, including insider threat and
‘unknown unknowns’.

“As the cyber-threat climate intensifies, KB
Life Insurance is leading the movement towards AI-based defense,” commented
Sanjay Aurora, Managing Director, Darktrace, APAC. “Darktrace’s machine
learning is the only technology that is capable of detecting and responding to
stealthy attacks and insidious insider threats emerging in any part
of the network, enabling KB Life Insurance to proactively safeguard its
critical assets.”

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