AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL BOLSTERS CYBER SECURITY WITH DARKTRACE AI

AUSTRALIAN
COUNCIL BOLSTERS CYBER SECURITY WITH DARKTRACE AI

Lockyer Valley Deploys Enterprise Immune System

SINGAPORE, September 20, 2017 – Darktrace, the
world leader in AI technology for cyber defence, has today announced that
Lockyer Valley Regional Council, an Australian local government body, has
deployed Darktrace’s disruptive machine learning technology for cyber defence.

Based in Queensland, Australia,
Lockyer Valley RC operates in an open environment of collaboration with a
diversity of public services and facilities, from road and building
maintenance, to café and library services. As more council services digitize,
its network has become louder and more complex, making it challenging to spot
silent and stealthy attacks, and insider threat. Of particular concern to its
lean security team are targeted phishing attacks on unsuspecting employees and
malware infections caused by accidental or deliberate misuse of public
computers. Taking action, the council deployed Darktrace to autonomously detect
emerging threats, wherever they originate, to protect its operations and keep
services running smoothly.

“Anticipating and pre-empting
every security risk is practically impossible in the face of ‘unknown unknowns’
and insider threat,” commented Graham Cray, Information Services Manager,
Lockyer Valley RC. “Before Darktrace, we lacked the power to detect if an
authorised network-user had gone rogue, or if a novel threat had bypassed our
legacy security systems. Armed with the Enterprise Immune System, our security
team can now proactively defend against nascent threats in real time.”

Soon after deployment, Darktrace
quickly proved its value by swiftly alerting the council’s security team to a
number of emerging threats on ‘Free Internet’ machines situated in its
libraries. Darktrace instantly identified this activity as abnormal, enabling
Lockyer Valley RC to take appropriate action in mitigating the threat to
customers.

Leveraging the latest
advancements in machine learning and probabilistic mathematics, Darktrace
mimics the self-learning intelligence of the human immune system to identify
and fight back against in-progress attacks in real time. The AI algorithms
learn the ‘pattern of life’ for every user, device and network, establishing a
sense of ‘self’ for the health of an organisation, and then use this constantly
evolving baseline to detect threatening anomalies within the network in real
time.

“Today’s attackers target public
organisations, such as local councils, to disrupt operations and erode our
trust in institutions,” commented Sanjay Aurora, Managing Director, Darktrace,
APAC. “Darktrace’s AI technology is the world’s first proven solution that can
not only detect but autonomously halt in-progress threats, empowering
organisations like Lockyer Valley RC to stay ahead in this arms race.”

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.