British-American cyber security artificial intelligence company Darktrace released an AI-driven system that continuously monitors open-source intelligence (OSINT) sources for new critical vulnerabilities and assesses each organization’s exposure in order to improve cyber security teams response time.
Darktrace Newsroom uses AI to monitor threat feeds and OSINT sources for new critical vulnerabilities and publishes them on the Darktrace PREVENT dashboard launched last summer, as part of the Newsroom feed. Newsroom shows a summary of the vulnerability, the affected software, and reveals how many assets have been found to run this software within the organization.
According to the company, which quotes findings from a CISA report, new critical vulnerabilities, such as Log4J and ProxyLogon, make news headlines regularly and the average time to exploitation has shrunk to just 15 days. Traditionally, security teams had to take longer periods of time to work out whether they were affected when a vulnerability emerged, allowing a window for aggressive, fast-moving attackers to breach their organizations, often within hours, the company added.
“When news of a vulnerability hits, security leaders need to know how it affects them specifically before their CISO, or the Board, demands answers. This latest innovation shows our continued commitment to augmenting human capabilities by combining the intelligence of always-on, self-learning AI with the unique skills of human security teams,” commented Pieter Jansen, SVP of Cyber Innovation, Darktrace.
Darktrace was named one of TIME magazine’s ‘Most Influential Companies‘ in 2021.
In FY 2022 ended June 30 2022, Darktrace booked a $370.6 million gross profit, up by 14.1% on the year and $415.6 million in revenues, up 45.7% on the year, according to its latest financial report. The increase
in revenue was primarily attributable to a 32.1% net increase in unique customers between 30 June 2021 and 30 June 2022 and the resulting increase in annual recurring revenue. The company ended FY 2022 with 2,000+ employees and 7,437 customers, the same report indicated.
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