Adapting to Fight Back: How Cyber AI Neutralizes Never-Before-Seen Threats

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Presented at FutureConColumbus 2019 by

Will Snape

In a world that is increasingly digital, cyber-attacks have become the most significant risk confronting today’s businesses, smart cities, and critical infrastructure. Online crime cost the world morethan half a trillion dollars last year, while recent attacks have managed to influence the U.S. presidential election and disrupt the Ukrainian power supply. This troubling state of affairs is the product of several fundamental weaknesses with the traditionalapproach to cyber defense, which relies on predefining what threats look like at a time when criminals launch never-before-seen attacks on a daily basis. Moreover, these attacks increasingly strike at machine-speed, preventing security professionals from respondingbefore their damage is done.Powered by recent advances in artificial intelligence, Darktrace’s Enterprise Immune System provides a fundamentally unique approach to defending the corporate network, the Internet of Things, and the cloud. Rather than predefining cyber-threats based on attacks of the past, the Enterprise Immune System continuously refines itself by learning ‘on the job,’ creating a unique ‘pattern of life’ for every network that it safeguards. And whereas legacy tools miss threats that look unlike anything observed previously, the Enterprise Immune System can detect unknown attacks by drawing connections that human programmers can’t see. Once detected, the first AI autonomous response technology, Darktrace Antigena, neutralizes such attacks within seconds, thwarting strikes like the 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack that cost victims $4 billion globally. Cyber AI allows the defenses shielding your data to learn, to evolve, and ultimately, to fight back.