Darktrace, a global leader in AI for cybersecurity, has officially confirmed the news of its Darktrace / EMAIL™ technology securing recognition in the first ever Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Email Security Platforms (ESP) as a Challenger.
According to certain reports, the stated technology earned the highest percentage of 5-star ratings with a 4.8 rating on Gartner® Peer Insights™ out of 249 reviews as of 19th December.
Talk about the given solution on a slightly deeper level, we begin from how Darktrace / EMAIL, one of the fastest-growing email security products on the market, happens to draw its basis from the company’s unique Self-Learning AI, a multi-layered AI engine which effectively leverages different types of AI, like NLP and behavioral analysis, to detect threats rather than using traditional security measures like signatures and sandboxing. Such an approach makes it possible for Darktrace to detect and stop threats like business email compromise attacks and novel techniques, including 56% of which passed through customers’ other email security layers.
More on that would reveal how the stated methodology treads up a long distance to help the company introduce industry-leading capabilities, such as QR code analysis and automated incident investigations, alongside differentiated functionality to help teams add new depth to their email security.
Talk about these capabilities on a slightly deeper level, we begin from its promise to provide Account Take Over and Lateral Mail Account Compromise Protection. In essence, the technology instills a whole new layer of the AI behavioral profile for each user. By doing so, it empowers security teams to seamlessly spot early symptoms of account compromise or malicious insiders before a link or attachment payload is sent, and exfiltration occurs.
Next up, we must dig into the availability of Microsoft Teams Security with Advanced Messaging Analysis. The overarching idea here is to transition away from simple text analysis to behavioral and natural language content analysis that tracks context across both email and instant messaging. This it does to identify the approximately 38% of phishing, sophisticated social engineering, and novel insider threats, something which other solutions fail to capture.
Then, there is the prospect of dramatically improving end user reporting with Cyber AI Analyst narratives. You see, real-time awareness training capabilities are understood to cut down on false positives in phishing investigations by up to 60%. As for how it does that, the answer resides in providing context specific analysis of every received email to each employee as they interact with their mail.
Another detail worth a mention relates to the access of a Mailbox Security Assistant, which can be used to increase security team operational efficiency. Thanks to this assistant, all forms of secondary investigations can now automatically perform advanced behavioral browser analysis and stop malicious links within webpages, thus reducing manual effort of security analysts in detecting phishing links. Not just that, the stated assistant will also allow those investigations to remediate up to 70% more malicious phishing links than before.
Finally, our final highlight stems from the solution’s AI based, autonomous data loss prevention facility. Basically, in order to protect organizations from misdirected emails, insider threats, and data loss, Darktrace technology’s users can bank upon user behavior and dynamic content analysis to determine sensitivity, and therefore, remove any administrative overhead from manual expressions and labeling.
“We are extremely proud to have been recognized in the first Magic Quadrant for ESP. Since launching Darktrace / EMAIL in 2019, we have grown quickly to support email security for nearly 5,000 organizations around the world, helping to keep them safe from even the most sophisticated and novel email compromises. We believe this wide-scale adoption is a result of our unique, AI-native approach to developing products,” said Chris Kozup, Chief Marketing Officer, Darktrace.
Founded in 2013, Darktrace’s rise up the ranks is orchestrated by its ability to protect organizations from unknown threats through its proprietary AI that learns from the unique patterns of life for each customer in real-time. The company’s excellence in what it does can be understood once you consider its platform is currently protecting nearly 10,000 customers across all major industries.