Darktrace launches PREVENT product family on its technology vision of industry-first Cyber AI Loop

With products for AI-powered attack prevention moving into commercialization, the next wave of artificial intelligence and machine learning for security is starting to take shape. This is why more and more security teams are turning to automation and AI to automate investigation tasks and alert triaging for rapid detection of threat actors. If new technology for AI-driven attack prediction and prevention lives up to its promise, it could enable major improvements for cyber defense. Darktrace launches PREVENT product family and continue to deliver on its technology vision of industry-first Cyber AI Loop.

Darktrace is a world-leading AI cyber security company. Its self-learning technology detects, to effectively respond to in-progress cyber-threats, limiting damage and stopping their spread in real-time. The company CTO Jack Stockdale explained PREVENT helps customers move from typical cyber risks reacting to proactively getting into attackers' minds. The company claims its AI-driven portfolio works together autonomously to optimize an organization's security through a continuous feedback loop. The new PREVENT products are based on breakthroughs developed in the company's Cambridge Cyber AI Research Centre and the capabilities gained through the acquisition of Cybersprint.

Darktrace launches PREVENT product family:

Darktrace announces the launch of a new family of security AI tools that use AI that can think like an attacker, to automatically identify an enterprise's critical assets and exposures. One of the new products, PREVENT/End-to-end provides enterprises with attack path modeling, automated, breach and attack emulation, penetration testing, security awareness testing, training, and vulnerability prioritization to help identify and mitigate cyber risks that exist in the environment.

PREVENT is the third product capability from Darktrace's Cyber AI Loop delivery service. The first two were DETECT and RESPOND capabilities, and the last will be HEAL. The Darktrace Prevent technology is the application of AI/ML to what's known as "attack path modeling. With the launch of PREVENT, Darktrace provides more predictive and preventative solutions to tackle cyber-threats and business risks rather than waiting for breaches to occur before acting.

Darktrace reveals that high-priority attempts to breach customer systems increased by 49% globally between January and June 2022. It can't be ignored, though, that any new wave of AI/ML for security will have to confront the weariness that many cybersecurity teams have with artificial intelligence. Darktrace is widely considered to be one of the largest providers in the market, with over 1,600 employees. The AI is going to give it to us much, much faster, and much more surgically accurate.

The PREVENT launch comes as the cybersecurity AI market is in a state of growth, with researchers anticipating its growth from a value of $8.8 billion in 2019 to $38.2 billion by 2026. Using AI, organizations can examine their defenses from an attacker's perspective, and identify vulnerabilities before attackers have a chance to exploit them. Darktrace has systems that take this loop of AI engines very, very close to the data so you can do that real-time detection and response, and in real-time get into the minds of attackers.