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Cyber attacks targeting the health and social care sector in Australia doubled in 2021 compared with data from 2020.

False positives are often used as a key metric by decision-makers trying to identify the effectiveness of a cybersecurity solution.

"When developing Darktrace Cyber AI products, our goal is to augment and uplift the security team to make the task at hand more efficient."

Darktrace has announced that one of its customers successfully interrupted a Babuk ransomware attack with its Autonomous Response technology, Antigena.

With cyber-attacks getting faster and more furious, human teams alone cannot always be relied on to initiate a timely response.

Darktrace, a global cybersecurity AI company, has announced significant enhancements to its flagship Cyber AI Analyst product. 

In December 2015, an unprecedented cyber-attack against a power grid left nearly a quarter of a million people without electricity for hours in Ukraine. And though this incident occurred overseas, Australia is not immune to threats against critical infrastructure.

“Over the last 12 months, it is clear that attackers are relentlessly trying to access the networks of trusted suppliers in the IT and communications sector."

Researchers also observed a 70% average increase in attempted ransomware attacks in November and December compared to January and February. 

Darktrace is a cybersecurity company, specialising in AI-powered cyber-defence.

Self-Learning AI is set to change the game for endpoint security – detecting the novel and sophisticated attacks that cause so much disruption today. 

In 1988, a Harvard graduate began an experiment to see how many computers were connected to the Internet. 24 hours later, 10% of all computers around the world had been taken down.

CERT agencies around the world are reporting a surge in cyber attacks related to the Emotet malware, which is being distributed by email.

Barracuda Networks, Sophos, RedLock, and Darktrace offer their views on the data leak that affected close to 50 million accounts.

Medical staff now carry multiple connected devices with them, including personal devices that lack appropriate security controls.

Five-year-old cybersecurity firm Darktrace has ended its financial year with more than US $400 million worth of contracts.

“Without AI, cybersecurity doesn’t have a hope of coping with inevitable digital growth.”

Growth advisory firm Grant Thornton Australia has partnered with IT service provider The Missing Link to deploy Darktrace cybersecurity.

Western Australia law firm Jackson McDonald has beefed up its information security with AI technology from Darktrace.

Darktrace’s Sanjay Aurora on developments in AI-led cybersecurity, threat detection and the company’s expansion in APAC.

Alongside the six company categories, which are segmented into Innovation Leaders and Hot Start Ups, there was one special award.

“Anticipating and pre-empting every security risk is practically impossible in the face of ‘unknown unknowns’ and insider threats."

Darktrace EMEA CEO Poppy Gustafsson is one of a select group of business leaders accompanying UK Prime Minister on a trade mission to Japan.

Korean insurance provider KB Life has taken on Darktrace machine learning technology to prevent cyber threats.