At Tech City News, we’re always keen to shine a light on members of the UK’s growing technology community.
This week, we spoke to Poppy Gustafsson, CEO EMEA at Darktrace, a Cambridge-based cybersecurity startup.
She spoke about the company’s philosophy, how Darktrace managed to raise VC funding and the firm’s plans for future growth.
Tech vertical: Cybersecurity
Funding: $104.5m
Staff count: 350
Location: Cambridge
Founded: 2013
Q: Can you tell us a little about Darktrace? What makes the company so unique?
Darktrace has a fundamentally different philosophy from first generation security players. We assume that you are already infiltrated.
Half the industry relies on signatures to defend itself but, given the swathes of high-profile attacks we see, it is clear these legacy tools are inadequate. Instead, Darktrace uses advanced machine learning and mathematics to detect cyber-threats without the need for previous knowledge of threats. Like an immune system – Darktrace’s self-learning technology establishes what ‘normal’ looks like on the network and identifies anomalous behaviours allowing organisations to respond to early-stage threats before damage is done.
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