AI infosec biz Darktrace boasts near-doubled revenues as firm alumni battle HPE in civil case Darktrace, the security startup backed in part by Mike Lynch, the exec currently involved in a big civil fraud case being heard at the UK's High Court, has nearly doubled turnover and reported deeper losses. The firm, started by Cambridge Uni maths boffins and folk with infosec experience gained at intelligence agencies, said …
"The technology is self-learning and requires no set-up"
Everyone knows what that means. In fact, on a side note, I believe that even the most advanced Ai machine would still desire human input for self connection or moral balance (the futures Ai is very 'moral', it insists).
We had it installed on our network, its very much a black box and lets just say without a managed service you'd be lost. AI / learning is always being altered by them, otherwise the detection false+'s go through the roof. The UI looks pretty good but in truth we're looking for alternatives for when the renewal comes around..
I attended a presentation where they showed how it reveals the details of Windows network share activity happening on the LAN. They didn't appreciate it when I pointed out that you would never see this much detail from modern systems because all the traffic would be encrypted.
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