Darktrace has launched its Behavioral Defense Platform to protect enterprises as AI systems increasingly operate alongside people and connect to critical infrastructure. The Cambridge-based cybersecurity firm's platform uses proprietary Adaptive AI technology to continuously learn organisational behaviour and detect deviations in real time. The platform includes Darktrace/SECURE AI, which secures AI system deployment and management, and a Platform Portal offering unified visibility across digital estates. The release addresses growing security challenges, with connections to AI services amongst Darktrace's customers increasing 13% in the first half of 2026. The platform provides three core capabilities: 360° Insights for visibility, Unique Behavioral Profile for intelligence, and Real-Time AI Analyst for autonomous response. It aims to detect threats across AI agents, email systems, and network infrastructure without relying solely on static rules or known indicators. Darktrace currently protects nearly 10,000 organisations globally.

Darktrace advances behavioral security to protect AI agents, people and infrastructure. August 3, 2026 The Darktrace Behavioral Defense Platform delivers unified visibility, continuous behavioral monitoring, and autonomous response across AI, people, and infrastructure, enabling organizations to secure what AI can do. Darktrace, a global leader in behavioral security, today introduced the Darktrace Behavioral Defense Platform(TM), which is designed to protect the modern enterprise as AI systems and agents increasingly operate alongside people and connect to business-critical applications and infrastructure. The platform builds on more than a decade of Darktrace innovation in behavioral security to address a new reality where risk can emerge from people, AI agents, trusted identities, connected systems, or the interactions between them. The Darktrace Behavioral Defense Platform uses Darktrace's unique Adaptive AI(TM) to meet that challenge. It continuously learns how an organization's people and AI behave, building a unique understanding of the organization so it can detect and respond autonomously when behavior deviates. This business-specific understanding enables the platform to identify activity that does not belong, connect it with related behavior across the enterprise, and act autonomously in real time before risk escalates. An essential part of the new platform is Darktrace / SECURE AI(TM), a product that secures the deployment, management, development, and use of AI systems and agents, alongside a new Platform Portal that brings 360° Insights into a single customer environment. The portal provides a correlated, real-time view of insights and threats across the digital estate, helping customers understand how activity and risk connect across AI, people, and infrastructure. AI Is Changing What Organizations Can Do and What It Takes to Secure Them The need for this connected approach is growing quickly. Across Darktrace's customer base, the average number of connections to AI services increased 13% during the first half of 2026, and the typical organization now interacts with seven different AI providers[[1]]. This expands the number of users, identities, agents, and systems that security teams must understand and protect, while exposing the limits of fixed guardrails and controls. In June 2026, NIST highlighted mathematical proof showing that no fixed set of AI guardrails can be universally robust against adversarial prompts, reinforcing the need for continuous monitoring, testing, and updates[[2]]. At the same time, the external threats facing organizations are changing rapidly. Darktrace's mid-year threat update found that attackers are increasingly abusing trusted identities, SaaS platforms, software supply chains, and AI services rather than relying on software vulnerabilities alone. The risk does not always begin with malicious intent either. In a recent incident, OpenAI models escaped their test environment and breached a Hugging Face system. Static rules, signatures, and known indicators of compromise cannot keep pace with compromises and attacks that operate inside authenticated, trusted channels. Security teams need to understand activity in context, including who or what is acting, what systems it is accessing, and whether its behavior is consistent with how the organization normally operates. "AI is creating extraordinary opportunities for organizations, but it is also reshaping the security challenges they face," said Ed Jennings, President and CEO of Darktrace. "For more than a decade, we have built on the single conviction that security starts with understanding behavior. As people, agents, and infrastructure connect in new ways, organizations need security that understands how they operate as a whole. The Darktrace Behavioral Defense Platform is built to help organizations move forward in this environment with confidence." Introducing the Darktrace Behavioral Defense Platform The Darktrace Behavioral Defense Platform is built for a threat environment in which risk can come from a rogue or misconfigured AI agent, an attacker exploiting a new vulnerability, or a bad actor operating through trusted channels. Rather than relying solely on static rules, signatures, or known indicators, the platform learns what is normal for each organization and builds a real-time understanding of behavior across the enterprise. It provides unified visibility, continuous behavioral monitoring, and autonomous response across AI, people, and infrastructure, helping security teams detect activity that does not belong and contain it before it causes harm. This includes securing the deployment, management, and development of AI systems and agents; defending against phishing, account takeover, data exfiltration, and human risk across email and collaboration tools; and delivering visibility, detection, and response across network, cloud, and OT environments. The Darktrace Behavioral Defense Platform is built on three core capabilities that work together to turn behavioral understanding into protection: * 360° Insights, the visibility layer, provides a correlated, real-time view of insights and threats across the full digital estate. * Unique Behavioral Profile, the intelligence layer, is an evolving representation of how an organization behaves, connects, and operates across AI, people, and infrastructure - unique to every environment, continuously learning in real time and more accurate with every interaction. * Real-Time AI Analyst(TM), the autonomous layer, detects, investigates, triages, and responds in real time, so threats are contained before they escalate. Together, these capabilities enable Darktrace to detect known, unknown, and novel threats; understand attacks that cross environments as a single incident rather than many disconnected alerts; and enable autonomous response at machine speed, without waiting on a human when immediate action is required. The new Platform Portal serves as the central entry point to a customer's Darktrace deployment. It provides a unified view of the products, technologies, environments, coverage, and risks across the platform, helping teams understand their current security posture, navigate across capabilities, prioritize areas requiring attention, and see how their Darktrace estate expands as they adopt more of the platform. Adaptive AI: The Technology Foundation At the core of the platform is Adaptive AI, Darktrace's proprietary technology foundation. Adaptive AI applies the most effective AI techniques for each security challenge, from anomaly detection and probabilistic reasoning to graph analysis and large language models, to interpret complex activity across the enterprise. As it operates, it builds an evolving model of how each organization behaves, learning the relationships, dependencies, and operational patterns that make it unique. The result is a unique behavioral profile that is specific to every environment, learns continuously in real time, and becomes more accurate with every interaction. These capabilities are strengthened by Darktrace's proprietary security dataset, built from millions of Real-Time AI Analyst investigations and observations. When behavior deviates from normal, Adaptive AI enables the platform to detect, triage, and respond autonomously in real time. Today, the Darktrace Behavioral Defense Platform and Adaptive AI protects nearly 10,000 organizations across all industries around the world, including Aer Soleir, Alterman, Banco Galicia, Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast, HARMAN International, State of Oklahoma and more. REFERENCES [1] Based on aggregated Darktrace product telemetry across a fleet of ~8,800 observed deployments, measuring average detected connections to external AI services per deployment per month from January 2026 to June 2026. [2] NIST, "NIST Mathematical Proof Supports Transition to a Continuous-Monitor-and-Update Security Model for AI Systems," June 9, 2026, https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/06/nist-mathematical-proof-supports-transition-continuous-monitor-and-update. About Darktrace Darktrace secures the modern enterprise by protecting AI, people, and infrastructure with behavioral security. Founded in 2013, Darktrace uses Adaptive AI to understand what is normal for an organization and detect known, unknown and novel threats and respond autonomously in real time. The Darktrace Behavioral Defense Platform delivers unified visibility, continuous behavioral monitoring, and autonomous response across the enterprise. Darktrace protects nearly 10,000 customers across major industries globally, helping organizations defend AI-powered threats across AI and agents, email and collaboration tools, and hybrid networks, while enabling them to innovate with AI securely. More Darktrace news Media contacts

Darktrace named a Customers' Choice in the Gartner(R) Peer Insights(TM) for Email Security Platforms for second consecutive year. July 07, 2026 09:00 ET | Source: Darktrace Cambridge, UK, July 07, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Darktrace, a global leader in AI for cybersecurity, today announced it has been named a Customers' Choice in the 2026 Gartner(R) Peer Insights(TM) Voice of the Customer for Email Security Platforms for the second consecutive year. Darktrace / EMAIL(TM) has an overall rating of 4.8 out of 5 in the Email Security Platforms market, based on 413 verified reviews as of June 2026 from end-users who have adopted and deployed the solution across their organization. Gartner Peer Insights recognizes vendors who meet or exceed both the market average Overall Experience and the market average User Interest and Adoption score through a Customers' Choice distinction. "As AI becomes embedded across the business, security teams need to protect not only their AI systems and infrastructure, but also the people and workflows AI depends on," said Chris Kozup, Chief Marketing Officer at Darktrace. "Darktrace / EMAIL brings our Adaptive AI approach to one of the most common entry points for cyber risk, helping customers detect targeted attacks, stop account misuse and reduce risk across email and collaboration tools. To us, this recognition reflects what we believe is essential in email security: AI that learns the specific behaviors, relationships and communication patterns of each organization, so it can detect threats that traditional approaches may miss." GovCloud Network believe that customers consistently highlight the strength of Darktrace's approach from detecting sophisticated threats to simplifying response: * "The outstanding detection capabilities of the solution, even in uncommon languages, have significantly reduced the risk of e-mail business compromise, stolen passwords and other e-mail scams." - Director, IT Security and Risk Management, Consumer Goods Industry * "Darktrace is more than just a traditional email protection software. It is able to deal with emerging and sophisticated email threats thanks to its AI features. By learning user behaviors and trends, it easily detects and prevents possible data loss and it also comes with automated threat response. From detecting insider threats to offering AI defense systems against email threats, this tool has it all." - Data Analyst, Healthcare and Biotech Industry * "Darktrace / EMAIL is an essential tool for managing email threats. It's a constantly evolving solution with continuous improvements, highly customizable, easy to manage, and with excellent traceability. It adapts to all the situations we've encountered and makes us feel protected." - IT Security & Risk Management Associate, Manufacturing Industry Continued Innovation in Darktrace / EMAIL Over the past year, Darktrace has continued to expand Darktrace / EMAIL to help organizations defend against increasingly targeted, AI-enabled social engineering attacks across the entire email and collaboration ecosystem. Darktrace / EMAIL is powered by Adaptive AI that continuously learns from each organization's own activity, building its understanding of every user, mailbox, relationship, and communication pattern from scratch. Unlike legacy tools that rely on shared customer data, centralized threat databases, traditional rules, or signatures, Darktrace's Adaptive AI evolves alongside the organization, enabling it to identify novel, targeted, and cross-channel attacks unique to that organization, its supply chain, and its ways of working. When suspicious activity is detected, Darktrace / EMAIL can take precise, targeted action to reduce risk while helping maintain business productivity. In March 2026, Darktrace introduced Darktrace / Adaptive Human Defense(TM), which brings personalized, real-time security coaching into employees' daily workflows and connects those behavioral signals back to Darktrace / EMAIL to help strengthen detection and response. Darktrace also expanded Darktrace / EMAIL with cross-channel, full-message analysis across email, Microsoft Teams, Slack and Zoom, helping security teams detect attacks that move across collaboration tools. In addition, Darktrace introduced a first-party integration between DMARC, attack surface management and email security to help organizations reduce impersonation risk at the source. Additional Resources: * Download a copy of the 2026 Gartner(R) Peer Insights(TM) Voice of the Customer for Email Security Platforms report here. Gartner, Voice of the Customer for Email Security Platforms, 30 June 2026 Gartner Peer Insights content consists of the opinions of individual end users based on their own experiences with the vendors listed on the platform, should not be construed as statements of fact, nor do they represent the views of Gartner or its affiliates. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in this content nor makes any warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this content, about its accuracy or completeness, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. The GARTNER PEER INSIGHTS CUSTOMERS' CHOICE badge is a trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved. GARTNER is a trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. Peer Insights is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved. About Darktrace Darktrace secures the modern enterprise by protecting people and AI with behavioral security. Founded in 2013, Darktrace pioneered Self-Learning AI for cyber defense, applying behavioral intelligence to understand what is normal for an organization and detect novel threats that others miss. Today, the Darktrace platform and services protect nearly 10,000 customers across major industries globally, providing unified visibility, continuous behavioral monitoring, and autonomous response across the enterprise. Darktrace is recognized as a leader in helping organizations stop AI-powered threats across AI and agents, email and collaboration tools, and hybrid networks, while enabling them to safely innovate with AI. Contact Info