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Top U.S. Cyber Experts Join Darktrace to Protect Private Sector with Enterprise Immune System
CAMBRIDGE, England --(Business Wire)--
Darktrace, one of the world's fastest-growing cyber security companies,
today announces the appointment of two senior officials from the U.S.
intelligence community, complementing the mathematicians and machine
learning specialists and U.K. intelligence officials who founded
Darktrace in 2013.
"The strong adoption of our unique technology in the first two quarters
accelerated our U.S. market expansion and I am delighted to welcome Jim
Penrose and Jasper Graham to our outstanding commercial team," commented
Andrew France, CEO of Darktrace. "Jim and Jasper bring outstanding cyber
security and technical experience to the Darktrace executive team,
delivering real-time, self-learning threat detection capabilities to our
customers."
Jim Penrose joins Darktrace as Executive Vice President of Cyber
Intelligence, following a distinguished 17-year career at the National
Security Agency as an expert in computer security and information
assurance. He was responsible for a variety of roles at the agency
encompassing threat operations, counterterrorism and, most recently, as
Chief of the Operational Discovery Center, helping to develop new signal
intelligence capabilities.
Penrose is joined by Jasper Graham, wo spent 15 years with the NSA,
formerly holding the position of Technical Director, and will serve as
Darktrace's Senior Vice President of Cyber Technologies and Analytics.
Graham worked directly with United States Cyber Command (USCC) and the
U.S. Intelligence Community to develop strategic planning for
understanding and responding to cyber-attacks. He is a Certified
Information System Security Professional (CISSP) and has received over
15 awards from the NSA for his critical work in national security.
"Having spent 20 years in defense and intelligence, I have experienced
threats of all forms and factors. The rate at which these threats mutate
and the sophistication with which they traverse networks is frequently
astounding and has transformed the way we need to think about our
defensive strategies," said Jim Penrose, EVP of Cyber Intelligence at
Darktrace. "Darktrace offers the only approach that accepts this reality
and employs best-in-class mathematics and machine learning to
probabilistically detect when abnormal events occur - even without
knowing about the existence of a threat or what form it might take."
Darktrace's U.S. customer base spans a range of industries including
energy and utilities, financial services, technology and healthcare. Its
Washington D.C. office is supported by teams in New York and San
Francisco, as well as the rest of Darktrace's global network.
About Darktrace
Darktrace is one of the world's fastest-growing cyber defense companies
and the leader in Enterprise Immune System technology, a new category of
cyber solutions based on pioneering Bayesian mathematics developed at
the University of Cambridge. Darktrace addresses the challenge of
insider threat and advanced cyber-attacks through its unique ability to
detect previously unidentified threats in real time, as manifested in
the emerging behaviors of the network, devices and individuals. Some of
the world's largest organizations rely on Darktrace's adaptive,
self-learning platform to spot anomalous activity within the enterprise,
in sectors including energy and utilities, financial services,
telecommunications, retail and transportation. Darktrace was founded by
world-class machine learning specialists and operational government
intelligence experts. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, UK,
with offices in London, Milan, New York, Paris, San Francisco and
Washington D.C.
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