Darktrace, a global leader in cyber security AI, has announced the availability of a major new upgrade to its Gartner Peer Insights top-rated email offering, Darktrace/Email. The new capabilities added to the platform include an AI-employee feedback loop, account takeover protection, insights from endpoint, network and cloud, and behavioral detections of misdirected emails. These features help to enhance security and productivity for employees and security teams in organizations protected by Darktrace/Email.

As organizations continue to rely on email as their primary collaboration and communication tool, email security tools that rely on knowledge of past threats are failing to future-proof organizations and their people against evolving email threats. Darktrace/Email is capable of detecting attacks as soon as they are launched because it learns the normal patterns of life for each unique organization, rather than being trained on what ‘bad’ has historically looked like.

Darktrace’s deep understanding of each organization is critical against the increase in both novel, ‘never seen before’ email attacks and increasingly linguistically complex malicious communication. The platform is capable of detecting sophisticated linguistic techniques, including increased text volume, punctuation, and sentence length, which threat actors use to craft sophisticated and targeted attacks at speed and scale.

With this upgrade, Darktrace Cyber AI Analyst™ combines anomalous email activity with other data sources including endpoint, network, cloud, apps, and OT, automating investigations and incident reporting. The ability to combine and analyze data sources from different parts of the organization in the same system to mutually strengthen email and network security is a Darktrace patented technology.

Darktrace/Email’s new capabilities include account takeover and email protection in a single product, behavioral detections of misdirected emails, an employee-AI loop that leverages insights from each individual employee, and intelligent mail management for improved productivity against graymail, spam, and newsletters that clutter inboxes.

Commenting on the upgrade, Max Heinemeyer, Chief Product Officer, Darktrace said, “Darktrace continues to lead the evolution of the cyber security industry through its unique approach that focuses not on past attacks, but on understanding the organization and how the people within it behave in order to stop novel social engineering attacks.”