Darktrace (IT Security Organization) CEO Nicole Eagan recently stated in Wired Magazine: “The big challenge that the whole security industry and the chief security officers have right now is that...

Darktrace (IT Security Organization) CEO Nicole Eagan recently stated in Wired Magazine:

“The big challenge that the whole security industry and the chief security officers have right now is that they’re always chasing yesterday’s attack,” she says. “That is kind of the mindset the whole industry has — that if you analyze yesterday’s attack on someone else, you can help predict and prevent tomorrow’s attack on you. It’s flawed, because the attackers keep changing the attack vector. Yet companies have spent so much money on tools predicated on that false premise. Our approach is fundamentally different: This is just learning in real time what’s going on, and using AI to recommend actions to take, even if the attack’s never been seen before. That’s the big transition that Darktrace is trying to get folks… to make: to be in the position of planning forward strategically about cyber risk, not reacting to the past.”

1. Do you think this is a true statement that IT security focuses on past attacks and not the future?


2. How can you plan to think forward with so many unknowns in a rapidly changing field?


3. How is your organization facing these challenges?