Darktrace aims to expand into 'proactive' security AI by end of year

Darktrace plans to expand its AI-powered security offerings to include attack prevention by the end of 2021, the company told VentureBeat. On Tuesday, executives from the company described plans for upcoming product updates that will expand the Darktrace portfolio to include proactive security AI capabilities, joining the company's detection and response technologies. The upcoming launch of "prevent" capabilities will extend Darktrace "into the offensive area for the first time ever," said Nicole Eagan, chief strategy officer and AI officer at Darktrace, while speaking at the virtual Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit -- Americas conference on Tuesday. In a statement provided to VentureBeat, Eagan said that "development of this breakthrough innovation known as our'prevent' capability is on track, and we expect this to be released to early adopters by the end of this calendar year." Founded in 2013, the Cambridge, U.K.-based firm went public in April and now has a market capitalization of $4.25 billion.