FEATURE : DATA SECURITY attackers , who had obtained the city ’ s address book , were emailing recipients alphabetically , from ‘ A ’ to ‘ Z ’, with ostensibly harmless emails that contained a malicious payload . Despite the well-disguised nature of this attack , Antigena immediately flagged the domain linked in the emails as anomalous for Las Vegas ’ employees , an action only possible with the evolving understanding of ‘ self ’ that Darktrace AI learns .
Antigena was deployed in ‘ Passive Mode ’ at the time , a starter mode that restricts the AI to communicating what it would have done in response to the threat , without actually taking action . Interestingly enough , this served to demonstrate its ability to stop attacks that conventional tools miss . Whereas Darktrace detected the campaign at the letter ‘ A ’, the city ’ s array of legacy tools finally woke up to the threat at ‘ R ’. In ‘ Active Mode ’, Antigena would have neutralized the attack before it reached a single user . Darktrace ’ s AI has fundamentally transformed the city ’ s defensive posture , affording its leaders the confidence to adopt smart technologies and cloud services alike . •
ANTIGENA WORKS BY CONFINING INFECTED DEVICES TO THEIR TYPICAL
‘ PATTERN OF LIFE ’ WITHIN TWO SECONDS , CONTAINING SIGNIFICANT
THREATS WITHOUT DISRUPTING CORE MUNICIPAL OPERATIONS .
Antigena works by confining infected devices to their typical ‘ pattern of life ’ within two seconds , containing significant threats without disrupting core municipal operations . These operations today rely heavily on Las Vegas ’ multi-cloud architecture , which includes Amazon Web Services , Microsoft Azure and Office 365 . Whereas the conventional , stove-pipe approach to securing these services lacks vital context , Darktrace analyzes data flows from across the city ’ s entire digital infrastructure , enabling Antigena ’ s cyber AI response to neutralize attacks wherever they originate .
Benefits
Darktrace has already detected and responded to numerous attacks against the City of Las Vegas , including a targeted spear phishing campaign that bypassed the city ’ s native email controls . The sophisticated
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