In this report our threat researchers have observed significant growth in the breadth, scope, and complexity of threats that organizations are confronting. While it is difficult to be certain exactly how much of this activity is directly attributable to the generative AI boom, we expected to see security leaders expressing concerns about a rise in AI-powered cyber threats.

Our research was conducted to understand how the adoption of new AI is affecting the threats stakeholders face, how they are responding, and AI’s role in prevention, threat detection, incident response, and recovery workflows. AI’s effects on the threat landscape are already being felt. A majority of survey participants (74%) report their organizations are seeing significant impacts from AI-powered cyber threats. An even greater majority (89%) believe that AI-powered threats will continue to trouble their organizations well into the future.

CISOs are facing increased challenges in an escalating threat landscape, with email as the primary target for attacks. This white paper breaks down the requirements for modern email security in protecting organizations from advanced and novel threats – moving from historically-trained tools to a behavioral, AI-driven approach.

This white paper breaks down existing methods of preventative cyber security and deep dives into Darktrace PREVENT: a product family that combines many of the best aspects of existing methods in an end-to-end, AI-powered solution.

In March 2023, Darktrace commissioned a global survey with Censuswide, to 6,711 employees across the UK, US, France, Germany, Australia, and the Netherlands to gather third-party insights into human behavior around email, to better understand how employees globally react to potential security threats, their understanding of email security and the modern technologies that are being used to transform the threats against them.

The global energy sector is facing a time of uncertainly due to a confluence of geopolitical, economic, and environmental factors. In tandem, the cyber threat landscape is growing increasingly complex, further complicating the picture for global energy suppliers. While governments and regulatory bodies urge the critical infrastructure sector to double down on cyber defense.