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CYBERSECURITY – Troubled by something deeply unethical going on at work? Or maybe you’re plotting to leak sensitive information on the company that just sacked you? Either way, you best think twice before making your next move because an all-seeing artificial intelligence might just be analysing every email you send, every file you upload, every room you scan into – even your coffee routine.
The latest wave of cyber-defence technology employs machine learning to monitor use of the ever-expanding number of smart household objects connected to the Internet of Things – shutting down hackers before they’ve broken into corporate databases or whistleblowers before they’ve forwarded on information to the media.
One of the leading proponents is cyber-defence company Darktrace, founded in 2013 by former British intelligence officers in Cambridge and today featuring 370 employees in 23 offices globally. The company is targeting growth in the Asia-Pacific, where regional head Sanjay Aurora is promoting Darktrace’s Enterprise Immune System at the CeBIT Australia conference in Sydney on 23 May.
In an interview ahead of the conference, Aurora tells the Guardian that the Internet of Things, the interconnected everyday devices such as the smart fridge, offers more vulnerabilities to be hacked than ever before – but also more ways to scan for threats.
“In newspapers there is not a single day where we don’t read about an organisation being breached,” he says.
“At a time when even coffee machines have IP addresses, many people in security teams don’t so much as have visibility of the network.”
Where cybersecurity normally functions as a barrier to keep out previously-identified threats, Aurora says Darktrace technology behaves more like a human immune system.
“Once you understand the devices and people, once you notice subtle changes within the network, you establish a pattern of life, and whether it is lateral movement or unusual activity – maybe an employee using a device they don’t normally use, or a fingerprint scanner acting unusually – the immune system notices and takes action, detecting these things in network before they become a headline,” he says.
Read more: Cybersecurity: is the office coffee machine watching you?
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