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Martech Interview with Director of Strategic Threat, Darktrace – Marcus Fowler

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Martech Interview with Director of Strategic Threat, Darktrace – Marcus Fowler

1. Tell us about your role at Darktrace?
As the Director of Strategic Threat, I focus on current and emerging threats from nation state actors and non-nation state actors, as well as our Immune System technology’s capability to detect, investigate, and disrupt those attacks.

2. Can you tell us about your journey in this industry?
Security has always been present in my professional interests and career. Prior to joining Darktrace in June 2019, I spent 15 years at the Central Intelligence Agency developing global cyber operations and technical strategies. I had the privilege of leading cyber efforts with various US Intelligence Community elements and global partners, as well as advising senior leaders on cyber strategy. It was during my early days at the CIA that I started to gravitate towards mission areas that allowed me to run teams focused on developing and deploying emerging technologies, specifically around cyber and big data, to maximize mission impact. I wouldn’t trade a moment of my CIA time for anything, the men and women who serve there are incredible, dedicated Americans. As I pivoted to the private sector, I was drawn to Darktrace’s innovation within artificial intelligence and machine learning as applied to the critical cybersecurity mission, coupled with the opportunity to work closely with an amazing group of subject matter experts.

3. How do you think AI is impacting cyber threat activities?
Attackers are moving towards the use of AI. It will be on both sides of cyber warfare. Moving forward, it will be machine versus machine. Darktrace employs AI to provide the most granular analysis, deepest understanding, and most complete visibility into digital environments, super charging human teams with autonomous capabilities to better investigate and fight threats. AI driven actions in autonomous response stops attacks in the earliest instance—in mere seconds. As for cyber criminals, elements of AI and machine learning are increasingly being used to scale-up and advance attacks  However, the use of AI for malicious objectives is more nascent, but once it becomes more mature, we will be seeing fully realized Offensive AI attacks, the signatures of which will be impossible to predict.

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