Darktrace, the leader in Enterprise Immune System technology, was presented the 2015 TechCities Award for its innovative Enterprise Immune System cyber defence solution during an awards ceremony held in London today.

The TechCities awards recognize the UK’s most innovative new digital businesses. This year the awards programme committee received nearly 200 applications.

The judging panel included experts from City University London, Grant Thornton, Knowledge Transfer Network, NatWest, Vitamin T, Tech London Advocates and Williams Powell. The judges honoured businesses in nineteen UK cities that demonstrated ground-breaking invention and pioneering technology products or services at the heart of their enterprise.

The TechCities judges acknowledged the fundamental innovation of Darktrace’s Enterprise Immune System and its unique ability to detect in-progress cyber-threats in real time. Based on unsupervised machine learning and mathematics developed at the University of Cambridge, Darktrace’s technology helps companies identify early indicators of cyber-attackers or insider threats within busy networks and take actions to mitigate risk.

“We are proud that our innovative ‘immune system’ has gained the national recognition that the 2015 TechCities Award embodies,” said Nicole Eagan, CEO, Darktrace. ”It is a privilege to have built a world-class R&D team in Cambridge, made up of some of the UK’s leading mathematicians, and to see our technology adopted around the globe as a new way of addressing the cyber security challenge.”

For more information about the 2015 TechCities Awards, visit www.techcityinsider.net.

About Darktrace

Named Technology Pioneer by The World Economic Forum 2015, Darktrace is one of the world’s leading cyber threat defence companies. Its Enterprise Immune System technology detects previously unidentified threats in real time, powered by machine learning and mathematics developed at the University of Cambridge, which analyse the behaviour of every device, user and network within an organisation. Some of the world’s largest corporations rely on Darktrace’s self-learning appliance in sectors including energy and utilities, financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, manufacturing, retail and transportation. The company was founded in 2013 by leading machine learning specialists and government intelligence experts, and is headquartered in Cambridge, UK and San Francisco, including offices in Auckland, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, London, Los Angeles, Milan, Mumbai, New York, Paris, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto and Washington D.C.