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Darktrace vs Egress

Darktrace sells security for AI systems and agents, for network, cloud and OT environments, and for email and collaboration tools. Egress, a KnowBe4 company, is a cloud email security provider that says it continuously assesses human risk and dynamically adapts policy controls, defending against advanced phishing attacks and outbound data breaches. CISO Tribune files both under Email security. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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Darktrace vs Egress: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
DarktraceDarktrace sells security for AI systems and agents, for network, cloud and OT environments, and for email and collaboration tools.darktrace.comEgressEgress, a KnowBe4 company, is a cloud email security provider that says it continuously assesses human risk and dynamically adapts policy controls, defending against advanced phishing attacks and outbound data breaches.egress.com
What it sells
  • Darktrace / EMAIL[14][15]Email security that catches phishing, business email compromise, executive impersonation and social engineering attacks.
  • Defend[4][6][7][8][9][13]Inbound email security that stops advanced phishing attacks.
  • Prevent[4][7][10][13]Stops accidental and malicious data loss.
  • Protect[4][7]Secure, certified end-to-end email encryption.
  • Workspace[4][7]Collaborate and share securely.
Categories
Headquarters
Cambridge, United Kingdom[2]London, United Kingdom[3]
Founded
2013[2]2007[3]
Ownership and funding
Owned by Thoma Bravo since 2024[3][12][13][17]Owned by KnowBe4 since 2024[1][2][4][5][6]
Named customers
  • Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast[4]
  • HARMAN International[5]
  • City of Las Vegas[6]
  • Centre Parcs[7]
  • Banco Galicia[8]
Not stated on its pages
Recent news
  • September 24, 2026Darktrace launched Signal Labs, a research unit that tests how AI models and agents misbehave in sandboxed environments, and published its first findings.[9]
  • September 22, 2026Darktrace made its SECURE AI product generally available, giving enterprises tools to discover AI use, monitor people and agents, and act on policy risks.[10]
  • August 4, 2026Darktrace announced an integration that feeds behavioral risk signals about AI agents from its SECURE AI product into the Microsoft Agent 365 portal.[11]
Not stated on its pages
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: listed, seen November 3, 2026[13]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
  • G2: listed, seen October 24, 2026[5]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
Who it fits
Not written yetFrom its own pages, the company sells to customers it says it prepares to defend against attacks and breaches before they happen. Defend is offered to those who need to stop advanced phishing attacks. Prevent is offered to those who need to stop accidental and malicious data loss. Protect is offered to those who need secure, certified end-to-end email encryption.
Last verified
October 10, 2026November 2, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Darktrace and Egress are both filed under Email security.
  • Both are headquartered in the United Kingdom.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Darktrace's primary category is Network detection and response; Egress's is Email security.
  • Darktrace is also filed under OT and ICS security. Egress is also filed under Data loss prevention and Human risk management.
  • Darktrace lists Darktrace / EMAIL. Egress lists Defend, Prevent, Protect and Workspace.
  • Darktrace is headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Egress is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
  • Darktrace was founded in 2013. Egress was founded in 2007.
  • Darktrace is owned by Thoma Bravo, since 2024. Egress is owned by KnowBe4, since 2024.
  • Darktrace publicly names Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast, HARMAN International, City of Las Vegas, Centre Parcs and Banco Galicia.

What it sells: Darktrace

What Darktrace / EMAIL does[14][15]
Darktrace / EMAIL learns from each organization's own activity and users, not a shared cross-customer model. Darktrace says it catches phishing, business email compromise, executive impersonation, and social engineering attacks. Behavioral detection extends across Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Slack. Each employee's risk score adapts their email controls.

What it sells: Egress

What Defend does[4][6][7][8][9][13]
Defend is KnowBe4's inbound email security solution. Defend uses AI and natural language processing to map historical communication patterns and identify anomalies. Defend rewrites links and checks them at time of click, and detects QR codes within email.
What Prevent does[4][7][10][13]
Prevent lets security administrators configure their risk appetite for data exfiltration. Prevent can block activity, warn users, or monitor user activity without end-user notification. Prevent analyzes attachments for sensitive content and verifies them against the intended recipients.
What Protect does[4][7]
Protect is secure, certified end-to-end email encryption. Protect is one of the KnowBe4 Cloud Email Security products covered by the Security Center.

Questions about Darktrace and Egress

What do Darktrace and Egress sell?
Darktrace sells Darktrace / EMAIL. Egress sells Defend, Prevent, Protect and Workspace.
Are Darktrace and Egress in the same category?
They share Email security. Darktrace's primary category is Network detection and response and Egress's is Email security.
Where are Darktrace and Egress headquartered?
Darktrace is headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Egress is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
When were Darktrace and Egress founded?
Darktrace was founded in 2013. Egress was founded in 2007.
Who owns Darktrace and Egress?
Darktrace is owned by Thoma Bravo, since 2024. Egress is owned by KnowBe4, since 2024.
Which customers do Darktrace and Egress name?
Darktrace publicly names Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast, HARMAN International, City of Las Vegas, Centre Parcs and Banco Galicia.
Who are Darktrace and Egress sold to?
From its own pages, the company sells to customers it says it prepares to defend against attacks and breaches before they happen.
What have Darktrace and Egress announced recently?
September 24, 2026: Darktrace launched Signal Labs, a research unit that tests how AI models and agents misbehave in sandboxed environments, and published its first findings.

About Darktrace

Darktrace sells security for AI systems and agents, for network, cloud and OT environments, and for email and collaboration tools. Darktrace says it understands behavior across people, networks, applications, cloud, and AI. Darktrace says its Adaptive AI learns an organization's own operational patterns, unlike security tools that rely on static rules or training data from other organizations. Darktrace says its AI learns from each organization's own business data to identify anomalous activity for each asset across domains.[1][14]

Darktrace says a dynamic understanding of every email user in an organization allows Darktrace / EMAIL to take a targeted response to threats that others miss. Darktrace learns from each organization's own activity and users, not a shared cross-customer model. Darktrace says its email security catches phishing, business email compromise, executive impersonation, and social engineering attacks. Darktrace says its behavioral detection extends across Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Slack. When credentials are compromised, Darktrace responds autonomously by terminating sessions, forcing re-authentication, and restricting access across email, SaaS, and cloud. Darktrace says each employee's risk score adapts their email controls, so protection strengthens for higher-risk users as training progresses. The Darktrace Email Analysis Agent integrates with Microsoft Defender and Security Copilot to streamline investigation and response for SOC teams.[1][15][16]

Darktrace says one solution detects, investigates, and contains threats across network, cloud, OT, endpoint, and identity, and learns the environment from the ground up. Darktrace / HYBRID NETWORK passively ingests traffic from on-premises and virtual networks, multi-cloud environments, OT, endpoints, and identities. Darktrace analyzes encrypted and decrypted traffic across network, cloud, and OT to surface activity that does not fit the environment. Darktrace then contains that activity with response actions taken natively or through firewalls, EDR, SOAR, and ITSM tools. Darktrace says it can flag account takeover, privilege escalation, and insider misuse when an identity stops matching how that identity normally behaves. When a threat is identified, Darktrace automatically acquires host and workload artifacts across endpoints, cloud, containers, and SaaS environments. Darktrace says its approach detects zero-day threats an average of 8 days before public CVE disclosure.

For cloud, Darktrace says its Adaptive AI continuously monitors activity across cloud assets, workloads, APIs, containers, and identities. Darktrace says Cyber AI Analyst automatically investigates alerts and connects related cloud and infrastructure activity. Darktrace's coverage extends across Compute, Serverless, Containers, IAM, Storage Services, and beyond. Darktrace draws data from lightweight host-based server agents or a combination of traffic mirroring and API logs. Darktrace supports security investigations by combining its detection and response capabilities with Amazon Security Lake.[18][19]

For operational technology, Darktrace maintains a live asset inventory, obtained through passive and active scanning, and immediately reveals CVEs and End-Of-Life status. Darktrace says it identifies and contains threats across converged IT and OT environments with Adaptive AI. Darktrace says Cyber AI Analyst automatically investigates alerts and correlates related activity across OT and IT environments. Darktrace says it automatically maps its models to the MITRE for ICS attacks/techniques, and says it helps organizations meet NIST and other regulations and standards.[20]

Darktrace calls its endpoint functionality Network Endpoint eXtended Telemetry (NEXT), which shows the endpoint process root cause for network threats. Darktrace says Cyber AI Analyst autonomously investigates alerts, gathers evidence, tests hypotheses, and delivers incident context. Darktrace responds autonomously with targeted actions that contain threats and avoid business disruption. Darktrace lets customers set response policies with configurable actions based on device types, user groups, locations, business hours, and operational requirements. Darktrace complements Microsoft Defender for Endpoint by connecting endpoint signals with behavioral understanding across a wider infrastructure.[15][21]

Darktrace says action can be taken independently or via integrations with native security controls, and that alerts are sent wherever the customer wants them. Darktrace extends its autonomous response to Check Point firewalls and to Palo Alto firewalls. Darktrace incidents and model breach alerts can be analyzed in CIM compatible Splunk dashboards. Darktrace enriches its AI decision-making with alerts from the Crowdstrike Falcon platform. Darktrace's Cyber AI Analyst integrates with Microsoft Copilot for Security.[14][15][22][23]

HARMAN International uses Darktrace coverage for email, network, and OT systems. Centre Parcs turned to Darktrace to protect its network, email, and cloud environments with a single AI security platform. Darktrace says organizations across all sizes and industries rely on it to get proactive about cyber security.[14][16][20]

Darktrace on the record

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Darktrace full record

  1. [1]ProductsDarktrace · darktrace.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Darktrace named technology pioneer by world economic forumDarktrace · darktrace.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Darktrace announces formal completion of its acquisition by thoma bravoDarktrace · darktrace.com · published October 1, 2024 · Tier A
  4. [4]Coca cola beverages northeastDarktrace · darktrace.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Harman internationalDarktrace · darktrace.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]City of las vegasDarktrace · darktrace.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Center parcs darktraceDarktrace · darktrace.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Banco galiciaDarktrace · darktrace.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Darktrace launches signal labs to research emerging risks of enterprise ai agentsDarktrace · darktrace.com · published September 24, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Darktrace extends behavioral security with general availability of darktrace secure aiDarktrace · darktrace.com · published September 22, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Darktrace among first cybersecurity companies selected to integrate risk signals into microsoft agent 365Darktrace · darktrace.com · published August 4, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Darktrace | The Essential AI Cybersecurity PlatformDarktrace · undated page, accessed October 24, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Darktrace / HYBRID NETWORK Reviews & Product Details - G2G2 · undated page, accessed October 24, 2026 · Tier C
  14. [14]AI Cyber Security Solutions | Harden Defenses Inside & OutDarktrace · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]Microsoft Azure Security & Compliance | Security ServicesDarktrace · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  16. [16]AI-Based Email Security Software | Email Threat ProtectionDarktrace · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  17. [17]Network Security Management | AI Network Security ProtectionDarktrace · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  18. [18]Cloud Security Solutions | AI for Cloud Cyber SecurityDarktrace · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  19. [19]AWS Data Loss Prevention, Security Compliance, & ProtectionDarktrace · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  20. [20]Operational Technology (OT) Cyber Security SolutionsDarktrace · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  21. [21]AI Endpoint Security | Cyber Security Endpoint Protection SuiteDarktrace · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  22. [22]Network Security Integrations | Darktrace/NetworkDarktrace · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  23. [23]Integrations | Darktrace/EndpointDarktrace · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A

Egress full record

  1. [1]Knowbe4 to acquire egressKnowBe4 · knowbe4.com · published April 24, 2024 · Tier A
  2. [2]Knowbe4 completes acquisition of egressKnowBe4 · knowbe4.com · published July 9, 2024 · Tier A
  3. [3]Egress software technologies granted patent for secure data exchangeDark Reading · darkreading.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier B
  4. [4]Egress, a KnowBe4 Company | Anti-Phishing, Data Loss Prevention & EncryptionEgress, a KnowBe4 Company · undated page, accessed October 24, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Egress Solutions Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2G2 · undated page, accessed October 24, 2026 · Tier C
  6. [6]About Us | KnowBe4KnowBe4 · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Defend datasheetKnowBe4 · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Stop Account Takeover with Defend | KnowBe4KnowBe4 · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Stop Ransomware with Defend | KnowBe4KnowBe4 · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Stop Data Exfiltration with Prevent | KnowBe4KnowBe4 · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Advanced graymail detection with Defend | KnowBe4KnowBe4 · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Secure Your Legal Practice: Humans & AI Agents | KnowBe4KnowBe4 · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Financial Services Security Awareness Training | KnowBe4KnowBe4 · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Security Statement | Legal | KnowBe4KnowBe4 · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A

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