Darktrace and Climb Sign North American Distribution Agreement

Specialty technology distributor Climb Channel Solutions and AI cybersecurity provider Darktrace have formed a distribution agreement for North America, allowing Climb to distribute Darktrace’s portfolio of AI-powered cybersecurity products across the continent.

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“Darktrace’s pioneering use of AI in network detection and response has earned the trust of thousands of organizations worldwide,” said Dale Foster, CEO of Climb Channel Solutions. “Darktrace’s expertise aligns perfectly with our mission to enhance cybersecurity for our resellers and their clients. By integrating Darktrace into our portfolio, we are not only expanding our range of innovative vendors, but also reinforcing our dedication to providing unique and differentiated solutions to the market.”

Darktrace is a cybersecurity platform provider that leverages proprietary AI to learn from each customer’s unique patterns of life in real-time, thereby safeguarding organizations from threats. With the Darktrace ActiveAI Security Platform, the company offers cyber resilience through proactive visibility into security posture, real-time threat detection, and autonomous responses to protect businesses across their ecosystems, which include cloud, email, identities, operational technology, endpoints, and networks. Darktrace’s platform and services safeguard nearly 10,000 customers across all major industries worldwide.

“Partners play an essential role in helping to protect customers against the rapidly evolving threat landscape,” said Dan Monahan, Chief Partner and Transformation Officer, Darktrace. “Our collaboration with Climb expands the reach of Darktrace’s solutions across North America to help more organizations increase their cyber resilience and take a more proactive approach to cybersecurity. Together, Darktrace and Climb are equipping partners with the tools they need to deliver best in class AI-powered cybersecurity solutions to customers.”

Darktrace FedRAMP ATO

The news of the partnership between Darktrace and Climb comes not long after Darktrace received the authority to operate (ATO) in federal environments, thus expanding its ability to deliver AI-powered defense for IT, OT, and email.

Darktrace Federal achieved its Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High Agency ATO, acknowledging that Darktrace Federal’s Cyber AI Mission Defense and Cyber AI Email Protection environments have demonstrated compliance with the FedRAMP High security requirements and undergone the necessary security assessment. 

“There has never been a more urgent need to bolster cybersecurity in the U.S. federal government. An increasingly delicate geopolitical landscape combined with the growing use of AI by adversaries to enhance the speed, scale, and success of attacks has created a complex threat environment,” said Marcus Fowler, CEO of Darktrace Federal. “Achieving our FedRAMP High ATO enables federal government customers access to Darktrace’s AI-driven IT, OT, and email security solutions designed to stop the most advanced near-peer adversaries, establish behavioral zero trust, and intelligently augment human security teams to ensure mission resilience across the federal government and critical infrastructure. We look forward to partnering with federal government customers to protect their technology infrastructure from cyber attacks in the era of AI.”

Darktrace Federal products use the organization’s Self-Learning AI to establish an ecosystem-specific understanding of normal operational behavior to autonomously defend a customer’s environment, organization, and operations.

Additionally, Darktrace Federal’s Cyber AI platform– which includes Cyber AI Mission Defense and Cyber AI Email Protection– develops an adaptive understanding of every device, user, peer group, network segment, and email communication. This empowers federal agencies to protect their digital ecosystems against sophisticated threats such as nation-state attacks, insider threats, zero-days, and phishing attacks, among others.

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