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Exhibit 4 - Executive Business Case

Alameda City Council
July 12, 2022

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Exhibit 4 - Executive Business Case
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Darktrace Executive Business Case: City of AlamedaAimee Levan, Cyber AI Account ExecutiveBianca Miyazaki-Jovel, Commercial DirectorMay 2022

DarktraceValueDarktrace is the ONLY platform that:•Learns normal “on the job” to detect novel attacks and insider threats•Does NOTrely on rules and signatures•Provides unified and bespokeprotection across email, cloud, IoT, and network•Neutralizes attacks at machine speed and with surgical precision•Automates threat investigations at the speed and scale of AI, reducing time to triage by 92%

Enterprise Immune System•Analogous to the human immune system •Entirely self-learning –no rules or fixed baselines•Detects unpredictable cyber-threats –on SaaS, cloud, IoT, anywhere•100% visibilityof every user, connection and incident •Delivered from the cloud, on premise or as a hybrid –no configuration or tuning•Scalable–up to millions of devices

Cyber AI Analyst

Antigena Network•Autonomous, surgical interruption of attacks•Reacts fasterthan human teams•Sustainsnormal operations during incidents•Customizableand controllable •Darktrace Mobile App provides 24/7oversight•Improves functionalityof other tools in a SOC•Frees human teams to focus on what matters•Integrateswith existing defenses to take action

Experience in Municipalities

Current Average Cost of Data Breach •$1.93M average cost for Public Sector’s data breach (Statistica)•$1.59 M average cost in lost business following a data breach. (IBM Report)•Reputational Damage: Losing customers can potentially far outweigh the impact of the financial impact of the breach itself•A report by IBM found that the average time to detect and contain a data breach is 311 days (219 to detect and 92 to contain) •By containing a cost within 200 days, you can save up to $1M in remediation costs•https://www.upguard.com/blog/cost-of-data-breach•*Data Breach* The intentional or unintentional release of secure or private/confidential information to an untrusted environment. Other terms for this phenomenon include unintentional information disclosure, data leak, information leakage and alsodata spill

Cost Analysis •Cost of Darktrace for AMP •$97,416 year•Equivalent to .05% of the average 2021 cyber breach in the Public sector (Source: Statistica)•Cost of Darktrace vs. Dedicated Cyber Analyst•$98,000/year; U.S. medianincome for a Seniorsecurity analyst •Parameters: (6-8 years experience, Computer Science Degree)•Coverage of 8-10 hours per day (Source: Payscale)•With Darktrace, you’ll get:•AI Driven Investigation•Autonomous Response to quarantine or neutralize threats •Autonomous Reports and Risk Intelligence delivered at machine speed Threat Find: Double Extortion Ransomware at Energy Supplier •Attacker used a corporately approved remote management tool to deploy ransomware in an organization in its critical infrastructure supply chain. •Self-learning AI Technology was able to use a holistic understanding of ‘normal’ to detect the attack at multiple points in the kill chain, crucially, despite the abuse of a legitimate tool in order to remain undetected. •As attacks like ransomware continue to target industrial environments, it is imperative that these threats are dealt with in real time.

Utilizing Cyber AI Analyst toDetect Ransomware in US Federal Government •When ransomware struck this organization, Cyber AI Analyst was invaluable, autonomously investigating the full scope of the incident and generating a natural language summary that clearly showed the progression of the attack.•In the aftermath of this attack, Darktrace’s technology also offered analyst assistance in mapping out the timeline of the attack and identifying what files were compromised, helping the security team identify anomalous activity related to the ransomware attack.•With Darktrace AI’s insights, the team easily identified the timeline of the attack, affected devices, credentials used, file shares accessed, files exfiltrated, and malicious endpoints contacted, enabling the customer to disclose the scale of the attack and notify necessary parties.

Customer Testimonials

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