Darktrace products and services used by the SG: FOI release

FOI reference: FOI/17/01430
Date received: 23 June 2017
Date responded: 20 July 2017

Information requested

The names of the Darktrace products and services used by the Scottish government;

1. The dates on which the Scottish government began using those products and services.
2. The cost of those products and services thus far and the ongoing yearly cost of the Darktrace products and services used by the Scottish government.
3. The cost of those products and services thus far and the ongoing yearly cost of the Darktrace products and services used by the Scottish government.
4. The number of cybersecurity breaches prevented by the use of those Darktrace products and services thus far.
5. The number of successful cybersecurity breaches in the period the Scottish government has used Darktrace's products and services.

Response

The names of the Darktrace products and services used by the Scottish government:

Darktrace

The dates on which the Scottish government began using those products and services:

11th January 2016

The cost of those products and services thus far and the ongoing yearly cost of the Darktrace products and services used by the Scottish government:

£184,800

The number of cybersecurity breaches prevented by the use of those Darktrace products and services thus far:

Darktrace does not in itself prevent breaches. It produces alerts for security analysts to investigate further and is one of a range of methods and tools we use. We do not attempt to make a direct correlation between events and specific software alerts.

The number of successful cybersecurity breaches in the period the Scottish government has used Darktrace's products and services:

One.

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