Darktrace announced on Wednesday that it has completed an assessment by the InfoSec Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) of its Darktrace / NETWORK and Darktrace / OT platforms against the Australian government Information Security Manual’s (ISM) PROTECTED-level controls.
Conducted by an Australian Signals Directorate-endorsed IRAP assessor, the assessment provides Australian Government agencies and regulated-industry organizations with independent evidence to support their evaluation of Darktrace against relevant security, governance, and risk-management requirements.
“Australian Government and defense organizations are modernizing quickly, but they cannot afford to create new security blind spots as their environments become more connected and complex,” said Kiranraj Govindaraj, Key Account Director at Darktrace. “Completing an IRAP assessment against the ISM’s PROTECTED-level helps Australian government and defense institutions to adopt Darktrace’s Adaptive AI capabilities with confidence. Our unique behavioral security approach can enable them to understand normal behavior across their operations, then identify and contain emerging threats before they disrupt critical services or operations, whether generated by human or AI actors.”
Nation-state activity, supply-chain compromise, rapid vulnerability exploitation, and the growing use of AI by attackers are increasing pressure on Australian public-sector organizations. At the same time, agencies are adopting cloud services, connected operational technology, automation, and AI across sensitive and mission-critical environments, creating new complexity and risk that security teams must manage, in some of the world’s most high-pressure, mission-critical environments.
Darktrace / NETWORK and Darktrace / OT take a behavioral approach to helping security teams manage this increasing complexity. Darktrace’s Adaptive AI continuously learns how an organization’s people and AI behave, building an understanding of the organization so it can detect and respond autonomously when behavior deviates.
By identifying meaningful changes in the behavior of users, AI tools, devices, and systems, Darktrace can detect, investigate, and respond to suspicious activity without relying solely on known attack signatures or previously observed threats. By running entirely on an appliance without dependency on cloud connectivity, signatures, or threat intelligence feeds, Darktrace continues to provide these capabilities when the link goes dark, under EMCON, or in fully air-gapped deployments, and provides data sovereignty by design for UK MOD, NATO and AUKUS coalition operations.
This milestone builds on Darktrace’s progress in the United States, where the company has already achieved FedRAMP High Authorization for its platform. Together, these achievements demonstrate Darktrace’s ability to meet rigorous public-sector security requirements across multiple jurisdictions and reinforce its position as a trusted provider of mission-critical cybersecurity technology for government environments.
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