Darwinium for Cybersecurity: Uniting Security and Fraud at the Perimeter Edge

The requirement for businesses to build a Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture (CSMA) is a strategic technology and cybersecurity trend for 2022, as stated by Gartner®: “IT leaders must integrate security tools into a cooperative ecosystem using a composable and scalable cybersecurity mesh architecture approach.”

The market need for this approach is one that resonates strongly with the Darwinium founding team. We believe that this report discusses some of the key market, industry, and security challenges that Darwinium has encountered while working with financial institutions, ecommerce merchants and fintechs. These can be summarized as follows:

• Attack profiles are becoming more complex, harder to detect and mitigate.
• Business infrastructure and technology continues to layer additional complexity to security strategy and identity management.
• Business units, and the security and identity solutions that they use, remain siloed, lacking a single view of data, endpoints, and customers.
• Lack of cohesion between customer and workforce intelligence and controls creates operational inefficiencies and opens organizations to insider attacks and collusion fraud.
• And finally, solutions lack the context to make security and identity decisions quickly enough, to protect businesses from current and future attacks.

The ultimate effect of these challenges is that organizations are making security and identity decisions on incomplete data, lacking context from other events, products or teams. They are managing these strategies in siloed, and often complex structures, without the ability to react with the speed required to mitigate new and evolving threats. In essence, security needs to move from aggregation of intelligence and remediation of alerts, to proactive predictive protections and control.

When summarizing the approach that Darwinium has taken to a solution that aligns with an integrated mesh architecture approach, we have taken key inspiration from the evolution of nature.

Octopus have evolved to become the pinnacle of nature’s representation of mesh cognition, with mini “brains” or sensors in each tentacle that are both distinct, but intricately connected to the central brain in the main body.

This analogy perfectly represents the architectural approach that Darwinium has built, with its distributed decision framework. While the platform can analyze and risk assess signals from serial point in time events, it is also combining the context and intelligence from each step into a holistic journey that can be accessed by all areas of the business. Currently, many of these events and decision points are acting independently, and without the context of previous events in the chain, meaning that good customers are unnecessarily inconvenienced, or high-risk context is missed.

We call this new model integrated intent decisioning: allowing fraud, security, trust and safety and customer experience teams to harness the full context of a user journey, and act on that context in real time with tailored decision strategies.

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