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Poppy Gustafsson, the cyber security chief with a human dilemma

Discussions about a private equity takeover arrive as shareholder and former adviser Mike Lynch faces extradition

Addressing a group of investors last year, Poppy Gustafsson pronounced: “An attack, once thwarted, needs to have all the tendrils of infection removed.”

“This is a human-intensive task that is prone to human error and insufficient vigilance,” added the chief executive of cyber security group Darktrace, one of the UK’s best-known start-ups.

News this week that tech-focused private equity group Thoma Bravo is mulling a bid to take Darktrace private is a vote of confidence in a company that is grappling with some scepticism over its growth prospects as well as risks to its reputation, the tendrils of which have proved difficult to remove.

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