In addressing the complexity of modern cyber attacks spanning various domains, security teams require a cohesive solution enabling swift detection and response to threats across an organization’s entire digital landscape. Leveraging robust intelligence for automated data correlation and analysis, along with responsive measures, XDR emerges as a pivotal tool for Security Operations Centers (SOCs), like SysArc, to shift from reactive tactics to proactive defense strategies. This transition not only enhances threat detection and response efficiency, but also liberates SOC analysts’ time, empowering them to concentrate on proactive threat hunting and prevention efforts.
eXtended Detection and Response (XDR)
XDR is designed to provide organizations with a comprehensive, streamlined, and effective defense strategy against sophisticated attacks. They offer Security Operations Center (SOC) teams an enhanced perspective of the entire attack lifecycle, facilitating thorough investigations and offering automated remediation capabilities across diverse domains. Leveraging extensive intelligence and integrated artificial intelligence (AI), these solutions empower organizations to proactively safeguard their digital assets.
Current Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Solutions Are Not Enough
Let’s compare are contrast EDR with XDR:
EDR:
- Endpoint security only
- Siloed endpoint alerts
- Can only help fend off endpoint-specific attacks and lacks the big picture to help with advanced attacks
XDR:
- Holistic security and signal correlation across identity, email, endpoint, cloud app, data loss prevention (DLP) security, and more
- Incident-based investigation and response experience
- Protects against advanced attacks such as ransomware and business email compromise (BEC)
- Helps organizations meet security compliance requirements for the latest regulations such as Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC).
How XDR Can Improve Your Security Operations
When considering the adoption of an XDR solution for your organization, our team of security experts stands ready to conduct a thorough assessment of your existing environment. Through this evaluation, we aim to introduce the following innovative methods for enhancing both process efficiency and cost-effectiveness throughout your operations.
- Advanced kill chain visibility and protection: In order to effectively safeguard against advanced attacks, XDR solutions must encompass various asset types and integrate security measures for critical threat entry points such as email and identity. Moreover, they should extend protection to vulnerable attack points deeper within the kill chain, encompassing endpoints, cloud applications, and DLP (Data Loss Prevention) data. By amalgamating these diverse data sources, XDR solutions can consolidate low-level alerts into cohesive incidents, thereby revealing the entirety of the kill chain in sophisticated attacks, which might otherwise evade detection by individual point security solutions.
- Unified investigation and response: Efficient XDR solutions are engineered to empower security analysts, enhancing their effectiveness in combating threats. Features such as incident-based investigations, providing comprehensive end-to-end views of attacks, contextual deep dives, and response playbooks incorporating best practices, play pivotal roles in facilitating easier and more efficient investigation and response processes for SOC teams.
- Automation: The rising volume and velocity of advanced attacks pose a formidable challenge to the capabilities of many security teams. XDR solutions offer automation through two primary avenues. Firstly, leveraging the extensive scope of their underlying signals and artificial intelligence (AI), they deliver built-in automation for responding to sophisticated attacks. Additionally, these solutions offer companies the flexibility to devise custom automations tailored to their specific needs and requirements.
- Broad intelligence and threat vector visibility: An effective XDR solution must integrate intelligence, drawing insights from diverse sources to analyze signals and gain a deeper understanding of the threat landscape. This includes leveraging first-party research to inform prevention, detection, and protection mechanisms. By harnessing a broader array of signals, encompassing both internal and external sources, the XDR solution enhances its capability to detect and comprehend various threat vectors. This enables swifter identification of attacks at earlier stages, thereby reducing the volume of alerts and incidents. Consequently, it empowers SOC teams to respond more effectively to the latest threats.
- Improved total cost of ownership: XDR facilitates vendor consolidation for organizations by seamlessly integrating multiple, disparate security tools purchased into a unified solution. This eliminates the necessity to procure from various vendors and eliminates the manual effort required for signal correlation. Instead, XDR offers a comprehensive solution for detection, response, and remediation, effectively lowering acquisition costs and minimizing process overhead.
Next Steps
Whether you need a fully managed SOC services solution with XDR or just need to add additional resources to increase the abilities of your current cybersecurity team, SysArc has a solution for you. Our team has helped thousands of enterprises throughout the United States navigate the complexities of cybersecurity and compliance — now we’d love to help you! Take the next step by requesting a consultation now.