Extended Detection and Response - XDR
An Extended Detection and Response (XDR) solution is designed to proactively defend an organization’s infrastructure, protect sensitive data and information from breaches and corruption, and prevent unauthorized access by consolidating multiple security tools into a cohesive, unified security incident detection and response platform.
XDR gathers, collects, and correlates data across email, endpoints, servers, cloud workloads, and networks, enabling visibility and context into advanced threats. These threats can then be analyzed, prioritized, hunted, and remediated to prevent data loss and security breaches. XDR visibility features also allow it to identify actual tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used in an ongoing attack.
The Primary Advantages of an XDR Solution are:
• Improved protection, detection, and response capabilities
• Increased visibility and control by centralizing and consolidating multiple security toolsets
• Reduced alerting and false positives by automatic correlation and alert confirmations
• Improved productivity of operational security personnel
• Better analyst across multi-vendor sensor telemetry with prescriptive recommendations to further investigations
• Lower total cost of ownership for effective detection and response of security threats
What does XDR do?
XDR, which is usually SaaS-based captures data from an organization’s most critical elements. These elements can be traditional endpoints, network edge devices, servers, and cloud services. An XDR platform cuts through all the useless data and identifies actual threats and can automatically take actions based on the information collected. An XDR solution can even complement an organization’s existing SIEM or SOAR platforms by receiving information from it, feeding the information into the XDR data lake for sorting, sweeping, hunting, correlation, and investigation to identify critical threats and alerts that require deeper investigation and immediate attention.