If you attended the RSA conference, you were sure to notice that the conversation around Extended Detection and Response (XDR) continues to gain momentum. Security teams are still struggling with multiple challenges and overcoming obstacles threatening their security posture.
As IT environments become increasingly dispersed, Security Operations Centers (SOC) are dealing with an ever-increasing barrage of advanced threats and malicious activity. This creates multiple challenges that security analysts deal with daily, including:
Securing a Remote Work Force
An expanding attack surface due to digital transformation
Cybersecurity skills shortage
New Security Vulnerabilities
Securing Cloud Applications
Multiple Tools Increasing Security Complexity
Anomali sponsored new research from ESG to understand the role XDR solutions play in modern SOC. The study found that enterprise organizations increasingly turn to extended detection and response (XDR) solutions to help defend their growing attack surface against today’s modern threats.
What is Extended Detection and Response?
Extended detection and response (XDR) helps provide increased visibility and actionable insights across networks, clouds, endpoints, and applications to help Security Operation Center (SOC) teams to detect, investigate, and remediate threats.
XDR solutions offer advanced threat detection capabilities by ingesting security telemetry from all security products installed in an environment to create a unified detection and response platform. This enables security operations teams to automate routine tasks, prioritize their investigations and response capabilities, and focus on what’s most critical.
What Were the Key Findings?
The ESG report dove into multiple areas around XDR to uncover its role and how it can help SOC operations. Here are some of the key findings:
1. Security Operations Remains Challenging: Security operations have become increasingly difficult due to the growing attack surface, dangerous threat landscape, and increasing use of cloud comp ..
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