As organizations continue to expand and evolve their digital footprint, security staff struggle to adapt operations quickly enough to ensure effective monitoring and response to incidents in their environment. These challenges are even more difficult due to limited staff and expertise.
Enter extended detection and response or XDR. Depending on who you ask, you'll get differing opinions about what XDR is, where it came from, and whether or not you need it.
The fact is security teams continue to struggle with too many security tools from different vendors, with little integration of data or relevant threat intelligence.
These tools generate an alarming volume of alerts, leading to analysts chasing false positives or not looking into data because they lack the intelligence and expertise to prioritize the alerts that matter.
They’re also working in siloed environments, which makes it hard to collaborate and leads to more problems, including:
Overwhelming volumes of data make it difficult to prioritize security efforts and response
They lack insight into global threats and incidents and are unable to recognize the potential impact of known and unknown threats
The detection technologies they’ve installed are riddled with false positives that waste staff time
The reliance on a single vendor and the inability to tune security controls across multi-vendor security stacks makes it harder to prioritize investigations and incident response efforts
This is where XDR solutions come into play. We’ve aligned ourselves with Gartner’s definition of XDR, which states:
"XDR is a security threat detection and incident response tool that natively integrates multiple security products into a cohesive security operations system that unifies all licensed components."
In layman's terms:
XDR provides a holistic, more straightforward view of threats across an ..
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