Recent ESG research found that organizations are interested in extended detection and response (XDR) technology because current tools struggle to detect and investigate advanced threats.
Today’s threats are more advanced than ever, with attackers more sophisticated, better funded, and well equipt to inflict damage.
Despite investments, SOC teams are still struggling, chasing false positives and performing manual tasks to detect and investigate alerts accurately. XDR solutions, like The Anomali Platform, can help address these challenges by aggregating alerts, surfacing relevant threats, and integrating intelligence to present a timeline of events related to cyber-kill chains that improve threat detection while streamlining investigations.
The report found that security professionals are interested in using XDR to help them address several threat detection and response challenges. The common XDR use cases analysts have in mind are:
Help prioritize alerts based on risk
Improved detection of advanced threats
More efficient threat/ forensic investigations
A layered addition to existing threat detection tools
Improve threat detection to reinforce security controls and prevent future similar attacks
Users want XDR to fill gaps within their security stack while improving the efficacy and efficiency of threat detection and response.
So, how does XDR do that? Let’s look at the common XDR use cases security teams are looking for.
Help prioritize alerts based on risk
A Security Operations Center’s primary responsibility is monitoring security events and investigating and responding promptly. SOC Analysts need to act quickly when threats arise. They must ensure that threats with elevated risk scores get elevated for further research, investigation, and analysis.
Unfortunately, most analysts suffer from alert fatigue and cannot process the overload of alerts to ..
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