Cybersecurity is only set to become a lot more complex as cyber threats continue to evolve and become more and more sophisticated and corporate IT environments grow. XDR is very important to the ability of an organization to scale security capabilities as well as stay abreast with extremely rapid changes.
XDR Capabilities
XDR security solutions are designed to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the security team of an organization by decreasing inefficiencies and giving analysts the data and tools, they need in order to respond to and identify potential threats.
A few of the main capabilities that XDR solutions need to maintain to accomplish these goals include:
Data Collection
XDR solutions feature a design that provides centralized-security visibility, and this spans the network of the organization. This includes the collection of security information that comes from several sources to offer the required context and visibility.
Data Analytics
XDR solutions also use artificial intelligence and machine learning for analyzing data and identifying potential threats. Combining threat intelligence and security data (internal) enables these solutions to detect the most current threat campaigns.
Centralized Management
XDR solutions correlate several alerts while providing all this data in one interface. This allows analysts to respond to and investigate potential threats in a much more efficient way.
Automated Response
XDR solutions use automation to offer scalable security along with a speed-incident response. This includes an ability to respond to threats automatically and to orchestrate a response across the entire IT infrastructure of the organization.
Benefits
XDR is made to simplify "security visibility" across the entire ecosystem of the organization. This offers several different efficient benefits to organizations:
Integrated Visibility
XDR combines security visibility spanning the entire network of the organization. This includes mobile, cloud infrastructure, endpoints, and more. This gives security analysts more context about potential security incidents without the need to use and learn about different platforms.
Single Glass Pane Of Management
Security settings are easy to configure from one glass pane across the complete enterprise network. This makes sure that security policies are consistent and easy to enforce even when the network infrastructure is highly diverse.
Fast Time To Value
XDR provides out-of-the-box integrations along with pre-tuned detection mechanisms spanning several different products. This allows organizations to quickly extract immense value from their investment in cybersecurity.
Enhanced Productivity
XDR does away with security analysts having to switch between several dashboards and having to aggregate the security data manually. This allows analysts to productively and more efficiently respond to and detect security threats.
Lower TCO (Total Cost Of Ownership)
XDR provides a completely integrated platform for security. This lowers costs linked with integrating and configuring multiple-point in-house solutions.
Analyst Support
XDR offers a workflow and management experience that is common across the entire security infrastructure of the organization. This decreases training requirements and allows Tier 1 analysts to perform at higher levels than they have done before.
XDR is made to offer security teams complete visibility into the network infrastructure and endpoints of the organization. With this type of visibility there are several advantages for enterprise security:
Unified Remediation
XDR offers unified and centralized incident response abilities that include every environment that makes up the enterprise network. This provides the security team with a way to efficiently and rapidly remediate any widespread attacks or hacking that could occur to the organization, thus lowering the costs and impacts to the company.
Improved Understanding Of Attacks
When taken individually, any indications of attacks can be weak, making it hard to separate the noise from the signal. XDR aggregates and gathers signals from several sources, making them stronger and allowing the organization to respond to and detect attacks that could have gone unnoticed.
Unified Threat Hunting
XDR solutions unify data analytics and visibility across the network infrastructure of the organization. This allows analysts to gain the required context to proactively detect and identify any advanced threats that may be present in the network.