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How Is XDR Different From What Is On The Market Today

 

No security solutions on the market today offer the comprehensive visibility and ability to automatically detect and remove threats before they can cause damage like XDR.

Most security systems are siloed, making it difficult for security staff to get a holistic view of the enterprise’s IT infrastructure.

XDR is different than other detection and response solutions on the market in a few key ways:

 

#1: Relevant Data Is Consolidated In One Place

Most detection and response solutions require security professionals to use multiple tools to get a complete picture of their environment. This is time-consuming and can lead to gaps in coverage. Instead, XDR consolidates all relevant data into a single platform, providing a comprehensive view of the enterprise’s security posture.

 

#2: It’s Fully Integrated

XDR services and solutions are designed to integrate security tools and systems. This provides a complete view of the enterprise’s security posture and makes it easier to respond to incidents.

 

#3: It’s Automated

XDR solutions use automation to help speed up detection, reduce dwell time, and remediate more quickly. XDR allows security professionals to automate repetitive tasks, improving their productivity and allowing leaders to upskill their teams to focus on higher-level, strategic priorities.

 

#4: It’s Scalable

XDR solutions are scalable, meaning they can be adapted to meet any organization’s needs, which makes them a good fit for organizations of all sizes.

 

#5: It’s Cost-Effective

XDR solutions are cost-effective and optimize native alerting in existing tech stacks, making them a good choice for organizations looking for cost savings. Additionally, they can help reduce the number of false positives and alert overload, saving organizations time and money.

 

How Can XDR Benefit Your Company?

Extended detection and response (XDR) products are the future. According to MSSP Alert, 90% of organizations were planning some degree of investment into these security projects by late 2021. 

No wonder, since XDR unifies the entire security incident detection and response process. 

To keep up, vendors incorporate advanced context and automation into threat detection into their offerings. These features are pushing even other security products, such as endpoint detection and response (EDR), closer to XDR, according to Forrester analyst Allie Mellen. 

It is essential to have a comprehensive solution like XDR in place to detect and respond to the most sophisticated attacks in today’s threat landscape. It saves time and resources and can also help improve security posture overall.

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) security gives you better detection and response capabilities against threats, including the ability to:

  1. Convert a large number of alerts into manageable incidents for better manual investigation. This includes identifying malicious activity across hosts, networks, and applications.
     
  2. Provide integrated incident response options to contain and remove threats that have infiltrated your environment quickly.
  3. Automate repetitive tasks to speed up response times and free up security teams to focus on more strategic tasks.
  4. Reduce training and staffing requirements by providing a centralized platform for security operations.
  5. Provide high-quality detection content with minimal tuning and false positives.

 

How Will XDR Continue to Evolve in the Future?

The future of XDR lies in its ability to provide even more value to organizations by expanding and improving its capabilities and features. 

As the threat landscape continues to evolve, so will the need for XDR platforms. Here are a few areas where we see XDR headed in the future:

 

1. Increased Integration with Security Products and Services

Tighter integration with security products and services will be vital to providing a comprehensive XDR. To optimize for both detection and response capabilities across sources, XDR service providers need to provide actionability from the XDR platform to connected security tools.

 

2. Enhanced Automation

The goal of XDR is to automate the process of detecting, investigating, and responding to certain threats, saving human analysts time. This means that more tasks will be automated in the future, freeing up security teams to focus on more critical threats and other strategic tasks.

 

3. Improved Usability

XDR platforms will become more user-friendly to make them easier to use and deploy. This includes simplifying the platform architecture and making it more intuitive to use.

 

4. Greater Focus on Cloud

As more and more organizations move to the cloud, XDR will need to be designed with the cloud in mind. This includes support for cloud-native applications and workloads and the ability to integrate with cloud-based security products and services.

 

5. Bigger Role of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) will play an increasingly important role in XDR platforms. AI will be used to help the analysts process and make sense of large amounts of data and automate the detection and response process.

 

Conclusion

The value of XDR is becoming more apparent as the market perception evolves. There is a lot of hype around XDR so it is important to partner with service providers who can build and execute a cybersecurity strategy built with XDR at the core.

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