Schedule a Demo

Why your XDR Provider Should Be Technology Agnostic

Picture of Pareto Cyber

Pareto Cyber

Cyber threats are real

Schedule a Demo

Subscribe newsletter

Most companies think that to improve their enterprise security, they have to invest in better technology and tools.

That conclusion is quite understandable: after all, cybersecurity relies on technological advances. To keep up with current trends, new is always better, right?

Except when your organization assumes that improving your security operations (SecOps) requires better tools, you can get stuck in a vicious cycle. In fact, chasing new technology may have the following opportunity costs:

  • Money spent on licenses, installation, and maintenance.
  • Time dedicated to training IT staff and phasing out current tools.
  • No resources for other cybersecurity improvements.

Tools Won’t Improve Your Security Operations

The success of your cybersecurity efforts depends on a lot more than just the tools you use.

The way you combine those tools into a coherent security program and the workflows you implement to improve your overall security hygiene will matter a lot more than any individual tool. Especially when switching to Extended Detection and Response (XDR) threat management, you need to change your methodology before looking at new tools.

After all, if your company is out of money to invest in cybersecurity, your team won’t be able to detect or manage threats. Considering that security professionals spend an average of nearly $3 million a year on security engineering, the price of new tools won’t leave room in the budget for anything else.

Don’t let a new XDR partner convince you to switch over to brand-new technology and abandon your existing stack.

Instead, implement XDR into the system you already have.

 

Improve Methodology, Not Technology

Review your existing security tools.

Can you find any software that hasn’t been updated to the most recent version? If you are like most other modern businesses, you probably can. Take a second to update that tool, or make a note to do so later this week.

You have now saved your organization from hundreds of potential threats. Enterprises often lose track of their software, forgetting to patch up and update tools even when they expose significant vulnerabilities. In fact, 25% of all vulnerabilities exploited by attackers are at least 3 years old, despite most of them having available patches and fixes.

If you want to set your company’s cyber program apart, you just have to beat the industry average time to fix a known vulnerability, which is estimated to be 200 days according to AppSec Stats Flash.

When you focus on assessing and improving what you already have, you can easily:

  1. Save money by phasing out redundant tools and shelfware.
  2. Leverage your trusted technologies.
  3. Optimize your security operations to better mitigate threats.

 

Too Many Tools Cause Too Many Problems

Most security analysts are overwhelmed and IT budgets are stretched too thin.

Forget about chasing the new shiny technology on the market. Embrace XDR as a methodology and adapt your existing tools to better fit your business’s needs. Now, you can protect your business assets without spending a single extra cent.

If you are looking to better understand how you can improve your cyber maturity without extra tools, Pareto Cyber’s free risk assessment may be the solution for you. Get in touch with us today to learn more about our solutions and how they can benefit your business.

 

Share

Related Articles

Cyber
Hygiene
Engineer
  • Responsible for data analysis and interpretation of required hygiene data sources; Vulnerability, Identity, Patching, Device Management, Cloud, and Networking. The role of the Cyber Hygiene Engineer is to provide prioritization of risks identified in the environment. Their overall goal is to rapidly reduce client risk related to Cyber Hygiene gaps.
Threat Hunters
& Red /
Purple Team
  • A cross-functional operations and engineering team responsible for developing threat use cases based on the technologies deployed and operations within a client. Our Threat Hunters are using the latest intel technologies to understand threat actor groups and motives targeting clients and provide use cases for SIEM implementation. Then our Red/Purple team provides our hunters and platform engineers with the latest tactics being used to help clients stay ahead of the latest threats.
Strategic
Cyber
Risk Advisor
  • Our Cyber Risk Advisors are focused on analyzing data integrated and correlated within the Cylemetry platform. This analysis allows our CRAs to provide clients with strategic and tactical recommendations on reducing overall cyber risks.
Customer
Success
  • Responsible for ensure all Pareto teams are meeting client expectations, service level agreements, and taking overall feedback for service improvement.
Platform
Engineer
  • Responsible for installation, configuration, and continuous improvement of client and Pareto support technologies used during service operations. Additionally, Platform Engineers provide content development, log source tuning, and security solution tuning support.
IR
Engineer
  • Responsible for using digital technologies available to assess total risk exposure of an incident / breach, provide in-depth Eradication, Remediation, Recovery, and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) services for clients that experience a successful attack.
Threat
Intel
Analyst
  • Collect, Process, Analyze and Report on enterprise and open-source threat intelligence to track threat actors, malware strains, or phishing campaigns that may affect our clients and their industry.
Threat
Detection
Analyst
  • Responsible for management of security alerts within security technologies, internal escalation of alerts to events or incidents, development of threat reports, threat surface analysis, and support of IR Engineering, Threat Intel, and Platform Engineering.
Threat
Detection
Lead
  • Accountable for daily operations, such as Threat Escalation Management, Remediation Approval, Service Level Agreements, Customer Communications, and Root Cause Analysis.
Penetration
Tester
  • Works alongside the Threat Hunter and Threat Intelligence Analyst to build and test SIEM alert rule content, based on the newest adversary tactics.
Threat
Hunter
  • Performs prescribed threat searches within the client’s environment, reporting any findings. This skill is also considered the SME of internal client IT operations and can determine legitimate client network traffic.