XDR: the technology that simplifies security incident response
Background
All reports confirm it, organisations are facing a growing number of increasingly complex threats.
To successfully keep risks at bay, successive layers of security solutions are added, which makes management and effective response difficult.
There are a multitude of threats that need to be prioritised. However, companies sometimes lack sufficient analysis capacity. There are just too many alerts. The solution to this dynamic faced by many companies today may lie in the automation of analysis and response.
Extended detection and response (XDR) is the beginning of a change towards unifying multiple solutions and reducing the complexity that impedes rapid detection and response.
What is XDR?
XDR is an approach that integrates all the customer’s security solutions, irrespective of the manufacturer, and provides a simple view of what is happening.
XDR protects the business from any attack vector by collecting and automatically correlating data across multiple security layers or platforms. This enables faster detection of threats and significantly improves investigation and response times by automating these processes.
XDR is designed to help security teams to:
- Identify highly sophisticated or hidden threats
- Monitor threats in different system components
- Improve detection and response times
- Investigate threats more effectively and efficiently
How does XDR differ to other security solutions?
The difference between XDR and other security tools is that it centralises, normalises and correlates data from multiple sources.
Benefits
- A single solution for detecting complex threats
- Open architecture that integrates multiple solutions and suppliers
- It sees more, detects more
- It automates the response
In short, XDR provides greater security, quicker response and better detection:
- 50% lower risk and cost of data breaches
- 90% increase in effectiveness of SecOps (security operations)
- 85% less time required to remediate attacks
Cisco XDR
Cisco is leading the way towards XDR with a comprehensive security portfolio that integrates the components to make effective security easier and accessible for all teams, irrespective of supplier or vector.
Its aim is to develop an XDR approach that allows teams to break free from the endless cycle of applying patches in an industry saturated with one-off solutions. The objective of Cisco XDR is to find the shortest route from detection to response with the least friction possible.
Designed by SOC experts for SOC experts, Cisco XDR simplifies security operations to help security analysts remain proactive and resilient against the most sophisticated threats.
The Cisco solution is open, extensible and cloud-based, which means it can leverage existing security investments and achieve unified security detection across the entire environment.