Historically, mega storms, like last year’s Hurricane Ian, profoundly affect tens of millions of people on the Eastern Seaboard. For example, Hurricane Sandy’s turbulent convergence patterns combined to make it “the perfect storm”.
A perfect storm is the extraordinary combination of circumstances that develop into an event of unusual magnitude. Today, cybersecurity is facing a major convergence. The perfect cybersecurity storm in the making is the confluence of single-function security product sprawl, the still-echoing ramifications of a global pandemic, expanding enterprise perimeters, and a lack of skilled security professionals. Together, these elements have created unprecedented security risks. In the eye of this storm, enters extended detection and response, or XDR.
XDR is a modern, holistic platform approach to cyberthreat detection and response, protecting against unauthorized access and misuse. XDR replaces single-function security products to deliver unified threat detection and response across all attack surfaces.
The evolution of Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), XDR natively embeds multiple security capabilities into a cohesive security operations system. XDR unifies threat detection with telemetry from diverse security functions such as endpoint security, email security, privileged access management (PAM), zero trust networking access (ZTNA), deception technology, and more. A unified, cloud-native platform, XDR provides the security team with the agility, scalability, and automation they need to be successful.
Advantages of a natively embedded multi-functional architecture, over multi-layered security
XDR can overcome visibility limitations and risk vulnerabilities using a layered approach to mitigate cyberattacks.
A layered threat approach integrates disparate security tools and products. However, the approach has numerous associated problems. Layered security creates many gaps that cause undue risk and wasted time maintaining and managing disparate security tools, rather than automating holistic security investigations. Disjointed and uncoordinated single-function security creates operational silos that can’t easily share critical information, if at all. They require security teams to spend their time and efforts integrating, maintaining, and managing the systems, and conducting analysis manually — effectively creating security vulnerabilities that bad actors happily exploit.
Advanced XDR security functions that are natively embedded can provide more insightful investigations that foster intelligent, actionable responses. Leveraging the logical cross-connections of multiple security capabilities, and the application of sophisticated analytics and threat intelligence, an XDR platform with a fully native architecture can provide an intuitive view, with the full context of diverse attacks, and complete visibility across the entire chain of events.
XDR automated processes eliminate manual steps and provide rich data for analysis. Analysts can clearly see the timeline and attack path that may cross emails, endpoints, servers, clouds, and networks. Each step of an attack can be visualized, so admins can quickly take the necessary action.
Cross-functional detection and response improves threat detection rates and response times. Automatic aggregation of the chain of activities are brought into a comprehensive view to make high-confidence decisions, with fewer and more prioritized alerts for quick action.
Just as technology is making it easier and more reliable for meteorologists to predict storm activity, security leaders must be able to predict what technology they will need to meet their growing cybersecurity challenges, today, and into the future. If difficulties associated with managing cybersecurity infrastructure make you feel like you’re being tossed around in the fury of a super storm, think about having seamless security control over your IT environment with RevBits.
Click here to download the RevBits CIP product brief, “RevBits Unified Cybersecurity Reduces Vendor Sprawl”.
Originally Published by www.revbits.com
