With countless cyber security services to choose from, it can be difficult to understand exactly what your business needs to maintain a tight security posture and keep up with growing compliance demands. For most, a combination approach will provide the best security, but this can be unwieldly to monitor, with key information lost in a sea of data and alerts. An XDR (Extended Detection and Response) service combines a number of these crucial security tools to provide comprehensive, strategic cyber security across your whole posture and organisation.
Gartner defines an XDR service as a “unified security incident detection and response platform that automatically collects and correlates data from multiple proprietary security components”.
This advanced intelligence telemetry offers security teams the macro insight to effectively guard against incoming threats and proactively lodge an incident response should threat actors breach your defences.
What is an XDR Service?
An XDR ingests data from a variety of sources, including endpoints, networks, cloud environments and more to provide a cohesive single source of truth, providing enhanced visibility and reducing the time taken to identify and respond to threats.
Once data is collected it’s then correlated into meaningful security insight via a combination of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and expert analysts. This then forms the basis of a threat response, enabling teams to triage, investigate and remediate as required for a cohesive, strategic solution.
The Benefits of a Managed XDR Service
While a standard XDR can provide security teams with the joined-up intelligence required to identify and respond to threats, without the necessary resources to carry out a prompt threat response, this protection can fall down.
With a Managed XDR, or MXDR, the same multi-source security is provided with 24/7 access to a dedicated external support team with the expertise, and critically, the resources, to lodge a timely response and remediate threats as and when they’re identified.
If resourcing and retaining the cyber security talent to keep pace with snowballing threats is proving a challenge for your organisation, outsourcing your security provision to a fully enabled XDR with management capabilities offers an opportunity to utilise niche expertise that is currently almost impossible to hire in-house.
Threatscape's Managed XDR Solution
Powered by SecurityHQ, Threatscape’s XDR provision is a fully managed security solution featuring comprehensive security intelligence, monitoring, and remediation, delivered by a dedicated team of expert threat hunters, GCIH certified incident responders, trained engineers, and security analysts.
Features Include -
- User Behaviour Analytics: Identify patterns of usage that indicate malicious or anomalous user behaviour. From launched apps and file access to network activity, monitor who touched what, as well as when and where an element was accessed, how it was made, and how often.
- Network Flow Analytics: Gain a comprehensive view of your entire network infrastructure by examining sources, target ports, IP addresses and more.
- Endpoint Detection & Response: Continually monitor endpoints, gain full visibility of your whole IT environment, detect incidents, mediate alerts, stop breaches, and receive instant advice.
- Contain-X Connector Threat Containment: Benefit from IR Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) for accelerated enrichment, playbooks and threat containment.
- Dark Web Monitoring: Monitor the dark, deep, and visible web to detect risks and alert, investigate and take down offensive content.
- Bring Your Own License: Whichever features work best for you, either apply our own turnkey solution, or bring your own license and merge the package best suited to your needs.
Benefits Include -
- Rapid Response: 24/7 365 incident response.
- Comprehensive Proactive Monitoring: Advanced threat prevention and detection with a detailed view of risks via real-time monitoring and alerting.
- Personalised Service: A solution tailored to your specific needs with features that work best for your business.
- Industry Expertise: A deep understanding and support of compliance standards.
- Quick Turnaround: Rapid onboarding with industry experts.
For more information on Threatscape’s XDR solution, download our datasheet to explore the full wealth of security benefits at your disposal.
