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Blumira
Blumira
Free 131 RatingsEmpower Your Current Team to Achieve Enterprise-Level Security with Blumira XDR An all-in-one XDR solution with SIEM, endpoint visibility, 24/7 monitoring, and automated response to reduce complexity, increase visibility and speed up time to respond. We handle the security heavy lifting, so you get time back in your day. An XDR with out-of-the-box detections, pre-filtered alerts, and response playbooks, IT teams can achieve real security value with Blumira. Quick Deployment, Immediate Results: the XDR integrates with your tech stack and fully deploy, with no warm-up period, in hours All-You-Can-Eat Data Ingest: Predictable pricing and with unlimited data logging for an XDR with full-lifecycle detection Compliance Made Easy: 1 year data retention included, pre-built reports, and 24/7 automated monitoring 99.7% CSAT Support: Solution Architects for product support, the Incident Detection and Response Team creating new detections, and 24/7 SecOps support -
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With the Heimdal XDR, you can eliminate the complexity of managing multiple security solutions and gain the peace of mind that comes with having a comprehensive, integrated approach to cybersecurity.
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Fortinet
Fortinet
3,204 RatingsFortinet, a global leader of cybersecurity solutions, is known for its integrated and comprehensive approach to safeguarding digital devices, networks, and applications. Fortinet was founded in 2000 and offers a variety of products and solutions, including firewalls and endpoint protection systems, intrusion prevention and secure access. Fortinet Security Fabric is at the core of the company's offerings. It is a unified platform which seamlessly integrates security tools in order to deliver visibility, automate, and real-time intelligence about threats across the network. Fortinet is trusted by businesses, governments and service providers around the world. It emphasizes innovation, performance and scalability to ensure robust defense against evolving cyber-threats while supporting digital transformation. -
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Cortex XDR
Palo Alto Networks
153 RatingsSmarter security operations, fewer alerts, and end-to-end automation. The industry's most comprehensive security product suite, providing enterprises with the best-in class detection, investigation, automation, and response capabilities. Cortex XDR™, the industry's only detection platform, runs on integrated network, endpoint, and cloud data. Cortex XSOAR is the industry's best security orchestration, automation, and response platform. It can manage alerts, standardize processes, and automate actions for over 300 third-party products. Palo Alto Networks solutions can be enabled by integrating security data from your enterprise. Get the best threat intelligence available with unrivalled context to power investigation, prevention, and response. -
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Cynet equips MSPs and MSSPs with a fully managed, all-in-one cybersecurity platform that brings together essential security functions in a single, user-friendly solution. By consolidating these capabilities, Cynet simplifies cybersecurity management, reduces complexity, and lowers costs, eliminating the need for multiple vendors and integrations. With multi-layered breach protection, Cynet delivers robust security for endpoints, networks, and SaaS/Cloud environments, ensuring comprehensive defense against evolving threats. Its advanced automation enhances incident response, enabling swift detection, prevention, and resolution. Supported by a 24/7 Security Operations Center (SOC), Cynet’s CyOps team provides continuous monitoring and expert guidance to keep client environments secure. Partnering with Cynet allows you to deliver cutting-edge, proactive cybersecurity services while improving operational efficiency. See how Cynet can redefine your security offerings and empower your clients today.
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SentinelOne Singularity
SentinelOne
$45 per user per year 6 RatingsOne intelligent platform. Unprecedented speeds Infinite scale. Singularity™, enables unrestricted visibility, industry-leading detection and autonomous response. Discover the power of AI powered enterprise-wide security. Singularity is used by the world's largest enterprises to detect, prevent, and respond to cyberattacks at machine speed, greater scale, with higher accuracy, across endpoints, cloud, and identities. SentinelOne's platform offers cutting-edge security by providing protection against malware, scripts, and exploits. SentinelOne's cloud-based platform is innovative, compliant with industry standards and high-performance, whether you are using Windows, Mac, or Linux. The platform is prepared for any threat thanks to constant updates, threat hunting and behavior AI. -
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The market-leading SIEM is built to outpace your adversary in terms of speed, scale, and accuracy SOC analysts' roles are more important than ever as digital threats grow and cyber adversaries become more sophisticated. QRadar SIEM goes beyond threat detection and reaction to help security teams face today’s threats proactively. It does this with advanced AI, powerful intelligence and access to cutting edge content. IBM has a SIEM that will meet your needs, whether you are looking for a cloud-native solution with hybrid scale and speed, or a solution that complements your on-premises architecture. IBM's enterprise-grade AI is designed to increase the efficiency and expertise for every security team. With QRadar SIEM analysts can reduce repetitive tasks such as case creation and risk priority to focus on critical investigations and remediation efforts.
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Microsoft 365 Defender
Microsoft
3 RatingsSecurity teams become overwhelmed as threats become more complex, persistent, and difficult to detect. Microsoft 365 Defender is part of Microsoft's XDR Solution. It automatically analyzes threat data across domains and presents a complete picture of every attack in a single dashboard. This clarity allows defenders to focus on the most critical threats and hunt for sophisticated attacks. The powerful automation in Microsoft 365 Defender detects, stops and recovers from all types of attacks and returns the organization back to a secure state. Reduce your attack surface to eliminate persistent threats. Integrate threat data to provide a rapid and complete response. Use the time you save to use your unique expertise. Secure hybrid identities and simplify access for employees, partners, and customers. -
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Trend Vision One
Trend Micro
3 RatingsOne platform is all you need to stop adversaries faster and take control of your cyber risk. Manage security holistically using comprehensive prevention, detection and response capabilities powered AI, leading threat intelligence and research. Trend Vision One provides expert cybersecurity services and supports hybrid IT environments. The increasing attack surface is a challenge. Trend Vision One provides comprehensive security for your environment, including monitoring, securing, and supporting. Siloed software creates security gaps. Trend Vision One provides teams with robust capabilities for prevention detection and response. Understanding risk exposure should be a priority. Utilizing internal and external data across the Trend Vision One eco-system allows you to better control your attack surface risks. With deeper insight into key risk factors, you can minimize breaches or attacks. -
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Seceon’s platform allows over 250 MSP/MSSP Partners and their 7,000 clients to reduce risk and run efficient security operations. Cyber attacks and insider threat are prevalent in many industries. Seceon streamlines operations by providing a single pane-of-glass with full visibility of all attack surface, prioritized alerts and easy-to automate responses to remediate attacks and breaches. The platform includes continuous compliance posture reporting and management. Seceon aiSIEM combined with aiXDR is a comprehensive cybersecurity platform that visualizes and detects ransomware in real-time and eliminates threats. It also includes continuous compliance posture management and reporting.
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Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft
$0.02 per server per hour 2 RatingsMicrosoft Defender for Cloud is a cloud security posture management (CSPM), and cloud workload protection solution (CWP). It can identify weak points in your cloud environment, strengthen your overall security posture, and protect workloads across multicloud or hybrid environments from evolving threats. Continuous assessment of the security of cloud resources running on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Use the built-in policies and prioritized suggestions to align with key industry and regulatory standards. Or, create custom requirements that suit your organization's specific needs. You can automate your recommendations using actionable insights. This will help you ensure that resources are securely configured and meet your compliance requirements. Microsoft Defender for Cloud allows you to protect yourself against evolving threats in multicloud and hybrid environments. -
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Cybereason
Cybereason
2 RatingsTogether, we can stop cyber attacks at every stage of the battle, from the enterprise to the endpoint. Cybereason provides high-fidelity convictions and visibility of known and unknown threats, so that defenders can harness the power of true prevention. Cybereason provides deep context and correlations across the entire network to enable threat hunters to detect and deter stealthy operations. Cybereason dramatically reduces the time it takes for defenders investigate and resolve attacks using both automated and guided remediation. Cybereason analyzes over 80 million events per second, which is 100x more than other solutions available. To eliminate emerging threats in minutes, rather than days, reduce investigation time by up to 93%. -
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ESET PROTECT
ESET
$239 per year 1 RatingESET's multilayered technology protects your business endpoints, business data, and users. ESET PROTECT platform provides customizable security solutions that are easy to manage via a cloud console. Cyber risk management and visibility into the IT environment. Keep one step ahead of unknown or known threats. IT staff can quickly respond to any new threats with up-to-date information. IT administrators can save time and protect themselves against future attacks by using predefined policies and automating tasks. Scheduled reporting and dozens customizable templates make it easy to meet reporting requirements. A malicious email might be opened by a user in your network that contains ransomware. Programmers who use code on their work computers may create false positives from compiling software. -
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ThreatDefence
ThreatDefence
$5 per user per month 1 RatingOur XDR (Extended Detection & Response) cyber security platform provides deep visibility into your endpoints, servers, clouds, and digital supply chains and allows for threat detection. The platform is delivered to you as a fully managed service, supported by our 24x7 security operations. This allows for the quickest enrollment time and low cost. Our platform is the foundation for effective cyber threat detection, response services, and prevention. The platform provides deep visibility, advanced threat detection, sophisticated behavioral analytics, and automated threat hunting. It adds efficiency to your security operations capabilities. Our platform uses AI-empowered machine intelligence to detect suspicious and unusual behavior, revealing even the most obscure threats. The platform detects real threats with high fidelity and helps investigators and SOC analysts to focus on the important things. -
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VMware Carbon Black EDR
Broadcom
1 RatingThreat hunting and incident response solutions provide continuous visibility in offline, disconnected, and air-gapped environments using threat intelligence and customizable detections. You can't stop something you don't see. Investigative tasks that normally take days or weeks can now be completed in minutes. VMware Carbon Black®, EDR™, collects and visualizes detailed information about endpoint events. This gives security professionals unprecedented visibility into their environments. Never hunt the same threat twice. VMware Carbon Black EDR is a combination of custom and cloud-delivered threat intelligence, automated watchlists, and integrations with other security tools to scale your hunt across large enterprises. No more need to reimagine your environment. In less than an hour, an attacker can compromise your environment. VMware Carbon Black EDR gives VMware the ability to respond and correct in real-time from anywhere in the world. -
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Stellar Cyber
Stellar Cyber
1 RatingOn premises, in public cloud, with hybrid environments, and from SaaS infrastructure. Stellar Cyber is the only security platform that provides high-speed, high-fidelity threat detection with automated response across the entire attack area. Stellar Cyber's industry-leading security platform improves security operations productivity, allowing security analysts to eliminate threats in minutes instead if days or weeks. Stellar Cyber's platform accepts data inputs from both existing cybersecurity solutions and its own capabilities and correlating them to present actionable results under a single intuitive interface. This helps security analysts reduce tool fatigue and data overload. It also helps cut operational costs. -
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CrowdStrike Falcon
CrowdStrike
8 RatingsCrowdStrike Falcon, a cloud-native security platform, provides advanced protection from a wide range cyber threats including malware, ransomware and sophisticated attacks. It uses artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and incident response to detect and respond in real-time to threats. The platform uses a lightweight, agent-based solution that continuously monitors the endpoints to detect malicious activity. This provides visibility and protection with minimal impact on system performance. Falcon's cloud architecture ensures rapid updates, scalability and rapid threat response in large, distributed environments. Its comprehensive security capabilities help organizations detect, prevent, and mitigate cyber risks. This makes it a powerful tool in modern enterprise cybersecurity. -
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Bitdefender GravityZone
Bitdefender
2 RatingsBitdefender GravityZone gives organizations complete visibility into their overall security status, global security threats, as well as control over the security services that protect mobile devices, servers, and virtual desktops. All Bitdefender Enterprise Security solutions can be managed in the GravityZone via a single console, Control Center. This provides control, reporting and alerting services for different roles within the organization. -
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AirCISO
Airiam
$0AirCISO, Airiam's extended detect and response (XDR), software, gives CISOs and IT Managers, as well as CIOs, the insight they need to improve cybersecurity in their organizations. Understanding your environment's threats and how they relate to the MITRE ATT&CK® framework. You can keep your software secure by knowing the vulnerabilities in your system and using common vulnerabilities exposures (CVEs) data. Respect regulatory frameworks such as the PCI DSS and CMMC, NIST SP 80053 and HIPAA. AirCISO provides a unified view across your entire IT landscape. You can see what is happening at your endpoints, email servers, cloud, third-party and IoT systems. This information makes it easier to identify and isolate threats. AirCISO services are the single source for truth for your tools and teams. You can take a strategic look at your cybersecurity with dashboards that provide metrics and data that show your business' maturity over time and your ROI. -
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OpenText™, Managed Extended Detection & Response (MxDR), is based on a remote, cloud-based virtual security Operations Center. (V-SOC), which is supported by machine learning and MITRE AT&CK framework. Advanced workflows and artificial intelligence are used to create correlations between device, network, and computer logs. BrightCloud®, Threat Intelligence Services integrates directly to help businesses understand and validate the impact of security events. OpenText MxDR experts will help you identify, investigate, and prioritize alerts. This will allow you to save time and allow your internal teams to concentrate on business operations.
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BIMA
Peris.ai
$168BIMA by Peris.ai is an all-encompassing Security-as-a-Service platform, incorporating advanced functionalities of EDR, NDR, XDR, and SIEM into a single, powerful solution. This integration ensures proactive detection of threats across all network points, endpoints and devices. It also uses AI-driven analytics in order to predict and mitigate possible breaches before they escalate. BIMA offers organizations streamlined incident response and enhanced security intelligence. This provides a formidable defense to the most sophisticated cyber-threats. -
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Uptycs
Uptycs
Uptycs presents the first unified CNAPP and XDR platform that enables businesses to take control of their cybersecurity. Uptycs empowers security teams with real-time decision-making driven by structured telemetry and powerful analytics. The platform is designed to provide a unified view of cloud and endpoint telemetry from a common solution, and ultimately arm modern defenders with the insights they need across their cloud-native attack surfaces. Uptycs prioritizes responses to threats, vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, sensitive data exposure, and compliance mandates across modern attack surfaces—all from a single UI and data model. This includes the ability to tie together threat activity as it traverses on-prem and cloud boundaries, delivering a more cohesive enterprise-wide security posture. With Uptycs you get a wide range of functionality, including CNAPP, CWPP, CSPM, KSPM, CIEM, CDR, and XDR. Shift up with Uptycs. -
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LogRhythm SIEM
Exabeam
We understand that your job is not easy. Log management, machine learning and NDR are all part of our solution. This gives you broad visibility to your environment, so you can quickly spot threats and minimize risk. A mature SOC does more than stop threats. LogRhythm makes it easy to track your progress and baseline your security operations program. This will allow you to easily report on your successes to your board. Protecting your enterprise is a huge responsibility. That's why we designed our NextGen SIEM Platform for you. Protecting your business has never been easier thanks to intuitive, high-performance analytics, and a seamless workflow for responding to incidents. LogRhythm XDR Stack gives your team an integrated set of capabilities that can be used to deliver the core mission of your SOC, which is threat monitoring, threat hunting and incident response. It also comes at a low total cost. -
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CybrHawk SIEM XDR
CybrHawk
CybrHawk is a top supplier of risk intelligence solutions driven by information security that are only concerned to provide advanced visibility to clients to minimize the risk of a cyber-attack. Our products help businesses define their cyber defenses to stop security breaches, spot malicious behavior in real time, give security breaches top priority, respond rapidly to them, and anticipate new threats.We also invented an integrated strategy that offers numerous cyber security options for businesses of various sizes and levels of complexity. -
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Rapid7 Managed Threat Complete
Rapid7
$17 per asset per monthManaged Threat Complete combines comprehensive risk and threat coverage in a single subscription. Managed Detection and Response Services & Solutions. Multiple advanced detection techniques, including proprietary threat information, behavioral analytics and Network Traffic Analysis as well as human threat hunting, find evil in your environment. Our team will immediately contain user and endpoint risks to cut off the attacker. The detailed findings reports will guide you in taking additional remediation and mitigating actions tailored to your program. Let our team be your force multiplier. Experts in detection and response, from your security advisor to your SOC, can help you strengthen your defenses. Take immediate action. It's not as easy as purchasing and implementing the newest security products to set up a detection and response program.
Overview of Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Platforms
Extended detection and response (XDR) platforms are an advanced type of security solution that is used to detect, analyze, respond to, and prevent cyber threats. XDR solutions work by collecting data from a variety of sources, such as user endpoints, servers, cloud applications, SaaS applications, networks, and IoT devices. This data is then analyzed using analytics and machine learning techniques to identify suspicious activity or malicious intent. When a threat is detected the platform can automatically take action to block it or alert administrators for further review.
XDR solutions provide a comprehensive view of security across an organization’s entire environment which offers many advantages over traditional security tools. For instance, they can detect threats that may not be visible with other solutions such as insider threats or sophisticated attacks against cloud services. In addition XDR provides greater visibility into what is happening in the environment since it collects data from multiple sources. This can help organizations better understand their risk profile and where they may need to focus their efforts when it comes to improving security posture.
In terms of implementation, XDR platforms are offered as a service by vendors or they can be integrated into existing IT infrastructures using APIs or connectors depending on the vendor's capabilities. Additionally, many vendors offer customizable dashboards that allow administrators to quickly identify any areas of concern in their environment and also track trends over time in order to identify areas for improvement or potential new threats emerging.
In summary, XDR platforms provide organizations with an effective way to monitor their entire IT infrastructure for potential security threats and take preventative action quickly if needed. By providing full visibility across all aspects of the network these platforms can help organizations better protect themselves against cyber-attacks while maintaining compliance with industry regulations such as GDPR or HIPAA.
Why Use Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Platforms?
- Automated Detection and Response: XDR platforms provide automated detection and response capabilities, allowing organizations to quickly identify and mitigate cyber threats. This helps to reduce the amount of manual effort required to detect and respond to malicious activity, freeing up time for other strategic initiatives.
- Shared Security Data: XDR platforms can collect security data from multiple sources, including endpoints, networks, cloud services, applications, log files, etc., and collate this data into a central repository. This provides a comprehensive picture of an organization's security posture that can be used to identify potential weaknesses or suspicious activity in real time.
- End-to-End Visibility: By combining data from multiple sources into one platform, XDR solutions provide complete visibility across an organization's infrastructure – helping teams easily identify both known and unknown threats before they can cause damage.
- Simplified Workflows: With an XDR solution in place, IT personnel don't have to manually correlate different types of data or navigate through multiple toolsets (firewall logs, antivirus software etc.) for threat investigation – saving valuable time & resources when responding to potential breaches or attacks.
- Improved Compliance & Auditing Capabilities: With automated detection & response capabilities as well as detailed logging of all activities on the system (such as user access & changes made), XDR solutions help organizations quickly meet compliance requirements while providing the evidence needed during legal proceedings or internal audits.
Why Are Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Platforms Important?
XDR platforms are an important tool to protect businesses in today’s highly dynamic digital environment. Unlike traditional security systems, which focus on perimeter defense, XDR platforms combine endpoint protection, threat intelligence, and behavior analytics to provide comprehensive detection and response capabilities.
Organizations of all sizes are faced with sophisticated attacks from increasingly advanced cyber criminals. The ability to detect threats quickly and accurately is paramount for any organization looking to stay ahead of attackers. XDR platforms enable organizations to detect suspicious activity across their entire infrastructure in real-time, allowing them to take swift action before it's too late.
XDR platforms use AI-driven analytics and automation capabilities that allow organizations to quickly identify malicious activity throughout their network and respond rapidly. This includes automatically responding to incidents at scale and prioritizing responses that can mitigate or eliminate threats with minimal disruption of the business operations. In addition, XDR simplifies incident investigation by providing a unified view across multiple data sources such as logs, events, files system artifacts and more. This helps security teams detect patterns faster while simplifying root cause analysis so they can remediate threats quicker than ever before.
Finally, in order to keep up with evolving threats over time, XDR solutions come with built-in scalability allowing organizations to expand coverage without having processes being overwhelmed or stretched thin when additional resources are required due to negligence new risks arise from internal or external activities. As these technologies become increasingly accessible and cost-effective for businesses of all sizes, using an XDR platform is a key component in building a strong cybersecurity strategy for any business today.
Features of Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Platforms
- Visibility: XDR platforms offer visibility across the entire IT environment, with structured and unstructured data collected from endpoints, networks, and cloud services in order to provide a unified view into suspicious behavior.
- Orchestration: XDR solutions can integrate with existing security tools for streamlined orchestration of automated responses to threats. This helps to reduce the time required for investigation and response from days or even weeks down to minutes or hours.
- Insight Generation: By applying machine learning algorithms to gathered data, XDR systems can generate insights into potential threats and help identify patterns that could indicate malicious behavior before humans can detect it with their own eyes.
- Automation: An XDR platform provides automation capabilities that allow organizations to quickly respond to threat alerts without needing manual intervention by security professionals or engineers every step of the way. This increases response times while reducing operational costs associated with external resources needed for investigations.
- Governance & Compliance Management: XDR solutions also provide governance and compliance management features that help organizations ensure they are adhering to industry standards when it comes to security policies and procedures, as well as automating auditing processes in order to keep track of all current policy requirements at any given time.
What Types of Users Can Benefit From Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Platforms?
- Businesses: XDR platforms enable businesses to quickly detect, investigate, respond to and remediate security incidents across the entire infrastructure stack in a unified manner.
- Security Administrators: XDR platforms provide administrators with visibility into emerging threats in real-time, allowing for quicker response times and improved forensic investigation capabilities.
- Security Operators: By utilizing AI/ML and automation technologies, security operators can leverage XDR systems to automate threat detection, response and remediation tasks with greater accuracy.
- DevOps Teams: XDR solutions simplify compliance processes by providing DevOps teams with continuous monitoring of user behavior and system configurations. This enables them to identify any potential security vulnerabilities more rapidly.
- IT Managers: Through automatic provisioning of resources on demand as well as near-automated incident response processes, IT managers are able to optimize the utilization of existing resources while improving the overall performance of the organization’s infrastructure stack.
- Compliance Officers: With automated reporting toolsets provided by XDR solutions, organizations can ensure that their environment remains compliant with industry regulations across all components of their business landscape – from cloud applications to network environments.
How Much Do Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Platforms Cost?
The cost of extended detection and response (XDR) platforms can vary greatly depending on the features and complexity of the platform. Generally, most businesses should expect to pay at least $5000 per year for a basic XDR platform. More complex platforms with additional features may cost upwards of $30,000 per year or more.
Many XDR offerings are priced based on the size of an organization’s network, so larger enterprises typically pay more for their XDR solution than smaller companies do. Additionally, many providers offer discounts if multiple years are purchased upfront or if an organization commits to a certain number of users or nodes that will be monitored by the XDR solution.
In addition to the annual costs associated with purchasing a platform, organizations should also factor in any set-up costs and any ongoing maintenance fees they may incur as part of their agreement with their chosen provider. Organizations should ensure that they thoroughly understand all associated costs prior to purchasing an XDR platform so they can better plan for budgeting and financial considerations.
Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Platforms Risks
- Uncontrolled Data Access: XDR platforms can provide access to data from a number of different sources, which means that unauthorized or malicious actors could gain access to sensitive information. This could result in data breaches or other cyber-attacks if the platform is not properly secured.
- Increased Complexity: XDR platforms are complex systems and require extensive setup and configuration by IT staff. If not done correctly, they can be difficult to maintain and manage, which can lead to potential problems with security and reliability.
- Costly Upkeep: Due to their complexity, XDR platforms tend to require significant amounts of time and money for maintenance, upkeep and upgrades. This can be a major cost for organizations that are already struggling with tight budgets.
- Potential False Positives: XDR platforms rely heavily on complex algorithms for detection purposes. Unfortunately, this means there is always a chance of false positives being generated when trying to identify threats. This could end up wasting valuable resources as well as exposing sensitive information due to the misidentification of threats.
- Performance Issues: The sheer amount of data processed by an XDR platform can cause performance issues if the system is not sufficiently powered or configured correctly via proper optimization techniques while managing risk tolerance thresholds appropriately by stakeholders.
Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Platforms Integrations
Extended detection and response (XDR) platforms integrate with a variety of software applications to provide an added layer of security. These software types generally include endpoint protection solutions, such as antivirus programs; networking security tools, such as firewalls and intrusion detection systems; and even cloud-based applications like Office 365 or SaaS. Additionally, XDR platforms can be integrated with data loss prevention solutions for sensitive information monitoring as well as user identity management for authentication control. By linking all these components together into a unified platform, XDR helps organizations increase visibility into potential threats before they occur, detect existing issues efficiently, respond quickly and accurately to mitigate risk, and automate tooling across the enterprise.
Questions To Ask Related To Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Platforms
- How does the XDR platform integrate with existing security solutions?
- What type of data sources are supported and how regularly is this monitored?
- Does the platform offer threat intelligence that provides additional context to security alerts?
- Is there a dashboard or reporting capability to identify trends and vulnerabilities?
- What types of alerts will be generated by the XDR platform and what thresholds must be met before they are triggered?
- Are there rules, filters, or correlations available to customize detection conditions?
- What kind of response options do you provide when suspicious activity is detected (i.e., email notifications, quarantining, etc.)?
- Does the XDR provide solutions for automated remediation or compliance enforcement?
- How quickly can incidents be investigated once an alert has been triggered and what level of granularity is offered in terms of visibility into attack origin/destination information?
- Can you provide details on any collaborative features such as playbook automation, chat-ops integration, shared investigations etc.?