XDR has emerged as the latest technology leap when it comes to cyber security. It brings the best of cyber security into one integrated system that monitors your entire business and can both alert you about threats and automatically take action. This allows XDR to provide more advanced security threats and why it is quickly becoming the go-to solution.
What is XDR?
XDR or Extended Detection and Response has emerged as a simpler and more efficient way to deal with the broad array of threats. It is not a product that you buy but a new way of managing security.
An XDR platform collects and correlates data across a broad array of network and security surfaces, including servers, endpoints, cloud workloads, network intrusion prevention systems, identity and access management products, email and more.
It analyses the data it collects, then prioritises and sorts the results, identifying even advanced threats to prevent breaches and attacks. Compared to older tools and technologies, XDR provides a higher fidelity and confidence of cyber awareness and allows security teams to identify and eliminate security vulnerabilities without adding extra tools or more people.
It’s still a relatively new term, in a sea of acronyms and new products, so it’s understandable that there is often confusion about what exactly it is.
Gartner’s definition is:
“XDR is a SaaS-based, vendor-specific, security threat detection and incident response tool that natively integrates multiple security products into a cohesive security operations system that unifies all licensed security components.”
Some people think of it as a new way to describe an SIEM tool, but that isn’t correct, see our article comparing SIEM and XDR. Others see it as another name for Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), which isn’t quite correct either. There are important differences between XDR and both of these older technologies.
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