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Extended detection and response (XDR)
Step up your business's cyber security posture with extended detection and response (XDR), a next-generation managed detection and response solution that leverages advanced analytics and automation to detect, investigate and respond to threats with efficiency and accuracy.
Integrate and analyse real time data with XDR
Extended Detection and Response (XDR) is a comprehensive cyber security solution that will greatly enhance businesses with next generation threat detection and response capabilities. XDR integrates and analyses data from multiple security sources, such as endpoints, networks, and cloud environments, to provide a holistic view of your network and outline any weaknesses in the network. By leveraging advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms, XDR can identify and correlate security events across different platforms, enabling faster and more accurate threat detection.
The cyber security experts at Focus Group are pleased to bring XDR services to customers. As an extension of traditional endpoint detection and response solutions, this emerging cyber security technology offers customers a comprehensive threat detection and response service that is guaranteed to improve businesses’ security posture.
Proactive threat detection
Extended detection and response can identify patterns and anomalies that may indicate potential threats. This proactive approach enables XDR to detect and respond to emerging threats before they can cause significant damage. By analysing historical data and leveraging threat intelligence, XDR can also identify indicators of compromise and potential attack vectors, allowing businesses to take pre-emptive action and strengthen their defences against all potential threats.
By leveraging advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms extended detection and response provides a proactive approach to threat detection, which allows businesses to respond swiftly to potential threats, minimising the impact of cyber attacks and reducing the risk of data breaches. XDR also provides actionable insights and recommendations to improve overall security hygiene, empowering businesses to strengthen their security defences and protect sensitive information.
Benefits of extended detection and response
Cut costs
Reduce the complexity of your business’s security infrastructure, streamlining operations and reducing the need for multiple tools. This can lead to cost savings through lower licensing fees, less maintenance and training costs. Additionally, XDR's automation capabilities can help to reduce the workload of your teams, enabling them to focus on tasks such as threat hunting and incident response.
Reassurance
XDR solutions offer reassurance to businesses, providing comprehensive protection against a wide range of cyber threats. With XDR, your business will have a holistic view of your business security environment, including visibility into endpoints, networks and cloud environments. This enables quick detection and response to security incidents and threats across multiple attack vectors.
Incident response
By integrating multiple security technologies, extended detection and response solutions offer robust incident response capabilities as a key benefit. XDR's advanced analytics and automation capabilities can help to identify and remediate potential threats before they become significant issues, reducing the risk of data breaches and minimising the impact of any security incidents.
Correlated alerts
Extended detection and response stores and combines all system alerts, creating a more complete picture of all security incidents and attacks, allowing business to invest more time in understanding threats and mitigating the risks they face, rather than filtering through multiple alerts.
AI and machine learning
XDR applies AI and machine learning to provide a scalable and efficient solution. From behaviour monitoring and alerting to investigation and remediation, AI is used to proactively monitor threatening behaviour and automatically respond to possible cyber attacks.
Automatic asset healing
XDR reverts affected assets to a safe and stable state if an attack is to occur. By completing healing actions like terminating malicious processes, removing forwarding rules, and identifying compromised users your business directory, XDR will help immediately remedy any breaches.
XDR technology
XDR cyber security protection
XDR is a next-generation cyber security solution that offers comprehensive protection against advanced cyber threats. Integrating multiple security technologies, such as endpoint detection and response (EDR), network detection and response (NDR), and security information and event management (SIEM), to provide a holistic view of your business’s security posture, XDR is proving to be an invaluable security tool.
Detection response
With XDR, security teams can quickly detect and respond to cyber threats across multiple attack vectors, reducing the risk of data breaches and minimising the impact of any potential security incidents.
By leveraging advanced analytics and automation, XDR empowers security teams to detect, investigate, and respond to threats with greater efficiency and accuracy. Ultimately, detection and response capabilities are critical components of any effective cyber security strategy, and XDR delivers a comprehensive solution for businesses looking to enhance their security posture.
Logs and reporting
XDR integrates multiple security technologies to provide a centralised view of your business’s security environment. This includes detailed logs and reports on security events such as alerts, incidents and threats.
With extended detection and response solutions from Focus Group, you will have peace of mind that our security teams can easily access and analyse information to gain insights into your security posture, identify vulnerabilities and track security incidents over time.
XDR solutions also ensure your business has access to customisable reporting options to generate detailed reports for stakeholders and compliance purposes. By providing comprehensive logs and reporting capabilities, XDR effectively monitors and manages your security environment responding quickly to potential threats.
Frequently asked questions
What is extended detection and response (XDR)?
Extended detection and response (XDR) provides businesses with a comprehensive cyber security solution that combines multiple security technologies and tools into a unified platform. XDR integrates and analyses data from various sources, such as endpoints, nodes, networks, and cloud environments, to provide a complete view of a business’s security posture. By correlating and contextualizing security events across different platforms, XDR enables businesses to detect and respond to threats in real time and mitigate them more effectively.
XDR goes beyond traditional endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions by incorporating additional data sources and applying advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms, which are used to identify patterns, anomalies, and potential threats to systems across the business. Extended detection and response provides a centralised dashboard and workflow for security operations, facilitating efficient incident response and investigation. With its proactive threat detection capabilities, XDR helps businesses enhance their overall security posture and protect against advanced cyber threats.
What are EDR tools?
EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) refers to a type of cyber security solution designed to detect and respond to security threats on individual endpoint devices such as laptops, desktops, servers and mobile devices. EDR tools typically include endpoint agents that monitor activity on endpoint devices, collect data on potential threats and analyse that data to identify and respond to security incidents.
What is the difference between EDR and XDR?
The main difference between EDR and XDR is the scope of their capabilities. EDR focuses solely on endpoint security, while XDR extends its detection and response capabilities to multiple security layers, including endpoint, network and cloud environments.
What is XDR antivirus?
XDR leverages numerous cyber security technologies to provide a comprehensive overview of a business’s security posture. While XDR is not an antivirus software itself, antivirus is a part of the XDR solution.
What problems does XDR solve?
XDR is a solution for fragmented business security, visibility issues and increased threat detection and response.
What is the difference between XDR and Siem?
The main difference between XDR and SIEM is the scope of their capabilities and the level of integration with other security technologies.
SIEM solutions are designed to provide real-time analysis of security alerts generated by network devices and applications. Whereas XDR is designed to integrate multiple security technologies, including SIEM, endpoint detection and response (EDR), and network detection and response (NDR), to provide a more comprehensive view of a business’s security environment.
What should I look for in XDR?
When looking for an XDR solution for your business, you should ensure the capabilities align with your needs for integration, advanced analytics, automation, cloud compatibility and scalability.
Is XDR a firewall?
XDR is not a firewall. XDR is a comprehensive cybersecurity solution that integrates multiple security technologies, including endpoint detection and response (EDR), network detection and response (NDR) and security information and event management (SIEM), to provide a more complete view of your business’s security environment.
Is XDR cloud-based?
XDR can be both cloud-based and on-premises, depending on the vendor and the deployment model chosen. Some XDR solutions are designed to be delivered entirely from the cloud, while others offer a hybrid deployment model that combines both cloud-based and on-premises components. Cloud-based XDR solutions have become increasingly popular in recent years, as more businesses move to cloud-based services for optimised business operations.
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