How XDR Gives 360 Degree Protection For Cyber Security?

How XDR Gives 360 Degree Protection For Cyber Security?

As the threat landscape evolves, cybercriminals bring new ways to infiltrate defenses. 

They leverage weaknesses across multiple vectors, making security across the infrastructure critical. 

It is where XDR came into the picture.  

What is XDR in cybersecurity? 

XDR stands for Extended Detection and Response. It is a comprehensive security solution designed to defend infrastructure against the most sophisticated threats.  

It goes against threats beyond endpoints, covering multiple aspects of an organization’s IT infrastructure.   

It serves as a critical solution for incident response, covering not just endpoints but also other aspects of security, including identities, firewalls, etc.  

One of the core powers of XDR lies in the use of AI and ML to automatically detect and respond to threats, quickly and precisely.  

It eliminates the silos that restrict security solutions to work with each other and that restrict organizations to gain extended visibility of security operations.  

The essential components of XDR include: 

• Data collection and storage 
• Automated response playbooks 
• Analytics engine 
• AI and Machine learning 
• Other threat detection and response tools 
• Real-time analysis and threat detection 
• Threat hunting  
• Incident response 

What is 360-degree protection in cybersecurity? 

360-degree protection means securing all the aspects of an organization’s IT infrastructure, including cloud, endpoints, and network.  

XDR empowers an organization to gather data/logs from multiple sources, assisting them to gain visibility and breaking silos that limited them to gain the visibility that they need to instantaneously detect suspicious activity action. It is how XDR helps in rendering 360-degree protection of infrastructure, including all the sensitive information assets.  

How does XDR give 360-degree protection for cybersecurity? 

The XDR solution engages in multiple activities to ensure the protection of all the endpoints, identities, clouds, and other environments that remain secure from hidden/unknown threats.  It provides the following benefits to an organization against the cyber threats of the future that are constantly evolving: 

•  It offers extended visibility of security posture and eliminates the silos that are associated with conventional solutions. 
• It assists in advanced hunting and threat detection: XDR is used to engage in cyber threat hunting. It automatically scans the environment for threats and suspicious activities and responds to suspicious activities with the right course of action allowing the experts to focus on what is important. 
• It is often used for incident investigation by automatically scanning the attack surface for abnormalities and engaging in root cause analysis while the security teams are alerted of suspicious activities so they can take quick and precise action.  
• XDR helps in proactively predicting the occurrence of any insider threats by continuously monitoring the environment for suspicious activities.  
• XDR helps organizations to proactively detect and take action against email-based threats like phishing, preventing users from installing ransomware.