Extended Detection and Response (XDR) services offer several key benefits for organizations in terms of enhanced threat detection, response capabilities, and overall cybersecurity effectiveness.
With the advancements in the tools like ransomware- and exploit-as-a-service that make it easier for lower-end threat actors to hurt your business, artificial intelligence driven attack platforms, and other rapidly emerging cyber-threats, every business should be looking at how to onboard XDR as part of their overall security and risk management strategy.
Legion Cyberworks delivers Managed XDR Services, and we are a partner and reseller for Sophos, a leader in XDR, EDR/MDR, and network security. This gives our customers the option of a turn-key Managed XDR solution, or doing it in-house by purchasing through us and doing the implementation and ongoing management of the platform.
XDR is a game-changer because it aggregates logs and event data from various sources to give you the most comprehensive view of your current security health so that you can take rapid action to contain and disrupt cyber-threats that seek to damage your business.
Top Benefits of Adopting XDR
- Comprehensive Threat Visibility: XDR combines and correlates data from various security sources, including endpoints, networks, cloud environments, and applications. This holistic approach provides a unified view of the organization's security posture, enabling better threat visibility and identification.
- Advanced Threat Detection: XDR leverages advanced analytics, machine learning, and behavioral analysis to detect complex and evolving threats. By analyzing data from multiple sources, XDR can detect sophisticated attack techniques that may go unnoticed by traditional security tools.
- Faster Incident Response: XDR enables faster and more efficient incident response by automating investigation and response workflows. It consolidates and prioritizes security alerts, provides contextual information about threats, and automates response actions, reducing the time required to detect, investigate, and mitigate security incidents.
- Improved Threat Hunting: XDR provides MSSPs with advanced capabilities for proactive threat hunting. It allows MSSPs to search for indicators of compromise (IOCs), suspicious behaviors, or potential threats across multiple systems and data sources, helping to uncover hidden threats and vulnerabilities.
- Centralized Management and Orchestration: XDR provides a centralized management platform for security operations. MSSPs can use XDR to streamline and orchestrate their security tools, policies, and processes, enabling efficient management and enforcement of security controls across customer environments.
- Enhanced Collaboration: XDR facilitates collaboration and knowledge sharing between MSSPs and their customers. By leveraging a unified platform, MSSPs and their customers can access the same threat intelligence, incident reports, and investigative data, enabling effective communication and joint efforts in addressing security incidents.
- Scalability and Flexibility: XDR is designed to scale with the growing needs of organizations. MSSPs can leverage XDR services to provide scalable security solutions to multiple customers, adapting to their specific environments and requirements.
We incorporate Sophos XDR, and their MDR Service into our Legion CyberGuard Service to deliver the ultimate in security automation, prevention, and rapid response 24/7 for our customers.
- Coverage across customer networks, endpoints, cloud environments, and other relevant systems to gain comprehensive visibility and protection.
- Continuously monitor and analyze security events, identifying potential threats and security incidents.
- Rapid response to security incidents, investigate the root cause, and initiate appropriate remediation actions to minimize the impact and prevent further damage.
- We utilize our XDR platform's threat hunting capabilities to actively search for potential threats, vulnerabilities, and IOCs, thereby providing proactive defense to our customers.
- Legion delivers comprehensive security reports, provides actionable insights, and offers guidance to our customers on improving their security posture based on the observed threat landscape.
Overall, our XDR solution means that we deliver more robust and efficient security services to our customers, helping them strengthen their defenses, detect and respond to threats more effectively, and achieve a higher level of overall cybersecurity and regulatory compliance.
Learn more about our XDR solutions here, or contact us to schedule a call to discuss your needs.