June 3, 2024 at 11:02AM
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions can be enhanced with extended detection and response (XDR) capabilities. By correlating data from various security layers, XDR reduces false positives, improves threat detection, and enhances security efficiency. When considering XDR, factors to assess include integration, investigative abilities, user experience, future enhancements, pricing, and industry recognition.
From the meeting notes, it is clear that the team at Trend Micro is highlighting the importance of up-leveling endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions with the adoption of extended detection and response (XDR) to improve security operations (SecOps) team efficiency and outcomes.
Key takeaways from the meeting notes include:
– Security teams face challenges such as alert overload, with SOC teams receiving a high volume of alerts daily, leading to alert fatigue and stress.
– Disconnected and inefficient threat detection and response solutions, such as using SIEM to collect logs and alerts from multiple security tools, can result in noisy false positives and slow down investigative efforts.
– Extended detection and response (XDR) is positioned as the evolution of endpoint detection and response (EDR) and is advocated for its real-time correlation of data across multiple security layers, including email, server, cloud workload, network, and endpoint, to reduce false positives and improve threat detection and response.
– XDR capabilities are said to improve security efficiency, streamline security operations, and bolster staff productivity, with organizations that adopted XDR experiencing significant improvement in overall security posture, ability to detect advanced threats, investigation times, and ability to keep up with alert volumes.
– The meeting notes also outline different approaches to XDR adoption – native (comprehensive), open, and hybrid – and emphasize the importance of choosing a vendor with a strong foundation of native telemetry.
– It is highlighted that XDR should provide visibility and context beyond the endpoint, detecting threats originating from sources such as email, network, and cloud workloads, and enabling the operationalization of threat intelligence using frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.
– Additionally, considerations such as an XDR solution’s API-friendliness, end-to-end attack visualization, user experience, commitment to improvements, actionable alerts, pricing structure, availability of managed services, industry analyst accolades, and the financial and risk benefits of XDR are detailed.
The meeting notes also suggest further reading and resources for more information on XDR and cyber risk management, including additional series and Trend Micro’s XDR solution.
Overall, the meeting notes emphasize the significance of adopting XDR to address current security challenges and improve the efficiency and outcomes of security operations.