Enterprises are contending with a threat model that evolves faster than traditional enterprise security measures can keep pace with or respond to effectively. Advanced attackers can exploit a variety of detection gaps and blind spots across endpoints, networks, cloud workloads, users, and mobile devices. With the increase in attack surfaces, many Security Operations Centre (SOC) teams face fragmented visibility and an overload of alerts requiring manual investigation.
This is how XDR solutions can help transform an organisation’s cyber defence capabilities.
Closing the Detection Gaps That Legacy Tools Miss
Most organisations have a stack of security solutions that include EDR, SIEM, firewalls, email gateways, identity solutions, cloud security platforms, and more. Each of these items is valuable; however, they are siloed, leading to three primary issues.
- Security teams do not have the visibility they need, from an enterprise-wide perspective, to correlate signals across endpoints, networks, clouds, and/or users.
- There are too many false positives generated by too many independent alerts, making it difficult for security teams to determine which alerts indicate a true threat.
- Security investigations take way too long because teams spend hours switching through console inventories, data logs, etc., to compile and make sense of the data.
Gaps in cybersecurity will cost organisations dearly, as cybercriminals now use lateral movement, stolen credentials, and multi-vector attacks to steal from businesses worldwide. It has become critical for organisations to have complete visibility, rapid detection capability and automated remediation across their entire digital footprint.
What is XDR? A Unified Approach to Extended Detection and Response
The XDR platform is multidimensional and integrates analytical data from an array of telemetry sources (e.g., network, cloud workloads, email, identity, mobile), rather than viewing security incidents in isolation. By aggregating data across these multiple disciplines, XDR provides customers with a much more holistic understanding of threats to their organisation, enabling them to correlate information from diverse sources.
Some of the key capabilities featured in next-generation XDR offerings include:
Centralised telemetry aggregation across hybrid environments.
AI/ML-based threat analytics that help detect advanced behaviours.
Cross-domain correlations to reduce false positives.
Automated response capabilities that can quickly contain threats.
Coordinated investigation processes to drastically speed up the time it takes to resolve security incidents.
Combining depth of analytics with breadth of visibility enables security teams to quickly identify more subtle or advanced attacks and respond more accurately.
Seqrite's XDR solutions leverage Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture principles and threat intelligence from Seqrite Labs to provide enterprises with superior capabilities to respond to both known and emerging threats.
How XDR Improves Threat Identification and Response: Use Cases
1. Detection of Ransomware and Lateral Movement Attacks
Ransomware attackers usually don't attack directly; instead, they move laterally, escalate their privileges, and then exfiltrate data before encrypting the files.
XDR detects:
- Unusual Authentication Attempts
- Suspicious Process Creation
- Unexpected Remote Access
- Abnormal File Behaviour
By correlating these signals, XDR can properly identify an attack early and initiate automated endpoint isolation to prevent its spread.
2. Securing Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments
When organisations accelerate to the cloud, visibility becomes fragmented.
XDR will unify telemetry from on-premises infrastructure, private cloud, and public cloud workloads across platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Security teams now have access to:
- Visibility across the entire cloud infrastructure
- Detection of misconfigured and anomalous events
- Faster investigation of cloud-native threats
3. Strengthened Identity Security and Zero Trust Models
Compromised credentials remain one of the top causes of security breaches.
XDR utilises integrated identity analytics to provide detection:
- Impossible Travel Anomalies
- Privilege Escalation
- Repeated Authentication Failures
- Abnormal Patterns of User Access
By combining XDR with zero-trust policies and ZTNA, organisations can enforce stricter access controls and verify that sessions are legitimate before granting access.
Final Thought: Cyber Resilience through XDR is a Necessary Component of Your Enterprise Strategy
Today’s threat landscape has grown dramatically in both number and diversity, so there’s no longer any way for an enterprise to provide full protection for its distributed environment with a single point of protection from any one vendor or solution. The answer is an XDR solution, as it enables an enterprise to achieve full collaboration across threats, gain visibility into what is happening across the entire attack surface, and automate threat response to stay ahead.
Seqrite’s XDR enterprise-grade product, powered by the latest in AI/ML analytics and features derived from Seqrite Lab’s Threat Intelligence offering, provides security organisations with the tools necessary to achieve faster threat detection, the highest level of threat detection accuracy, and full resilience to threats across the entire organisation’s attack surface.
Ready to strengthen your organisation’s cyber defence? Learn how Seqrite XDR can help you detect more, respond faster, and stay secure.
