Evolve With XDR – The Modern Approach to SecOps | McAfee Blogs

If you are part of an organization aspiring to evolve and modernize your SecOps practice with greater efficiencies with XDR, this read is for you.

So, what’s all the continuous hype about XDR? Is it for you and what does it mean to your organization? If you haven’t already, I invite you to read our XDR—Please Explain and Unravel to XDR Noise blogs for added context. From here we can begin to ask, what are XDRs and what are they not? What happens once you acquire components that add the “X-factor” to your threat detection and response (TDR) practice? And how can SOC teams use it for investigation, prioritization, remediation and hunting?

I’ll cover the basics in this blog and hopefully by the end I’ve piqued your interest enough to join us for a webinar on August 19^th where we will cover these aspects in detail.

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For security practitioners, there’s one question that is top of mind—am I protected against the latest threats? But let’s face it, threats are evolving, adversaries are evolving too and a shortage of talent make it near impossible to keep up with alerts.

In fact, according to the latest XDR research by ESG, The Impact of XDR in the Modern SOC March 2021 ^[1], the top challenges related to TDR for respondents were:

1. 31% spend time addressing high priority/emergency threats and not enough time on more comprehensive strategy and process improvement for TDR
2. Another 29% have “blind spots” on the network due to inability to deploy agents
3. 23% find it difficult to correlate and combine data from different security controls, which impacts TDR efficiency/efficacy

Advanced threats are now commonplace, challenging most security professionals to detect and respond before damage is done, we know that these attacks leverage multiple attack vectors to gain a foothold and execute. XDR solutions bring together security telemetry across multiple controls, correlating and stitching together complex attacks so analyst can quickly assess and investigate. XDR is seen as having the potential to modernize the SOC with enriched and aggregated security analytics capabilities to accelerate the investigation to a resolution.

What’s more, McAfee is here to help you evolve your SecOps practice into the next era of security analytics, threat detection and response. McAfee’s MVISION XDR tools provide visibility across multiple control points to not only detect threats but to help organizations improve their security posture. In addition, MVISION Insights provides relevant threat intel to help customers proactively prevent threats on multiple control points like endpoint.

We invite you to a joint webinar with Mo Cashman, Enterprise Architect at McAfee Enterprise, and Dave Gruber, Senior Analyst at ESG, as they cover what XDRs are and aren’t, the keys to SOC modernization for XDR with a focus on the SOAPA approach to security, and how McAfee’s MVISION XDR lays out the flexible groundwork for organizations aspiring to evolve with XDR. Here is the link to register. 

Whether you are building a SOC function with limited resources or maturing a well-established SOC, McAfee Enterprise is here to help you simplify and strengthen your security operations with MVISION XDR. With MVISION XDR, you can proactively identify, investigate and mitigate threat actors targeting your organization before they can gain a foothold in the network. By combining the latest machine-learning techniques with human analysis, XDR connects and amplifies the early warning signals from your sensors at the network, endpoint, and cloud to improve situational awareness, drive better and faster decisions, and elevate your SOC. ^[2]

We hope to see you there!

^{1 – ESG Research Report: The Impact of XDR in the Modern SOC by Jon Oltsik}

^{2 – Cyber Cyber, Burning Bright: Can XDR Frame Thy Fearful Asymmetry?}