Improving Security Operations with Intelligence-driven XDR

Enterprises are increasingly adopting more complex security architectures that include multiple layers of protection to empower their security team and keep up with ever-increasing advanced threats. While this approach can help protect against sophisticated attacks, it also makes it difficult to correlate events across different components of the architecture. As such, enterprises need to simplify their security architecture so they can gain better visibility into what’s going on at each level within their environment.

According to a survey conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group, The Impact of XDR on the Modern SOC, most respondents believe that XDR solutions offer significant benefits for organizations when implemented correctly.

What did the ESG research find?

Security Operations Center’s are struggling with:

• Rapidly expanding attack surface: This comes as no surprise as digital transformation was not only accelerated because of the pandemic, it has grown exponentially with the growing work from home workforce.
• Growing complexity in the threat landscape: Threat actors continue to evolve and cyber attacks continue to increase in complexity, making it harder to keep up with an ever-changing threat landscape to identify complex attacks. 
• Silos of security data: Security teams continue to work in silos, implementing tools, processes, and initiatives without effectively working cross-functionally.
• Overwhelming amounts of alerts: Analysts are suffering from alert fatigue, chasing false positives from security controls not fine-tuned for their environment, affecting their detection and response capabilities.

Intelligence-driven XDR helps organizations:

• Gain greater insight into your organization’s security stack and infrastructure 
• Identify potential threats with increased threat visibility
• Improve operational efficiency and security efficacy
• Reduce the number of false positives and negatives
• Simplify your security program and operations

Anomali provides a threat intelligence-driven extended detection and response solution that correlates all installed security telemetry with threat intelligence to enable security analysts to pinpoint relevant threats, understand their criticality, and prioritize response. The result? Improved efficiencies and stronger defenses. 

Download the ESG research to find out how XDR is changing the way organizations define and manage risk, as well as how XDR is impacting the role of the SOC in an organization. 

Or contact us to see how an intelligence-driven XDR solution can help your organization.