Today’s modern threats wreak havoc for business' of all shapes and sizes. Now more than ever businesses need to ensure they have lightning-fast investigations and responses to the latest threats.
In this blog, we detail Palo Alto Networks 10 Must Haves for Detection and Response to protect your organisation against cyber attacks and threats. We discuss the following:
With the ever-changing digital environment, new threats have emerged, and current threats have escalated, forcing our security teams to deploy countless tools in a race to find and combat all threats. Despite these measures, missed attacks have popped up every now and then, with the lack of data and analytics required as analysts are forced by siloed tools to pivot between consoles.
You can investigate threats quickly by getting a complete picture of each attack, including alerts when implementing the following 10 must haves:
1. Visibility Across Data Sources
To reduce the risk of a successful attack, you need a holistic approach to detection and response that eliminates blind spots, increases accuracy, and streamlines investigations.
2. Best-in-Class Attack Prevention
To shield your endpoints, you need ironclad protection that blocks known and unknown malware, file-less attacks and exploits.
3. Simplified Investigations
Today’s siloed security tools generate endless alerts with limited context. To reduce response times, security tools must provide a complete picture of incidents with rich investigative details.
Cortex XDR simplifies investigations by automatically revealing the root cause, sequence of events and threat intelligence details of alerts from any source.
4. Analytics and Machine Learning
You need a comprehensive set of machine learning and analytics techniques to stay ahead of rapidly evolving threats.
Cortex XDR provides:
5. Co-ordinated Response
Your team needs integrated and flexible response options to shut down attacks quickly. Cortex XDR lets your security team instantly stop the spread of malware, isolate endpoints, run scripts, and even restore endpoints without re-imaging devices. With Search and Destroy, you can even sweep across all endpoints in real time to find and delete malware.
6. A Flexible Suite of Endpoint Protection Features
You need an easy way to identify and prioritise endpoint risks, reduce your attack surface, and stop data loss.
7. Independent Testing and Industry Validation
When choosing a detection and response solution, you should always review third-party testing, analyst validation, and customer testimonials.
Cortex XDR, the industry’s first extended detection and response platform, has achieved exceptional test results and garnered praise from analysts and customers. It has the best combined detection and protection in the MITRE ATT&CK evaluation and has a "Strategic Leader" rating from AV-Comparatives, and is a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Endpoint Security SaaS Q2 2021 customers can trust Cortex XDR.
8. Autonomous Security Operations
Manual processes slow down incident response and increase the cost of security operations.
9. Rapid Pace of Innovation
To outpace fast-moving adversaries, you should look for vendors that continuously strengthen or expand their products’ capabilities.
10. Unparalleled Value and Return on Investment
When selecting a key element of your security infrastructure, you want to make sure it will provide demonstrable value. Cortex XDR does just this by:
In response to the ever-changing nature of securing critical data, extended detection, and response (XDR) has emerged to deliver threat insights and recommendations to optimise the operation of security teams. Click here to download your copy of XDR for Dummies.
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