Ever feel like some tools are designed by people who’ve never had to use them? Like those public restroom hand dryers that leave your hands wetter than before, or CAPTCHAs that make you question if you even know what a bicycle looks like—it’s like a bad joke at our expense. In the 2022 Devo SOC Performance Report, questions were raised about the biggest challenges faced by security operations center (SOC) teams.

Organizations are under constant pressure to ensure that their security defenses adapt effectively to evolving threat actor methodologies. Extended detection and response (XDR) has the potential to significantly advance these efforts thanks to its ability to accelerate and streamline investigation, threat hunting and response. However, successfully adopting XDR to achieve comprehensive visibility demands some important considerations.

WatchGuard Senior Product Marketing Manager Stephen Helm discusses how XDR can harness AI across your entire IT environment – correlating data from networks, Cloud services, VPN logs, and more into a single, AI-driven security framework. Cyber threats are evolving fast, and your clients rely on you to stay ahead.

Cyber adversaries operate with one goal in mind—stealth. The longer they go undetected in an environment, the more damage they can cause. Dwell time is the total amount of time that a threat remains unnoticed in a system, from initial compromise to discovery. According to the most recent threat reports, the average dwell time for undetected breaches has reduced but remains at 10-15 days, providing attackers enough time to exfiltrate data, launch ransomware, or establish persistent access.

XDR has emerged as a go-to solution for all cybersecurity problems due to its comprehensive nature. It is a smart way to fight advanced threats by integrating and correlating data across multiple security layers from endpoints, networks, emails, servers, and cloud workloads. Fidelis Elevate is a leading example of XDR in action, providing comprehensive protection by seamlessly integrating and analyzing data from diverse security layers.

EDR protects organizations' endpoints and surpasses the capabilities of traditional antivirus solutions focused solely on preventing known attacks. Its main strength is detecting and responding to advanced threats that have evaded previous security controls.

As the threat landscape of cybersecurity continues to evolve, enterprises now find themselves spending countless hours on identifying and mitigating potential threats while managing overwhelming amounts of data. But one persistent problem for security teams is the flood of false positives alerts that indicate possible threats but turn out to be benign. Not only do these waste valuable time and resources, but they also contribute to alert fatigue, reducing the overall threat detection ability of teams.

The growing complexity of IT environments—across cloud, IoT, and hybrid settings—has ushered in new opportunities for innovation but also expanded the threat landscape for cyber vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities, now known as blind spots, serve as areas within an organization’s security posture that are ignored or poorly monitored.

Over the past decade, Detection and Response (DR) solutions have advanced substantially to address the constantly evolving sophistication of cyberattacks. Malicious actors have perfected techniques to evade traditional defenses, making detection and response solutions key requisites in a robust cybersecurity strategy.