Breaking Down Common Endpoint Security Solutions

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The increase of ransomware attacks has caused many organizations to prioritize technology that can detect and respond to an attack before it negatively affects their environment. Endpoint security solutions are a go-to technology to manage threats like malware and ransomware. Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) is a common solution that has been around for a while. It minimizes the threats of malware by monitoring endpoints and stopping malicious activity from occurring when detected. Many organizations that utilize a SOC find limitations with EDR as it only detects and responds around endpoints. With EDR, SOC analysts often experience alert overload. Some extended detection response (XDR) solutions will effectively minimize alert overload by automatically consolidating multiple low confidence alerts into one high confidence event.

What is XDR?

XDR goes beyond traditional endpoint security solutions by correlating data across email, cloud, network, servers, and endpoints to allow faster detection and response. Having a more holistic approach to detection ...
... and response helps fill gaps that analysts may have not previously detected. It will collect data across security tools and use threat intelligence to give analysts a full attack-centric view of events occurring in all security layers.

XDR is effective for environments that utilize a SIEM. The solution will help bring information together in one place. It will augment the SIEM by collecting activity data and sweeping through data located across security layers. This augments the SIEM and reduces time spent analyzing alerts and logs as the tool will reduce the number of alerts to only include the most relevant ones.

Managed Detection & Response

MDR or Managed Detection & Response is not an endpoint security solution, rather it is a managed service. The offering will include endpoint detection, SIEM, vulnerability management, and others. By combining these solutions, the service will provide a more flexible and consistent detection and response. A robust set of security solutions along with a security team will provide intrusion detection and rapid incident response. This goes beyond the limitations of endpoints that EDR and XDR may provide.

No matter the endpoint security solution, having these technologies and services is an important step towards a healthy cybersecurity posture. Talk to a cybersecurity consultant today to see what type of endpoint security solution may best fit your organization’s cybersecurity goals. Visit http://aurorait.com/ to learn more about cybersecurity solutions and services that can defend your organization from threats like ransomware and malware.