Cyber threats are rampant, especially in today’s digital ecosystem. According to recent statistics from managed IT solutions provider AAG IT Services, almost a billion emails were exposed to cyber threats in a single year, affecting one in five Internet users.
Not only that, but they also said data breaches cost businesses an average of around $4 million in 2022. About 236 million ransomware attacks happened worldwide during the first half of last year.
Which is why the pressure is on for tech companies to create solutions to mitigate these issues. Cisco is up and game for the challenge.
Cisco announced yesterday via its official news that it is unveiling its latest progress toward its vision of the unified, artificial intelligence-driven, and cross-domain security platform Cisco Security Cloud, and this is through its new XDR solution designed to detect, combat and shut down cyber threats, protecting the integrity of various organizations’ IT ecosystem in a better way.
“The threat landscape is complex and evolving. Detection without response is insufficient, while response without detection is impossible. With Cisco XDR, security operations teams can respond and remediate threats before they have a chance to cause significant damage,” Cisco’s Executive Vice President and General Manager of Security and Collaboration Jeetu Patel said. “Cisco continues to ensure that ‘if it’s connected, then rest assured you’re also protected.’ We are uniquely positioned to deliver integrated solutions that simplify securing today’s increasingly complex, hybrid multi-cloud environments without compromising user experience.”
The International Data Corporation (IDC), a premier global market intelligence firm, has a definition of XDR. It defines it as the collection of telemetry from various sources, the application of analytics to those collections to detect something malicious, and the response and remediation of those malicious stuff.
“The promise of XDR is to combine your endpoint telemetry, your network telemetry (cloud and physical), your application telemetry, and your identity to be able to detect threats in your environment that your point products can’t detect in isolation. Not because those points products are not good, but because the adversary is very good,” Cisco’s Vice President for Customer Experience Product Management AJ Shipley said in his article.
Cisco XDR will gather data from six telemetry sources which many security professionals identify as critical for any extended detection platform. These include endpoints, networks, email, firewalls, identity, and domain name systems.
This new solution is very comprehensive. It gathers insights from over 200 million sources through Cisco Secure Client. This way, it provides process-level visibility to any place where these endpoints meet the network of the customer.
IDC’s Group Vice President for Security and Trust, Frank Dickson, said, “The true measure of XDR is its ability to deliver actual security outcomes, real and measurable benefit to organizations — early detection, impact prioritization, and effective and efficient response.”
