GuardDog is the simplest, most efficient, and cost-effective MDR/XDR solution available today.
MDR is a service that combines technology with human expertise to detect, monitor, and respond to threats across an organization’s network. The key difference between MDR and other solutions is the emphasis on “managed” services, where dedicated security experts actively monitor network activities and respond to threats as they arise.
Business Challanges
Some of the business challenges for MDR usage are staffing, resources, and alert fatigue, as well as containing threats when they are observed.
Staffing and resources – Organizations already struggling to keep their security teams fully staffed are facing even greater challenges as they adopt cybersecurity tools to address today’s threats. Most organizations have cybersecurity tools they don’t have time to manage themselves. The investment organizations might have made in leading-edge technologies can end up hurting instead of helping them, especially expertise and the human time element.
Alert Fatigue – The challenge is managing massive numbers of alerts. This isn’t a problem unique to cybersecurity, but it is made significantly worse as the number of exploits and vulnerabilities grows with the number of devices and networks. This is particularly difficult with smart devices or IoT devices being a part of everyday workplaces. Determining how to respond to or contain each alert requires more manpower and expertise than is typically available, whether in-house or outsourced services with partners. When a threat is significant, an organization needs the relevant skills to remediate it and return to business as usual.
Containing Threats – This step aims to halt the effects of an incident before it can cause further damage. Actions might include disconnecting systems from networks, quarantining infected systems, or blocking traffic to and from known malicious IP addresses.- Often, because this involves operational systems being halted, this step is the most expensive and time-consuming. Though this varies from business to business, it always has associated economic downtime.
An MDR remotely monitors, detects, and responds to threats determined and detected within your organization. An XDR tool typically provides the necessary visibility into security events in your organization. When you give the right kinds of analytics with enough information or data, the human element can now perform the necessary elements.
The most expensive and difficult part of MDR or XDR is the complexity and knowledge needed by the human element in every environment.
To best understand the complete value of MDR or XDR, it is important to understand what are commonly accepted as the six steps of a cybersecurity incident response plan:
Because much of a cyber security incident response plan involves human elements and expertise, this is both complex and costly! These steps can be greatly simplified using artificial intelligence and automation and happen much faster and effectively.
GuardDog uses a unique solution to solve all four problems: alert fatigue, staffing, resources, and the containing of threats.
By using automation and algorithms through AI for detection, analysis, and containment, GuardDog can significantly reduce the vulnerabilities associated with an attack and the cost.
There are over 200,000 known vulnerabilities if an infrastructure is entirely up to date according to the CVE databases (Common Vulnerability and Exploit). Depending upon size and scale, this is a nearly impossible feat, adding past known vulnerabilities to an organization’s daily number of vulnerabilities.
With a partner working with internal IT resources of any organization deploying fidos on any network that needs watching and protecting along with the remaining planning, eradication, and recovery, an organization can focus on the business resilience associated with their primary business focus.
Using any service provider, a holistic approach to automating as much as possible to the incident response plan becomes much more affordable and simple.