For State, Local, and Education entities the Security Operations Center is a required tool in the toolbox and a necessity for Cyber Insurance.
Threats to data and information are ever evolving, and better safeguarding the security of SLED entities is a must.
The cornerstone of a robust defense is the SOC. In this blog, we'll explore how Cisco XDR simplifies and enhances the operations of SLED-focused SOCs, helping them achieve security and resilience goals in an open and collaborative manner.
Cyberattacks like malware, ransomware, and phishing are increasing, and with 100,000 different local, state, law enforcement, tribal, townships, cities, municipalities, and county governments cyber criminals have a very big landscape to choose from in SLED. Current security tools struggle to detect and investigate sophisticated threat actors like BlackTech, Volt Typhoon or Wizard Spyder.
Cisco XDR is a unified threat detection, investigation, mitigation, and hunting solution that integrates the entire Cisco security portfolio and select third-party tools - endpoint, email, network, and cloud, along with superior threat intelligence.
According to Security Intelligence, the number of cyber-attacks targeting government agencies increased by 95% in 2022 compared to the previous year.
Cisco XDR is an affordable unified security solution that integrates and correlates data from multiple security products across an organization's networks, cloud, endpoints, email, and applications.
The typical SLED detection and response model is built upon self-contained point security solutions, which are pieced together and require lots of staffing resources to maintain.
Security leadership and their teams are demanding better efficacy, experience and higher ROI. Cisco XDR steps in as the all-inclusive solution for identifying, investigating, and remediating threats.
These concepts help SOC teams streamline their processes, improve response times, and enhance overall security posture.
The goal of automation is to reduce the workload on security analysts and speed up the detection and response to security incidents.
Automation can handle routine, well-defined tasks, allowing human analysts to focus on more complex and strategic aspects of security.
Examples of automated tasks in a SOC include automatically blocking IP addresses associated with malicious activity, generating alerts, and enriching security alerts with additional context.
Orchestration Orchestration goes a step further than automation by integrating various security tools, processes, and workflows into a coordinated and streamlined system.
It involves creating workflows and playbooks that define how different security tools and processes should work together to respond to specific security incidents.
Orchestration aims to ensure that different security solutions communicate and collaborate effectively.
SOC orchestration helps improve response coordination, reduces the likelihood of errors, and enhances overall security incident management by providing a standardized, repeatable process for incident response.
This means that SLED SOC environments can integrate Cisco XDR into their existing ecosystems, ensuring a seamless and efficient security framework that works in harmony with other tools and technologies.
Cisco XDR is an open extensible solution, with turnkey integrations with a variety of third-party vendors allowing security operation teams to quickly adopt a unified and simple approach to their security across their security stack.
It was designed to help SOC analysts detect and respond to threats more quickly and effectively by providing a unified view of security data across multiple security tools and data sources.
This Cyber News was published on feedpress.me. Publication date: Wed, 13 Dec 2023 13:13:04 +0000