CYBER SECURITY

IT Pros Onsite Managed Detection and Response (MDR) is a comprehensive cybersecurity service that merges state-of-the-art technology with the expertise of security professionals to provide real-time, continuous protection against cyber threats.

• Continuous Cyberthreat Monitoring and Response: Offering 24/7 vigilance, MDR services ensure that cyber threats are monitored and addressed promptly, providing round-the-clock protection.

• Expert-Led Cyberthreat Hunting: Skilled analysts lead the charge in hunting for cyber threats, leveraging their expertise to uncover and neutralize risks that automated systems might overlook.

• Attack Containment: To halt the spread of cyberattacks, MDR services implement containment strategies, safeguarding your organization’s digital environment.

• Incident Response: When threats are detected, MDR services provide swift incident response to remove the threat from your systems.

• Root Cause Analysis: To prevent future attacks, MDR services conduct thorough analyses to understand and address the underlying causes of security breaches.

• Regular Cybersecurity Reporting: MDR services keep you informed with weekly and monthly reports detailing your cybersecurity status and incidents

• Frequent Security Health Checks: Regular assessments ensure that your security posture remains robust and up-to-date.

Contrary to Threat Detection and Response (TDR) tools that focus on identifying and halting cyber threats, MDR is a service-oriented approach that manages these tools and interprets the data they generate.

MDR’s Proactive Protection Process:

MDR’s proactive approach to cybersecurity unfolds in five key steps:

Prioritization MDR services streamline the overwhelming task of sorting through numerous security alerts. Through managed prioritization, a blend of automation and expert analysis sifts through the alert deluge, distinguishing false alarms from genuine threats and presenting your security team with a curated flow of critical alerts.

Hunting: MDR services proactively hunt for cyber threats around the clock. Intelligence platforms gather essential data on potential risks, which is then scrutinized by seasoned analysts capable of detecting and addressing elusive threats. 

Investigation: MDR analysts delve into the details of cyber threats, providing your organization with a clear picture of the attack’s nature, timing, impact, and severity. This information is crucial for formulating an effective response strategy and determining subsequent actions.

Remediation: The remediation phase involves disrupting the cyberattack to prevent further damage. Actions may include eradicating malware, isolating compromised networks or systems, expelling intruders, cleaning registries, and dismantling malware’s persistence mechanisms. Effective remediation restores your network to its state before the attack.

Neutralization: Once the cyberattack is halted and the network is secured, analysts conduct a root cause analysis to completely remove the threat and prevent recurrence of similar attacks in the future.

IT Pros Onsite's Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service offers a strategic, dynamic, and economical solution for safeguarding your organization from cyber threats. Here are the key advantages of engaging an MDR provider:

• 24/7 Protection: MDR providers deliver uninterrupted cybersecurity monitoring and defense, ensuring that threats are identified and neutralized swiftly, regardless of the time.

• Risk Mitigation: In an era where cyberattacks are escalating, MDR proactively seeks out, identifies, and counters potential cyber threats, diminishing the likelihood of significant data breaches.

• Cost-Effectiveness: MDR presents an affordable strategy for defending against cyber threats without the necessity of expanding your full-time security personnel, potentially averting expensive data breaches.

• Regulatory Compliance: MDR solutions are tailored to assist in meeting sector-specific regulations, with experts often focusing on compliance. With IT Pros Onsite as your MDR partner we can offer insights that streamline your compliance processes.

• IT Workload Reduction: Outsourcing cyber threat detection and response to an MDR provider liberates your IT team to concentrate on strategic and fulfilling long-term initiatives, rather than urgent, unpredictable tasks.

• Access to Expertise: Collaborating with IT Pros Onsite grants immediate access to highly trained cybersecurity analysts, enhancing your Security Operations Center (SOC) capabilities without increasing headcount. MDR analysts’ extensive experience with a broad spectrum of cyber threats provides a level of expertise that is challenging to replicate in-house.

XDR  platforms coordinate cyberthreat detection and response across an  organization’s entire digital estate. They help quickly stop  cyberattacks by seamlessly consolidating various security tools in a  single platform, breaking down traditional security silos to enhance cyber threat protection. Here are five key XDR capabiIities.

Incident-based investigation 

 XDR  collects low-level alerts and correlates them into incidents, more  quickly giving security analysts a comprehensive picture of each  potential cyberattack. Analysts no longer need to sift through random  pieces of information to uncover and understand cyberthreat activity,  increasing productivity and enabling faster responses.

 Automatic disruption of advanced cyberattacks

  Using high-fidelity security signals and built-in automation, XDR detects in-progress cyberattacks. It then initiates effective incident response actions, including isolating compromised devices and user accounts, to  disrupt attackers. Using these capabilities, organizations can  significantly lower risk, limit the incident blast radius, and reduce  and simplify analysts’ post-incident investigation and cleanup.
     

Cyberattack chain visibility 

 Because  XDR ingests alerts from a wider set of sources, analysts can view the  full cyberattack chain of a sophisticated attack that might otherwise go  undetected by point security solutions. Greater visibility reduces  investigation time and increases the likelihood that full cyberattacks  can be successfully remediated.

Auto-healing of affected assets 

 Using  built-in automation capabilities, XDR returns assets compromised by  ransomware, phishing, and business email campaigns to a safe state. It  performs healing actions such as terminating malicious processes,  removing malicious forwarding rules, and containing affected devices and  user accounts. Freed from repetitive, manual tasks, security teams can  focus on addressing more complex, high-risk cyberthreats.
     

AI and machine learning

 XDR’s application of AI and machine learning makes AI for cybersecurity scalable and efficient. From monitoring threatening behavior and  sending alerts to investigation and remediation, XDR uses AI to  automatically detect, respond to, and mitigate possible cyberattacks.  With machine learning, XDR can create profiles of suspicious         

IT Pros Onsite's XDR service uses AI and advanced analytics to monitor numerous domains across an  organization’s technology environment, identify alerts and correlate  them into incidents, and prioritize the incidents that present the  highest risk. Able to view each cyber attack in a  greater context, security teams can more clearly and quickly  understand the danger at hand and determine how to best respond.

Here's how our  XDR system works step by step:

1. Collects and normalizes data.
   The  system automatically ingests telemetry data from multiple sources. It  cleans, organizes, and standardizes the data to help ensure the  availability of consistent, high-quality data for analysis.
    
2. Parses and correlates data.
   The  system uses machine learning and other AI capabilities to automatically  analyze the data and correlate alerts into incidents. It can analyze  extensive data points and locate cyberattacks and malicious behavior in  real time, significantly faster than security teams attempting to  manually correlate alerts and remediate threats.
    
3. Facilitates incident management.
   The  system prioritizes the severity of new incidents and provides more  context, helping security personnel more quickly triage then acknowledge  and respond to the most important cyberthreats. Based on present  conditions, personnel can respond manually or let the system respond  automatically, such as by quarantining devices or blocking IP addresses  and mail server domains. Security analysts can also review incident  reports and recommended solutions and act accordingly.
    
4. Helps prevent future incidents.
   Through  analysis of broad threat intelligence, our XDR system provides  detailed cyberthreat information that is relevant to an organization’s  specific environment, including cyberattacker techniques and recommended  actions for addressing them. Security teams can use these insights to  proactively protect against those cyberthreats that present the greatest  risk to their operations.
    

  XDR  delivers a range of security benefits that give enterprises holistic,  flexible, and efficient protection against threats. By unifying their  teams, tools, and processes with XDR systems, enterprises can improve cybersecurity in multiple ways. Here are seven benefits of XDR: 

 Increased visibility

  XDR  expands an enterprise’s view, offering a clearer understanding of its  security landscape. Also, by integrating telemetry data from multiple  domains, including endpoints, identities, email, cloud applications and  workloads, data, and other sources, XDR uncovers threats that might  otherwise go undetected.
     

 Accelerated threat detection and response 

 XDR  identifies cross-domain threats in real time and deploys automated  response actions. These capabilities eliminate or reduce the amount of  time that cyberattackers have access to enterprise data and systems.
    

Streamlined SecOps workflows

  By  automatically correlating alerts, an XDR streamlines notifications,  reducing noise in analysts’ inboxes and the amount of time they spend  manually investigating threats.
    

Reduced operational complexity and costs 

 XDR  simplifies investigation and response across security operations by  consolidating tools from multiple vendors into a single cost-effective  XDR platform.
   

 Enhanced incident prioritization 

  XDR  evaluates and highlights high-risk, in-progress incidents that analysts  need to promptly investigate. It also recommends actions that are  aligned with key industry and regulatory standards as well as with an  enterprise’s custom requirements.
 

 Faster SOC insights
 XDR provides the security operations center (SOC) with AI and automation capabilities required to stay ahead of  sophisticated threats. In addition, with a cloud-based XDR platform, the  SOC can rapidly pivot and scale its operations as cyberthreats evolve.
   

  Improved productivity and efficiency
 XDR  offers capabilities that automate repetitive tasks and enable asset  self-healing, reducing labor and freeing analysts for higher-value  activities. Also, centralized management tools increase alert accuracy  and simplify the number of solutions analysts must access to investigate  and remediate threats.