There’s a relatively new acronym out there in the security space: it’s  XDR( Extended Detection and Response ) . But why do we need yet another acronym and should you care? Over the last several years, many analyst groups have tried to capture the idea of more complex attacks and how to build best practices to put the right  security infrastructure  in place to help. The past has delivered successive sets of tools that do solve unique problems. The rise of Endpoint Detection and Response ( EDR ) — endpoints are in many cases the first line of defense or first line of breakdown. The rise of  Network Traffic Analysis  (NTA / NDR) besides NGFW– packets have a wealth of insight imbedded in both their header and content The rise of Cloud Application Security Brokers (CASB) — a new way to protect SaaS applications like Office365, which can not be protected with traditional firewalls. The  SIEM  — the backbone of security operations teams; logs have a lot of ...