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Why XDR (Extended Detection and Response) ?

Timing is everything As the security industry wrestles with current  security infrastructure , the cries of…  Too many point  security products Too many blind spots  Too much noise and thus alert fatigue Too late to find attacks  Too slow to investigate, to hunt and to respond Too much data to handle or too little to be actionable Too hard to find well-trained security professionals …. are only louder than ever, yet we all know that not changing your behavior when you know you should is the definition of insanity.  Historically, security buyers evaluated products on an individual basis in which firewall vendor A would have a bakeoff against firewall vendor B, and  endpoint detection and response (EDR)  vendor C would be compared to EDR vendor D. Conceptually, this might make sense, because having “best of breed” everywhere should offer the best protection. This has led to a number of problems, the biggest of which is  security tool  spra...