Written by Patti Hallock, Director of XDR Operations/Engineering at Agio Your security operations are critical, and every decision you make impacts those operations. When you have separate service providers–one for managed IT and another for  extended detection & response  (XDR)–you run the risk of delayed response and service. Patti Hallock, our Director of  XDR Operations  & Engineering, collected data and did a short case study on the outcomes of two similar firms with different managed IT and SOC designs. The first firm, let’s call them Firm A, separated services (with Agio handling only XDR and another vendor managing their IT). Firm B bundled XDR and managed IT with Agio. The difference was significant. The bottom line: If you’re not bundling your XDR and managed IT, you’re in a potentially vulnerable position. Cyber Risk Increases When You Separate IT Management and Security Operations Misconfigurations, poor security hygiene, and weak controls ...

  Originally posted in   - The Hacker News Almost every vendor, from email gateway companies to developers of threat intelligence platforms, is positioning themselves as an XDR player. But unfortunately, the noise around XDR makes it harder for buyers to find solutions that might be right for them or, more importantly, avoid ones that don’t meet their needs. Stellar Cyber delivers an Open XDR solution that allows organizations to use whatever security tools they desire in their security stack, feeding alerts and logs into Stellar Cyber. Stellar Cyber’s “Open” approach means their platform can work with any product. As a result, a security team can make changes without wondering if the Stellar Cyber Open XDR platform will still work. Stellar Cyber address the needs of lean enterprise security teams by providing capabilities typically found in NG-SIEM, NDR, and SOAR products in their Open XDR platform, managed by a single license. This consolidation enables customers to eliminat...