In today's increasingly complex and sophisticated threat landscape, organizations must not only anticipate but withstand and recover from the inevitability of cyberattacks. Cyber resilience, the ability to respond to and recover from a cyberattack while maintaining business continuity, is a critical business objective.
Organizations can implement various strategies to enhance their cyber resilience. Managed eXtended Detection and Response (MXDR) is a powerful tool in this endeavor. Let's discuss why cyber resilience is crucial and how MXDR can bolster modern IT operations.
Given the prevalence and commoditization of cyberattacks, becoming a victim is less a matter of if but when. Just as inevitable as cyberattacks are the costs associated with them. Of course, successful cyberattacks pose the greatest toll, with data loss, ransoms, outages, and reputational harm all topping the list.
That said, even an unsuccessful cyberattack can create downtime for an organization. Time spent recovering backups, quarantining potentially infected systems, and undergoing incident response procedures can affect business operations. But these are vital parts of responding to and recovering from a cyberattack.
Businesses must be aware of and plan for these and other activities as part of their ongoing processes, building their cyber resiliency. Unfortunately, establishing consistent cyber resiliency is easier said than done, especially understanding recent cyber talent shortages and budget cuts.
Considering these difficulties, MXDR offers a way to push past them and achieve greater cyber resiliency. MXDR provides continuous cybersecurity expertise and a 24x7 security operations center (SOC) at an as-a-service operational cost. Regarding cyber resiliency, the MXDR approach grants multiple benefits.
At its core, MXDR is an around-the-clock extension of your team, monitoring your systems and acting rapidly if a potential security event is detected. For cyber resiliency, continuous coverage of your critical systems and data keeps you secure in the face of cyberattacks, even if they’re consecutive. MXDR offers this in spades, giving organizations peace of mind that they are protected, even outside of regular business hours.
Fully staffing a 24x7 SOC is incredibly pricey, considering the costs of hiring multiple talented security professionals and the overhead of keeping them operating at all hours. MXDR ensures the same level of protection at a fraction of the cost, making it easy for companies of any size to reap the benefits of full-time security.
Piggybacking off the point above, because MXDR provides security operations on your behalf, it effectively lifts the load of security off your team. Not only does this free up budget space that would be spent on security talent, but it also frees up time. From a cyber resiliency perspective, your team can focus on the duties and functions that keep the business moving.
After a cyber incident, intense focus is necessary to address, remediate, and triage an attack’s effects. With MXDR, that need for focus is reduced on your overall team and delegated to trained and seasoned professionals. In a sense, your team can continue operating almost as if nothing happened, letting the experts tackle the trickier aspects of security so they can focus on their own areas of expertise.
Since MXDR acts as your digital guardians, they also have detailed records of your incident logs from across your IT environment. When it comes to recovering from a cyberattack and the associated incident response processes, this ends up proving incredibly useful.
During incident response, you need to detail and document everything that happened during the event and what your team did to prevent and remediate it. You can work with MXDR to easily pull log data and showcase security processes and actions, expediting incident response and reducing time lost. That way, you can effectively maintain business velocity while meeting proper disclosure requirements. MXDR also provides ongoing guidance and best practices during recovery processes to help your business rebound quickly in the aftermath of an event.
Security is never a single point in time, one-and-done outcome. It’s a continuous process of learning, adapting, and improvement. This rings especially true in the aftermath of a cyber incident, where any potential vulnerabilities in your program are laid bare.
MXDR takes on the burden of protecting your organization as well as evolving your approach after incidents in the face of new and emerging threats. With an in-depth knowledge of your business and IT environment, MXDR optimizes your security posture, covering vulnerabilities and performing threat hunting relative to your industry. The result is a robust security approach that only improves, showcasing your cyber resiliency.
By providing you with 24x7 security expertise, MXDR helps you keep business momentum, even in the face of cyberattacks. This boost to your cyber resiliency proves critical in today’s digital threat landscape.
Learn how MXDR was able to stop an ongoing ransomware attack after business hours to keep a company running smoothly. Read this case study.
