The Crucial Role of Reliability and Resilience in Security
Welcome to the March edition of Streamlined by D3 Security. In this newsletter, we are discussing the importance of reliability in your security tools. The average security team has around a dozen different security tools in their stack, and most teams utilize tools that attempt to bring those tools together on a single pane of glass.
This singular piece of tech is the most important part of your security stack, as teams rely on its information to act upon threats and vulnerabilities. Even a minor outage in this tool can set a security team back for weeks, if not months, giving bad actors a window to infiltrate their environment.
What are these different tools?
SIEM (Security Information and Event Management): The first step towards bringing all your security alerts on a single pane of glass typically involves a SIEM. In a SIEM system, data is collected from various log sources throughout the organization, including network devices, servers, applications, and security systems. This data is then normalized and correlated to identify patterns, trends, and potential security incidents.
From here, tools are implemented to filter out false positives, and a more sophisticated path towards automating repetitive tasks is carved using the following technologies:
SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response): SOAR is a platform that integrates security technologies and streamlines incident response processes through automation and orchestration. It automates repetitive tasks, saving time for security teams and ensures a consistent and standardized response to security incidents.
EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response): EDR focuses on monitoring and responding to activities on endpoint devices, such as computers and servers, to detect and mitigate cyber threats. It provides detailed insights into endpoint activities and enables proactive searching for potential threats. However, it requires significant computing resources and highly skilled technicians, making it difficult to implement.
XDR (Extended Detection and Response): XDR expands the scope of detection and response beyond endpoints to include network, cloud, and other security telemetry. It provides a broader view of the entire IT environment and enables a unified response across different security layers. However, bringing together diverse security data sources can be complex, resulting in outages in the platform.
All of these tools in an ideal controlled environment should be able to talk to your other security tools and give you the ability to mitigate threats before they become a significant issue.
The truth however is a little different. Most of the security tools that promise to deliver a single pane of glass solution to your security team come with a caveat of their own. Some may only integrate with tools that a single vendor develops. Some may offer the ability to integrate with any tool available, but leave the building and maintenance of the integration up to you. Even if you get a handle on the integrations, you are then faced with support that is nonexistent, taking months to resolve any issues you have. Outages and unplanned updates to your systems overnight are among the other issues that security experts have to deal with.
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A vision to be better
While many security vendors promise that they will support you no matter what during the sales cycle, only a few follow through.
D3 Security is leading the charge on setting a better standard for support and reliability. In the last 13 years, D3 Smart SOAR has had an uptime of 99.995%. That’s less than 2 minutes of downtime per month. We are truly vendor-agnostic, and promote the use of best-of-breed solutions in your security stack. To deliver on that promise, Smart SOAR comes with 450+ out-of-the-box integrations, and if the one you are looking for isn’t on that list, we will build and maintain it for you at no additional charge. Anytime you pick up the phone and dial up the D3 support team, you get a SOAR specialist on the other side.
We have only one goal, to be the best SOAR vendor out there, and we deliver on that promise every step of the way.
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