Modern Cybersecurity: SIEM, XDR & MDR

With more than half of organizations having already been affected by a cybersecurity incident, it’s clear that traditional security solutions fall short in protecting against advanced threats.

Enterprises are increasingly turning to solutions such as Security Information & Event Management (SIEM) & Extended Detection & Response (XDR) which provide additional visibility into an enterprise’s attack surface by integrating endpoint protection with additional Microsoft Security capabilities. Together these technologies offer a comprehensive view into an organization's environment so you can detect advanced threats across your digital estate.

What's Microsoft's answer to the growing need for SIEM & XDR Solutions?

Microsoft Defender XDR & Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Defender XDR a new category of product within the Microsoft 365 Defender security stack, is security information and event management (SIEM) and extended detection and response (XDR).

Microsoft Sentinel is a cloud based SIEM solution that aggregates security data & correlates alerts from virtually any source, delivering an intelligent, comprehensive SIEM solution for threat detection, investigation, response, and proactive hunting.

When combined, Microsoft Defender XDR & Microsoft Sentinel can help:

• Detect threats to your organization more quickly across all your devices and data sources.
• Respond faster to threats by blocking or quarantining them before they impact users or company operations.
• Proactively search for threats across all your data
• Eliminate security infrastructure setup and maintenance, and elastically scale to meet your security needs.
• Correlate data from multiple sources in real-time, providing a single unified view of the current state of your environment.

Microsoft Defender XDR + Microsoft Sentinel will bring together data from endpoint, email, identity, and infrastructure.

With the expectation that a breach can come from anywhere at any time, the need for actionable visibility across security tools has never been greater. Microsoft Defender XDR + Microsoft Sentinel provides an integrated platform to effectively manage, detect and block threats across network boundaries by bringing together data from endpoint, email, identity, and infrastructure.

As you can imagine, having automated security solutions running 24x7 can create an overwhelming amount of alert data to review & manage. This is why Interlink has partnered with Critical Start a Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service dedicated to protecting your Microsoft Security investments while filtering out the noise.

Who is Critical Start?

#CriticalStart is a Managed Detection and Response (MDR) solution that utilizes cloud-native technology to provide comprehensive insight into what’s happening across your organization with a cloud-native approach to security analytics, detection and response.

This means that Critical Start can detect threats faster than many competing solutions because it leverages the power of machine learning within its sensors as well as threat intelligence from other Threat Intelligence Platforms.

Interlink Cloud Advisors has partnered with Critical Start ?to showcase?a best-in-class implementation with?managed detection and response capabilities built over the Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Sentinel platforms

We hope this post has helped you understand the importance of SIEM and XDR solutions in today’s enterprise security landscape. By adopting the Microsoft Defender XDR + Microsoft Sentinel & Critical Start MDR - you can protect your company & security investments through a simplified cybersecurity approach.

To learn more about Interlink's Partnership with CriticalStart, please join us on November 10, 2022, from 10:00 – 11:00 AM EST for this exclusive webinar on End-to-end Security with Microsoft Defender XDR & Sentinel, featuring CriticalStart.