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MICROSOFT Defender XDR
Enhance your security operations with Microsoft Defender XDR
In a world where cyber threats are constantly evolving, you can elevate your security efforts with unified visibility, investigation, and response capabilities across the entire cyber-attack chain, with the industry-leading extended detection and response (XDR) solution, Microsoft Defender XDR.
Stripe OLT can help you harness the power of Microsoft Defender XDR.
What is Microsoft Defender XDR, and What Does It Do?
Microsoft Defender XDR (formerly Microsoft 365 Defender) is a cloud-based extended detection and response (XDR) security solution that unifies multiple Microsoft Defender products to strengthen security and accelerate response times, all within a single pre and post-breach defence suite.
The Microsoft Defender XDR suite combines capabilities from multiple sources, including:
Leader in XDR Technology
Microsoft Defender XDR was named a leader in the Forrester Wave: Extended Detection and Response Platforms report in Q2 of 2024.
Microsoft is refining the most complete XDR offering in the market today…its dedication to innovation is demonstrated by its percentage of the R&D budget by revenue, which rivals the most innovative vendors in security.
How Can Microsoft Defender XDR Support My Organisation?
Microsoft Defender XDR is packed with security features to strengthen protections across your organisation’s IT environment. Below we explore how a solution built on Defender XDR can address some of your biggest cyber security challenges.
Ever-changing cyber security risks
Your Business Challenge
Protecting crucial business assets against ever-evolving digital threats is a concern for all leaders. As cyber risks grow in complexity and frequency, defending your organisation with the same resources becomes increasingly difficult.
The Solution: Cutting Edge Analytics
Microsoft Defender XDR counters sophisticated cyber-attack vectors, including phishing, ransomware, DDoS, and espionage attempts. By integrating AI and behavioural analytics, it not only identifies threats but also predicts and mitigates potential breaches before they occur.
Data Security and Privacy
Your Business Challenge
Safeguarding sensitive data while enforcing strong data controls across your organisation.
The Solution: End-to-End Data Security
Microsoft Defender XDR continuously monitors and detects threats. In the rare event of a breach, it rapidly isolates systems, limits data exfiltration, and initiates automated remediation. Automated compliance reporting helps maintain data integrity and meet regulatory requirements.
Dispersed Security Toolsets
Your Business Challenge
Managing separate security tools can reduce control and visibility, slowing responses to sophisticated cyber-attacks.
The Solution: Unified Security Platform
Microsoft Defender XDR integrates a number of Microsoft security solutions into one platform with a centralised dashboard creating a unified platform to provide greater control, reduced complexity and deep visibility.
Insider Threats and Employee Awareness
Your Business Challenge
Protecting sensitive information by identifying and mitigating risks from insider threats such as employee negligence or malicious actions.
The Solution: Unified Security Platform
Microsoft Defender XDR uses behavioural analytics and machine learning to detect unusual activities and potential insider threats. The detailed insights and alerts it provides help security professionals quickly respond to suspicious or malicious behaviour.
Remote Devices and System Availability
Your Business Challenge
Ensuring that critical applications and services remain available on demand, and mobile devices are secure in an increasingly remote and hybrid world.
The Solution: Complete System Visibility
With continuous threat monitoring and real-time response capabilities, Microsoft Defender XDR ensures that all endpoints, including remote and mobile devices, are shielded from emerging threats. It also facilitates seamless access to applications and services, maintaining performance and uptime for business continuity. By adapting to the needs of a remote workforce, Microsoft Defender XDR keeps operations secure and uninterrupted.
Optimised Total Cost of Ownership
Your Business Challenge
With resources being constantly squeezed, keeping costs low whilst ensuring comprehensive security protection means IT security leaders need to rely on technology more than ever.
The Solution: Improved Efficiency
Microsoft Defender XDR reduces the total cost of ownership by rolling up multiple security tools into one. This means fewer vendors and less manual correlation of threat signals, resulting in lower costs and fewer overheads.
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Key Capabilities of Microsoft Defender XDR
Advanced Kill Chain Visibility and Protection
Microsoft Defender XDR consolidates data from various sources such as collaboration tools, identities, endpoints, and cloud applications.
By integrating this information, it correlates low-level alerts into a single incident, providing a comprehensive view of the entire kill chain. This holistic perspective enables the detection of sophisticated attacks that might be overlooked by standalone solutions.
With Microsoft Defender XDR, your organisation gains enhanced visibility and protection against complex cyber threats.
By integrating this information, it correlates low-level alerts into a single incident, providing a comprehensive view of the entire kill chain. This holistic perspective enables the detection of sophisticated attacks that might be overlooked by standalone solutions.
With Microsoft Defender XDR, your organisation gains enhanced visibility and protection against complex cyber threats.
Unified Investigation and Response
Microsoft Defender XDR enhances the efficiency of security analysts by providing an incident-based framework for investigations. It consolidates alerts into a combined incidents queue that offers a full attack scope and an end-to-end view.
This approach allows contextual deep dives and response playbooks. It simplifies the investigation and response process, enabling SOC security teams to mitigate threats more effectively.
This approach allows contextual deep dives and response playbooks. It simplifies the investigation and response process, enabling SOC security teams to mitigate threats more effectively.
AI and Automation
With Microsoft Enterprise Mobility & Security, your organisation has access to a world of security technologies to facilitate complete security management.
From user insights and tracking to document encryption and protection, EMS is a full security solution.
From user insights and tracking to document encryption and protection, EMS is a full security solution.
Broad Intelligence and Threat Vector Visibility
From Power Automate, designed to help you automate tasks and quickly boost productivity, to Power BI, used to find insights and connect disparate data sets – within Microsoft 365 there is a powerful selection of applications designed to make your life easier.
Rapid Response with XDR-prioritised Incidents
M365’s productivity and sharing platform, SharePoint encourages innovative work practices across your organisation. Build sites, communities, and content to reach multiple users, large teams, whole departments, and company-wide users.
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Managed Extended Detection and Response (MXDR)
As a managed service you get all the benefits of a comprehensive MXDR solution whilst bridging the gap in the following areas.
Why choose Stripe OLT to support your XDR requirements?
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Certified Microsoft Solutions Partner
Whether you need to enhance collaboration with applications like Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Teams, or secure your environment with Azure Sentinel, you can trust our highly certified Microsoft team.
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Award-Winning Service Desk
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Certified cyber security
Accredited Security Experts
Employing both ex-government and military veterans, we ensure our clients are protected by the best. Our engineers are IASME, CREST, and Microsoft security certified (to name a few), consistently performing at a high level, 24/7.
Cloud expertise
Specialists in Azure Cloud Services
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Microsoft Defender XDR FAQs
How does Microsoft Defender XDR work?
XDR is most commonly accessed through Microsoft Sentinel but can also be used through other Defender dashboards. Some key capabilities include:
- Data collection and normalisation – Defender XDR collects and normalises data from multiple sources so it’s consistent and easy to view.
- Data parsing and correlation – AI and machine learning parse and correlate alerts in real time, much faster than human security teams.
- Incident management – The system prioritises incidents by severity so the most critical can be addressed first, using automated actions or manual investigation.
- Prevention of future incidents – Data is used to improve detection and response so the security framework gets stronger over time.
Example of how Defender XDR can come into use:
- Phishing – An attacker sends phishing email messages, caught by Defender for Office 365.
- Malware: The email has malware that installs malware, detected by Defender for Endpoint.
- Credential theft – The attacker uses stolen credentials from the phishing email to access data, detected by Defender for Identity.
- Data exfiltration – The attacker attempts to extract data through a cloud app, detected by Defender for Cloud Apps.
Microsoft Defender XDR combines all this Defender data to respond to the attack. The system can:
- Block the phishing email and malicious file across collaboration tools.
- Quarantine the endpoint.
- Disable the account.
- Stop data exfiltration from cloud services and cloud apps.
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