Technology company Cisco beefed up its Extended Detection and Response (XDR) by analytics to prioritize detections. Cisco XDR moves the focus from endless investigations to remediating the highest-priority incidents with evidence-backed automation. 

According to Cisco, this is just one of the efforts to achieve a unified, (artificial intelligence) AI-driven, cross-domain security platform which is the Cisco Security Cloud.

Cisco’s XDR strategy leverages visibility across the network and endpoints into one ​turnkey, risk-based solution. Now in Beta with General Availability coming in July 2023, Cisco XDR simplifies investigating incidents and enables security operations centers (SOCs) to immediately remediate threats. 

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“The threat landscape is complex and evolving,” Jeetu Patel, EVP and GM of Security and Collaboration at Cisco, said in a statement. “Detection without response is insufficient, while response without detection is impossible.”

Telemetry

Cisco XDR focuses on telemetry-centric data and delivers outcomes in minutes. It natively analyzes and correlates the six telemetry sources that Security Operations Center (SOC) operators say are critical for an XDR solution: endpoint, network, firewall, email, identity, and DNS. On the endpoint specifically, Cisco XDR leverages insight from 200 million endpoints with Cisco Secure Client, formerly AnyConnect, to provide process-level visibility of where the endpoint meets the network.

Cisco XDR integrates with leading third-party vendors to share telemetry, increase interoperability, and deliver consistent outcomes regardless of vendor or technology. 

The initial set of out-of-the-box integrations at general availability include:

• Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR): CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR, Cybereason Endpoint Detection and Response, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR, SentinelOne Singularity, Trend Vision One
• Email Threat Defense: Microsoft Defender for Office, Proofpoint Email Protection
• Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW): Check Point Quantum, Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall
• Network Detection and Response (NDR): Darktrace DETECT and Darktrace RESPOND, ExtraHop Reveal(x)
• Security Information and Event Management (SIEM): Microsoft Sentinel