Stop threats in their tracks in minutes with 24/7 MXDR
Cyberattacks happen quickly. Your response needs to be even faster. CloudGuard’s PROTECT MXDR Service by combines the abilities of AI, automation and humans to rapidly detect, analyse and resolve threats 24/7.
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Why your business needs MXDR
Protect everything, miss nothing
Gain full visibility of all organisation’s cybersecurity with CloudGuard’s PROTECT MXDR Service. Our Data Connector Packs enable optimised ingestion of security logs, which leads to the automatic disruption of advanced attacks across networks, endpoints, identities, email, collaboration tools, cloud applications, data, and more.
Secure your mission-critical on-premise infrastructure networks and environments with ease.
Complete multi-cloud infrastructure protection for the likes so Azure, AWS, GCP, and more.
Eliminate blindspots and secure endpoint devices across your entire organisation.
Protect your users against identity-based threats with real-time data intelligence.
Get full insights into your SaaS applications and protect your sensitive data from attack.
Protect IoT and OT ecosystems, the most rapidly expanding attack surface within your organisation.
Protect your Microsoft Sentinel for SAP solutions – business logic, applications, databases, and operating system layers all in one place.
How the CloudGuard MXDR service works
Learn about the key components that drive our proactive cybersecurity approach, from efficient data ingestion into our SIEM platform to the dynamic orchestration of threat detection and response by our AI and automation engine, AnselAI. All based in the UK.
Data ingestion – connect everything
The PROTECT Managed XDR service starts with a process called data ingestion, which involves collecting and importing data from various sources into a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system.
We chose Microsoft Sentinel as our combined SIEM and SOAR platform. Gartner rank Sentinel as a leader in their Magic Quadrant for SIEM, and its interoperability makes it a versatile tool for unifying cybersecurity data. We either deploy or optimise Microsoft Sentinel within your existing Microsoft tenant – keeping your data where it belongs. Sentinel’s Data Connectors then open to the door to ingestion.
Our Data Connector Packs set out gathering security event data from various sources, such as Microsoft 365, Active Directory, cloud environments, and custom applications. Our custom-built data connectors ensure seamless integration, allowing us to capture and ingest relevant security event data into Microsoft Sentinel for 24/7 analysis.
Save up to 30% on data consumption costs
Data ingestion into Microsoft Sentinel can quickly run up large bills if it’s deployed out-of-the-box or left unmanaged.
That’s where our cost optimisation layer comes in. This additional layer ensures that the data ingested into Microsoft Sentinel is efficiently managed to minimise unnecessary costs.
By fine-tuning data ingestion parameters and filtering out irrelevant data or metadata, we help you optimise your cybersecurity investment. This ensures that you only pay for the data that is essential for effective threat detection and response, maximising the value of your security operations.
Our PROTECT MXDR service also eliminates the need for costly investments in standalone security solutions, and the associated maintenance and management overheads.
Introducing GuardianAI
Now that your data is being ingested in the most efficient and cost-effective way, our PROTECT MXDR service is ready to guard your organisation. This begins with AnselAI.
GuardianAI is our proprietary AI engine, continuously analysing security event data ingested into Microsoft Sentinel, identifying potential threats, and taking proactive measures to mitigate risks.
By combining advanced artificial intelligence with automation capabilities, the entire threat detection and response process is reduced from hours to seconds.
Handling threats – turning hours into minutes
Time is everything when there’s an active threat in your organisation. Every minute counts as the longer it’s left unchecked, the more damage it can cause. The process of handling a threat typically takes a human SOC Anlyst hours to intensive work, GuardianAI follows a four-step process to handle any threats across your organisation in minutes.
Phase 0 – Detect
The detection phase involves GuardianAI consolidating threats from multiple sources in real-time. By analying your security event data, it identifies anomalies, suspicious activities, and potential threats across your digital infrastructure. This proactive approach enables us to detect security incidents at the earliest stages, minimising the impact on your organisation. Once an suspcious event has been detected, it’s handed over to ANSEL – our automated SOC Analyst.
Phase 1 – Enrich
Once a threat is detected, ANSEL enriches the security event data with additional contextual information. This enrichment process provides valuable insights into the nature and severity of the threat, enabling us to make informed decisions and prioritise response efforts effectively.
Phase 2 – Investigate
ANSEL conducts automated investigations using predefined rules, techniques, and investigation playbooks. By referring to the enriched security event data, ANSEL performs in-depth analysis to determine the root cause of the threat, identify any related indicators of compromise (IOCs), and assess the potential impact on your organisation.
Phase 3 – Remediate
In the remediation phase, ANSEL takes proactive measures to mitigate the identified threats. Drawing upon advanced decision criteria and automation capabilities, ANSEL executes predefined remediation actions to contain, neutralise, or eliminate the threat. This swift and automated response helps prevent security incidents from escalating and minimises the impact on your business’ operations.
If an alert falls outside of ANSEL’s prefined actions, it is automatically triaged to our Managed SOC team to provide that extra layer of human analysis and critical thinking.
Using threat intel to automatically enrich every incident
By integrating threat intelligence, industry insights, and signals data into our analysis, we enrich our understanding of the threat landscape for more informed decision-making. This multidimensional approach allows us to prioritise threats based on their relevance and severity, ensuring that our response efforts are focused where they matter most.
Threat Intelligence Integration
Our Managed XDR service incorporates leading threat intelligence feeds from industry-renowned providers such as Recorded Future, as well as our own proprietary threat intelligence sources. These feeds deliver real-time updates on emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and malicious actors, enriching our analysis and decision-making processes. By leveraging threat intelligence, we augment our detection capabilities, ensuring that even the most sophisticated threats are swiftly identified and neutralised.
Industry Insights
In addition to threat intelligence feeds, we gather industry-specific insights tailored to your organisation’s context. Whether you operate in financial services, healthcare, or other sectors, our Managed XDR service takes into account the unique challenges and threat landscapes relevant to your industry. These insights provide valuable context for threat analysis and prioritisation, enabling us to focus on mitigating risks that pose the greatest impact to your business operations.
Signals Data Integration
Our approach extends beyond traditional threat intelligence sources to include signals data from various monitoring sources, including the dark web and other online channels. Our dedicated threat ops team continuously monitors these signals for indicators of potential threats, such as compromised credentials, data breaches, and emerging attack vectors. By integrating signals data into our analysis, we improve our ability to detect and respond to emerging threats proactively.
Continuous Improvement
By using the latest threat intelligence, industry insights, and signals data, we able to stay ahead of the curve. This ensures you’re protected against emerging cyber threats, both now and in the future.
24/7 UK Managed SOC – human and artificial intelligence combined
The Managed SOC element of our service blends human expertise with advanced, AI-driven capabilities.
Based in the UK, our 24/7 Managed SOC team have plenty of experience in identifying, analysing, and responding to security incidents. While GuardianAI and ANSEL play a pivotal role in threat detection and initial incident response, our Managed SOC team adds a critical layer of human intelligence and judgment to the process.
When security incidents are triaged to the SOC, our analysts use their deep understanding of your organisation’s environment, industry-specific threats, and regulatory requirements to contextualise and prioritise alerts effectively.
They collaborate closely with ANSEL, validating alerts, conducting further investigation if needed, and making informed decisions about the appropriate course of action. This human-machine partnership enables us to strike the optimal balance between automation and human intervention, ensuring that each security incident is addressed with the right level of scrutiny and expertise.
By combining the speed and scalability of ANSEL with the nuanced decision-making and contextual understanding of human analysts, our Managed SOC element ensures protection against even the most sophisticated cyber threats.
The CloudGuard MXDR Dashboard provides you with real-time visibility into your security posture, automation metrics, and actionable insights.
- Total alerts
- Data Connector activity
- Automation impact – time saved through automation
- Alerts by severity
- Tickets awaiting your feedback
- Data consumption
Accessible 24/7, the dashboard helps you to monitor security events, track remediation activities, and assess your overall cybersecurity posture at a glance. The intuitive interface helps you stay informed, make data-driven decisions, and collaborate effectively with our team to strengthen your defences.
You’ll be up and running in under an hour
Deploying our PROTECT Managed XDR service is a streamlined process, designed to minimise disruption to your operations while maximising the speed of implementation.
We follow best practices, and reference architectures, to ensure seamless integration within your existing environment. Our in-house automated deployment tool launches the service within your Microsoft tenant in under an hour, allowing you to quickly realise the benefits of improved cybersecurity protection.
We take a custodial approach to your tenant, ensuring that your data remains secure and confidential at all times. With strict RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) controls in place, you can trust that only authorised personnel have access to sensitive information. Our goal is to provide a hassle-free deployment experience that helps your organisation to strengthen its security posture without sacrificing productivity or efficiency.
What our MXDR service means for you
False positive reduction
Faster average response time
Faster ticket triage time
Reduced repeat alerts
preventative time won back
From Manual to Automated: CloudGuard Automates 98% of Amazon Filters’ Threat Responses
The automation and proactive threat detection have not only strengthened our security posture but also saved us time and resources. With CloudGuard as our security partner, we feel confident in our ability to navigate the evolving threat landscape and protect our business effectively.
Scalable MXDR protection that grows with you
- 24×7 Automated Monitoring
- UK Business Hours Expert SOC Support
- Threat Intelligence Integration & Enrichment
- Automated deployment via Lighthouse
- Standard Connector Requirements
- Automation Engine and Standard Rule Library
- Dynamic Dashboard & Regular Reporting
- Customer Self-Service Portal
- Jira Ticketing and Alert Management
- Everything in Protect, and:
- Named Customer Success Manager
- UK Based 24×7 Expert SOC Support
- Custom Connector Requirements
- Access to Custom Automation Library
- Vulnerability Planning & Advisory
- Customer Incident Response Support
- Custom Dashboards and Workspace Visuals
- Quarterly CISO Advisory Reviews
Outcomes that make a positive difference
Your business faces mounting challenges. There’s persistent threat actors, complex data streams from unconnected security systems, and a cyber skills shortage. Attack surfaces are bigger than ever before with threats coming at you from every angle. The financial, operational and reputational risks are also greater.
Thankfully, Our MXDR service instantly transforms your security operations, helping you overcome these challenges and taking things to the next level.
Our combination of AI, automation and humans eliminates the steep learning curve normally required to run cybersecurity services, and reduces the need for you to hire difficult-to-find cyber skills.
According to Microsoft, Sentinel is 48% less expensive to deploy than traditional security platforms. Further reduce costs by leveraging our automation expertise and remove the costly manual footprint.
Traditional cybersecurity services are complex. Our managed XDR service isn’t. We connect all your business’ security data, analyse it, and configure it into easily digestible, actionable dashboards.
Our MXDR service can grow and scale with your business, meaning that you’re always going to be protected. Our Guardians are constantly writing new scripts, automations and improvements.
With fully integrated threat intelligence data feeds as standard, you’ll be instantly proactively protected against a wider range of devious threats compared to traditional cybersecurity solutions.
Our seamless, automated deployment means you can be up and running in just 20 minutes. We then go on our learning journey to maximise your protection and strengthen your security posture.
Harnessing the power of automation means we can rapidly response to any incidents. Alerts are enriched, triaged and actioned within minutes. Less time means less risk of lasting damage.
Artificial intelligence is hunting and detecting threats, automation is leading incident response, and humans experts are problem-solving. With all that taken care of, you can focus on your business.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is MXDR?
Managed Extended Detection and Response (MXDR) is a cybersecurity service that protects businesses from potential threats and attacks across their entire technology landscape. MXDR blends advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and automation, and human expertise to detect, investigate, and respond to security incidents in a timely manner.
How does an MXDR service work?
MXDR services works by seamlessly integrating with existing cybersecurity approaches like SIEM, SOAR, and SOC – amplifying their capabilities. It leverages artificial intelligence and automation to shift through vast amounts of data from various sources, detecting and responding to threats in real-time. This intelligent automation reduces manual effort and allows for swift incident response and remediation.
How much does an MXDR service cost?
The cost of a managed XDR service varies based on factors like business size, complexity, and service provider. MXDR is typically a subscription-based service with recurring fees for monitoring and incident response. To get an accurate cost, it’s best to contact MXDR providers directly, considering factors such as endpoints monitored, threat intelligence, incident response, and customisation.
What are the benefits of MXDR services?
There are many benefits to undertaking an MXDR service in your business, including: enhancing security, early threat detection, expert analysis and response, continuous monitoring, fast incident response and cost-effective security operations.
What data can your MXDR service ingest?
CloudGuard’s MXDR service can ingest security data from your on-premise and cloud infrastructure platforms, email, endpoints, applications and more – covering your entire digital landscape in one place. We’ve got plenty out-of-the-box connectors ready to go, but we can also build custom connectors for more complex integrations.
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