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FIVE BEST PRACTICES FOR CISOS ADOPTING XDR EXTENDING CYBERSECURITY BEYOND THE ENDPOINT

iIntroduction

The XDR buzz
Any new technology enters the marketplace amid a blaze of hype
This is as true for a new smartphone as it is for the latest games console or even the latest development in cybersecurity. That ' s the case with eXtended Detection and Response( XDR), which has grown in profile over the last few years, to become the new buzzword in cybersecurity.
The hype can often be little more than over-zealous marketing, but sometimes it ' s justified. One new technology that is certainly worth the buzz is XDR, which addresses a number of weaknesses in existing cybersecurity tools and has the potential to improve incident response and remediation while also lowering costs and increasing productivity.
Too good to be true? Well, nothing is perfect but we think that once you ' ve read this ebook you will be convinced that XDR İs an important tool for the modern SOC of the future. And it is the future, for now, because according to Gartner, fewer than five percent of organizations were using XDR at the beginning of 2022. However, they expect that total to grow to 40 percent over the next five years.
There are several reasons for that, as we will discuss in the first chapter of this ebook. p
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