Identify, anticipate and respond to any possible computer threat. This is in 2023 one of the great priorities that the ICT departments of companies have. This, in a context in which threats are increasingly sophisticated, varied and persistent, in turn requires a rapid and coordinated response by organizations.
Adding to this situation is the fact that many companies face a lack of resources, tools and visibility to detect and respond to incidents effectively. To respond to these challenges, in recent years the use of the XDR technology (eXtended Detection and Response) which, according to Gartner, is a vendor-specific threat detection and incident response tool that unifies multiple security products (including a minimum of three) into one security operations system. Thanks to this integration of different data sources and security products, company security managers can have a holistic view of their ICT infrastructure, correlate alerts and automate corrective actions.
In this area, WatchGuard has just announced the launch of ThreatSync, a complete XDR solutionwhich is included as part of the company’s Unified Security Platform® architecture and extends this technology to product families WatchGuard Network and Endpoint Security.
As explained by the company, WatchGuard ThreatSync equips organizations with XDR capabilities to centralize detections between products and orchestrate automated response to threats from a single control panel. This enables cybersecurity to be simplified while improving visibility and response to threats across the organization faster, reducing risk and cost, and delivering greater accuracy.
On the other hand, for MSPs and partners, XDR reduces the staffing burden by enabling teams to share knowledge from a single security platform. At the same time, XDR increases protection and improves results by combining different security layers. In three steps, Watchguard offers:
- Unified Threat Visibility: ThreatSync increases accuracy and speeds detection by automatically unifying threat data from across the entire WatchGuard security stack into a single interface, with a UX geared toward incident responders.
- Unified threat detection: ThreatSync provides extended detection capabilities by correlating data from different layers of protection in the security stack that indicate the presence of threat actors.
- Unified Threat Response Orchestration: When security experts and IT administrators have the information they need, it’s easy to respond quickly, even if the device isn’t physically available.
Finally, it’s worth noting that ThreatSync is a WatchGuard unified security feature included by default with any Firebox Total Security Suite (TSS) subscription and WatchGuard EDR and EPDR products. The more WatchGuard products you have, the more visibility and expanded XDR features you have access to.
To learn more about what’s new from WatchGuard and its strategy to help companies have more visibility on all kinds of threats, we recommend that you don’t miss the participation of Guillermo Fernández (Iberia Sales Engineer Manager of WatchGuard) on March 22. at the round table “New challenges in security of the hybrid workplace” to be held within the framework of the ASLAN fair at the Palacio de Congreso in Madrid. In addition, that same day, you can also attend a presentation by Juan Manuel Castaño (Sales Engineer for the South of Iberia at WatchGuard): “XDR: new term for a well-known concept.” Also, you can visit the booth 44 of the company at the event.
