Integrated Threat Detection and Response: The Art of the Possible to Make Your Job Easier

If you are a network defender, your job is probably tedious and difficult. Most higher education institutions have complex environments with multiple siloed security solutions. Attackers are increasingly sophisticated and are looking to exploit any weakness. And even normal traffic can look malicious. So, to protect the institution, you need to monitor endless security logs and multiple solution dashboards. Then, you must manually correlate the information across the environment before you can even start to take action to stop a threat. It’s no wonder we’re all tired and frustrated. But what if a single tool could look across multiple security solutions to extended visibility, analysis, and response across networks, clouds, apps, and endpoints and then allow you to take protective action if a threat is identified? This capability is called Extended Detection and Response (or XDR) and is available now. In this session, you’ll see how XDR has helped colleges and universities reduce response times from 2 days to 15 minutes and how you can use it to see and respond to threats quicker and easier. We’ll demonstrate Cisco’s solution, SecureX, to show you the Art of the Possible in threat detection and response and how you can use it to make your job less frustrating and more valuable to your institution.