Enhancing the Security Value of Microsoft Defender
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint provides protection, detection, and response capabilities as a key component of any security strategy. But it lacks 24/7 monitoring, rapid investigations, proactive threat hunting, and coverage beyond endpoints. The result? Threat actors can circumvent EDR technologies and find a way to your critical assets and users.
Avoid this result by enhancing Defender for Endpoint with a solution that reduces the likelihood of and impact of compromise and elevates your security outcomes.
Key Benefits
- Enhance your visibility with EDR, network IDS, logs, FIM, and applied intelligence
- View your security alerts in a single console
- SOC validation and enrichment of Defender for Endpoint alerts
- Automated and managed response playbooks
- Remediate post compromise activity detected by Defender for Endpoint
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Better Together: Protect, Detect and Respond with Fortra XDR & Defender for Endpoint
You’re facing modern-day multi-vector threats that necessitate a streamlined, integrated, and comprehensive security strategy.
Take your Defender for Endpoint to the next security level by integrating it with Fortra XDR. Built off Fortra’s Alert Logic’s 20 years of trusted experience in the managed services arena, Fortra XDR provides 24/7 monitoring through our global security operations center (SOC) experts for rapid threat detection, threat hunting, containment, and guided remediation. This ensures breaches are halted from progressing, minimizing their impact, and bolstering your security posture to withstand future threats. And our coverage is across the entire attack surface including endpoint, network, identity, and cloud.
By integrating Microsoft Defender for Endpoint with Fortra XDR, you immediately scale your security capabilities beyond just the endpoint, enabling you to:
- Enrich your Defender for Endpoint alerts with Fortra EDR telemetry, network traffic inspection, enhanced logging, and file integrity monitoring and applied threat intelligence
- Correlate threats across the entire IT environment, including identity, cloud, containers, network devices, and third-party security tools
- Coordinate response across multiple security tools and sources including endpoint, network, and cloud sources
- Receive SOC investigations into Defender for Endpoint alerts to identify ongoing compromises, contain threats, and provide comprehensive remediation plans
Why Organizations Chose Fortra XDR to Enhance Defender for Endpoint
Complete Visibility
Managed tuning
SOC investigation under 15-minute SLA
Enriched with additional telemetry (endpoint and beyond)
Multi-vector threat correlation
Managed threat containment
Enhanced response capabilities
Fortra Threat Intelligence
Cost effective
Avoid vendor lock in
How It Works
Collection
As part of the managed onboarding process, security relevant sources will be configured for collection. An API integration will be configured to collect Defender for Endpoint data from Azure Event Hub. Collection allows for search and reporting for customers and SOC analysts via the Alert Logic console, creating a single pane of glass security view.
Detection
Alert Logic’s broad and deep analytical coverage of logs and network IDS events integrates with Defender for Endpoint as a standard feature of our detection and response solutions. In addition to Defender for Endpoint alerts, potential incidents addressed via this integration include:
- Malicious tools
- Malware/virus spread to multiple hosts
- PowerShell and living off the land (LOTL) attacks
Although Defender for Endpoint blocks certain attacks, some of its alerts are only triggered on potentially malicious activity and take no action. Even an alert where a block was triggered can be indicative of an attacker already having access to a machine, user, or network. When Defender for Endpoint has identified post-compromise activity, it is crucial that alerts are investigated so initial access can be identified and remediated.
Alert Logic SOC analysts provide peace of mind by investigating alerts, validating the findings, scrutinizing surrounding data, and cross-correlating with additional alert sources. This provides a complete picture of the compromise to trigger appropriate containment actions and guide you through conclusive remediation to prevent reinfection.
Response
Alert Logic’s automated response helps organizations minimize the impact of a breach with the right balance of automation and human interaction. The embedded SOAR capabilities can be configured to trigger the “isolate host” action in Defender for Endpoint when the pre-defined triggers are met. Effective automated response is about taking the appropriate action to contain a threat, which is why we advise on recommended triggers for each response playbook. Additionally, playbooks can disable a compromised Azure or on-premises active directory account and block external attackers at the perimeter.
As well as using Defender for Endpoint in automated response playbooks, our SOC can take managed containment actions via the Fortra agent, stopping threats in their tracks.
Alert Logic provides a robust, scalable, and seamlessly integrated approach to fortify your Defender for Endpoint solution and protect your entire IT estate. By combining automated response with expert guidance, we equip you with the necessary tools to reduce time-to-resolution for security-strapped teams, thereby mitigating potential damage to your business. Maximize your investment in Microsoft’s Defender for Endpoint with Alert Logic’s detection and response solutions