Response – Bitdefender TechZone

Security best practices urge us to accept that eventually, a sufficiently sophisticated attack will evade any protection solution. While prevention, protection, detection and response tools, included eXtended Detection and Response (XDR) provide significant relief of management burden with advanced automation, they are tools which produce outcomes that need to be acted upon. Not all organizations can perform 24x7 security monitoring of advanced attack prevention, protection, and detection solutions.

To implement a 24x7 approach, it is necessary to establish a Security Operations Center (SOC). This requires significant investments in infrastructure, licensing, and maintenance, and most costly, hiring security specialists.

A typical SOC is comprised of at least three main tiers of experts. The first tier is responsible for detecting, identifying, and troubleshooting all security events, while the second tier is responsible for mitigating attacks discovered by the first tier. The final tier is responsible for reducing and optimizing the operation of all teams, as well as developing tools and processes to enhance threat hunting. To be effective, the SOC must operate around-the-clock to promptly identify any security breaches.

Establishing an internal SOC can be an investment that exceeds available budgets for many organizations. However, it may be needed because of the nature of the organizations or the requirements of contractors, especially for compliance purposes. In this scenario, a reasonable solution is to rely on an external, trusted security provider to complement and extend the capabilities of the internal IT team to handle security monitoring, prevention, detection, and remediation.

The response pillar of GravityZone is focused on responding to security incidents on behalf of the internal IT team. Bitdefender Managed Detection and Response as an external SOC service gives our customers 24/7 access to a team of cybersecurity experts who are responsible for identifying threats and responding rapidly to minimize the impact of attacks quickly and effectively. With flexible security tiers, security teams can choose the operation model depending on their needs.