EDR solution provides comprehensive threat detection and reduces the risk of compromise with vulnerability management and patching all from a single agent
Qualys, Inc. a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based IT, security and compliance solutions, announced Multi-Vector EDR 2.0 with additional threat-hunting and risk mitigation capabilities improving alert prioritization and reducing the time needed to respond to threats.
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Security practitioners are inundated with alerts, which burdens them to prioritize the ones that represent the riskiest threats, wastes their valuable time, and exposes their organizations to increased risk. Yet, traditional endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions still focus solely on endpoint activity to detect attacks and incorporate only MITRE ATT&CK techniques – not tactics. As a result, practitioners are forced to rely on additional tools to improve their cyber risk posture leading to slow and incomplete threat remediation actions. EDR needs to evolve to scale and provide more meaningful threat context, in near real time, to meet the challenges of the modern threat landscape.
“Effective endpoint protection starts with reducing the amount and severity of instances the security team needs to address,” said Michael Suby, vice president of research at IDC. “Qualys leverages its Cloud Platform to analyze context and data points via its integration with vulnerability and patch management along with device controls to reduce the volume of incoming incidents. This volume reduction is a key factor in saving time and resources, as it allows teams to focus on the riskiest threats that matter the most, ensuring their attack surface is less exposed.”
“While the volume of cyber threats seems to multiply monthly, my resources do not,” said Benjamin Shumaker, network information security officer, Credit Union of Denver. “Our force multiplier is Qualys Multi-Vector EDR. It allows us to consolidate vendors and agents via the Qualys Cloud Platform and eliminates the need to manually analyze data across multiple sources to identify potential threats. Now our team has broader insights into the environment and can quickly react to high-priority threats.”
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The updated Qualys Multi-Vector EDR operationalizes MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques allowing security practitioners to quickly analyze and respond to threats. Additionally, the Qualys Cloud Platform’s extended prediction and prevention capabilities provide orchestrated access to multiple context vectors including asset criticality, vulnerabilities, system misconfigurations, and recommended patches via a single agent and unified dashboard.
Qualys Multi-Vector EDR’s comprehensive approach prevents future attacks by identifying and eliminating vulnerabilities exploited by malware. Through native integration with Qualys VMDR, practitioners can pivot from a single malware incident, such as Conti, to identifying all assets susceptible to CVEs associated with the malware and then patch via Qualys Patch Management.
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