When a business scales up, its security challenges grow as well. Once, a small team responsible for both IT and cybersecurity could handle everything, but with increases in numbers of both employees and endpoints, broader use of public cloud services, and the introduction of new business processes, that same small team might not be able to cope; especially when cybercriminals are constantly refining their methods and tactics, developing new social engineering techniques, and adapting artificial intelligence for attacks. Sooner or later, every growing small or mid-sized business is faced with an urgent need to strengthen resilience against modern cyberthreats while keeping investment tempered.<\/p>\n
Choosing the ideal strategy boils down to one of two options. The first is to develop strong internal expertise, and expand the cybersecurity team and equip it with XDR-class solution. The second is to rely on external experts through a managed solution, but they\u2019d probably need XDR solution as well. Both approaches are viable \u2014 the difference lies in your strategy and priorities. In this blog post, we consider both options and explore which solution may best fit for your company.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s imagine a typical fast-growing small or medium-sized company. At some point, the IT-people responsible for information security and using an EDR-class solution come to the management with the following information:<\/p>\n
It\u2019s clear that all these problems have two roots: imperfect tools and insufficient resources for the security team. From a management perspective, the logical solution would be to upgrade the security solution to XDR (you can read why this is logical in another blog post of ours<\/a>). However, the question remains: should we develop the expertise of the internal team, or entrust protection to external experts?<\/p>\n Management may prefer to keep things internal: they consider security as part of their long-term strategy. Their goal is to build expertise and grow capabilities inside the team. In this case Kaspersky Next XDR Optimum<\/a> \u2014 a simple and user-friendly tool \u2014 would be a good choice for empowering the IT or security team. <\/strong>It empowers through its essential investigation and response tools, allowing the team to track traces of the multi-stage attacks and boost security posture.<\/p>\n With Next XDR Optimum, a company can prevent widespread, evasive cyberthreats \u2014 including spyware and ransomware attacks, gain insights into modern threats, and discover how they act both within and outside the endpoint. Here are just some of the features available to Next XDR Optimum operators:<\/p>\n To sum up, the solution enables cybersecurity teams to investigate incidents, respond faster, and build cybersecurity awareness across the organization. For most companies, this is the best starting point on a journey to stronger protection.<\/p>\n Building an effective security system in-house takes time, and requires from the cybersecurity team understanding of the techniques, tactics, and procedures used by attackers \u2014 as well as constant monitoring of changes in the constantly evolving threat landscape. Not all management is ready to invest in the education of an information security team. Also, training and professional development take up working time \u2014 leaving the company less secure, at least temporarily.<\/p>\nGrowing internal expertise<\/h2>\n
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Gaining resilience with managed security<\/h2>\n