Discover the Top 5 XDR Use Cases for Today’s Cyber Threat Landscape
Explore how XDR boosts threat detection and incident response with enhanced visibility,
The growing complexity of IT environments—across cloud, IoT, and hybrid settings—has ushered in new opportunities for innovation but also expanded the threat landscape for cyber vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities, now known as blind spots, serve as areas within an organization’s security posture that are ignored or poorly monitored.
Blind spots are extremely dangerous because they create an open backdoor for attackers, and they often go unnoticed until it is too late. To eliminate blind spots in modern cybersecurity, organizations need tools that can provide centralized visibility and proactive threat detection. Tackling these challenges needs strong, consolidated solutions. Rather than relying on point solutions, Fidelis Elevate® (XDR) is a holistic approach to unifying visibility, rapidly automating threat detection, and enabling organizations to detect and remediate threats quickly.
To further understand how Fidelis XDR solution can help eliminate blind spots, let’s first answer your question – What is Blindspot?
“Twenty-nine percent of organizations admit to having “blind spots” on their networks that limit visibility for threat detection.”
Blindspots are undetected weaknesses or an area of organization infrastructure that is not monitored or protected properly. They can come from misconfigured devices, unregulated endpoints, or shadow IT (systems not approved by the IT department). And those gaps become the critical weak points in an organization’s defense strategy.
Attackers hide in plain sight by taking advantage of blindspots in the security you deploy in place. An unmanned IoT device, or a forgotten server, may provide the means for malware or data exfiltration. Blindspots occur when parts of an organization’s IT infrastructure are poorly monitored or overlooked, making it essential to adopt solutions designed to eliminate blind spots effectively. These hidden threats often lead to extended dwell times, where attackers remain undetected for weeks or even months, compounding the damage.
Fidelis Elevate® is an Extended Detection and Response (XDR) solution designed to maintain security infrastructure with Zero trust principle. The deception technology continuously monitors the encrypted traffic, detects anomalies and raises alerts to the SOC teams for any evasive attempt. It neutralizes threats or suspicious activity as an automated response to support its zero-trust access principle.
The integrated deception technology tune defense and cams change the attack surface to deceive adversaries and while the attackers focus on the deceptive path, defenders would have all the information about the attack and the source of the event. Moreover, its zero-trust architecture continues to monitor the cloud system, data centers, endpoints, IoT and disable threats in real time.
Fidelis Elevate® ensures seamless business operation thereby proving cyber resilience. It provides easy integration with tools like Palo Alto Cortex XDR, D3, Fireeye NX, SentinelOne, IBM Qradar, Devo, Zscaler and more. With all its advanced functionalities, Fidelis Elevate® can be proved as a worthwhile choice for XDR.
Continually tune your defenses and neutralize threats before they cause damage to your business operations:
In a world where cyber threats are increasingly sophisticated, eliminating blindspots requires more than just reactive measures—it demands proactive, intelligent, and integrated solutions. Fidelis Elevate® (XDR) addresses these challenges head-on with a robust suite of features designed to deliver security. Here’s how its key features work to uncover and mitigate blind spots.
Fidelis Elevate® continuously maintains a deep check within the network, endpoints, cloud assets, accounts and more to provide a real-time report and risk profiling. It details the data movement across the environment, maps IT resources and locates the data centers within the organization. The Zero Trust Architecture tracks any kind of external influence and also ensures safe authentication and logins to mitigate blind spots.
Fidelis Elevate® is designed to detect suspicious activity within a network, monitor doubtful encrypted packets, quarantine infected endpoints by using heuristics and advanced technology and take actions as per the guided scripts. The advanced machine learning and endpoint metadata provide real time threat response to secure data and ensure smooth operations.
Fidelis Elevate® activates its deception technology to mislead the attackers and creates a false pathway while collecting the source of the event. While it provides deceptive information to the attackers, the management got enough time to inspect the event and measure the intensity.
Fidelis Elevate® analyzes the data accessed by users and details the types of access request within the network. With its own evaluation system, Fidelis Elevate® provides internal and external threat forensics. It ensures data transmutation without leakage and prevents unauthorized exfiltration.
Fidelis Elevate® adopts a multi-faceted prevention approach to eliminate these vulnerabilities combining advanced technology with intelligent workflows. Here’s a step-by-step look at how Fidelis Elevate® uncovers and removes blind spots to enhance security and resilience.
Fidelis Elevate® provides a unified dashboard that integrates data from endpoints, network and cloud.
This means that every part of the IT infrastructure is monitored, which ultimately means that no assets or activities can slip through the cracks by breaking down silos.
It creates a baseline of normal activity and applies advanced analytics to detect anomalies.
Fidelis instantly flags unusual behaviors, like new access points or sudden volume of data being transferred, exposing threats once hidden in blind spot.
Fidelis Elevate® deploys decoy and to bait and traps an attacker.
Decoys deceive attackers who are targeting blindspots into interacting with them, enabling our security teams to detect and respond proactively.
Fidelis uses automation for the detection, classification, and mitigation of threats in real time.
Rapid response minimizes dwell time; making sure threats in blindspots are neutralized before they can breach and cause any impact.
Monitor and analyze large volumes of data across systems to identify hidden trends and vulnerabilities.
Provides deep insights into potential blindspots, enabling preventive measures and better preparedness.
Fidelis enables security teams to hunt for threats that may be bypassing traditional detection.
Detects advanced persistent threats (APTs) and insider threats that frequently take advantage of blindspots.
Monitors diverse IT environments and maintains holistic protection on premises, hybrid, and cloud infrastructures.
Eliminates visibility gaps introduced by complex and dynamic cloud setups.
Fidelis Elevate® stands out due to its integration of deception technology, centralized visibility, and automated threat detection. It not only identifies threats in real-time but also misleads attackers, giving organizations the upper hand to remove blind spots proactively.
By leveraging advanced analytics, automation, and behavioral analysis, Fidelis Elevate® reduces detection and response times significantly. Its automated workflows and intelligent alerts empower teams to address threats before they escalate.
Security blind spots refer to those areas of an organization’s IT infrastructure that aren’t monitored or secured enough. They can result from misconfigured devices, unprotected endpoints and shadow IT (unauthorized systems or applications), but they most often occur when organizations are adopting new technology — such as IoT and hybrid cloud environments — without adequate controls.
Blind spots can also arise due to limited network visibility into how data is moved, the lack of integrated security tools, or the inability to track all assets comprehensively.
In order to identify security gaps, you need to assess your IT environment. This includes:
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