Summary

This chapter helped you to understand the concepts of XDR and SIEM, also providing the history behind these tools. We have also covered details on the importance of these tools for any organization, their capabilities, and how they work in general. We hope this chapter helped you to understand the reasons why organizations need to switch away from traditional SIEM solutions and the importance of doing so, as well as providing guidance on adopting a better modern XDR and SIEM tool out of the many available in the current cybersecurity market.

This sets the stage for the next few chapters, where we will start discussing an important Microsoft unified XDR and SIEM solution. We hope you are enjoying reading this book so far and have learned something new.