The benefits of having XDR and SIEM solutions in an enterprise

By now, you will understand the basics of XDR and SIEM, their history, and the high-level architecture of how they work. Now let’s look at the benefits and why we need to consider these tools.

XDR’s benefits and reasons to adopt it

As discussed in Chapter 1, these days, threats are rapidly expanding and many organizations have extended remote working to their workforce, which has led them to adopt many security tools quickly and resulted in siloed architecture. We don’t blame them; in fact, we are very impressed with the way many organizations quickly adopted these security tools.

So, technically when it started, organizations’ focus was more on solving the challenges of remote work, and then they started filling in the gaps along with other challenges that arose, such as the following:

• how they could stitch all these tools together.
• Resource challenges.
• Training.
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