XDR Conversation with Briana Farro and Matt Robertson

About this episode

The episode discusses the features and benefits of Cisco XDR with insights from guests Briana Farro and Matt Robertson.

The meeting discussed the features and benefits of Cisco XDR, including its integration capabilities, threat detection capabilities, and plans for expansion. Season two of the Security 45 show will feature live demos after each conversation. Matt Robertson, a distinguished engineer at Cisco, focuses on threat detection and oversees analytics stacks. XDR has gained higher demand and market traction over the past year, with Cisco XDR acquiring new customers. Cisco XDR defines XDR as a collection of telemetry from multiple sources and the application of analytics for threat detection and response. Cisco XDR is an open ecosystem that integrates with third-party vendors, even direct competitors, to provide comprehensive threat detection capabilities. Meraki integration allows for easy deployment of network detection and response product with direct cloud upload of logs. The XDR integration solves the problem of overlapping IP spaces in branch scenarios, allowing for unique profiling of devices. Matt is the champion of the effort to bring Cisco's solutions together and make them simple and unified. XDR has added many integrations for responsive actions, including extra hop, dark trace…

People in this episode

Hosts: Mike Veedock, Andres Sarmiento

Guests: Briana Farro, Matt Robertson

Topics covered

• Cisco XDR
• threat detection
• integration capabilities
• analytics
• network detection
• incident response

Keywords

• Cisco XDR
• threat detection
• integration
• analytics
• network response
• incident management

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cisco, Meraki, Microsoft

Products: Cisco XDR, Microsoft 3605

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