How collaborative tools can improve security and prevent attacks

In this guest blog post, Nikki Ralston, Security Operations and AI Product Marketing Manager at Check Point Software Technologies, details how Check Point’s Infinity XDR/XPR works with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint to improve threat protection for the entire organization.

The reality of modern threats is increasingly multi-vector and multi-stage, so it makes sense that multiple tools are needed. One problem is that although individual tools may excel at specific tasks, they often work independently with little or no collaboration. This creates blind spots that persistent and sophisticated attackers will eventually discover and exploit.

A determined attacker will try many techniques across multiple vectors to gain initial access. Once it has a beachhead, it quietly learns about your environment and moves laterally, carefully avoiding detection by siled security tools. The only effective way to overcome the vulnerabilities of silos is through collaboration.

AI eats data for breakfast

Endpoint Protection (EPP) is one of the essential parts of a strong cybersecurity technology stack. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint provides detection and response capabilities across Windows, Linux, IoT, and other devices. EPP solutions analyze and generate massive amounts of rich data for endpoint threat detection. But what if you could easily leverage this endpoint data to improve detection and prevention across endpoints, gateways, email, mobile, and more?

Any artificial intelligence (AI) tool is only as good as the data that powers it. The adage “garbage in/garbage out” is especially true for AI-based security tools. Existing security and networking stacks have a lot of big, rich, and diverse data that is the perfect diet for feeding AI. Existing gateways, endpoints, email, web, mobile, and network solutions are already generating massive amounts of data, but if they all remain silos, you’ll only get a fraction of the benefits.

By integrating all of these data streams to deliver integrated analytics and AI engines, you can gain cross-vector insights that can reveal undetected stealth attacks. You already have a ton of data. All you have to do is make it work.

AI-powered, cloud-delivered threat protection

Checkpoint Infinity XDR/XPR An integrated platform that can collect large amounts of diverse data across security and network tools, analyze it all together, and uncover stealth multi-vector attacks that would otherwise go undetected. Check Point Infinity XDR/XPR Recognized as a 2023 Innovation and Growth Leader. Frost Radar Extended Detection and Response Report.

Figure 1: Collaboration and intelligent event correlation across security

Another benefit of implementing XDR/XPR is that you get AI Copilot, which acts as your personal AI-based security assistant that can reduce the time required to perform common security management tasks by up to 90%. New generative AI security solutions leverage automation and collaborative intelligence. Unlike other AI models that operate in silos, Infinity AI Copilot provides broad platform support for a variety of use cases, helping you manage security across the entire Infinity platform. Infinity AI Copilot knows your policies, access rules, objects, logs, and product documentation, so it can provide complete, contextual answers.

Checkpoint Infinity XDR/XPR Unifies data from events and alerts across siled tools in your security and IT assets, including Check Point native solutions, Microsoft Defender for Endpoints, and other third-party solutions to provide AI-driven intelligent correlation, identify stealth threats, and Pay and take action automatically. Precautionary measures in case of attack.

Figure 2: Collaboration prevention prevents malicious access to all products.

Check Point Infinity XDR/XPR is a comprehensive, open solution that integrates Check Point native products and integrates with many third-party solutions, including Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. This makes it easy to get started with XDR/XPR and see results quickly without changing your security stack.

Security operations teams, currently inundated with an overwhelming amount of security event noise, immediately recognize how XDR/XPR can reduce that noise and make their jobs easier. Connecting Microsoft Defender for Endpoint with Check Point XDR/XPR is simple and allows you to feed massive amounts of event data to XDR/XPR. With XDR/XPR, an intelligent AI-based correlation engine reduces incident noise by up to 99%, allowing security professionals to focus. A high or significant 1%. This allows human analysts to focus their time and skills where they are most effective and keep your organization safe.

Figure 3: 99% incident noise reduction

Better together: Infinity XDR/XPR on Azure Marketplace and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

No matter what endpoint solution you currently have in your security stack, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Check Point Harmony Endpoint, or another leading solution, adding Infinity can be quickly discovered and prevented. – Endpoints, networks, mobile devices, email and cloud.

Customers can easily purchase Check Point Infinity XDR/XPR. From Azure Marketplace You can also apply the Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC) to this solution.

Next steps to get started with Infinity XDR/XPR: