MICROSOFT ENDPOINT DETECTION AND RESPONSE (EDR)
DIFENDA MANAGED EDR AND DEPLOYMENT OVERVIEW
PRAGMATIC COST-EFFECTIVE BUSINESS VALUE
Pragmatic Cost-Effective Business Value:
More and more organizations are taking a broader look at their security posture and embracing a Zero Trust approach to long term security plans. A Zero Trust approach extends throughout the enterprise, defining a comprehensive security philosophy and end-to-end strategy. EDR is a core component in any Zero Trust architecture, which ensures product fit short and long term.
An Effective Controllable Cost:
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint integrates seamlessly with the Microsoft Security technologies, such as Microsoft Sentinel, Defender for Cloud Apps, Microsoft Purview. This saves time and money, reducing the need for complicated integrations and expensive training costs often associated with a patchwork approach. Its value is in minimizing risk and eliminating hidden costs, allowing you to focus on your business and bottom line.
Enterprise-wide Coverage and Visibility:
Defender for Endpoint extends your security coverage across different layers of your IT environment including servers, workstations, and mobile devices. It supplies visibility into endpoint activities across your organization, monitoring in real-time, collecting and analyzing data across all of your processes, files, activities, and network connections.
Industry Leading Intelligence:
Augment your team by leveraging capabilities generated by Microsoft hunters, security teams, and threat intelligence provided by partners. Threat intelligence enables Defender for Endpoint to identify attacker tools, techniques, and procedures, and generate alerts when they are observed in collected sensor data.
Support for the Hybrid Enterprise:
Microsoft’s cloud-native approach ensures organizations can easily deploy and manage EDR capabilities across a distributed workforce and hybrid IT environments, including endpoints on-premises as well as in private and public cloud infrastructures.
THE BUILDING BLOCKS FOR A COMPLETE SOLUTION
Microsoft supports Zero Trust aligned endpoint protection by using the following core components:
Defender for Endpoint (MDE):
The center of endpoint protection, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is designed to provide vulnerability management, attack surface reduction, threat detection and response capabilities, and automatic investigation and remediation features to help organizations protect their mobile devices, desktop computers, virtual machines, embedded devices, and servers.
Defender for Cloud:
Defender for Cloud includes the integrated license for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, security baselines, OS level assessments, vulnerability assessment scanning, adaptive application controls (AAC), file integrity monitoring (FIM), and more.
Intune:
Central to any deployment or management requirement, Intune focuses on mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application management (MAM), allowing your organization to manage smartphones, tablets, laptops and other devices used by employees to access corporate data and applications. Intune integrates closely with other Microsoft services such as Azure Active Directory and Microsoft 365.
Azure ARC:
Like Intune, ARC extends Azure's management capabilities, enabling organizations to control resources running outside of an Azure environment. These resources can include physical or virtual servers, Kubernetes clusters, and data services across on-premises, multi-cloud environments, and edge locations.
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CORE DIFENDA SERVICES – DEPLOYMENT SERVICES AND MANAGED EDR
Deployment Services
Every implementation is custom designed with your organizational needs fully defined. Design documents and deployment plans are developed with your team, then supplied and approved before work begins. At a high level, the deliverables for a standard deployment include:
- MDE configuration design and deployment plan SIEM – Managed Microsoft Sentinel
- Design and support configuration of Intune (Defender for Endpoint) + Azure ARC (Defender for Servers)
- Consider / document plans for unsupported Operating Systems
- Develop an MDE design and deployment document
- Assumes Intune used for workstation MDE deployment and Azure ARC for server MDE deployment
- Deployment plan to include initial test phases
- Provide knowledge transfer + migration support
- Deliverables:
- Intune / ARC Design document
- Defender for Endpoint Design and Deployment document
MANAGED SERVICES
THREAT PROFILING
THREAT DEFENSE
THREAT HUNTING
THREAT RESPONSE
What’s included?
- Managed EDR Implementation
- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) Implementation Support
- Microsoft Sentinel Implementation and MDE Integration
- Microsoft Sentinel Custom Development (Analytic Rules, Playbooks, etc.)
- Difenda Shield EDR Services Overview Microsoft Copilot for Security Partner
- 24x7x365 Managed EDR triage and response
- Difenda AIRO Automated Triage and Response engine (SOAR)
- Difenda Shield Analytics Platform portal and real-time reporting
- Integrated Threat Intelligence, including advisories and bulletins
- Proactive Threat Hunting
- Remote Incident Response (RIR) retainer
- Dedicated Technical Account Manager (TAM) & Customer Success Manager (CSM)
WHY ORGANIZATIONS CHOOSE DIFENDA TO ACCELERATE THEIR MICROSOFT SECURITY JOURNEY
24/7/365 Cyber Command Centers (C3)
- ISO27001, SOC II Type 2, and PCI Certified
Recognitions and Certifications
- Microsoft Canada’s Security Impact Award Winner 2023
- Microsoft Verified MXDR Solution Status
- Microsoft Copilot for Security Partner
- Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA) Member
- Advanced Security Specialization Partner
- Cloud Security
- Threat Protection
- 2024 Microsoft Americas Partner of the Year Finalist
Watch Difenda MXDR in Action
City of Brampton enacts first-class security, reduces alert noise by 70 percent with Microsoft Security solutions and Difenda
SEE WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS HAVE TO SAY
Difenda was with us from the beginning when we were enhancing our security posture. We chose them because they seemed very knowledgeable, very informed and guided us where we needed support. But they allowed us to let them know what our needs are and make the changes when necessary. Difenda relieves the pressure from our team which is nice.
– Alex Cirasella, Information Technology Manager, LIUNA Pension Fund
The City of Brampton partnered with Difenda for MXDR (Managed Extended Detection and Response) as part of our cybersecurity enhancement plan to keep our citizens as safe as possible from cyberattacks. Remarkably, we were able to optimize our IT team, and maximize our technical capabilities and our taxpayer dollars with MXDR which provided the technology and expertise needed to create a proactive, and resilient security environment.
- Douglas Elsmore, Acting Chief Information Officer at the City of Brampton
In 8 months Difenda switched our stance from all-day firefighting to a more strategic and operationally focused approach to managing IT infrastructure.
- Director of Cybersecurity, Canadian College.
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