Additional Content Contributor: Dave Johnston
Having the right tools to protect your organization is no longer optional—it’s critical. That’s why we’re thrilled to unveil the latest innovations in Cisco Secure Endpoint, designed to strengthen Cisco XDR and the Breach Protection Suite. These enhancements represent a significant leap forward in our commitment to delivering cutting-edge, unified cybersecurity solutions to help you stay ahead of modern threats.
Cisco Secure Endpoint: Native Core Detections in the Breach Protection Suite
At the heart of Cisco’s Breach Protection Suite, Cisco XDR delivers unparalleled visibility and defense to combat today’s sophisticated cyber threats. Cisco Secure Endpoint is a critical EDR component to Cisco XDR and the Breach Protection suite. With the latest enhancements, Secure Endpoint extends its leadership in endpoint security, adding powerful tools to help organizations like yours reduce risk, improve visibility, and enhance incident response.
Attacking the Misconfiguration Challenge
Misconfigurations are a silent, but pervasive threat to security’s efficacy. Talos, Cisco’s threat intelligence group, reports that misconfigured EDR solutions are responsible for over 25% of incidents in its quarterly findings.
To combat this widespread issue, we’re enhancing the Cisco XDR MITRE ATT&CK® Coverage Map with Secure Endpoint Configuration Insights, a powerful tool designed to help your organization visualize MITRE ATT&CK® coverage and proactively identify and resolve misconfiguration risks.
How Configuration Insights Empowers Your Security Team
- Configuration-Based MITRE Visibility — Gain powerful insights into your defenses with the XDR MITRE ATT&CK® Coverage Map. Configuration Insights shows the Tactics and Techniques you’re currently protected against based on Secure Endpoint’s configuration.
- Protection Status Monitoring — Monitor protection status in real time. Configuration Insights highlights endpoints with engines set to enabled, disabled, or audit mode, making it easier to spot and fix gaps before they become vulnerabilities.
- Actionable Recommendations — Quickly identify policies that aren’t optimized for Secure Endpoint’s MITRE-mapped protections. With targeted recommendations, you can fine-tune your security posture and close critical gaps faster than ever.
By addressing misconfigurations head-on, Configuration Insights not only enhances your organization’s security but also delivers immediate value across the Breach Protection Suite.
Advanced Threat Detection: Secure Endpoint Exploit Prevention Meets Cisco XDR
Detecting and mitigating sophisticated cyberattacks just got easier. With this enhancement, Cisco XDR now ingests, and correlates Exploit Prevention events from Secure Endpoint, unlocking new levels of visibility and automation for your security operations.
What Is Exploit Protection?
Secure Endpoint’s Exploit Prevention engine uses advanced moving target defense (AMTD) techniques to hide operating systems and applications from attackers. AMTD is a powerful cybersecurity strategy that creates a constantly shifting and unpredictable attack surface, making it much harder for attackers to succeed, especially in the face of AI-enabled attacks.
Besides, this proactive approach makes it harder for bad actors to exploit vulnerabilities, particularly through stealthy methods like Living off the Land techniques.
Key Benefits of Exploit Prevention Correlation in Cisco XDR
- Seamless Integration, Zero Configurations — If you’re already using Cisco XDR with Secure Endpoint, these Exploit Prevention events are automatically ingested and correlated—no additional setup required.
- Enhanced Incident Response — By correlating Exploit Prevention data with other telemetry in Cisco XDR, incident responders gain critical insights into attack methods, enabling faster, more effective response to advanced threats.
- Stronger Defense Against Sophisticated Attacks — These events add another layer of intelligence to the Breach Protection Suite, helping you stay resilient against complex, evolving threats.
Why These Enhancements Matter
The latest updates to Cisco Secure Endpoint are more than just feature upgrades—they’re strategic innovations designed to tackle two of the most pressing challenges in cybersecurity today: misconfiguration risks and advanced threat detection.
By improving visibility, offering real-time insights, and automating ingestion and correlation, we’re empowering organizations to strengthen their security posture while reducing the operational burden on their teams. These enhancements also demonstrate Cisco’s continued investment in delivering comprehensive, integrated solutions that address the full life cycle of threats.
Ready to Strengthen Your Defenses?
With Cisco Secure Endpoint, you gain more than an EDR solution; you gain a strategic advantage. Paired with Cisco XDR and the Breach Protection Suite, these enhancements ensure you’re prepared to face whatever challenges come your way. To dive deeper into these enhancements, and how they benefit your organization, read our solution brief or connect with a Breach Protection Suite expert today.
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