Gartner has released its Market Guide for Extended Detection and Response Vendors for 2023.
Among major companies that offer Extended Detection and Response technology — such as Cisco, Microsoft, Trend Micro, and Palo Alto Networks,— is now Stellar Cyber.
Compared to the other top 10 vendors, Stellar Cyber is the only one that specializes exclusively in Detection and Response.
How is Stellar Cyber's Open XDR platform already transforming the security of businesses, and how does the XDR technology fit into the future of cybersecurity?
Aimei Wei founded Stellar Cyber in 2015 intending to reshape how security teams work within organizations. The major problem she detected while working for Cisco and Nortel was the large volumes of data that had to be managed.
After companies grew from small to mid-sized businesses, they would normally need more robust security. Therefore, they would look to add more protective solutions — or risk costly cyber attacks.
However, having all the solutions and even more security personnel wasn't necessarily effective. For security teams, more security tools would mean that they have to analyze and correlate more alerts — most of them coming from different solutions.
As a result of alert fatigue and the long time it took to gather insights manually, teams would often be late to respond to critical threats.
SIEM, the existing solution that promised to solve the problem of continually detecting and responding to threats, was not much help either.
It would leave the teams scratching their heads as they would get an overwhelming number of alerts — most of them irrelevant and not pointing to genuinely critical issues. Teams learned to ignore them, brushing off the majority of notifications as false positives.
This is where Open XDR steps in.
Open XDR uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to gather data from all the security solutions that a company has at its disposal. The platform unites the capabilities of:
As a result, companies receive only the alerts that matter for the context of their company. They get notified of the risks that present major threats, such as ransomware, insider attacks, phishing, compromised credentials, and other incidents.
Since it collects the findings from all of the security tools the company has, the organization gets visibility into the security of the complete platform.
What's more, known threats are automatically detected and mitigated in real-time.
The released guide also explores the place of XDR technology within modern organizations and how it might benefit them.
Gartner's Detection and Response Report confirms that Stellar Cyber has been on the right track with its development of the XDR technology.
"We are incredibly grateful to have been named a Representative Vendor among much larger competitors in this XDR report," said Steve Garrison, SVP of Marketing at Stellar Cyber. "We're the only pure-play XDR vendor in the report, and in many sections, the analysts' findings are almost verbatim with what we've been writing and saying about XDR since our Open XDR Platform came on the market five years ago."
One of the report's Key Findings that match what Stellar Cyber has been talking about for years states:
"Initial XDR adoption is primarily at organizations with smaller security teams that likely have not fully utilized security information and event management (SIEM)/security orchestration automation and response (SOAR) products."
Stellar Cyber designed its product to be used with ease and less complexity because it's aimed at businesses that are still growing.
As companies mature, they lack staff, have limited budgets, and can't afford to spend as much money and time to continually improve security and react to advanced threats as they come up.
Open XDR platforms such as the one provided by Stellar Cyber solve a major problem that security has been up against for more than three decades — an overflow of disconnected data and alerts.
With the increasingly complex infrastructures that have to be secured for modern companies, the issue of data overload is more evident than ever before.
Today, companies have even more security solutions. Also, they're up against an increasing number of cyber threats, to which they need to react rapidly — before they escalate into major incidents.
Another constant is that mid-sized businesses have limited budgets to allocate toward IT spending — both for tools and training.
Regardless of this, businesses that are working in various industries need to protect themselves against cyber threats.
The Open XDR platform simplifies security for overwhelmed teams and provides a unified solution that decreases the cost for the company — even if they work outside of IT.
Another major point that matched Stellar Cyber's messaging and that of Gartner in the report is about increasing the productivity of security teams regardless of their skill level.
For example, with Open XDR, they gain insight into the critical problems that need to be fixed first.
Stellar Cyber correlates and analyzes alerts automatically. With that, the platform reduces the number of time-consuming tasks that used to be completed manually, as well as eliminating the need for most additional staff training.
Being named one of the top 10 vendors that provide Detection and Response solutions for companies is a major recognition for Stellar Cyber.
Their Open XDR platform is already helping businesses simplify complex cybersecurity processes and streamline operations for teams.
Today, as cyberattacks and infrastructures get more complex, it's important to have security that can catch any discrepancies early — regardless of the company size and budget.
Listed in the guide alongside major companies that have also been honing their detection and response technology for years, Gartner confirms that Stellar Cyber is headed in the right direction.
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