Mimecast joins XDR Alliance as a founding member

Mimecast joined Exabeam’s XDR Alliance as a founding member. The alliance is a collaboration of prominent cybersecurity industry innovators devoted to a framework and architecture that is inclusive and collaborative. The XDR Alliance’s mission is to promote an open approach to XDR, which is necessary for companies throughout the world to protect themselves against the increasing number of cyberattacks, breaches, and incursions.

“We are thrilled to be a founding member and inaugural email security partner in the XDR Alliance,” said Jules Martin, vice president of ecosystem & alliances at Mimecast.

He also added, “We see collaboration in security being essential in keeping our customers safe and leveraging the members’ interconnected, best in class cybersecurity solutions, which allows joint customers to benefit greatly.”

Mimecast’s cyber resilience ecosystem, which includes Exabeamplus and 60 additional partners, is built on collaboration. It backs an open framework designed to allow threat sharing, control points, and remediation capabilities essential in today’s business. The XDR members’ integration is intended to help enterprises acquire a better understanding of their threat landscape, decrease complexity, lower risk, and improve threat detection and response times

“History will look back and declare how well the cybersecurity industry succeeded in putting collaboration above the competition to help protect our organizations and institutions,” said Gorka Sadowski, chief strategy officer, Exabeam, and founder of the XDR Alliance.

Further comments, “We are at an inflection point with an extremely fragmented industry that requires all of us in the vendor community to come together to strengthen organizations’ SOCs. The XDR Alliance brings together the most forward-thinking names in cybersecurity to collaborate on building an XDR framework that is open and will make it easier for security operations (SecOps) teams to protect and secure their organizations.”

XDR Alliance’s mission is to develop an inclusive and open XDR framework and architecture that enables SecOps teams to improve their SOC and TDIR by integrating their current, emerging, and future tools and applications. The open architecture will aid in ensuring better compatibility among XDR security products, resulting in faster time to value and more accessible use for security teams. The alliance will also promote XDR market education and awareness.

The XDR Alliance has developed a three-tier model that focuses on the core components of the XDR technology stack, which can be broken down into three tiers:

• Data sources / Control points – refers to the security software that generates telemetry, logs, and warnings and acts as response control points.

• XDR Engine – This tier is the engine that consumes all of the data and performs comprehensive threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) for SOC operations.

• Content – This tier contains pre-packaged information and workflows that enable security firms to deliver essential use cases with excellent efficiency and automation.

Security analytics, security information, and event management (SIEM), data lake, endpoint, identity management, email security and archive, cloud, network, OT/IoT, managed security service providers (MSSPs), managed detection, and response services (MDRs). Systems integrators are among the members of the XDR Alliance (SIs).

The XDR Alliance’s founding members encourage security companies to join the alliance to improve threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) outcomes. Please visit the XDR Alliance member application page if your organization is interested in joining.