4 Key Benefits of CylanceMDR Pro and the "Bring Your Own Security Stack" Approach
Having the right security tools and strategies to protect your organization's data is crucial, and nowadays, so is reducing complexity within security. With the "Bring Your Own Security Stack" strategy of CylanceMDR™ Pro, your organization can seamlessly integrate your existing security solutions with advanced managed detection and response (MDR) capabilities — while the CylanceMDR team manages your security operations for you.
CylanceMDR Pro integrates effortlessly with virtually any security product, so you’ll get continuous monitoring of networks, endpoints, cloud and identity sources to ensure comprehensive visibility and protection across your entire digital ecosystem. With proactive threat detection and quick response to potential security incidents, CylanceMDR analysts leverage what is already in place and the AI capabilities of the CylanceMDR platform dramatically reduces alerts.
This approach simplifies and enhances your cyber defenses at the same time, which is likely one of the reasons BlackBerry was Recognized by Gartner as a Representative Vendor for CylanceMDR in the 2024 Gartner Market Guide for MDR.
In this blog post, I'll share four key benefits of CylanceMDR Pro from my recent webinar discussion with BlackBerry Senior Vice President Nate Jenniges. Watch Elevate Your Defense: Bring Your Own Security Stack with CylanceMDR, or keep reading for some top highlights.
1. Seamless Integration with Existing Tools
"Here are four key elements of this new, expanded CylanceMDR Pro platform," says Jenniges. "First is a foundational change: We are now compatible with the tools our customers already have, including network, cloud, identity, email, and, of course, endpoint."
CylanceMDR Pro comes with more than 300 platform integrations and an extremely expansive ecosystem, right out of the box. This makes one of the primary advantages of CylanceMDR Pro its ability to integrate smoothly with your current technology stack. We've eliminated the need for rip-and-replace, so your organization can enhance its security posture without disrupting current operations.
By building on an open XDR architecture, CylanceMDR Pro takes a vendor-agnostic approach while eliminating vendor lock-in and ending the worry about installing new agents or software. This way you can maximize your current investments while also keeping your security stack flexible for future changes.
2. Enhanced Threat Intelligence
"The second change," says Jenniges, "is an expansion of our open source and proprietary intelligence stack that we use to enrich all of these sources. This improves clarity and reveals deeper context to feed into our AI and human expertise."
CylanceMDR Pro takes threat intelligence to the next level by utilizing both open-source and proprietary information, from our BlackBerry Global Threat Research and Intelligence Team. Combining our team’s research with open sources creates richer intelligence insights and adds context to data collected from various sources, enhancing the platform's ability to identify and analyze potential threats.
The continuous evaluation of new threat intelligence against historical data also helps detect advanced threats that might otherwise go unnoticed. With CylanceMDR Pro, our team manages your security operations and rapidly develops a comprehensive understanding of your security environment. These factors enable faster identification of unusual or malicious activities and significantly improve your organization's security posture.
3. Advanced AI Tools: Predictive and Generative
"The third expansion is in our AI tools," says Jenniges. "They're no longer just for protection in our endpoint agent, but now have been expanded to provide a variety of predictive and generative ways to help elevate faint signals."
CylanceMDR Pro leverages cutting-edge AI technology to provide predictive AI and generative AI solutions that reveal obscure signals, speeding threat detection and increasing accuracy. These advanced AI tools now cover the entire security stack.
The predictive AI is informed with proprietary intelligence and leveraged pervasively to analyze telemetry for attack signals, then it prioritizes and presents structured cases for faster human-led investigation and response. This proactive approach enhances the ability to respond swiftly to potential security incidents, reducing the risk of breaches and minimizing impact.
The generative AI, called Cylance Assistant, eliminates significant concerns:
Reduces the risk of data leakage via third-party applications
Ends the guesswork around AI prompts
Eliminates the need for separate tools with discrete workflows
Prevents the productivity disruptions of context switching since there is no need to shift your attention between different apps
This advanced generative AI-powered solution is designed to enhance the efficiency and efficacy of your teams so you can counteract sophisticated cyber threats with unprecedented speed and precision. With CylanceMDR Pro, our team uses the same technology to manage and respond to incidents for you, 24x7x365.
4. Elevated Human Expertise
"The final piece of delivering a managed service to a customer is our human expertise. Our team has always worked with customers to enrich signals and to provide deeper context, but it was more time-consuming and complex with our previous solutions. We've greatly simplified things."
While AI plays a significant role in enhancing security, human expertise remains a critical component in effectively managing and responding to threats. CylanceMDR Pro brings together a team of experienced experts, from onboarding specialists, security analysts, and incident responders to digital forensics experts, along with advanced AI tools.
In the event of a security breach, our incident response and digital forensics teams work quickly to contain and investigate the threat. They leverage their deep expertise to analyze attack vectors, collect forensic evidence, and trace the origin of the breach. By combining advanced AI detection with human intelligence, they provide real-time containment and remediation strategies, ensuring your environment is quickly secured.
Post-incident, they deliver detailed reports and actionable insights to help you fortify your defenses, reducing the risk of future attacks. This holistic approach provides continuous protection and deep understanding of potential threats to your organization.
Conclusion
The "Bring Your Own Security Stack" strategy of CylanceMDR Pro offers a flexible and powerful solution for your organization. Now you can enhance your security posture without overhauling existing systems.
This approach also enriches threat intelligence, leverages advanced AI, and harnesses the power of human expertise from BlackBerry. And in a world of complex security tools, it greatly simplifies things, according to Jenniges. "All of the data now fully integrates into a single data platform, a single place to alert, investigate, and collaborate on security in a unified experience."
Discover how CylanceMDR Pro can help your organization achieve a higher level of security by contacting us for a consultation or watch the rest of my conversation with Nate Jenniges in the on-demand webinar, Elevate Your Defense: Bring Your Own Security Stack with CylanceMDR.
