The changing landscape of

Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations

Not Enough Time Organizations continue to struggle with security analytics and operations despite years of cybersecurity experience and increasing investment.

Too Many Tools & ProcessesTools that are not integrated are adding to the reactive problem:

On average, organizations are using between

25 AND 30 DIFFERENT security technologies and services

What is making it more diicult?

Cyber-adversaries often employ sophisticated attack tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) in order to avoid detection. In many cases, multi-stage attacks simply blend into benign IT activities. This forces organizations to constantly upgrade security analytics and operations tools, skills, and processes to stay a few steps ahead of the hackers. Unfortunately, this can be extremely diicult as security analytics and operations are often limited by:

find cybersecurity analytics and operations MORE DIFFICULT than it was 2 years ago.

72%

say that security analytics is mostly done in a siloed way by dierent individuals using dierent tools

99%

The threat landscape is rapidly evolving

26%

Better identify and communicate risks to the business

31%Integrate threat intelligence with internal data collection

and analysis

35%Accelerate incident detection

30%

Add custom functionality above tools

30%Automate basic remediation tasks

29%

We don’t always have the right skills

18%We don’t always have the right sta

16%

Manual TasksLack of automation also exacerbates the problem. Which tasks take the most time?

Integration & Automation Is the AnswerIntegration and automation supports visibility of total threat landscape and analytics enables precision of insight.

Objectives behind integration include:

Investigating suspicious activities on a PC with network access

Comparing suspicious behavior detected to the network to threat intelligence data

20%

19%

Investigation of an endpoint device on the network

18%

Investigating phishing e-mail alerts

18%

The SolutionMcAfee Intelligent Security Operations

Threats are changing. Your SOC should too.

McAfee’s threat defense lifecycle framework makes it easier to adapt quickly to a rapidly changing threat landscape by unifying visibility, investigation workflows, and orchestrating prescriptive threat defense actions.

LEARN MORE

http://www.mcafee.com/secops