How to Secure Your Mid-Market Business Across the Complete Threat Lifecycle

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According to research by IBM, organizations use an average of 83 separate security solutions. It is hardly surprising that 52% of security professionals identify complexity as the biggest impediment to effective operations. For IT and security leaders in mid-market organizations, who know they have gaps in security coverage, this challenge can feel particularly difficult to solve.

At Bitdefender, we see this challenge play out consistently across mid-market environments. Most organizations have the fundamentals in place, such as Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP), email filtering, and patch management. However, many are not fully realizing the capabilities of these existing tools. This creates security gaps and, when combined with a lack of preventative exposure management controls, severely limits visibility across attack surfaces.

Maximize Your ROI: Exploit Underused Tools

Many mid-market organizations already have powerful Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) in place as part of their EPP, but are unable to use it to its full potential. Setup can be complex, and high alert volumes result in overloaded teams and unresolved incidents.

This challenge has its roots in the history of EDR. It was originally designed to complement EPP and enable security analysts in enterprise environments to detect and respond to in-progress cyberattacks. Complexity was acceptable because dedicated security operations teams were assumed.

Add Context with Extended Detection and Response

EDR is valuable, but it primarily focuses on endpoint signals. Detection and response become far more effective when these insights are correlated with identity, cloud, network, and email activity—an approach known as Extended Detection and Response (XDR).

For mid-market organizations with lean teams, deploying and managing dozens of integrations introduces additional complexity. Native XDR reduces this burden by collecting only the most relevant signals through built-in agents, improving…

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