Security News > 2023 > August > Cisco announces general availability of XDR platform

In alliance with Cohesity and others, Cisco is fueling near-zero latency between ransomware detection and remediation with its Extended Detection and Response platform.

Remediation is a capability that Cisco has added to its XDR platform, which the company announced at the RSA conference in April and launched for general availability globally on Tuesday.

One key to Cisco's updated XDR platform is that when attackers hold an organization's data for ransom, they lose leverage if the organization has recent backups that can be easily and rapidly restored.

Cisco and security and data management platform Cohesity, one of several third-party alliances driving Cisco's XDR, announced this week that the XDR platform is able to do quick "Snapshots" of data for rapid backup through Cohesity DataProtect and DataHawk solutions.

"One of the key things new for Cisco has to do with the fact that, with cybersecurity, we were not going to win as an island," said Chopra, adding that the role of XDR for enhancing comprehensive detection telemetry was enhanced with third-party partnerships.

Cisco said the acquisition is designed to enhance the network monitoring capabilities of Cisco ThousandEyes network monitoring.

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