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Microsoft Defender + Red Canary: Stop threats. Accelerate value.
When you combine Red Canary MDR with Microsoft Defender, you can expect faster time to value and better outcomes—such as 95% fewer alerts and a 3.8x increase in confirmed detections.
In this webinar, you’ll learn why these products are better together and what the experience looks like from a current customer’s perspective.
On-Demand Webinar
Tue., October 26, 2021
Virtual
Watch the recording below.
When you combine Red Canary MDR with Microsoft Defender, you can expect faster time to value and better outcomes—such as 95% fewer alerts and a 3.8x increase in confirmed detections.
In this webinar, you’ll learn why these products are better together and what the experience looks like from a current customer’s perspective.
Here’s what we cover in the webinar:
- How Red Canary + Defender helps security leaders feel more confident about facing evolving threats, cloud migrations, new technologies, and shifting work patterns
- CoStar Group’s journey as a Red Canary customer, including how they migrated to Defender without compromising security or budgets
- The cost savings and ongoing value that come from Red Canary’s security operations platform and human expertise
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00:33 Presenter Introduction
01:31 Webinar Agenda
02:16 What does an effective modern SecOps program look like?
2:32 Characteristics of an effective SecOps program: Scalable, cost effective, talented team, automation, 24 x 7 capabilities, covering entire enterprise, peace of mind, no staff burnout
8:58 The Evolution of Security Operations
10:35 “A security operations platform underpinning [MSSP, MDR, EDR, and XDR] gives you the ability to grow and evolve and not have to worry about the tech and integrations that need to be built – that’s the platform’s job.” – Cordell
10:53 Increasingly Sophisticated Attackers
11:07 – “Attackers are increasing in sophistication…Via ransomware and many other improved tactics and techniques, at least half of all incidents were able to avoid detection for weeks, months, or even years.” – Cordell
12:08 Customer Q&A: CoStar Group
12:21 How has CoStar’s SecOps program grown & how has Red Canary helped?
13:25 “The 24 x 7 [support] is critical. We have a small security team and trying to build out 24 x 7 support [internally] is a huge task and extremely expensive, so having the support [from Red Canary] allows us to go home at night and sleep easily…We know we have a team of highly skilled professionals 24 x7 behind us that’s an extension of the CoStar team and having that allows us to invest time and resources in other things besides cybersecurity response.” – Grover
15:50 What are some challenges CoStar’s security operations team faces?
15:59 “Talent is very difficult to find, and it’s even more difficult to find the appropriate talent for your business…To overcome this, we’ve started focusing on college hires. College hires are much easier to get in the door and are more energetic and eager to learn [new technology].” – Grover
19:18 How has the CoStar team addressed these challenges?
21:29 “A big challenge for security teams is getting the products you need and getting budget for it. CoStar is no exception. Moving over to the Microsoft platform and the E5 license…was for the entire business to take full advantage of all Microsoft offerings. We were able to bundle our security budget for XDR and AV into the same budget as all of the Microsoft Office licenses, [which] saved several hundreds of thousands of dollars from our budget.” – Grover
23:21 What are the key benefits of Microsoft Defender + Red Canary?
24:05 – “The level of detection fidelity in providing relevant intelligence around [an alert] – what’s the MITRE ATT&CK® technique, is it associated with a group, etc. That’s a huge benefit to my team – we’re not professional forensicators. Having those key bits of information upfront is a lot faster than us having to [search online] and guess what type of malware we’re dealing with.” – Grover
29:31 Microsoft Defender Demo + Use Cases
37:00 Red Canary Demo + Use Cases
53:01 Key Takeaways
53:43 Questions & Answers
Presented by
Cordell BaanHofman
GM, Red Canary + Microsoft
Special Guest: Grover Mewborn
Cyber Security Technical Team Lead, CoStar Group
Bonus content
In this podcast-style interview, Red Canary’s Cordell BaanHofman and Greg Bailey dive into the Microsoft + Red Canary origin story—including the moment when Rob Lefferts (Microsoft Corporate VP in the product group) reached out to Red Canary CEO Brian Beyer for insights about what makes a world-class EDR provider.
“Red Canary - it’s the correct thing to do for security. It’s the surety of having professionals looking at our alerts around the clock, and we have a resource to go to immediately if we have questions around detection and response.”
