Building a Secure IT Infrastructure with Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Tools

Every month, the headlines provide us with a stark reminder that cybersecurity is a continuously increasing threat. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), data breaches have increased by double digits since 2021.

The average cost of a data breach was $4.24M in 2021, the highest on record – IBM
The average time to identify a breach in 2021 was 212 days – IBM
68% of business leaders feel their cybersecurity risks are increasing – Accenture

The core competencies of Hawk Ridge Systems for the last 25 years have been primarily focused on the SOLIDWORKS and Dassault Systèmes ecosystem application layer and above—implementation, training, and best-in-class support. However, a jack of all trades often is a master of none, and in recent years we’ve seen many of our customers need to migrate many (if not all) of their applications to the cloud. As a result of this need, we partnered with Jolera in 2020 as our managed service provider—to offer our customers optimal expertise and support around all things Azure cloud infrastructure, IT, and security.

Our IT and Security Service Offerings

At the core of our security offering is a proprietary Extended Detection and Response (XDR) platform. A fully managed solution integrated with industry-leading security products, services, and threat intelligence feeds to ensure the best tools and support experts protect environments—leveraging the following components:

Extended Detection and Response (XDR): correlates environmental activity to threat intelligence to find active threats
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) powered by SentinelOne: provides instant protection against cyber threats in an environment
Vulnerability Detection Response (VDR) powered by Qualys: provides instructions on how to remediate weaknesses
Cybersecurity Incident Response (CIR) powered by Jolera: 911 support in the events of critical security emergencies

Watch the Webinar

To learn more about the importance of IT security, threat detection, and the evolving threat landscape, watch this on-demand webinar with our partner, Jolera.

Final Thoughts

Though security is always a top priority in our Product Data Management (PDM) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) projects, extending this layer of protection across other enterprise workloads is equally important. Our team can assist with any of your organization’s IT challenges or if you’re looking for a new managed service provider.

Noah Krygier

Noah has been in the hardware & software sales industry for 20 years. He's been with Hawk Ridge Systems for over 6 years, first as an account manager covering the Pacific Northwest out of our Oregon office, then for the last four years as Product Sales Manager of our Data Management team. Prior to this role he worked for 4.5 years at Red Hat Inc., where he learned all about data centers, helping enterprise customers leverage open-source technology and professional services, many of which were early adopters of AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure. He's passionate about working with our customers and their new product introductions and staying involved in as many data management projects as possible. When he's not working, he's with his wonderful family, camping, watching sci-fi flicks and exploring the outdoors on anything with wheels.