Protect Your Organization with CDW and Microsoft
Microsoft 365's comprehensive security features, such as Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Sentinel, provide advanced threat detection, incident response and holistic security insights.
Microsoft Defender XDR
Microsoft Defender XDR offers a comprehensive solution to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of your security operations centre (SOC). By providing incident-level visibility across the entire cyberattack chain, Defender XDR enables your SOC team to detect, investigate and respond to threats more effectively.
Key benefits include:
By integrating all these elements into a single solution, Microsoft Defender XDR helps you take your SOC team to the next level, improving both security posture and response times.
Automatic Disruption of Advanced Cyberattacks
Defender XDR uses AI and automation to detect and halt sophisticated attacks, reducing the response time and limiting damage.
Holistic Security Insights
With its ability to correlate signals from various sources, Defender XDR offers a broader and more comprehensive view of an attack's lifecycle, ensuring no part of the attack chain is overlooked.
Accelerated Response Across Multiple Environments
Delivers unified protection and quick response capabilities across endpoints, IoT devices, hybrid identities, email and collaboration tools, SaaS applications, cloud workloads and data.
Microsoft Sentinel
Transform your security operations centre (SOC) with Microsoft Sentinel, a modern, cloud-native security information and event management (SIEM) solution. Sentinel integrates AI and cloud technology to enable proactive threat detection, investigation and response, helping you stay ahead of sophisticated cyberthreats while reducing the costs associated with legacy SIEM systems.
Key capabilities of Microsoft Sentinel:
By leveraging the power of the cloud and AI, Microsoft Sentinel helps you build a next-generation SOC that is more efficient, scalable and cost-effective, enabling you to uncover and neutralize threats before they impact your organization.
Cloud-Scale Data Collection
Sentinel collects data from all users, devices, applications and infrastructure – whether they are on-premises or in multiple cloud environments – providing a holistic view of your security landscape.
AI-Driven Investigation and Threat Hunting
Tapping into decades of Microsoft’s cybersecurity expertise, Sentinel enables your team to use AI to investigate threats, automate the detection of suspicious activities and efficiently hunt down potential vulnerabilities at scale.
Advanced Threat Detection
With analytics and threat intelligence from Microsoft, Sentinel detects previously hidden threats, significantly reducing the risk of false positives, allowing your team to focus on real issues.
Rapid Incident Response
Sentinel includes built-in orchestration and automation, which streamline common tasks, empowering your team to respond to security incidents swiftly and effectively.
Defender for Cloud
In today’s evolving threat landscape, protecting multicloud and hybrid environments requires a comprehensive approach. Microsoft’s security solutions are designed to strengthen your security posture, safeguard workloads from modern cyberthreats and ensure applications are built securely from the ground up.
Key capabilities:
By adopting these capabilities, you can reduce risk, enhance threat response and maintain a secure multicloud and hybrid infrastructure, enabling your organization to stay resilient in the face of modern cyberthreats.
Contextual Security Posture Management
Achieve full visibility and continuous monitoring across your multicloud and hybrid environments. Prioritize critical risks with contextual insights, enabling you to focus on what matters most. Use built-in workflows to remediate vulnerabilities at scale – from code to cloud – and ensure that your security posture remains robust as your environment grows.
Unified Security Management for DevOps
Equip your security teams with unified DevOps security management that spans multiple clouds and pipelines. This ensures your DevOps processes remain secure from development to deployment, helping secure applications from the start and maintaining compliance with security best practices.
Prevent, Detect and Respond to Cyberthreats
Benefit from comprehensive multicloud protection for your infrastructure, applications and data. With cloud-native threat detection and automated response capabilities, you can prevent breaches, detect sophisticated threats and respond to incidents swiftly across diverse cloud environments.
Key features of Microsoft Entra ID:
By leveraging Microsoft Entra ID, organizations can strengthen their security posture with advanced access controls while simultaneously delivering a smooth and productive user experience.
Secure Adaptive Access
Protect access to sensitive resources and data using strong authentication methods, such as multifactor authentication (MFA), alongside risk-based conditional access policies. This ensures that only the right users access the right resources without disrupting the user experience.
Unified Identity Management
Centralize the management of all identities – whether in the cloud or on-premises – within a single, easy-to-use platform. This allows IT teams to efficiently manage access to all applications, improving both visibility and control while simplifying administration and enhancing security.
Seamless User Experiences
Microsoft Entra ID offers a fast and intuitive sign-in process that works across multicloud environments. By reducing the need to manage multiple passwords, users experience fewer disruptions, leading to increased productivity and less time spent on login issues.
Microsoft Entra ID
Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) is a leading cloud identity and access management solution designed to safeguard your organization while delivering a seamless user experience. It combines adaptive security, ease of access and centralized identity management to enhance both security and productivity across your digital environment.
Unlock Seamless Security and Productivity with Microsoft Entra SSE
Microsoft Entra SSE offers a unified security approach, integrating identity and network access solutions to eliminate security gaps and ensure a holistic security posture. Built on zero-trust principles, it enhances security by ensuring least privilege access and explicit verification. The identity-centric secure web gateway (SWG) secures access to internet and SaaS apps, protecting against threats and unsafe content. Zero trust network access (ZTNA) enables secure, quick connections for remote users, reducing reliance on legacy VPNs. Continuous access evaluation (CAE) extends conditional access policies with real-time risk assessment, ensuring only compliant devices and users access sensitive resources.
Microsoft Entra SSE's Key Components
- Unified Security Approach: Microsoft Entra SSE integrates identity and network access solutions, eliminating security gaps caused by isolated systems. This unified approach ensures consistent policies and a holistic security posture, protecting against evolving threats.
- Comprehensive Protection: Entra SSE includes advanced features like Entra Internet Access and Entra Private Access, which provide secure web gateway (SWG) and zero trust network access (ZTNA) capabilities. These features protect against malicious internet traffic, unsafe content and unauthorized access to private applications.
- Enhanced Conditional Access: Microsoft Entra SSE extends conditional access policies with network conditions, ensuring that only compliant devices and users can access sensitive resources. This reduces the risk of token replay attacks and other security breaches.
- Seamless Integration: The solution seamlessly integrates with existing Microsoft products like Microsoft 365 and Azure, providing a consistent and efficient security experience across all applications and resources, whether on-premises or in the cloud.
- Real-Time Risk Assessment: Entra SSE leverages a real-time evaluation engine and machine learning to continuously assess risk levels and enforce appropriate security measures. This proactive approach enhances overall security and compliance.
Key features of Microsoft Entra SASE:
Unified Security Approach
Provides a comprehensive security framework that eliminates gaps caused by isolated systems, ensuring consistent policies and a holistic security posture to protect against evolving threats.
Zero Trust Principles
Enhances overall security posture by ensuring least privilege access, explicit verification and assuming breach, which helps in mitigating risks and preventing unauthorized access.
Identity-Centric Secure Web Gateway (SWG)
Secures access to all internet and SaaS apps, protecting against internet threats, malicious network traffic and unsafe content, safeguarding organizational data and resources.
Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
Enables secure, quick connections for remote users to private applications, reducing the need for legacy VPNs and enhancing user productivity by providing seamless access from any device or network.
Continuous Access Evaluation (CAE)
Ensures only compliant devices and users can access sensitive resources by extending conditional access policies with real-time risk assessment and machine learning, reducing the risk of security breaches.
Microsoft Purview
Microsoft Purview helps organizations secure and govern their data across their entire data estate, driving innovation while minimizing risk and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. By providing comprehensive data visibility and protection, Purview ensures that your data remains safe, no matter where it resides.
Key capabilities of Microsoft Purview:
By leveraging Microsoft Purview, organizations can ensure the security of their data while maintaining innovation, improving risk management and adhering to evolving compliance obligations.
Understand and Govern Data
Gain full visibility into all your data assets across your environment, whether on-premises or in the cloud. With this centralized data management, organizations can easily track, manage and govern data, ensuring that it is used effectively while meeting compliance standards.
Improve Risk and Compliance Posture
Identify and mitigate data risks by understanding where sensitive information is stored and how it is used. Microsoft Purview simplifies the process of managing regulatory requirements by providing tools that allow you to meet compliance standards and manage data protection risks with ease.
Safeguard Data Wherever it Lives
Secure your data throughout its entire lifecycle, from creation to deletion, across applications, clouds and devices. Microsoft Purview provides robust security controls that protect data whether it is in transit, in use or at rest.
Microsoft Security Readiness Workshops
To request a Microsoft Data Security, Microsoft Threat Protection or Microsoft Sentinel Workshop, complete the form and a member of our Microsoft practice will be in touch to discuss your requirements. Your organization may qualify for a partially or fully discounted readiness workshop.
