Data Defenders
The Defenders of the Information World^®

Security firms play an integral role in safeguarding businesses from data breaches, malware intrusions, and insidious cyberthreats, resulting in substantial financial losses and detrimental effects on a company’s reputation. Consequently, numerous enterprises seek the expertise of security companies like Data Defenders for managed security services, such as developing and implementing cybersecurity strategies and operations to protect and secure sensitive business data.

Data Defenders has carved a niche in cybersecurity operations management via its DataShield® MSS CyOps solution. The firm has emerged as an indispensable partner for businesses and municipalities across the spectrum, improving and enhancing cybersecurity operations and providing the necessary protection against advanced persistent threats in an increasingly digitalized world.

A common misconception among companies is that the mere existence of a cybersecurity program guarantees protection against security breaches and cyberthreats. However, this is only sometimes the case. Data Defenders asserts that the primary reason for an organization’s persistent vulnerability is the ineffectiveness of their cybersecurity operations. Cybersecurity teams are often overwhelmed by an incessant deluge of security metrics and data, hindering their ability to quickly convert this information into actionable intelligence.

In addition, these teams require assistance in disseminating insights throughout the cybersecurity lifecycle, encompassing governance, processes and procedures, as well as technical infrastructure management. The overreliance and dependence on human interaction exacerbate the ineffectiveness of an organization’s cybersecurity operations.

Data Defenders helps organizations develop, implement, and manage robust, turnkey cybersecurity operations that proficiently turn cybersecurity data into actionable intelligence, minimize dependencies on the human element, continuously mitigate the advanced persistent threat, and establish and consistently maintain balance among the cybersecurity lifecycle components.

“We achieve operational effectiveness by understanding that cybersecurity operations are based on analytics, quickly turning cybersecurity data into actionable and contextualized intelligence that enables the human element to simply decide and act. Instead of the human element being heavily relied on to aggregate, correlate, and analyze cybersecurity data then deciding how to respond within the cybersecurity operations stack, DataShield positions the human element in the cybersecurity stack to focus on decision-making and action within the operations supported by our technology,” says Cyrus Walker, managing principal of Data Defenders.

By adopting an operations and analytical approach, Data Defenders accentuates cyber defenses while helping customers focus on the critical governance component of the lifecycle of cybersecurity operations. Data Defenders’ DataShield® MSS CyOps seamlessly integrates into a customer’s IT framework, infrastructure, and operations, unlike traditional vendors who offer outdated asymmetrical services. The currently managed security services framework is based on a 20-year-old model that cannot keep up with an advanced and persistent threat landscape in today’s rapidly changing digital environment. This outdated asymmetrical approach involves one-way communication between the vendor and customer, as well as a heavy involvement of the customer’s IT resources in responding to threats.

In contrast, Data Defenders’ DataShield® MSS CyOps delivers a symmetrical solution, embodying a balanced delivery approach that alleviates a dependency on the customer to drive threat and incident response. DataShield® MSS CyOps is designed to establish the right partnership between Data Defenders and the customer by enabling them to focus on and drive cybersecurity governance, which dictates how it implements and manages cybersecurity operations within the customer’s environment. This approach ensures equitable collaboration that forges a robust operations strategy to counter an advanced persistent threat promptly and efficiently.

Data Defenders creates customized cybersecurity operations solutions for each customer’s unique technology infrastructure and business operations. The company provides CyOps solutions at approximately one-sixth of the industry standard cost to build cybersecurity operations in-house, enabling customers to implement turnkey and comprehensive cybersecurity operations without exceeding their budgets. In addition, its DataShield Analytics SaaS-based cybersecurity operations management solution powered by AI at its core will further streamline cybersecurity operations by providing the analytics engine required to proactively and rapidly identify and mitigate internal and external threat activity; it will be released in Q3 2023.

We achieve operational effectiveness by understanding that cybersecurity operations are based on analytics, quickly turning cybersecurity data into actionable and contextualized intelligence that enables the human element to decide and act

Data Defender’s DataShield Analytics® helps customers manage the enormous amount of data generated by their security architecture by using a customized analytics engine built on AI, aggregating multiple cybersecurity data streams from various point sources in the architecture, including MDR, network security, vulnerability management, malware management, SEIM, and numerous other data generating point solutions. The company has created a customized AI engine that correlates, aggregates, and analyzes this data, providing contextualized intelligence that simplifies the decision-making and response actions for the security operator.

The company understands that the human element in cybersecurity is completely overwhelmed and under pressure to perform in a current operations paradigm. This significantly inhibits effective operations due to the lack of properly staffed cyber-teams, an inability to rapidly turn information into contextualized intelligence, and the need to manage multiple disjointed point solutions. DataShield® MSS CyOps and DataShield Analytics® help customers solve these challenges and set up bespoke cybersecurity operations that can mitigate an active, persistent threat landscape against their technology infrastructure and business.