Frequently Asked Questions

Here are some of the consequences a business might face with a cybersecurity breach.

• • Business Disruption: A loss of critical infrastructure can disrupt business operations, resulting in lost productivity and revenue. In some cases, businesses have had to shut down completely to remediate the breach.

• • Financial Loss: This includes the cost of repairing the damage, investigation  and fines/legal costs if sensitive customer data is exposed along with any compensation for those affected.

• • Intellectual Property Theft: If your company is built around intellectual property, there is a good chance you could be a target for corporate espionage. Adversaries will quietly live on your network and extract trade secrets, patents, and other confidential information.

• • Regulatory Compliance: A breach can result in regulatory compliance issues, including violations of data protection and privacy regulations. This can result in fines and litigation, as well as damage to the business's reputation.

• • Reputation Damage: A loss of customer information can damage a business's reputation, resulting in a loss of customer trust and loyalty. This can have long-term consequences for the business, including a loss of revenue and market share.

MXDR provides threat detection and response by providing a comprehensive view of an organization's entire infrastructure, allowing us to identify and respond to complex attacks. It leverages advanced analytics and machine learning to detect threats that would otherwise go unnoticed. And once a threat is detected, our 24/7 Security Operations Center is there to intervene and help ensure that you can continue to do business as usual.

While reactive antivirus software is an important component of a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy, it is not nearly enough on its own to protect against the increasingly sophisticated cyber threats faced by organizations today. Antivirus looks at things in isolation and is mainly focused on known malicious files. MXDR uses advanced analytics and machine learning on a vast variety of indicators to detect and respond to new and emerging threats in real-time, providing proactive protection against sophisticated attacks. Our service does include NGAV (Next-Generation Anti-Virus) as well, adding to its value.

Eventually we may consider this for larger organizations, but right now the focus is on a standardized service that allows us to keep costs down without compromising the effectiveness of our MXDR. Our goal from the start was to make sure that enterprise-class protection was accessible to all levels of business, and that is going to continue to be our priority. Large companies benefit from this value as well.

Windows, Linux and Mac are the traditional endpoints that we defend. MXDR, however, incorporates additional sources of data as endpoints; logs from your firewalls and other security devices for example. The power of MXDR comes from the ability of machine learning and AI to identify meaningful patterns and behaviors amongst these data sources, both in isolation and holistically.

You may be more interested in what we do not collect. Security Farm does not collect the contents of files, documents, or any other personal information. We collect security metadata; data that describes other data. An example would be the source and destination IP addresses of network traffic, the user account associated with that particular activity, the type of activity or event that occurred, and the time and date that it took place.

Security Farm MXDR integrates with over 200 unique data sources, with more sources constantly being added. Machine learning and AI can recognize important patterns and relationships between these data sources that human analysis alone cannot. During the onboarding process we will work with you to determine what data sources we can leverage.