Orange Cyberdefense and Palo Alto Networks Enhance MDR with Cortex XSIAM

Orange Cyberdefense and Palo Alto Networks expand their collaboration to help clients achieving their business objectives by staying ahead of emerging threat with transformed Managed Detection and Response powered by Palo Alto Cortex XSIAM.

Orange Cyberdefense and Palo Alto Networks continue to solidify their position as industry leaders in cybersecurity through their longstanding partnership. With a shared commitment to delivering cutting-edge managed services on Palo Alto’s XSIAM platform, the collaboration secures global clients by providing detection and response across client’s infrastructures. This service transformation strongly contributes to Orange Cyberdefense’ vision of mitigating cyber risks before they have an impact on client’s and through its strategy to transform from reactive to proactive MDR services.

A Proven Partnership

Over the years, Orange Cyberdefense has emerged as Palo Alto Networks' largest channel partner in Europe, delivering managed security services leveraging the full spectrum of Palo Alto’s cybersecurity portfolio. From Next-Generation Firewalls and SASE solutions to cloud security with Prisma Cloud and advanced SOC transformation with Cortex technologies, Orange Cyberdefense has embraced these tools to craft innovative managed services.

The collaboration now secures over 200 customers in Europe and around the globe, through a turnkey Managed Threat Detection service powered by Cortex technology delivered by Orange Cyberdefense’ global network of SOCs. By integrating the Palo Alto Cortex XSIAM platform into Orange Cyberdefense MDR services, this partnership recently took another leap forward supporting customer to be prepared for the threats of today and tomorrow by transforming their security transformation.

Achieving business objectives by staying ahead of emerging threats

The dramatic increase of cyber extortion requires organizations to strengthen their operational resilience and regulations such as the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) or the Network and Information Security (NIS) 2 Directive require a high level of security from organizations to achieve compliance. Whether explicit or implicit, in today’s highly digitalized world, cybersecurity has become a must for organizations to ensure business objectives are met. Therefore, building capabilities to detect and rapidly respond to threats is a crucial capability for organizations to achieve their business objectives. By integrating Palo Alto’s XSIAM platform into Orange Cyberdefense MDR services, Orange Cyberdefense can provide comprehensive MDR services which support clients to achieve their business goals by staying ahead of emerging threats.

Transforming Security Operations with Orange Cyberdefense MDR powered by Cortex XSIAM

Based on Orange Cyberdefense experience of delivering Managed Detection and Response services as well as Orange Cyberdefense exclusive threat intelligence, Orange Cyberdefense intercepts over 80% of incidents before they have an impact on clients. However, today’s threat landscape is changing faster than ever before and the increasing use of AI by attackers accelerates the volume and sophistication of attacks. This emerging threat landscape requires a true transformation of Managed Detection and Response services to MDR services which go the extra mile and detect and respond to threats faster than ever. By integrating Palo Alto’s XSIAM platform, Orange Cyberdefense can reduce the mean-time-to-respond of clients from several days to just a few minutes. Additionally, the embedded threat intelligence platform allows Orange Cyberdefense to leverage its highly exclusive threat intelligence to detect threats even faster and, by leveraging XSIAM’s attack surface management features, to remediate threats before they can be exploited by an attacker.

Cortex XSIAM (eXtended Security Intelligence and Automation Management) represents a groundbreaking SOC transformation tool. As a unified platform combining SIEM, XDR, SOAR, threat intelligence, and attack surface management, it leverages AI and automation to streamline operations. This innovative approach enables organizations to detect and respond to threats faster and more efficiently. With over 3,000 AI models and automation playbooks, XSIAM minimizes the need for human intervention, allowing SOC analysts to focus on critical incidents. The result? Enhanced detection accuracy, faster response times, and tailored solutions for unique customer environments.

Efficiency Through Consolidation

The back-and-forth battle between attackers and defenders over the past years has led to highly fragmented and complex threat detection ecosystems in many organizations leveraging point MDR services to cover individual risks. One of the key benefits of Orange Cyberdefense MDR service powered by Cortex XSIAM is increasing efficiency by cutting complexity. By consolidating multiple siloed services and solutions into a single service, organizations can benefit from harmonized processes, aligned and improved service level agreements and eliminated redundancies and reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) up to 30%. This consolidation not only reduces costs but also enhances visibility, agility, and overall security outcomes.

Supporting Customers along their Journeys

Not all organizations are ready for the full transformation into a truly unified MDR service. Therefore, Orange Cyberdefense MDR services powered by Palo Alto Cortex are designed to meet customers where they are. Starting with essential risk coverage and gradually expanding to full integration, the service powered by XSIAM offers a scalable and seamless evolution path. The service seamlessly integrated with Orange Cyberdefense Managed Secure Access (MSA) service powered by Palo Alto Prisma SASE as well as Orange Cyberdefense Managed MultiCloud Protection powered by Palo Alto Prisma Cloud to support clients on their platformization journey. This unified approach ensures organizations can adapt to the modern work environment, where secure and efficient access to resources from anywhere is critical.