E2E (End-to-End) visibility refers to the transparency at all phases of supply chain management, from procurement through finished goods delivery to customers. This visibility is achieved by carefully monitoring each phase of the process, gathering all relevant data, and arranging it in a single data management area. E2E visibility inside a business network allows for cost management while also planning for eventualities, and with improved transparency across different layers of the supply chain operation, partners may engage with one another to use pooled resources in pursuit of common goals.
DYNAMICS OF TODAY’S ENTERPRISE
The business environment in today’s enterprise (a hybrid enterprise) has undergone a noticeable transformation because of ongoing developments in the social, economic, political, and technical. All indications assert that we live in a time of ongoing technology disruption, which is causing both changes in consumer requirements and an acceleration in purchasing behaviors. Businesses are realizing the benefits of end-to-end visibility in incident response as they grow internationally and become multi-nodal (having various methods or modes of carrying out functions). Additionally, the emergence of e-commerce has added additional pressure on companies to leverage partnerships with everyone from manufacturers, and distributors to logistics service providers. In today’s complex and interdependent world. With increased dependence comes additional threats, particularly zero-day cyber-attacks. Given that 62% of businesses were affected in the previous year (2021), it is crucial to reduce the risks brought on by these attackers. A few strategies for preventing security breach cyberattacks are highlighted below.XDR (EXTENDED DETECTION AND RESPONSE)
According to Gartner, an analyst firm, XDR is “a SaaS-based, vendor-specific, security threat and response tool that natively integrates multiple security products into a cohesive security operations system that unifies all licensed components”. It enables businesses to prevent successful cyberattacks as well as simplify and strengthen security processes, helping them serve their customers better and accelerate digital transformation initiatives. XDR analyzes both internal and external traffic, providing organizations with the comprehensive visibility they need to track threats across many sources. XDR operates in 3 simple steps.
- Data Analysis: it collects data from several security points, including endpoints, networks, servers, and the cloud. After aggregating this data, it performs data analysis to correlate context from various alerts that are generated.
- Threat Detection: XDR offers excellent visibility into an organization’s IT infrastructure, allowing the system to examine signs of any detected threat and report the critical ones that require a response. The visibility factor enables businesses to deep dive into the abnormal behaviors of threats, investigating their origins before they affect other parts of the system.
- Attack Response: in this last step, XDR contains and removes primarily any detected threats, and it subsequently updates security policies to ensure that similar incidents do not reoccur in the near future.
NDR (NETWORK DETECTION AND RESPONSE)
NDR is a cybersecurity solution that continuously monitors an organization’s network to detect cyber threats and anomalous behavior using non-signature-based tools or techniques and responds to these threats via native capabilities or by integrating them with other cybersecurity tools/solutions. NDR is the most critical amongst all others because it provides perspective where others cannot, but it does not prevent malicious activity. It allows organizations to recognize unusual traffic that indicates command and control, lateral movement, exfiltration, and malware activity.
EMAIL SECURITY
Email security is the process of ensuring the availability, integrity, and authenticity of email communication by protecting against the risk of email threats. Emails are used for business communications, and they are often a foundational element of an organization’s IT operations and their ability to communicate both inside and outside of the organization, and without email security, sensitive information would be leaked to an unauthorized entity. One of the best practices that organizations should put into effect is implementing a secure email gateway that uses a multilayered approach.
INTELLIGENT SIEM (SECURITY INFORMATION AND EVENT MANAGEMENT)
Also known as “AI SIEM”, this software improves security awareness of an IT environment by combining Security Information Management (SIM) and Security Event Management (SEM). The benefits of SIEM include but are not limited to; Advanced real-time threat recognition, Regulatory compliance auditing, AI-driven automation, improved organizational efficiency, detecting advanced and unknown threats, Conduction forensic investigations, Assessing and reporting on compliance, and Monitoring users and applications.
E2E visibility helps businesses plan, innovate, and grow, but trying to manage what remains unseen is a recipe for outright disaster. The benefits of supply chains also come at the price of risks, especially cybersecurity risks. The goal of businesses should be to reduce the impact of supply chain visibility risks while increasing the visibility end-to-end.
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