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MXDR for OT powered by Microsoft Sentinel and Defender
Growing Cyber Threats Require A Holistic Defense Strategy For Operational Technology
Difenda MXDR for OT powered by Microsoft Sentinel and Defender
Difenda’s MXDR for OT service, powered by Microsoft Defender for IoT, offers a turnkey, agentless extended detection and response (XDR) service designed to protect OT and industrial control system (ICS) devices. Customers benefit from Difenda’s AIRO automated triage and response engine, backed by our 24x7x365 ISO27001, SOC II Type 2, and PCI Certified Cyber Command Center (C3) team, ensuring around-the-clock protection.
Using passive, agentless network monitoring, we safely gain a complete inventory of all your assets without impacting infrastructure performance. With this enhanced visibility, Difenda’s Cyber OT Operations team rapidly triages threats, performs ongoing alert tuning, and collaborates with customers on escalated incidents to contain and mitigate threats. Our service delivery model supports varied OT architectures, including Purdue Model-based and air-gapped network configurations.
The service seamlessly provides unified threat protection across the entire environment, allowing our C3 team to mitigate OT threats by tracing indicators back to the IT environment. This includes containing originating IT threat vectors such as malicious emails, compromised identities, and infected endpoints. Focused solely on Microsoft Security, we deliver superior customer experiences through our tenured cybersecurity experts.
Difenda’s MXDR for OT service is designed to support ongoing cyber program maturity and reduce the load on internal teams. We use iterative processes to help customers tune configurations, enhancing proactive controls and reducing alert volume. Real-time insights are generated through our Difenda Shield Analytics platform, providing cybersecurity leaders with the necessary data points and dashboards to drive their cyber strategy.
Our 4-step methodology provides actionable outcomes:
- Threat Profiling – Iterative contextualization of environmental threats
- Threat Detection – Rapid 24×7 threat detection
- Threat Hunting – Ongoing hunting for new and emerging threats
- Threat Response – Automated and human-based threat response
What’s Included?
- MXDR for OT Implementation
- Microsoft Defender for IoT (OT) Implementation
- Microsoft Sentinel Implementation
- Microsoft Sentinel (Defender for IoT, other supporting security technologies, and key OT technologies where supported)
- Microsoft Sentinel Custom Development (Log Data Connectors, Analytic Rules, Playbooks, etc.)
- Difenda Shield Services Overview
- 24x7x365 MXDR triage and response
- Difenda AIRO Automated Triage and Response engine (SOAR)
- Difenda Shield Analytics Platform portal and real-time reporting
- Integrated Threat Intelligence, including advisories and bulletins
- Proactive Threat Hunting
- Ongoing Sentinel maintenance, including Log Data Connector, Analytic Rule, and Playbook development
- Remote Incident Response (RIR) retainer
- Dedicated Technical Account Manager (TAM) & Customer Success Manager (CSM)
What’s Included In Difenda Managed Detection & Response For Operational Technology?
Difenda MXDR for OT offers the latest in Microsoft’s extended detection and response (XDR) technology—allowing organizations of all sizes to benefit from a world-class cybersecurity program that’s built for scale, and integration-ready from day one. Difenda’s MXDR uses top security frameworks like the MITRE ATT&CK® and NIST Cybersecurity Framework to continuously identify, develop, and release enhanced detection and response capabilities.
ASSET DISCOVERY
This visibility is foundational to Difenda’s ability to help customers secure their OT/ICS environments, but also supports operational planning and maintenance activities.
VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT
INTEGRATED IT AND OT THREAT DETECTION AND RESPONSE
Core to Difenda’s MXDR services are the Microsoft Azure Sentinel and Defender suite of security products. In addition to providing customers with detection and response services within IT environments, customers can extend protection to OT/ICS environments through Defender for IoT services coupled with our MXDR-OT service offering.
- Threat detection and response
- Threat hunting
- Threat intelligence
- SIEM platform and use case management
- Remote incident response services
ATTACK SIMULATION
With Difenda’s MXDR-OT services and Microsoft Defender for IoT, attack simulation modeling can occur quickly and continuously be updated based on factors such as environment changes or emerging threats. Where required, Difenda can also develop simulated customer OT environments through partners such as IdeaWorks (https://www.mohawkcollege.ca/ideaworks), allowing for more real-life attack simulations.
CUSTOM PROTOCOL AND DETECTION DEVELOPMENT
Where required, Difenda’s experts leverage Defender for IoT’s Horizon development framework to develop custom protocol plugins, to ensure complete environment visibility. In addition, our Cyber Research and Response team uses several tactics to augment native Microsoft detection capabilities through our ATT&CK driven development process.
DASHBOARDS AND REPORTING
These remote incident and forensic support services are delivered primarily by Difenda’s own experienced Cyber Research & Response Team. For the rare circumstances where unique specialists need to be engaged, Difenda has established relationships with trusted firms and certified professionals.
Visibility Leads To Unified Protection Of Business Critical Production System
“Our work with Difenda is part of an on-going effort to maintain operational safety and resilience, including the reduction of cybersecurity risks. The team helped us understand the security of our OT environments without disrupting our daily operations.”
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"We were looking for a partner that could help us maximize on our Microsoft investment, consolidate our security product stack and provide us with subject matter expertise. Difenda, not only had the knowledge, tenure and experience, there approach for long term SecOps sustainability is leading edge"
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Difenda's Microsoft Purview service has greatly improved the way we do business. By improving collaboration across our teams, we are now able to proactively identify and mitigate risks, while remaining creative and agile in responding to emerging threats. Their use of data to support security decisions along with their team's extensive knowledge and support has been invaluable for our security maturity.
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