You're listening to the CyberWire X, a series of specials where we highlight important security topics affecting

security professionals worldwide.

I'm Rick Howard, the chief security officer, chief analyst, and senior fellow at

the CyberWire. And today's episode is titled

Living Security, the current state of XDR.

Gardner defines XDR as, quote, a unified security incident detection and response

platform that automatically centralizes and correlates data from many

proprietary security elements in quote. Now for a definition, I think that's pretty close, but that same definition could also easily

apply to any seam on the market or any sore platform.

The Gardner definition is missing a bunch of promised functionality.

Promised because not all XDR platforms are created equal as the security vendor marketing

team described their X-D-Air solutions with subtle distinctions.

In this episode, I've invited a number of subject matter experts to the CyberWire hash table

to see if we can sort this out.

A program note, each CyberWire X special features two segments.

In the first part we'll hear from an industry expert on the topic at hand, and in the second

part we'll hear from our show's sponsor for their point of view. And since I brought it up, here's a word from today's sponsor, Trellings.

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