Enterprise-grade, AI-powered XDR is here to level the field for resource-limited SLED security teams
- AI is amplifying the scale and sophistication of threats while also giving more attackers the ability to target organizations that threat actors traditionally have overlooked, including State and Local agencies, school districts and higher education institutions.
- Now available worldwide, Symantec® CBX delivers enterprise-grade, AI-powered extended detection and response (XDR) for organizations of any size, bringing endpoint, web and data protection together through automatic correlation and a unified, frictionless console.
- Harnessing AI capabilities that empower—not replace—defenders, CBX helps security teams anticipate attacks, streamline investigations and accelerate response.
- With CBX, SLED teams of any size can operate with the speed and effectiveness of large-scale security operations centers (SOC).
State, Local and education (SLED) security teams protect essential public services, educational programs and sensitive citizen and student data their communities rely on, and AI is changing the threats they defend against. Now AI-driven threats are making the challenge even greater. Attackers can use AI to automate tasks, scale their operations and launch more advanced attacks with less effort. As a result, even inexperienced threat actors can reach more targets.
Every agency, school district and campus is now a potential target. In the past, many attackers focused on larger targets because reaching smaller organizations was not efficient. AI changes that, putting organizations of all sizes, from county districts to rural school districts, within reach.
For SLED teams balancing mission demands with defined budgets and staffing, this shift is an opportunity to rethink how security operations scale. Symantec CBX is designed to help security teams of any size put enterprise-grade detection and response to work. A New Kind of XDR
Broadcom has announced the general availability of Symantec CBX, a unified, cloud-based XDR platform. CBX brings together endpoint protection, web security, and cross-domain threat detection and response in a single solution for security teams of any size.
Symantec CBX gives security teams of any size access to advanced XDR capabilities that have traditionally been available only to the largest enterprises. Instead of requiring analysts to manually connect information from different tools, CBX automatically correlates activity across environments and highlights the insights that matter most.
This combination of broad visibility and automated analysis helps security teams detect threats faster and respond more effectively. By connecting signals across multiple attack surfaces, CBX helps SLED organizations with limited staff and budgets achieve results that once required robust security operations, substantially greater cybersecurity investments and extensive in-house expertise. CBX further strengthens these capabilities with AI-powered features designed to improve detection, investigation and response.
Symantec CBX is built by the team that helped pioneer EDR and is backed by world-class threat intelligence. It brings endpoint, network and data security together in one platform, covering protection, detection, response and remediation.
CBX delivers a combination of features and capabilities, including many that have only been available in standalone Symantec solutions – until now.
Built for Lean SLED Security Teams
SLED organizations face growing pressure to do more with smaller security teams and tighter budgets. Symantec CBX gives those teams a clearer picture of what’s happening in their environments, so they can investigate threats more quickly and better protect the sensitive data and services their communities rely on. For under-resourced SLED teams, CBX helps:
- Accelerate threat investigations: By combining Threat Tracer, Incident Prediction and Symantec AI-powered summaries, CBX gives lean SLED security teams end-to-end visibility into attack paths, reduces alert fatigue and helps them contain threats faster.
- Enrich investigations with data security insights: CBX brings key data security signals directly into the investigation workflow, helping teams identify potential exposure of personally identifiable information (PII), student records and other sensitive data without requiring a heavy, full-scale data loss prevention (DLP) deployment.
- Deliver essential cloud and web security controls: With capabilities such as Cloud SWG Express, CBX provides essential cloud and web protections for SLED organizations that lack the resources to deploy and manage a full security service edge (SSE) stack, while supporting more consistent security policies across distributed agencies, schools and departments.
That visibility helps SLED organizations keep the public services and educational programs people depend on running, while safeguarding the data their communities entrust to them.
AI That Supports Security Teams
CBX uses AI to help analysts work faster and more effectively. Symantec designed the AI features in CBX to support people, not to replace them.
- Incident Prediction anticipates an attacker’s next four or five actions and automatically disrupts their progress, helping prevent lateral movement, data theft and business disruption.
- Adaptive Protection helps stop living-off-the-land (LOTL) attacks by learning how legitimate tools are normally used by an organization and blocking unusual activity that may indicate an attack.
- Threat Tracer provides a single view of attacker activity across endpoints, networks, SaaS applications and cloud environments. Its visual interface helps both senior and junior analysts quickly understand how an attack started, spread and affected the organization.
- AI-powered Investigation Summaries collect key incident details and present them as clear, actionable guidance. Analysts can quickly understand what happened, assess the impact and take recommended remediation steps without manually piecing together multiple alerts.
Integrated Network and Data Protection
CBX pulls together core capabilities from Symantec Secure Web Gateway and Symantec DLP to help stop threats and protect sensitive data. It integrates data security signals directly into investigations, helping teams identify data exposure without needing to invest in and deploy a full DLP program. CBX also includes web security protections while future-proofing security by safeguarding against “harvest now, decrypt later” attacks that are growing in popularity.
Simpler Operations, Better Outcomes
Security teams often rely on disconnected security tools that require analysts to switch between dashboards and manually connect information. CBX brings telemetry, alerts and investigation context into a single interface, giving every analyst access to the same correlated view of an incident.
With one console and one agent, teams can spend less time managing tools and more time responding to threats. For lean IT teams, that consolidation also minimizes integration, administration and maintenance burdens and reduces dependence on expensive third-party monitoring tools. The results include less tool sprawl, lower Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) ingestion costs, reduced alert fatigue, faster response and an improved ability to meet escalating compliance requirements. The benefits begin immediately with built-in policies that enable faster deployment and quicker time to value.
The Defenses You Need From Experts You Trust
As a member of Broadcom’s Catalyst Partner network, Carahsoft works with an ecosystem of local security experts to help SLED organizations of all sizes achieve better security outcomes.
Contact us for pricing information or to schedule a demo of Symantec CBX and discover what a unified, AI-accelerated XDR platform can do for your agency, school district or campus.
To learn more, sign up for the CBX Fest webinar series and explore in detail the capabilities of CBX.
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