NTT DATA has expanded its partnership with Palo Alto Networks, a global cybersecurity company, to introduce a Managed Extended Detection and Response (MXDR) service aimed at protecting global enterprises from evolving cyber threats. The new MXDR service leverages Palo Alto Networks' Cortex XSIAM, an AI-driven Security Operations Center (SOC) platform.
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AI-Powered Detection and Response
This service provides around-the-clock threat monitoring, detection, and rapid response, leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). It integrates seamlessly across network, cloud, and edge environments, allowing businesses to detect and respond to threats with machine speed.
Gartner Forecasts Global Information Security Spending to Grow 15 percent in 2025. NTT DATA says its new MXDR service is designed to help clients enhance protection across their digital landscape while reducing complexity and costs of fragmented security systems.
Streamlined Security and Reduced Costs
Key benefits of the MXDR platform include AI-powered threat detection, reduced operational complexity, and streamlined security management on a single interface. According to the official release, the service is tailored to meet the needs of industries that rely on secure, connected environments, such as manufacturing, chemical, and pharmaceutical sectors.
"Many organisations rely on fragmented security systems, making it harder to detect advanced threats, and react quickly," said Sheetal Mehta, Global Head of Cybersecurity, NTT DATA. "By partnering with Palo Alto Networks, we're delivering a unified solution that strengthens cyber resilience, streamlines security operations and improves overall agility."
"Organisations today are facing an unprecedented volume of sophisticated cyber threats, across their entire operations," said Kristy Friedrichs, Chief Partnerships Officer, Palo Alto Networks. "With NTT DATA, we are helping organisations transform their SOC through platformisation with XSIAM and expert services, delivering a unified solution that ensures customers can modernise and protect their operations with confidence."
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Expertise to Serve High-Risk Industries
NTT DATA said its new MXDR service offers 24x7 incident detection and response, supported by a global operations team, AI-driven threat intelligence orchestration and automation. This service leverages machine learning for advanced threat detection backed by a team of information security managers, threat hunters, digital forensic experts and certified security professionals.
