DEFEND Guardian XDR

Built on Microsoft Security, DEFEND Guardian XDR is a Managed XDR (MXDR) service solution to investigate, respond and recover to incident alerts and events across your IT landscape. Connect your Microsoft 365, Azure and AWS services into Guardian XDR to increase visibility of incidents and alerts, gain understanding of utilisation and user activity, and to respond to threats as they occur.

DEFEND Guardian XDR is a comprehensive solution that allows organizations to supplement their existing SOC capability or wholly outsource SOC capability to DEFEND's Security Operations Center. Guardian XDR is built on Microsoft Azure and by leveraging Microsoft Sentinel, organizations can bring incidents and alerts from various areas of their Microsoft and non-Microsoft workloads to surface security incidents and events but also gain understanding and insights from the workbook capabilities of Microsoft Sentinel. The key components of our Guardian XDR Service are a layered defence approach with a risk-based approach and threat-aligned context, and orchestrated response using a comprehensive library of playbooks to shorten the window of opportunity for an attacker.

Microsoft Sentinel is a Cloud-Native SIEM built on the Microsoft Azure Platform that provides scalability without constraints from the underlying infrastructure that provides next-generation capability for Corporate and Enterprise. Microsoft Sentinel allows organizations to maximize ROI and reduce TCO with their existing Security investments, particularly with the Microsoft 365 security capability.

DEFEND is a Security Solutions Partner under the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program and the first Microsoft Partner globally to attain all four Security Advanced Specialisations.We have extensive cybersecurity industry experience along with deep Microsoft security expertise to bring tremendous value and insights through our Guardian XDR service to organizations across industries. DEFEND has won the Microsoft NZ Partner of the Year for Security in 2020 and 2021, we won New Zealand Country Partner of the year in 2022. We are a Verified MXDR Partner under the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA) and we are also a member of the DIA Marketplace for Government and Public Sector within New Zealand.