EY CyberDefense System

Solution overview

EY CyberDefense System — supported by Microsoft security and cloud technologies — is designed to help enhance organizational resilience by proactively identifying and mitigating sophisticated threats. It integrates seamlessly with Microsoft security and cloud technologies to provide continuous protection and clear visibility into risk exposure:

• Content hub is a repository of threat detection content—developed, tested and validated by EY research and development (R&D). It helps empower organizations to detect threats more accurately, rapidly, and at scale through analytic rules, machine learning (ML) queries, automation playbooks, and strategic or operational dashboards. It provides continuous development of content.
• Data and analytics platform (designed by EY teams) powers high-speed threat detection and intelligence by streamlining data pipeline processing, analytics and storage-enabling rapid, scalable insights. It enhances detection accuracy and operational and cost efficiency.
• Management interface provides a unified, multi-tenant view of the security posture, which enables streamlined deployment and real-time health monitoring while providing efficient security content distribution across all managed environments.

Solution benefits

EY CyberDefense System detects and responds to sophisticated threats. Its architecture and capabilities offer strategic and operational advantages:

• Proactive threat detection: Continuous detection content which helps enable organizations to identify and respond to advanced threats before they escalate
• True risk visibility: Strategic dashboards and operational data to assist in enhancing security posture visibility, supporting long-term planning and day-to-day decision-making
• Threat content hub: Detection rules, ML queries, and automation playbooks repository developed by EY R&D, enabling faster and accurate threat detection
• Unified management interface: Built on advanced Microsoft security tools suite — Endpoint Detection, security information and event management (SIEM) and ML — which leverages an integrated ecosystem for comprehensive threat coverage
• Continuous improvement through testing: Efficacy of detection and response capabilities, helping ensure intelligence remains effective against evolving threats
• Operational efficiency at scale: Features like click-to-deploy integration, centralized content distribution and health monitoring to simplify deployment and maintenance across environments