NTT Data has announced an expanded partnership with Palo Alto Networks, to help global enterprises safeguard their digital infrastructures from emerging cybersecurity threats, spanning from the cloud to the farthest edge of enterprise environments.
The collaboration introduces NTT Data’s Managed Extended Detection Response Service (MXDR), offering continuous threat monitoring, detection and rapid response capabilities. Leveraging AI and machine learning, the service provides visibility across networks, edge and cloud environments, enabling organizations to stay ahead of evolving cyberthreats.
The service is powered by Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSIAM, the industry’s leading security operations center (SOC) platform. Cortex XSIAM is an AI-driven platform that transforms the SOC, by harnessing the power of AI and automation to simplify operations, stop threats at scale, and accelerate incident remediation.
These combined capabilities are designed to help enterprises strengthen their cyber resilience by integrating innovative technologies and threat intelligence with global security expertise, significantly reducing the time needed to detect and respond to sophisticated cyber threats. Clients benefit from a unified view of data and security operations on a single platform to streamline operations and prevent threats.
With “worldwide end-user spending on information security projected to total $212-billion in 2025, an increase of 15.1% from 2024,” according to Gartner, NTT Data’s new service help clients enhance protection across their digital landscape while reducing complexity and costs of fragmented security systems.
“As we navigate an increasingly complex and evolving cybersecurity landscape, the combination of NTT Data’s Managed Detection Response Service and Palo Alto Networks’ Cortex XSIAM provides businesses with a powerful defense against emerging threats,” says Marc Jessiman, vice-president technology solutions at NTT Data Middle East and Africa.
“Our integrated approach leverages cutting-edge AI and machine learning technologies, delivering continuous threat monitoring and rapid incident response. This partnership not only enhances visibility across the entire digital infrastructure but also simplifies security operations, empowering enterprises to proactively adapt and safeguard their assets.
“Together, we’re committed to enabling organisations to meet the challenges of today’s cyber environment with confidence and resilience.”
Kristy Friedrichs, chief partnerships officer at Palo Alto Networks, says: “Organisations today are facing an unprecedented volume of sophisticated cyber threats, across their entire operations. 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 modernize and protect their operations with confidence.”
NTT Data’s new MXDR service offers 24×7 incident detection and response, supported by a global operations team, AI-driven threat intelligence orchestration and automation. This highly modernised service leverages machine learning for advanced threat detection backed by a team of skilled information security managers, threat hunters, digital forensic experts and certified security professionals.