Updated: Sep 26, 2025
Your SIEM raised the login alert, your EDR flagged a script on a laptop, and the incident still moved across two business apps in eight minutes. The gap is not tool count; it is signal quality, workflow, and who owns the response. If your analysts spend their shift triaging noise, the attacker gets dwell time for free.
EDR sits on the endpoint. It records process trees, network calls, and file changes, then blocks or isolates on command. It shines when ransomware starts on a user device in Gurugram or when you need host forensics within minutes. It does not see SaaS admin actions, identity abuse in your IdP, or lateral traffic in the data centre.
SIEM is your time machine and record keeper. It ingests logs from everything: firewalls, IdP, proxies, cloud, mail, and EDR. It correlates, stores, and lets you hunt across months. You need it for audits and retros. You also need engineers who tune parsers, write rules, and prune fields. A SIEM that no one curates becomes a log landfill.
XDR curates high-value signals from endpoint, identity, email, network, and cloud. It stitches them into incidents, enriches with context, and triggers a response across tools. Done well, XDR cuts mean time to detect and mean time to respond because you act from one incident view, not five consoles.
A SaaS firm in Pune ran EDR on 3,000 endpoints and a SIEM that drank every log. Analysts chased false positives and missed mailbox takeovers. The team moved priority signals, IdP risk, email, endpoint, and DNS into XDR. Alert volume dropped 40%, auto-isolate fired during phishing waves, and the SOC worked from one console with ready playbooks.
Ask yourself:
Keep raw and longterm logs in the SIEM for compliance and deep hunts.
Stream normalised, highsignal events into XDR, endpoint, IdP, mail, DNS, proxy, cloud control plane.
Map detections to MITRE ATT&CK, tune by threat model, not by vendor defaults.
Wire SOAR playbooks from XDR, isolate host, disable account, revoke tokens, block domain, open case with context.
Expose one incident queue to the SOC. Kill swivelchair between tools.
A precision manufacturer in Chennai ran a small SOC. Nights were a gap. EDR helped on hosts, SIEM kept logs for audits, response lagged. The firm adopted XDR with managed detection. Playbooks now disable accounts in the IdP, quarantine endpoints, and expire sessions across SaaS. The board reads a dwelltime chart each month, not a raw alert count.
Most partners resell licences. Proactive builds the operating model. We map your attack surface across plants in Pune, delivery centres in Noida, and HQ in Mumbai. We retire duplicate tools, tune detections to your risk, and wire response that your team can run, or that our 24x7 desk can run for you.
As a Cisco Gold Partner, we deploy Cisco XDR when that fit is right, and we integrate with what you already own, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, mail security, and IdP, so your SOC acts from one place.
You can add another console, or you can reduce noise and move faster on incidents that matter. Set a 90-day plan to prove outcome, fewer false positives, faster containment, one incident view, working playbooks. If you want a partner that ships results, Proactive will help you pick the signals that count and close the loop between alert and action.
