From Asset Profile to Response: How Fidelis Accelerates MTTR

July 29 • 5:40 pm

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In cybersecurity, time isn’t just money, it’s everything. The longer it takes to detect and respond to an incident, the greater the damage to data, operations, and brand reputation. That’s why organizations today are laser-focused on reducing MTTR (Mean Time to Respond).

But here’s the catch: you can’t respond to threats you don’t fully understand. And you can’t understand threats without first understanding your assets.

This is where Fidelis Security steps in. By combining real-time asset profiling, contextual threat detection, and automated response capabilities, Fidelis helps you reduce MTTR without sacrificing depth or accuracy. In this blog, we’ll explore how moving from asset discovery to action using a risk-based, context-driven approach can dramatically accelerate your incident response and improve your SOC’s efficiency.

Why Asset Profiling Matters to Reduce MTTR

Let’s be honest, responding to threats isn’t just about having the best tools or the fastest alerts. It’s about knowing what exactly is at risk.

That’s where asset profiling comes in. You can’t protect what you don’t know exists. And in most organizations, there are hundreds, sometimes thousands, of devices, systems, and applications running at any given time. Some are critical to the business; others are just quietly sitting there, until they’re not.

Now imagine this: your security team gets an alert. Sounds urgent. But without context, like which asset is involved, who owns it, how important it is to the business, you’re left guessing.

Is it a false alarm or a real threat?Do we respond now or later?Do we isolate, investigate, or ignore?

All this confusion adds up, and eats into your Mean Time to Respond (MTTR).

On the other hand, if you already have a clear profile of the asset, its purpose, risk level, connections, past behavior—your team can act fast and with confidence. That’s the difference asset profiling makes. It turns noise into clarity, and hesitation into action.

And when time is of the essence in cybersecurity, that’s how you bring your MTTR down, without burning out your SOC team or drowning in alerts.

The Challenge: IT Asset Risks Are Evolving

Modern IT environments are complex, think hybrid infrastructure, BYOD, IoT, remote endpoints, and ephemeral cloud assets. This complexity makes IT asset risks harder to manage and introduces gaps in traditional asset inventory management systems.

Without real-time visibility, even the best detection systems can’t provide accurate threat prioritization. This leads to:

False positives eating up SOC time Delayed detection of genuine threats Misaligned response priorities

In other words, without real-time asset visibility, your MTTR stays high. And high MTTR means increased exposure and potential damage.

From Visibility to Action: The Fidelis Advantage

Fidelis helps solve this problem at the root, by giving you deep visibility into your IT assets and enabling risk-based asset protection from day one. Let’s break this down:

1. Comprehensive Asset Discovery and Classification

Fidelis Elevate begins with automated asset discovery across all layers, network, endpoint, cloud, and email. But it doesn’t stop there. Each asset is profiled in context, meaning Fidelis understands:

The role and criticality of the asset Associated user and access privileges Vulnerability exposure and exploitability Behavioral patterns across time

This rich profiling becomes the foundation for asset-based threat detection.

2. Context-Driven Risk Mitigation

Once assets are profiled, Fidelis continuously assesses their risk levels in real time. This includes:

Mapping vulnerabilities to asset value Correlating behavior to peer baselines Flagging anomalous or high-risk activity

This asset risk assessment allows Fidelis to support a context-driven risk mitigation strategy. Instead of reacting to alerts blindly, your SOC knows exactly which asset is affected, how critical it is, and what action should be taken.

This leads to smarter decisions and faster ones.

3. Risk-Based Asset Response

Fidelis doesn’t just alert, it enables response. By integrating asset risk data with automated detection workflows, Fidelis supports risk-based asset response, allowing your team to:

Prioritize incidents by asset criticality Contain threats based on real-time asset context Automate responses to reduce manual triage

With this approach, MTTR is no longer just a metric, it becomes a measurable competitive advantage.

Your guide to faster, smarter decisions when every second counts.

Building a Framework for Asset Risk Management

A proactive security strategy requires more than tools, it requires a clear asset risk management framework. Here’s how Fidelis supports each stage of the journey:

StageFidelis Capability

Asset DiscoveryReal-time visibility across endpoints, networks, and cloudAsset ProfilingContextual asset metadata: user, role, vulnerabilitiesAsset Risk AssessmentContinuous scoring based on behavior and exposureThreat DetectionML-driven alerts based on asset profilesIncident ResponseAutomated workflows based on asset risk and criticality

This structured approach ensures SOC efficiency, your team focuses on what matters most, instead of drowning in alert fatigue.

Reducing MTTR in Real-World Scenarios

Let’s look at how Fidelis helps reduce MTTR in practice:

Use Case 1: Shadow IT Threats

Unknown devices appear on your network. Traditional tools may miss them, but Fidelis auto-discovers these rogue assets and immediately profiles them, revealing they’re outdated, vulnerable, and communicating with suspicious domains. Response actions are triggered in seconds.

Result: Threat contained before lateral movement. MTTR slashed from hours to minutes.

Use Case 2: Phishing and Credential Theft

An employee clicks on a phishing email. The malicious login attempt is flagged, but instead of treating it in isolation, Fidelis links it to a critical finance server the user recently accessed. Based on asset value and anomaly scoring, the incident is escalated, and access is automatically revoked.

Result: High-risk incident detected and contained with minimal human intervention.

Use Case 3: Cloud Misconfigurations

A misconfigured S3 bucket is exposed. Fidelis detects the unusual activity based on behavior anomalies and asset classification. The cloud asset is flagged, and a remediation workflow is initiated via integration with cloud security tools.

Result: Potential data leak blocked before exploitation.

The Fidelis Security Solutions Stack

Fidelis offers a full suite of integrated tools to support this journey:

Fidelis Elevate®: Unified XDR platform combining asset discovery, threat detection, and automated response.

Fidelis Network®: Deep network visibility with DPI and encrypted traffic inspection.

Fidelis Endpoint®: Endpoint detection with behavioral analytics and remote response.

Fidelis Deception®: Lures attackers to decoys, buying response time and exposing adversaries.

Final Thoughts: Why It’s Time to Rethink MTTR

Reducing MTTR isn’t just about buying faster tools. It’s about changing your mindset, from chasing alerts to understanding your assets. When your SOC knows what each asset is, what it does, and what it’s worth, response becomes faster, smarter, and more impactful.

Fidelis gives you the visibility, context, and control you need to accelerate every step, from asset profiling to incident response.

The result? Lower MTTR. Higher confidence. Stronger security.

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