The graph database arms race: How Microsoft and rivals are revolutionizing cybersecurity

Multidomain attacks are on the verge of becoming a digital epidemic as nation-states and well-funded cybercrime attack groups look to exploit wide gaps in digital estates’ defenses. Enterprises are having to contend with widening – and often unknown – gaps between enterprise assets, apps, systems, data, identities and endpoints.

The fast-rising pace of attacks is driving a graph database arms race across leading cybersecurity providers. Microsoft‘s Security Exposure Management Platform (MSEM) at Ignite 2024 reflects how quickly the arms race is maturing and why its containment requires more advanced platforms. 

In addition to Microsoft’s MSEM, other key players in the graph database arms race for combating multidomain threats include CrowdStrike with its Threat Graph, Cisco’s SecureX, SentinelOne’s Purple AI, Palo Alto Networks’ Cortex XDR and Trend Micro’s Vision One, alongside providers like Neo4j, TigerGraph and Amazon Neptune who supply foundational graph database technology​.

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