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Alan Gleeson March 24, 2022
What is Advantio Managed Detection & Response - MDR?
With every day passing there is news of yet more cyber threats and as a result, organizations remain on alert seeking to stay abreast of the latest developments. Colleagues are reminded of the need to change passwords frequently and to update patches as and when they come available. However, there is a lot more going on behind the scenes to protect data on a daily basis.
In some ways, the context is more challenging than ever before due to a range of different factors. For example, the attack footprint is much larger as so many people are now working from home, and accessing data via their computers outside of a controlled corporate environment.
As companies look to resource up, they are faced with several additional key challenges.
Key Challenges:
As a result of these factors, a growing number of companies are outsourcing their Managed Detection and Response (MDR) capabilities to dedicated SOC’s.
Security Operations Centre - A Definition
A Security Operations Centre is a dedicated unit housed in a secure center that consists of specialist cyber experts equipped with the latest tools designed to reduce cyber risk and keep enterprises secure by focusing primarily on threat detection.
In recent years, there has been a growing trend for companies to outsource their MDR requirements to dedicated SOC’s to manage the risk on their behalf.
“MDR services are designed to reduce the time between detecting and responding to threats. Additional security operations functions, such as exposure management, cloud security, digital forensics and incident response (DFIR), and log management have emerged to complement the threat monitoring, detection and response offerings.” (Gartner)
Modern SOC:
A Modern SOC consists of a Managed detection and response service that provides clients with a remote service delivered via a modern security operations center (MSOC).
The SOC is configured to monitor and rapidly detect any threats and to ensure robust and timely mitigation protecting the clients’ infrastructure alongside containment services to isolate any threats.
“MDR service providers deliver these capabilities using technologies — at the endpoint, network, application and, increasingly, cloud services layers — that generate or collect security log data and alerts. In addition, telemetry provides contextual information (for example, identity and user, vulnerabilities and business-criticality) to improve and validate threat detection. They apply threat intelligence. Threat hunting augments real-time threat detection. It can find attackers employing tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) that have avoided customers’ prevention and detection capabilities, or validate the nonexistence of a threat in an environment.” (Gartner)
Features Include:
Advantio MDR
The following represent some of the key elements of Advantio’s MDR.
So what are some of the key benefits of outsourcing security to an MDR provider?
Key Results
Summary
Outsourced MDR is growing in popularity as a solution for clients keen to improve their cyber security coverage. MDR includes a broader set of technologies and coverage compared to traditional EDR services. MDR focuses primarily on threat monitoring, detection and response. With Advantio’s MDR service, we deliver the most scalable, secure, and fully PCI DSS compliant platform.
Our Managed Security Services can include design, monitoring, and management of the IT infrastructure assets, depending on which service elements the customer chooses. In terms of threat hunting, this is a human-centric activity and aims to prevent attacks before they happen. Finally, we provide our services by way of shared infrastructure, dedicated infrastructure, and virtualized applications
To learn more about Advantio’s Managed Detection and Response Service please schedule a call.
Alan Gleeson is the Chief Marketing Officer for Advantio. He has a passion for helping companies grow through the application of marketing best practices and a philosophy based on focusing on the cumulative gains from applying continuous improvements to all aspects of the business.
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