This blog post is part of an ongoing series about evaluating Managed Detection and Response (MDR) providers. For more insights, check out our guide, “10 Things Your MDR Service Must Do.”
Cybersecurity teams continue to be challenged by resource constraints and disconnected toolsets. One method of solving this is to partner with a Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider to strengthen your security operations and detect threats before they become problems.
That won’t always work, though. Focusing on what matters most can be difficult.
As much as you’d like to offload to your managed security services, your team may still need to run internal investigations or use manual processes to respond to threats. You need a way to do more with less and free your team to get some time back.
Even the most adept security teams with the best-in-class MDR provider need ways to respond efficiently to security threats. And while today’s security organizations continuously procure new, best-of-breed software to bolster their programs, many teams often tell us that they struggle to integrate their security tools.
As a result, context switching between a large toolset begets inefficient utilization of work-hours and the underutilization of tools. What’s more, traditional MDR providers do nothing to operationalize a security organization’s stack and often rely on users to take recommendations and remediate on their own.
That’s where automation comes in.
With automation, your team can:
Connect disparate technology solutions so your Security and IT workflow works for you, not the technology.
Respond quickly and effortlessly using automation to lower your mean time to respond ..
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