This is the first in a five-part blog series on Managed Detection and Response as it drives strategic security outcomes for businesses.
If there’s one thing the past decade has shown us, it’s that change happens faster than expected. Looking across the modern enterprise, we’ve seen applications become more modular and containerized and data being shared and analyzed in amazing new ways. In addition, infrastructures are more often spread across hybrid multicloud environments.
Source: IBM Security
Changes across each of these domains and a workforce that more often codes from home is a double-edged sword. It puts mounting pressure on security teams to maintain visibility and to detect and respond to threats. Lack of visibility, plus a lack of time, skilled staff and an increase in alert overload, has placed most IT teams on an unstable path.
What is Managed Detection and Response?
Endpoints remain the primary high ground between defenders and attackers. To hold this advantage, security teams need to do multiple things at once. Their jobs require increased accessibility, deeper telemetry, increased remote forensic work and more granular containment and response options. And of course, all this needs to be run by a well-trained team of experts. These driving factors have fueled significant adoption of managed detection and response (MDR) services. According to a recent 2020 study, 94% of respondents not already using an MDR service are currently evaluating or have plans to evaluate MDR over the next 18 months.
In this multipart blog series, we’ll explore how an effective MDR service helps clients achieve their goals through the lenses of four key strategic out ..
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