Awareness with Managed Detection & Response

Cybersecurity is past the point of being optional; it is essential. With Managed Detection & Response (“MDR”), your business will improve the security, insight and compliance that your organization needs without having to build and staff a security practice. MDR is the pathway to a strong cybersecurity foundation that leverages the expertise of highly trained professionals and top-tier technology solutions.

What is Managed Detection & Response?

MDR is a 24/7/365 service that provides layers of cybersecurity protection for your business. This platform includes advanced data analytics with Security Incident Event Management (SIEM), continual network and endpoint monitoring by SOC analysts, proactive threat detection and expert investigation of incidents. 

SIEM, in particular, is a tool that allows visibility into the IT security of an organization. Capabilities of a SIEM system include:

• Log management – for the collection and monitoring of irregularities.

• Event correlation – to recognize the connection between questionable activities.

• Threat identification – to continually analyze the infrastructure to identify any malicious activity.

• Reporting – to design custom reports to get the correct data to the appropriate people.

• Incident response – to quickly accumulate data related to a potential incident.

• Threat intelligence – for providing access to data on global threats and attacks.

Why do firms need it?

Expense - Breaches are increasing in costs at an alarming rate. Detailed information retrieved and analyzed from a correctly tuned SIEM platform can help lessen the investigation time from weeks to days. This will reduce the forensics investigation and recovery costs. 

Recovery – With detailed security log data readily available and a team of experts in your corner, your business can recover significantly faster from an incident. Finding patient zero and correlating lateral movement without a SIEM in place significantly delays moving to the recovery phase of an incident.

Realization – If an incident occurs, your organization will receive questions on what SIEM solution is currently in place. If the answer is “we don’t have one,” the realization that you would be in a better position if you did will become clear.

Businesses of all sizes and across all verticals need to take the time to evaluate a comprehensive Managed Detection and Response strategy. It’s time to make IT Security part of your Business Continuity Plan. 

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