Managed detection and response

Introduction

MDR is a comprehensive approach to cyber security that uses tools and expertise to help organizations quickly identify, contain and eliminate threats. The MDR service provider monitors your network 24/7 for suspicious activity, detects and classifies threats, then works with you to effectively respond to the issue. Depending on the nature of the threat, they may also suggest long-term solutions that could include new or enhanced policies, training employees on security best practices, or updating legacy systems.

What is MDR?

In cyber security, managed detection and response (MDR) is a complete solution for proactive protection, detection and response. It helps you automate your existing defenses to prevent attacks and detect threats earlier in the kill chain. MDR can help enhance your existing defenses by providing end-to-end threat prevention, detection and response capabilities for organizations experiencing a security skills shortage or lacking resources to develop a fully functional MDR program.

Continous Monitoring

Managed detection and response (MDR) is a complete solution for proactive protection, detection, and response. It allows you to focus on your core business by providing 24/7 monitoring and analysis of IT systems as well as delivering insights quickly.

Managed Detection and Response (MDR) refers to an approach where organizations employ security analysts that proactively detect the presence of malicious software (malware), conduct forensic analysis if malware has been detected and take appropriate action against it. In addition, these specialists can also provide recommendations on how to prevent future attacks from affecting your organization’s infrastructure or data assets.

MDR Enhances Security Defenses

While MDR is not designed to replace your security team or automated solutions like endpoint detection and response (EDR), it can help enhance your existing defenses. By providing an additional layer of protection, you’ll be able to get more value out of your existing investments in antivirus and other security solutions by reducing their workload. This will allow them to focus on more strategic areas for detection, such as advanced persistent threats.

MDR also provides benefits that go beyond detecting malware infections:

• It enables organizations to detect attacks on endpoints before they cause significant damage or impact business operations.
• It helps make sure that critical systems are protected from zero-day attacks; malware outbreaks can be contained faster than ever before.

MDR helps in the early detection of cyber threats and allows organizations to respond more quickly and effectively.

MDR provides organizations with a holistic view of all threats across their network, which can help detect and respond to threats in real time. By managing all relevant security events as they occur, MDR allows you to respond faster and more accurately than when using traditional means of detection.

• Responding with speed: The majority of cyber attacks are carried out by sophisticated actors who have the resources to take advantage of any delay between detection and response. MDR gives your organization the ability to identify and respond to threats quickly—in some cases within seconds or minutes—and thus reduce the impact that an incident has on your business processes or systems.
• Reducing false positives: While traditional detection tools often generate dozens or hundreds of false positives every day, MDR filters these out so that only genuine alerts are passed along for further investigation. Reducing manual labor: While investigating low-severity alerts manually is better than ignoring them completely (as many firms do), this approach requires investment in staff training and operational costs at a time when budgets are already tight—and it still requires significant manual effort on behalf of IT administrators who must evaluate each alert individually before passing it along for further evaluation.

With the right MDR platform, organizations can effectively reduce mean time to insight and mean time to resolution, which is critical to addressing the skills shortage in cybersecurity.

Mean time to insight (MTTI) is the amount of time it takes to detect a threat. It’s the number of hours between when an attack begins and when it’s discovered.

MTTR, on the other hand, is the amount of time it takes to resolve an incident once you’ve detected one. It’s also known as mean time between failures (MTBF). If your organization has experienced a breach, then MTTI would be how long before you knew about it; if there was a virus in your network that was infecting computers but wasn’t being detected by antivirus software, then MTTR would be how long before someone noticed something was wrong with their machine or device and reported it.

Some aspects of MDR overlap with those of an MSSP, while others are uniquely their own.

MDR is a subset of MSSP and thus shares many of the same characteristics. It’s also a subset of EDR, SIEM and XDR, which means it has overlaps with all four as well.

A managed MDR platform can help reduce mean time to insight and mean time to resolution, as well as help organizations respond more quickly and effectively to threats.

Conclusion

MDR is a robust solution that provides end-to-end threat prevention, detection and response capabilities for organizations experiencing a security skills shortage. MDR can help you strengthen your defenses through the use of remote monitoring, analysis, and threat hunting by certified security professionals. With an MDR service like those provided by HostBreach, it’s easier than ever before to protect your critical systems from targeted cyber attacks.