Enterprise

What is MDR and how will it benefit your business?

Zen Oct 10 2022

Managed Detection and Response (MDR) supported by Kroll can help mitigate security risks through advanced threat intelligence.

It’s a comprehensive approach that covers all environments including endpoints, premises and the cloud, helping businesses to identify and reduce the risks of multiple threats.

Combining technology and human expertise, an MDR service can detect and deal with threats against your business before they become damaging. This endpoint detection and response (EDR) tool can help to ensure visibility of security threats, providing advanced and up to date threat intelligence and analytics, along with a crucial human element for triage, response and threat removal.

Why MDR?

For most businesses, cyber security is a balance between effective solutions and budget, staff, time and a range of other considerations.

MDR can help overcome or mitigate many challenges that might stand in the way of effective security, including:

Talent and resources

Keeping a fully staffed, fully equipped security team is challenging enough. Ensuring that team has continual access to the latest tools and intelligence adds another layer of difficulty, especially in an ever-evolving threat landscape.

Whether you lack the resources in terms of people or the time to effectively manage the security tools at your disposal, MDR provides a robust layer of security that you simply don’t need to worry about.

Constant attention

The 24/7 nature of MDR means that security threats are being monitored around the clock. And the fact that much of this monitoring is automated means that the risk of missing something important due to human fatigue is reduced.

Only those threats determined serious enough will be raised for more focused support and remediation. False positives will be filtered out before they ever require your attention, leaving more time for meaningful use of your resources.

Time to value

A well-implemented MDR service provides significantly shorter time to value than other security solutions. Factors like installation, setup and staff training won’t hinder the almost immediate value that MDR can offer. Once it’s set up, your MDR service will start working for you right away.

Improved visibility

MDR can centralise security visibility across your whole business, from network to cloud to distributed endpoints. Wherever a threat emerges, you’ll be able to detect it and manage it.

How it works

A four-step process ensures that effective detection and response are central to your cybersecurity setup.

Step 1: Ingestion

The process begins with the collection of telemetry from across your networks and endpoints, which is then analysed using advanced machine learning and behavioural detection engines, applying the latest threat intelligence.

Step 2: Analytics

Detected threats are enriched to provide meaningful and actionable insight, painting a more contextual picture of the threat to your business.

Step 3: Investigation

This is where the automation gives way to real security experts who will use the initial findings to thoroughly investigate the threat and flag those that require additional attention. Flagged events will be raised to an expert security team.

Step 4: Response

Finally, response and remediation steps are taken to contain and eliminate threats before they are able to cause damage or disruption to your business.

The business benefits of MDR

With 24/7 detection and elimination of security threats, the benefits to organisations are obvious. MDR can provide an additional layer of security, expert support and vastly reduced time to respond.

Threat visibility

An MDR service will provide visibility of threats across a range of environments from endpoints to networks, cloud to on-premises, 24-hours a day, 7 days a week.

Continual detection

New cyber threats are emerging all the time, but thanks to the latest tools and threat intelligence, you’ll be ready to respond to a constantly evolving threat landscape.

Expertise provided

With all the technology and security expertise provided, you won’t need a dedicated in-house team for round-the-clock threat detection. That means more time to focus on other areas while detection and response is taken care of.

Rapid response

Observing potential threats is only one part of the package. Your MDR service will ensure that harmless notifications are filtered out, while genuine threats are acted on swiftly and decisively.

Increased efficiency

By taking care of the identification, processing and escalation of threats, your expert support will reduce the critical time it takes to deal with genuine threats, reducing your reaction time from days or weeks to minutes.