Managed Detection & Response

When it comes to protecting your mission-critical data and information systems, the sophistication of today’s threats requires a more proactive cybersecurity stance than ever. That’s exactly what managed detection and response services are all about.

Organizations across the board can no longer sit back and wait for threats to emerge. Managed detection and response services hunt for threats on a daily basis, and help organizations respond rapidly and effectively to eliminate the threat.

If and when a threat is detected, an experienced MDR partner like RSI Security will provide cyber incident response services that neutralize the threat and remediate any damage. A managed approach to threat detection and security incident response service takes a significant burden off of your internal cybersecurity teams and helps secure your data and systems around the clock.

What is Managed Detection And Response?

As the need for effective and reliable cybersecurity tools increases, many organizations are outsourcing their IT security to managed security service providers (MSSPs). Working with MSSPs, some organizations implement managed detection and response services (MDR).

MDR services complement an organization’s internal security controls to optimize threat detection and enable fast, proactive identification and mitigation of threats before they can materialize into full-blown cyber attacks.

MDR security goes beyond waiting to defend against an impending attack. Instead, top MDR providers will proactively identify threats by leveraging tools such as:

• Threat intelligence
• Security analytics
• Response orchestration
• Cybersecurity monitoring

Implementing managed detection and response services will help you optimize your security posture and stay ahead of security threats. To maximize security ROI with MDR services, seek out an agile approach to threat detection, which detects both existing and emerging threats.

How MDR Works

At its core, MDR functions at the intersection of people, technology, and processes. A robust MDR program will leverage the expertise of a security team and cutting-edge analytics tools and processes to detect, mitigate, and respond to threats in several ways:

• Using threat intelligence tools, MDR security services make informed decisions about which types of threats to anticipate and the most appropriate steps to mitigate these threats.
• With the help of advanced tools such as machine learning, MDR partners will hunt down threats based on known threat signatures, ensuring that threats are promptly discovered before they materialize.
• MDR security services also leverage security monitoring tools to understand threat patterns based on large amounts of collected event data collected via a security information and event management (SIEM) system.
• Once threats are discovered, MDR will initiate an incident response protocol to appropriately address the discovered threat.

MDR security programs work best when implemented by a quality MSSP.