Managed Detection & Response offers Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) as a service. While EDR utilises technology and tools to monitor, log, and record events from nearly any manner of endpoint activity, MDR can provide the expert threat analysis needed to help contextualise this data and empower teams to take action on the threats that matter most. Perhaps the biggest benefit of MDR versus EDR is that MDR can help speed time-to-detection and time-to-response or remediation, all without adding staff or headcount.

With the proliferation of acronyms in cybersecurity, this is a very common question.

Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) are tools, technologies, or products that monitor and record or log data from your endpoints (your endpoints are simply the physical devices that connect to and communicate with your network, such as laptops, printers, smartphones, tablets, servers, etc.). EDR tools can enable monitoring, provide visibility into endpoint health, and assist with threat detection, hunting, investigation, and analysis. The key takeaway here is that EDR only enables monitoring of your endpoint data and still requires skilled teams to manage, analyse, and respond.

Extended Detection & Response (XDR) are tools or technologies or products that go beyond endpoint data to ingest or include additional sources of data from anywhere in the security stack, including network, email, cloud, and more, and can potentially unify the view and streamline analysis. The key here is that XDR permits broader data to be included and that both EDR and XDR are tools and capabilities. The key to their efficacy in any cybersecurity application is the people driving them.

Managed Detection & Response (MDR), however, can deliver either EDR or XDR as a service, meaning the provider supplies the skilled expertise to help implement, monitor, analyse, threat hunt, remediate, and respond. Because of the expertise driving the toolsets, most MDR clients should expect a 50% or greater reduction in MTTD and MTTR.

While endpoint data is monitored most often— devices like laptops, printers, smartphones, tablets, and servers—any data across the security stack can be included to extend round-the-clock monitoring and response to data from networks, email, cloud, and more.

The MDR solution is priced with accessibility and scalability in mind—you won’t see the types of large minimums with MDR. For inquiries, please email MDRsales@Coalitioninc.com.

One of the best benefits of Coalition Incident Response's (CIR) MDR solution is the expertise we bring to help you monitor and respond to even the most sophisticated cyber attacks. Data and tools can be helpful, but it’s nearly impossible for a single analyst to keep up with the latest and emerging threat vectors and attacks. The MDR team lives in real-world cyber attacks every day, and they put that knowledge toward helping clients respond to cyber attacks faster—or even prevent them and their impact entirely.

Security teams are often inundated with signs, signals, and alerts from any number of tools, making cutting through the noise challenging and often overwhelming. The MDR team’s expertise is in understanding which signs and signals indicate potential compromise and how to respond and remediate quickly. We help you stay one step ahead of the attacks by alerting you of the risks, vulnerabilities, and signals that others may have missed or ignored

Expert threat hunters employs a collection of technologies to help you better protect your business, including EDR and XDR tools like SentinelOne®, enterprise-grade cyber risk management platforms like Coalition Control, and more. The MDR team augments our use of these tools with Coalition’s Data Advantage, which brings real-world infosec, incident, and claims data to better inform how you can use these tools to help better protect your business from even the most sophisticated cyber attacks and their impact.