Many organizations, from the smallest to the largest, are working with managed detection and response (MDR) providers to up-level their cybersecurity. Demand for MDR is increasing as attack surfaces grow, cloud usage surges and the cybersecurity skills gap widens.
Gartner predicts that “By 2025, 50% of organizations will be using MDR services for threat monitoring, detection and response functions that offer threat containment capabilities.” Organizations use MDR to reduce risk and enable them to sleep easy at night knowing they have continuous 24/7 coverage from a team of experts. Until recently, MDR services focused primarily on endpoint detection and response, but with the growing popularity of XDR, MDR services are now also available to cover the entire extended enterprise.
Enterprises spend a median of 37 days and a mean of $2.4 million to find and recover from a breach, according to Forrester. Detecting and responding to threats consistently, quickly and effectively helps contain them before damage and business disruption can be done. The right MDR provider brings expertise, focused telemetry and processes that deliver context, insights and visibility so your team can make accurate, fast decisions to contain and mitigate threats.
Today we launched our Unit 42 MDR service, a Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Service for Cortex XDR, delivered by the Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 team.
This service is designed to deliver continuous 24/7 threat detection, investigation and response/remediation to customers of all sizes globally. This allows your team to scale fast and focus on what matters most to you. With the Unit 42 MDR service, Unit 42 experts will work for you to protect against cyber attacks 24/7.
This Unit 42 MDR Service uniquely leverages technology, data, processes and expertise.
There is growing customer demand for MDR globally. The reality is that companies are looking for help to manage the complexity of the current threat landscape and growing attack surface. Many customers have turned to us as their trusted security provider of choice. Launching an MDR service built on our product, Cortex XDR is the logical next step for us in extending our services with a complete end-to-end managed security service.
The Unit 42 MDR service is based on Cortex XDR, so our Unit 42 analysts have unmatched visibility into all data sources (endpoint, network, cloud and identity) to quickly identify and stop malicious activity most likely to impact your organization. Because this MDR service is built on Cortex XDR, it is optimized to not just prioritize alerts, but to massively reduce the number of alerts received, so our analysts can focus on response and remediation.
Unit 42 MDR provides multiple ways to transform your security operations:
This MDR service will give you added layers of expertise and protection. Attackers are humans and continually adapt to defeat countermeasures. Adding human expertise and proactive threat hunting, in addition to a leading EDR/XDR technology, will allow you to detect more suspicious activity than you would otherwise. And, it brings added protection, experience and context, so you can make more accurate decisions.
We understand that customers have a wide variety of needs and we are continuing to grow our large ecosystem of XMDR partners empowered with the most comprehensive XDR – Cortex XDR. Our certified XMDR partners are located globally and offer a broad range of managed services built on Cortex XDR, including local language capabilities. Customers now have an even broader choice of MDR offerings built on the best-in-class protection of Cortex XDR to help combat cyber attacks.
Join our webinar "Forward Together: Cortex XDR and Unit 42 MDR" to learn how Cortex XDR and Unit 42 MDR can help secure your organization.
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