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Managed Detection and Response

What is “We Secure” Managed Detection and Response?

A managed detection and response (MDR) service is an outsourced product that identifies threats, equips organizations with threat hunting services and responds to threats if detected. The MDR approach involves a human element: Security providers provide their MDR customers access to their team of threat researchers and engineers, who monitor networks, analyze incidents, and respond to security incidents.

How can MDR address challenges?

  • MDR tackles significant issues that plague modern businesses. Security skills are lacking across organizations, which is the most evident problem. It may be feasible for larger organizations to hire full-time security teams, but most smaller organizations cannot afford to do so given their limited resources.
  • Cyberattacks are a particular risk for medium and large organizations, which often do not have the resources or workforce to respond to such attacks. It can be challenging to find suitable personnel, even when organizations are willing to spend time and money. There were 2 million unfilled cybersecurity positions in 2016, which may rise to 3.5 million by 2022.
  • A significant component of MDR’s security implementation is integrating EDR tools integral to detection, analysis, and response. Enterprises also face challenges when deploying intricate endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions, usually not maximized due to a shortage of time, skills, and funds to train personnel to handle the EDR tools.
  • Security and IT teams regularly receive a large volume of alerts regarding cybersecurity. They often overlook this issue. Security and IT teams cannot readily identify these alerts as malicious and must investigate them individually. The security team also needs to correlate these threats because correlation can reveal if seemingly insignificant indicators are part of a more powerful attack. This work can overwhelm smaller security teams and divert precious time and resources from their other responsibilities.
  • MDR aims to address this problem by detecting threats and analyzing all the aspects and indicators entangled in an alert. MDR also provides recommendations and modifications to the organizations based on the interpretation of security events. One of the essential skills that security professionals need is contextualizing and analyzing indicators of compromise to stand the company against future attacks better. Despite the capabilities of security technologies to block threats, human involvement is needed to dig deeper into the hows, whys, and whats of an incident.
  • MDR addresses the issue of cybersecurity skills gaps in an organization. This solution addresses the problem of advanced threats that the in-house IT team cannot handle, ideally without taking on the additional expense of building up the company’s security team. Additionally, MDR can provide access to tools that generally won’t be available to an organization. This diagram shows what an organization can gain by implementing MDR.

Describe the steps involved in “We Secure MDR”?

The detection
An organization’s network and endpoint data is continuously monitored by “WE SECURE” threat researchers, who perform threat sweeps to identify specific indicators of compromise and then prioritize threats based on those findings

The analysis
The detection and prioritization of potential threats are completed by qualified personnel at the security operations center (SOC), who then investigate the origin and scope of the attack and draw detailed conclusions about the threat and its impact.

The response
We Secure threat researchers analyze the incident, mitigation recommendations, and technical tools to help organizations remediate the situation in response to such incidents.