MDR Reimagined & Reinvented
Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service providers must rapidly evolve to keep pace with accelerating technology development and global societal change. The distribution of the workforce and movement from on-premises to cloud has increased exponentially, forming more complex and challenging environments to monitor and protect.
The risk has increased considerably, with a larger attack surface, and a more determined, well-funded, skilled, and persistent set of threat actors than ever before. The first generation of MDR providers lack the requisite agility in their approach, struggling to bring to bear their investments in legacy technologies and making those technologies work effectively in this new world. Too slow to react, too wedded to their physical infrastructure investment; they are trying to make a square peg fit a round hole.
It’s time to take a fresh look at what Is possible and how it can be achieved using the latest tools and approaches on offer. It’s time to refactor for this new world. It’s time to re-evaluate the threat, and how best to defend against it.
The Socura vision
Socura has been born out of this vision for a new approach by two cyber security veterans, Jamie and Andy, who have experienced first-hand the evolution of MDR and have a vision for the future. With a blank slate, our CTO envisaged a world of MDR where the technology was constantly evolving to meet the threat, delivered from the cloud so that the elastic scale and speed of search can be brought to bear on the problem of hunting for malicious activity amongst petabytes of data.
Using the latest technological advances in automation, orchestration, unlimited data consumption, and eXtended Detection & Response (XDR), combined with phishing triage, vulnerability management, and the right human talent, we have built the next generation of distributed SOC from the ground up. Importantly, we have done this with our analyst team shaping the design to ensure that it is optimised both for them and for the clients that we serve.
“We’re values-first people, and that means being right there alongside, lighting the way and making every interaction count on your journey to greater cyber security resilience. To achieve this vision, we’ve invested in market leading technologies that allow us to deliver a superior security operations capability.”
JAMIE BRUMMELL – CTO
eXtended Detection & Response (XDR) – a proactive, joined up approach to threat detection, hunting, and response
Traditional MDR providers take a siloed approach, using different technologies to focus on specific elements of infrastructure. This approach leads to problems with visibility and correlation, resulting in already-overburdened security teams having to pivot between endless streams of events, tools, and information. This results in fatigued staff, security tool & telemetry sprawl, and, worst of all, increased time to detect and respond to threats,
eXtended Detection & Response (XDR) delivers visibility into data across networks, clouds and endpoints while applying analytics and automation to address today’s increasingly sophisticated threats. From a business perspective, XDR supports Socura in preventing successful cyber attacks as well as simplifying and strengthening security processes. This, in turn, enables us to better serve users and accelerate digital transformation initiatives – because when users, data and applications are protected, companies can focus on strategic priorities.
True orchestration and automation – streamlining security processes and connecting disparate security tools
Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) empowers us to efficiently carry out security operations and incident response whilst maintaining the right balance of machine-powered security automation and human intervention.
We aggregate alerts and Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) from detection sources — XDR, SIEM, security analytics solutions, network security tools, threat intelligence feeds, mailboxes and more – before executing automatable, process-driven playbooks to enrich and respond to these incidents.
These playbooks coordinate across technologies, security teams, and external users for centralised data visibility and action. Our security orchestration and automation platform simplifies security operations by unifying automation, case management, real-time collaboration, and threat intelligence management.
Great security analysts for us means great security outcomes for you
The human element of MDR is key to delivering a great security outcome. Technology alone can only take you so far and legacy approaches of building centralised SOC environments greatly restrict the analyst talent pool available based on the geographical location. In an industry where experienced SOC analysts are in short supply, compromises are made.
At Socura, we’ve tackled this head on by building a fully remote team from day one, allowing us to recruit the best talent from any location This gives us a modern, truly distributed SOC environment and a very strong team to run it.
To guarantee that we’ve built the best service possible, we’ve directly incorporated both our analyst team’s experience and customer feedback in the design and build of our SOC systems. This ensures that we deliver the right information, at the right time, in a way that enables us to effectively triage and hunt threats in our customers’ environments.
Unlimited data ingestion & continuous IoC matching – overcoming the critical barriers to security operations: Coverage and Visibility
Security operations teams often report similar challenges, analyst productivity, cost of detection tools, scale, performance, and visibility. Growing infrastructure, more applications, and more security tools mean data volumes are higher than ever before. Today’s security data volumes require a significant infrastructure investment to enable scalable (and swift) analysis. Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Respond (MTTR) – key security metrics – suffer without this capability.
Traditional security analytics pricing models are primarily based on data volume, or number of monitored devices, thereby actually incentivising you to limit the collection and analysis of security-relevant information. As enterprise infrastructure evolves from on-premises to cloud, sufficient coverage and visibility have emerged as critical barriers to effective threat detection & response.
We’ve partnered with Google to remove this limitation. With Socura’s MDR service, there are no compromises. We can ingest all of the security data that your systems generate with no additional cost to you, resulting in complete visibility across all data sources. This data is also retained for 12 months.
Socura can search this massive dataset in milliseconds – as you’d expect from a system that runs on the same underlying architecture as Google Search. We continually and automatically check new IoC against the full year of data we hold. This means that, as new threat intelligence is collected, we can highlight historical matches to aid investigations, provide root cause analysis, – stopping threat actors from reusing the same tactics and techniques to compromise your systems.
About Socura
We’re here to help make the digital world a safer place; changing the way organisations think about cyber security through a dynamic, innovative and human approach. Our forward-thinking services help organisations understand their security risks and posture, detect advanced threats and contain them too.
We’ve developed a service that we have absolute confidence in. Recognising that there’s no one size that’s fits all when it comes to threat detection and response, we’ve developed a flexible, bespoke solution that meets the demands of your business.
Most importantly however, we listen. By taking the time to truly understand the challenges you’re facing and identifying the risks most significant to you, we’re able to make sure investment priorities are always aligned to the strategic outcomes you’re looking for.
We love talking all things cyber security so, If you would like to learn more about Socura or discuss the issues affecting your business, then please get In touch [email protected]