Socura’s Award Winning Managed Detection and
Response service
Our MDR service offers a 24/7 proactive threat detection, hunting and response capability that identifies and contains cyber threats in near real-time.
Why should I consider Managed
Detection and Response?
The Socura service is designed to protect organisations of all sizes from data breaches, reduce attacker dwell time, and negate the impact of any malicious activity on your business operations. To make this happen, we must collect the right data at the right time – with no compromises.
We will consume all of your security telemetry, with no limit on volume, and use the latest advancements in security analytics technology combined with a highly skilled and experienced team to analyse your data, identify what’s bad, and take action to stop it.
Core pillars of our service
Expert Analysts
Extended Detection & Response
True Orchestration & Automation
Security Analytics + Unlimited Log Ingestion
Our Approach to MDR
The service acts as a trusted extension of your in-house capability and is operated by a team of highly experienced security experts. Our analysts work in partnership with you to detect and defend against cyber threats.
Discover
Understand what assets your organisation holds. You can’t protect what you can’t see.
Advise
We help reduce the attack surface and deploy relevant detection rules mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.
Detect
Our service analyses telemetry and spots anomalous patterns indicating unauthorised activity.
Respond
We respond swiftly and effectively to a cyber incident – mitigating any impact to your organisation.
The Challenges with First Gen MDR
Adopting an MDR service provides outsourced security expertise where in-house skills may be lacking, and it resolves the major financial and management headache of finding and retaining skilled SOC analysts, and kitting out a SOC with the requisite tech. However, there are problems with what we’ll call the “first gen” of MDR providers, which are too often wedded to legacy technology and rigid, outdated approaches. These include:
- Threat detection using siloed data sets – Visibility gaps can occur, making it harder for analysts to correlate and prioritise events and alerts pertaining to threats.
- A lack of orchestration and automation – Opens the door to extra complexity, human error, slow & manual response.
- Building and maintaining infrastructure – If they’re not using public cloud infrastructure or SaaS for their tech stack, they’ll need a dedicated infrastructure engineering team. Should you be paying for your provider’s inefficiencies?
- Many MDR providers will limit data collection – Because their costs usually increase the more data is collected and stored. The MDR provider will therefore try to balance cost against risk by choosing to ingest specific data in specific volumes and hope to catch most threats.
- No historical insight into data – It means they’re only looking for signs of recent malicious activity but can’t see far enough back for root cause analysis.
There is a Better Way
Our people-centric approach is what sets us apart. Technology can only take you so far and legacy approaches of building centralised SOC environments can greatly restrict the analyst talent pool available based on their proximity to a specific geographic 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 nationally distributed, fully remote SOC environment in which we can recruit the best talent from any location. This optimises the experience for team members and clients alike and frees us to select, train and mature the best talent in the industry.
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