The service augments in-house security and IT teams’ ability to overcome cybersecurity skills gap and features faster detection and threat elimination, reduced attacker dwell time, and streamlined security operations for improved cyber resilience.
MDR Foundations is delivered through Bitdefender GravityZone Business Security Enterprise unified security platform, which incorporates risk assessment and hardening, prevention, endpoint detection and response (EDR), cross-endpoint threat correlation and extended detection and response (XDR) with sensors that go beyond the endpoint.
MDR Foundations provides any business regardless of size a full managed detection and response security service.
Its key benefits include:
24x7 threat monitoring, detection and response: MDR Foundations helps customers harden environments to help prevent breaches and then monitors for and eliminates threats such as ransomware, zero-days, phishing attempts and more across endpoints, networks and cloud environments. Security analysts in the Bitdefender security operations centre (SOC) lead alert prioritisation, threat analysis, recommendations and response actions.
Proactive human-led threat hunting: Bitdefender threat hunters seek and destroy advanced persistent threats (APTs) residing in systems, investigate anomalous behaviour from internal and outside sources (users and applications) and take into consideration each customer’s industry, technology environment, and most likely threat actors.
Threat hunts apply real-time threat intelligence from Bitdefender Labs and the Bitdefender global network of millions of sensors to guide informed decision-making. With military and law enforcement backgrounds, Bitdefender threat hunters have deep insights into advanced adversarial techniques to stop attacks fast.
Improved security operations: MDR Foundations improves defence and response to threats by enabling MSPs and customers to work side-by-side with Bitdefender security analysts. Key pain points such as alert fatigue, running complex tooling, maintaining data compliance, and establishing security procedures are dramatically reduced or eliminated from day one. A dedicated MDR portal allows clients to connect and communicate with their Bitdefender team 24x7, view alerts, manage endpoints and take recommended actions to contain or eliminate threats all from a single dashboard.
Easy onboarding and service management: The MDR Foundations onboarding process is automated and straightforward with most businesses up and running in less than a day. For MSP partners, Bitdefender offers the ability to onboard and manage multiple customers simultaneously.
“With 76% of ransomware deployments happening after business hours, organisations cannot stop active monitoring of their environments at the end of the business day. Twenty-four-hour monitoring is critical in being able to quickly respond to and contain any security incident,” reads Gartner’s Security Staffing Options for Midsize Enterprises report.
This first appeared in the subscription newsletter CommsWire on 13 July 2022.
