Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response vs. Mandiant Managed Defense

[Artic Wolf SOC-as-a-Service is] great if you don't have a large team nor the time to look at all the systems in your network. They monitor 24x7x365 taking that burden away from a reduced IT team.

Incentivized

Managed Defense is a must-have for any organization with limited cybersecurity resources and staff. In Managed Defense you have some of the best threat analyst and incident responders in the world to augment your security capabilities 24/7. It is hard to quantify the value of that piece of mind for a small/medium business.

Incentivized

• Monitoring 365 logins
• Monitoring Windows processes
• Active Directory monitoring

Incentivized

• Integration & Protection-Mandiant provide highest degree of integration with Endpoints, Networks ,email & Cloud and Identity solutions an organization already using
• Strong Protection- Mandiant has best threat landscape technology which provide holistic view of security & Protection.

Incentivized

• Too many independent dashboards to look at (they are working on consolidating)

Incentivized

• Very little opportunities for improvement. Perhaps support for more alert types. Currently, not all alerts reviewed by the in-house CSOC team are in-scope for Managed Defense.

We are a quiet shop with few incidents, however, MD's response to questions and access to our assigned MD consultant is excellent.

Incentivized

Different product and covers the gaps our other products do not address. CheckPoint does not offer the same security monitoring on emails and AD accounts. Ninja One is used mainly as an RMM. Arctic Wolf is just another layer of security with detailed reports and options our other products do not have.

Incentivized

Mandiant MDR includes authorized hands on keyboard response , The defendor experts for Hunting services does not include managed response, only hunting detection and alerting. Unlike Mandiant ,\Microsoft will not offer detection and response based on third party product data. Nor does Microsoft have the capability to add Network detection & response for analyzing both clear and encrypted network traffic.

Incentivized

• I have been informed about Zero days prior to vendors releasing information to the public which has allowed me to patch in advanced of the general release of the information

Incentivized

• 24/7 coverage has been huge - that ROI has allowed the company to refrain from additional internal staffing of CSOC resources.
• There is a significant improvement in time to remediate and recover from incidents.
• Managed Defense has the ability to perform threat hunt exercises and perform enterprise-wide forensics beyond the capabilities of in-house CSOC resources.