Mandiant Managed Defense vs. Taegis ManagedXDR

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

Taegis ManagedXDR is well suited for endpoint XDR and SaaS/Cloud integrations.

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

• Real-time notification
• Real-time reporting
• Accessible Dashboard from any connected device
• Highly secure portal

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.

• Improve reporting of existing configuration
• Have a dedicated team of support engineers who know my network and traffic flow
• Provide training for the new dashboard and portal

Incentivized

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

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

SecureWorks provides a feature rich solution right sized for our business needs. They provide full solution support, which includes hardware, maintenance, support, operations monitoring, notification and reporting, all managed through a universally available portal. Other companies we considered, offered similar offerings but with a much higher cost. Some of the other solutions would have required the addition of internal staff to keep the system running.

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.

• Increase Security posture
• Improve Brand Image with MDR

Incentivized