Arctic Wolf vs Secureworks
Arctic Wolf and Secureworks both serve mid-market and enterprise organizations but from different heritage. Arctic Wolf is a cloud-native startup that pioneered the concierge security model with dedicated named teams. Secureworks is a Dell Technologies spinoff with 25+ years of security operations experience and the Taegis XDR platform. Arctic Wolf replaces your SIEM and assigns a dedicated team; Secureworks provides a more technology-forward XDR platform with flexible managed and co-managed options.
Best fit
Companies with 100-5,000 employees
Enterprise and large mid-market organizations
Operating model
Companies with 100-5,000 employees
Enterprise and large mid-market organizations
Platform
Proprietary cloud SIEM — replaces your SIEM
Taegis XDR platform with open integrations
Team Model
Named concierge security team
Shared SOC with co-managed options
Heritage
Cloud-native startup (founded 2012)
25+ years security operations (Dell heritage)
Detailed comparison
Arctic Wolf SOCaaS · Full SOC · Provider platform Secureworks XDR · Contain threats · Provider platformDecision fit
Service model
SOCaaS, MDR, MSSP
XDR, MSSP, MDR, SOCaaS
Provider involvement
Full SOC
Contain threats
Best for
Mid-Market, Enterprise, SMB
Enterprise, Mid-Market, Government
After an alert
Response level
Investigate alerts
Contain threats
Response detail
Arctic Wolf investigates and provides step-by-step remediation guidance. They can isolate endpoints with your approval.
Secureworks provides full detection, investigation, and incident response through its SOC team, backed by the Counter Threat Unit's elite research.
Team model
Named or dedicated team
Shared SOC team
Stack and coverage
Platform model
Provider platform
Provider platform
SIEM
Arctic Wolf Platform (proprietary)
Taegis XDR (proprietary), Splunk (integration)
EDR
CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender, Carbon Black, Sophos, Cylance
Taegis Endpoint Agent (native), CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender, VMware Carbon Black
Cloud
AWS, Azure, GCP
AWS, Azure, GCP
Coverage areas
Endpoints, Cloud Workloads, Identity & Access, Email, Network, SaaS Applications
Endpoints, Cloud Workloads, Identity & Access, Email, Network, SaaS Applications
Buying signals
Pricing signal
~$10/user/month
Custom enterprise pricing based on organization size and selected services. Contact for quote.
Estimated mid-market cost
$8K-$20K
$10K-$25K
Onboarding
14-30 days
14-30 days
Minimum contract
12 months
12 months
SOC regions
North America
North America, Europe / UK, APAC