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Providers listing MDR. Compare monitoring scope, response ownership, and what your team still owns.
24/7 MDR through Arctic Wolf's Aurora platform, Concierge Security Team guidance and supported Active Response containment workflows
SMB / Mid-Market · Endpoints
24/7 triage, managed threat hunting and remote containment by CrowdStrike on the Falcon platform
Enterprise / Mid-Market · Endpoints
Managed endpoint, identity, and SIEM monitoring with human SOC investigation, incident reports, and supported containment actions inside the Huntress platform.
SMB / MSP/MSSP · Endpoints
24/7 MDR that investigates supported security telemetry and can run response playbooks through existing tools
Mid-Market / Enterprise · Endpoints
24/7 managed detection, investigation, threat hunting and response through Sophos Central and supported integrations
SMB / Mid-Market · Endpoints
A co-managed security operations platform that combines SIEM-style log collection, UEBA, SOAR automation, compliance reporting and 24/7 MDR support
SMB / Mid-Market · Endpoints
24/7 MDR over Alert Logic's own platform, with exposure management, log collection, SOC triage and optional Managed WAF coverage
SMB / Mid-Market · Endpoints
24/7 Managed XDR across selected Barracuda and third-party security controls, with SOC triage and scope-dependent automated response
SMB / Mid-Market · Endpoints
Binary Defense engineers and analysts help operate customer-owned SIEM, XDR and endpoint tools with 24/7 monitoring, detection tuning, alert triage, investigation, threat hunting context and response guidance.
Mid-Market / Enterprise · Endpoints
24/7 SOC investigation, threat hunting, reporting and pre-approved containment through Bitdefender GravityZone
SMB / Mid-Market · Endpoints
24/7 managed detection and response through Blackpoint's CompassOne platform, with SOC investigation, endpoint and cloud coverage, active containment, MSP workflow integrations and optional posture, logging and application-control modules.
MSP/MSSP / SMB · Endpoints
24/7 MDR and co-managed SOC support with alert triage, investigation, detection content, threat intelligence, approved response actions, portal visibility and Microsoft or Splunk operating support
Mid-Market / Enterprise · Endpoints
Managed detections, cloud SIEM visibility, guided findings and edition-based containment actions in Blumira's own platform
SMB / Mid-Market · Endpoints
Hybrid or fully outsourced SOC operation with 24/7 monitoring, alert investigation, threat hunting, threat intelligence, SIEM and SOAR enhancement, incident response leadership and detection improvement across agreed environments.
Mid-Market / Enterprise · Endpoints
24x7 MDR monitoring, investigation, false-positive reduction, alert resolution workflow, scoped response actions, coverage-gap visibility and SOC collaboration through CORR and MOBILESOC.
Mid-Market / Enterprise · Endpoints
24/7 MDR with analyst investigation, AI-assisted correlation, identity and asset context through Meridian, customer-specific detection and response paths, optional tool management and approved containment actions.
Mid-Market / Enterprise · Endpoints
24/7 SOC monitoring of the buyer's Darktrace environment, alert triage, investigations, containment-action escalation, analyst questions, monthly service reports, service-ready checks and optimization reviews.
Mid-Market / Enterprise · Network
24/7 co-managed MDR with alert validation, investigation, threat hunting, detection engineering, response workflow support, named experts and a shared Security Center layered over supported buyer tools.
Mid-Market / Enterprise · Endpoints
24/7 Dell SOC monitoring, threat investigation, threat hunting and pre-approved platform response for supported XDR environments
Mid-Market / Enterprise · Endpoints
24/7 MDR monitoring, threat hunting, alert validation, investigation, multi-signal correlation, containment actions, incident handling and reporting through eSentire Atlas XDR and eSentire's SOC team.
SMB / Mid-Market · Endpoints
24/7 SOC monitoring, analyst investigation, Workbench visibility, cross-product correlation, remediation recommendations and pre-approved auto-remediation through supported tools.
Mid-Market / Enterprise · Endpoints
24/7 MDR over Field Effect's endpoint, cloud and network telemetry, with AROs and policy-bound active response
SMB / MSP/MSSP · Endpoints
24/7 monitoring of Forescout TDR detections, suspicious-entity triage, incident case investigation, impact classification, customer escalation, proactive threat hunting, log-source monitoring and containment or remediation guidance.
Enterprise / Mid-Market · Endpoints
24/7 SOC monitoring, analyst investigation, phone or email escalation and covered containment actions for licensed endpoints, Microsoft 365 and firewall signals
MSP/MSSP / SMB · Endpoints
24/7 Mandiant MDR with alert triage, investigation, threat hunting, curated detections, investigation reports, supported technology integrations and scoped response actions through Google SecOps and partner tools.
Mid-Market / Enterprise · Endpoints
24/7 Microsoft-managed triage, investigation, proactive hunting, managed response recommendations and scoped remediation actions for eligible Microsoft Defender XDR incidents.
Mid-Market / Enterprise · Endpoints
Co-managed Open XDR with managed SIEM, 24/7 SOC monitoring, workflow automation, threat hunting, log retention, compliance reporting and package-dependent endpoint, vulnerability and incident-support options.
SMB / Mid-Market · Endpoints
24/7 Microsoft-focused MXDR with ION automation, Sentinel and Defender operations, Cyber Defender investigation, threat hunting, Teams collaboration and Cyber Advisor posture work
Mid-Market / Enterprise · Endpoints
24/7 managed detection, triage, investigation and contracted response through Orange Cyberdefense CyberSOCs, Core Fusion and supported EDR, NDR, SIEM, cloud and OT telemetry
Mid-Market / Enterprise · Endpoints
Outsourced SOC coverage with managed SIEM, MDR, threat hunting, triage and scoped containment across existing tools
Mid-Market / SMB · Endpoints
24/7 SOC monitoring, analyst investigation, hosted or customer-owned SIEM operations, threat hunting, case management, guided remediation and optional Active Defense containment across supported tools.
Mid-Market / Enterprise · Endpoints
24/7 SOC monitoring, alert validation, investigation, exposure-informed prioritization, threat hunting, incident-response support, Rapid7 SIEM visibility, unlimited log ingestion in published packages, 13-month retention and configured Active Response containment.
Enterprise / Mid-Market · Endpoints
24/7 managed SOC coverage with monitoring, triage, investigation, threat hunting, containment playbooks, reporting, SHQ Response collaboration and optional managed protection or risk services
Mid-Market / Enterprise · Endpoints
24/7 SentinelOne-native MDR with alert monitoring, triage, investigation, managed response, threat hunting signals, analyst documentation, and containment or mitigation actions inside the contracted Singularity scope.
Mid-Market / Enterprise · Endpoints
24/7 MXDR over Todyl's managed SIEM and security stack, with transparent cases, live analyst access and a dedicated DRAM
MSP/MSSP / SMB · Endpoints
Use this list when you know the service label, but still need to compare the operational scope behind it.
The label is not enough. Two providers can both sell MDR while handling alert triage, containment, tooling, and reporting very differently.
Managed Detection and Response (MDR) is the fastest-growing segment of the SOC provider market. MDR providers combine advanced technology with human expertise to deliver 24/7 threat monitoring, investigation, and response — going beyond the alert-and-escalate model of traditional managed security.
MDR emerged to address a critical gap: organizations needed more than just alerts — they needed outcomes. Traditional MSSP monitoring often generated overwhelming volumes of alerts that still required in-house security teams to investigate and remediate. MDR providers take ownership of the full detection-to-response lifecycle, significantly reducing the burden on internal teams.
When evaluating MDR providers, key differentiators include response capability (alert-only vs. guided vs. active remediation vs. full incident response), mean time to detect and respond, threat hunting capabilities, technology stack flexibility, and whether they can work with your existing security tools or require their own.