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Binary Defense Co-Management

Co-Managed SOC · MDR · XDR

Binary Defense Co-Management is a co-managed SOC service for buyers that want outside engineers and analysts to help run SIEM, XDR and MDR workflows around their existing stack. After an alert, Binary Defense monitors, triages, investigates, tunes detections and provides containment guidance or approved response support, while the buyer still owns the security tools, data-source quality, response authority and business remediation.

Service
Co-Managed SOC
Handles
Co-manage the SOC
Price
Quote-based through direct, partner or AWS Marketplace private offer
  • Co-manage the SOC
  • Stow, Ohio
  • 100-500
  • Founded 2014
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Shortlist fit

Mid-market and enterprise teams that already own SIEM or XDR tools but need help operating them

Provider handles

Service shares SOC workflow with your team or MSP while you keep control.

Check before buying

Owning and licensing the SIEM, XDR, EDR, identity and cloud tools in scope

Also fits

  • Buyers using Splunk, Devo, Sumo Logic, Microsoft Sentinel, Google SecOps or Cortex XSIAM as a security-operations control plane
  • Security teams that want outside detection engineering and 24/7 triage without fully outsourcing tool ownership
  • MSP or partner-led buyers that want a co-sellable MDR and co-managed SIEM service

Can replace

  • Some tier 1 and tier 2 SIEM alert triage
  • Some detection engineering, tuning and log-source onboarding work
  • Some after-hours investigation and response coordination work

Coverage

Provider covers

  • Security engineering for log-source onboarding, ingestion tuning, normalization and vendor issue resolution
  • Detection engineering that builds and refines rules around customer risk, threat intelligence and attacker behavior
  • 24/7 SOC monitoring, triage, investigation and response workflow tied to the customer's existing tools

Your team still owns

  • Connecting log sources, maintaining telemetry quality and approving high-impact response rules
  • Acting on remediation work that requires IT, identity, legal or business-owner decisions
  • Confirming which containment actions Binary Defense can initiate versus only guide

Tradeoffs

Works well

  • Good fit for buyers that want to keep existing SIEM, XDR and EDR investments instead of moving to a provider-only platform
  • Public pages describe security engineering and detection engineering work, not just generic alert monitoring
  • Microsoft-specific material supports Defender, Sentinel, Entra ID and Microsoft 365 response workflows

Watch out for

  • Public pricing is quote-based and does not expose a standard per-endpoint, per-user or per-asset rate
  • The exact response authority depends on the contracted scope, connected tools and approval rules
  • Public evidence supports a North America SOC location, but not a detailed multi-region SOC footprint

Reviews

Review synthesis

Gartner Peer Insights shows meaningful review volume for Binary Defense MDR and points to buyers using it for 24/7 security operations, investigation and response. Public signals outside Gartner are thinner: G2 has only 1 visible review with UI, reporting and integration caveats, and Reddit mentions are mostly category-level MDR and SOC-as-a-service discussion.

Customers like

  • Gartner shows 30 reviews for Binary Defense MDR and a higher-volume vendor page than most smaller co-managed SOC providers
  • Public review surfaces repeatedly connect Binary Defense with 24/7 monitoring, investigation and response
  • G2's single visible reviewer liked round-the-clock monitoring and threat detection

Watch out for

  • G2 says there are not enough Binary Defense reviews to provide buying insight
  • The visible G2 review asks for better UI, reporting customization and third-party integrations
  • Reddit evidence is mostly practitioner shortlist discussion, not detailed Binary Defense customer experience
Sources
Gartner Peer InsightsG2PeerSpotReddit managed SOC discussion

Pricing

Price
Quote-based through direct, partner or AWS Marketplace private offer
Billing
Custom

Questions to ask

  1. Which parts of our SIEM or XDR stack will Binary Defense implement, tune and operate day to day?
  2. Which response actions can analysts initiate in our tools without waiting for approval?
  3. How will partner, AWS Marketplace or direct buying affect support ownership and renewal terms?

Integrations

SIEM
  • Splunk
  • Devo
  • Sumo Logic
  • Microsoft Sentinel
  • Google SecOps
  • Palo Alto Cortex XSIAM
EDR / Endpoint
  • Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
  • SentinelOne
  • CrowdStrike
  • VMware Carbon Black
Cloud
  • Microsoft 365
  • Azure
Other
  • Microsoft Entra ID
  • ExtraHop
  • NightBeacon Platform
  • BDVision

Editorial notes

Why co-managed SOC

The co-management offer is built around shared SIEM and XDR operation, not only alert forwarding. Binary Defense describes security engineering, detection engineering, 24/7 monitoring, hands-on management, tuning and analyst investigation around tools the buyer already owns.

Response boundary

The strongest response-action evidence appears on the MDR, endpoint and Microsoft pages, which support endpoint isolation, process termination, user disablement and token revocation. The co-management page itself leans more toward clear containment guidance, so buyers should verify what is included in the quoted scope.

Platform boundary

Binary Defense does bring its own NightBeacon and BDVision workflow, but the co-managed buying model is mainly about improving the customer's existing security stack. This profile should not imply that Binary Defense replaces every SIEM, EDR or cloud control.

Pricing boundary

AWS Marketplace supports private-offer procurement for BDVision and says pricing depends on contract duration and terms. No public numeric list price or standard per-asset rate was found for Co-Management, so the public profile keeps pricing quote-based.

Review evidence

Gartner has the most useful public review volume for Binary Defense MDR. G2 has only 1 review and says there is not enough review volume for buying insight, while Reddit mentions are mostly category-level MDR and SOC-as-a-service discussion rather than detailed Binary Defense customer evidence.

Questions

Is Binary Defense Co-Management the same as MDR?
No. This profile scopes the co-managed SIEM and XDR offer, where Binary Defense helps operate the customer's existing tools. Binary Defense also sells MDR, and many buyers may combine the services, but co-management should be evaluated by what Binary Defense will tune, monitor, investigate and respond to inside the contracted stack.
Does Binary Defense contain threats for the buyer?
Binary Defense public MDR and Microsoft pages support actions such as isolating endpoints, killing malicious processes, disabling users and revoking session tokens in supported tools. The co-management page is more careful and emphasizes containment guidance, so buyers should confirm which actions are pre-approved, which need approval and which remain internal.
Is Binary Defense pricing public?
No numeric public price was found for the co-managed service. AWS Marketplace lists BDVision as contract-based custom pricing and directs buyers to contact Binary Defense for a quote.