What is MDR?
Managed Detection and Response (MDR) is an essential aspect of the CyberSecurity threat lifecycle, focusing on proactive identification of threats, rapid response to incidents, and continuous monitoring of an organization's digital environment.
By combining state-of-the-art technology and expert human analysis, MDR effectively identifies and mitigates potential risks to networks, systems, and data. Leveraging cutting-edge tools like Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, MDR takes a comprehensive approach to detect and analyze abnormal activities. This enables cybersecurity teams to swiftly identify and address security incidents, minimizing any impact on business operations.
Moreover, MDR not only facilitates efficient threat detection but also provides valuable insights into an organization's security posture, offering recommendations to enhance overall cyber resilience. With round-the-clock monitoring and response capabilities, MDR plays a pivotal role in safeguarding businesses against the ever-evolving realm of cyber threats.
How does MDR work?
We categorize responses into primarily one of two classes:
Silent Response
Silent responses are live security responses triggered in reaction to an adaptive security alert. Silent responses encompass the "99%" of our response types and are for anything from the weird file Becky in Engineering just opened, to the Command Prompt stuck looping on John's laptop. When we perform a "silent" response, we may in certain circumstances reach out to your organization contact to clarify or verify a particular item, but other than those specific cases, that's it. It's a silent response to something so minor you probably wouldn't have cared to spend time hearing about it. A problem only worth the time spent fixing it.
Escalated Response
Escalated responses are live security responses that require us to activate on-location associates in response to an adaptive security alert. This means sending your IR/IT Team sprinting down various hallways, smacking servers and screeching to the above as they do so. Escalated responses are rare, alikened to the 1%, and typically involve taking immediate remediative actions like physical device or network isolation, forensic imaging or recovery, removal of associates from company property, or confiscation of roving devices for Security Esurance; summarized, remediation of CyberThreats that have escalated outside of digital impact alone.
Can I use BeeHive MDR with another security vendor?
Well, this feels like a tense three-way now...
Our industry-redefining security package is made of the following:
- Active element (Security Client)
- Passive element (EDR Listener)
- Command element (Endpoint Commander)
- Intelligence element (BeeHive SoC)
If another security vendor still has your heart, that's okay, we'll win you over. In the meantime however...
If you are utilizing another security vendor whose client or agent contains active countermeasures, these agents are typically aggressively self-protective. Equally, our security client likes to aggressively poke around and see what files are made of, and this can cause our security client to fight with your pre-existing security vendor's agent.
Not a great outcome. So, we do not support our security client in a fully insured deployment in multi-vendor configurations.
That being said, we do support multi-vendor configurations for Enhanced EDR, and Remote Support/Fleet Management.
TLDR: Choose as many passive vendors as you're compelled to, but we only support endpoints running one active countermeasure agent at a time.
