- New offerings make managed detection and response accessible to enterprises 
of all sizes

    Bitdefender, a leading global cybersecurity company protecting over 500 
million systems worldwide, today announced improved technology and service 
capabilities for its Managed Detection and Response (MDR) 
[https://www.bitdefender.com/MDR] offering, positioning the company as one of 
the most advanced MDR providers in the world. The updated offerings and 
capabilities closely align with customer security needs along their security 
maturity journey while lowering the barrier organizations face in using MDR. 

    The enhanced MDR service combines Bitdefender's award-winning security 
technologies for endpoint protection, network traffic analysis 
[https://www.bitdefender.com/business/enterprise-products/ultra-plus.html] and 
security analytics with the threat-hunting expertise of highly skilled analysts 
from global intelligence agencies. The service delivers leading incident 
detection with rapid response using automated pre-approved playbooks allowing 
analysts to take swift action to mitigate and remediate most threats. Expert 
tuning and detailed enterprise environment analyses are used to understand 
customers' unique threat profiles and their main risks, and to create 
customer-specific action plans. This results in broad threat identification and 
mitigation that minimizes the impact of advanced attacks.  

    The MDR market has been identified as one of the largest and 
fastest-growing segments of the more than $100 billion cybersecurity market. 
International Data Corporation (IDC) recently identified MDR as "the next 
generation of managed security services" due to the growing business need for a 
highly skilled and dedicated security team that delivers 24x7 monitoring, 
analysis and rapid response to sophisticated attacks.1 "Organizations are 
currently trying to balance the use and expense of a multitude of disparate 
security tools while facing SOC staff shortages, resulting in time-consuming 
investigations and a lack of the visibility and depth necessary to detect and 
remediate today's advanced threats," said Christina Richmond, Program Vice 
President, IDC. "MDR solutions such as Bitdefender's perform advanced attack 
detection and mitigation making expert-level security accessible to a wide 
range of struggling organizations." 

    Bitdefender MDR analysts have extensive cybersecurity experience in some of 
the most demanding commercial and national security environments, and are 
industry-certified (GCIA, GCIH, and/or SANS) based on their roles and 
responsibilities. Bitdefender analysts continually update their skillsets to 
stay relevant while advancing their careers and are required to participate in 
regular training exercises. With half of all Bitdefender staff globally focused 
on security research and development, the MDR service integrates unparalleled 
threat intelligence that ensures a direct line of knowledge between Bitdefender 
Labs [ https://labs.bitdefender.com/] and MDR analysts to stay ahead of the 
ever-changing and constantly evolving threat landscape. The analysis is 
supported by Bitdefender telemetry from 500 million endpoints and proprietary 
threat detection techniques and is combined with curated intelligence to 
improve and contextualize data, making it faster to detect and respond to 
advanced attacks. 

    Key Capabilities 

- Bitdefender Human Risk Analytics module to evaluate and report risk 
associated with employees, misconfiguration, weak passwords, etc. 

- High-risk target-monitoring services to protect against whale phishing, 
business email compromise for executives, personnel around board members, and 
other related threats 

- Dark Web monitoring for stolen customer data, helping detect previous 
breaches and data leaks and enabling proactive response actions to prevent 
additional harm 
 
- Pre-approved actions, including the ability to execute custom investigation 
and response actions via remote console
  
- Customized threat hunting based on business type and need  

- Advanced link analysis to visualize complex connections within an 
investigation 

    "We want security to be worry-free for our customers, and to be true 
business partners to them," said Gavin Hill, Vice President, Product Marketing, 
Bitdefender. "Bitdefender MDR gives organizations the peace of mind needed to 
focus on running their businesses. They know our team of verified experts is 
monitoring and automatically remediating advanced threats 24 hours a day, seven 
days a week, every day of the year." 

    Three new MDR packages are designed to help customers get started quickly 
and immediately up-level their incident response capabilities along their 
security maturity journey: 

- Bitdefender MDR Core: Provides best-in-class next-generation anti-virus, 
anti-malware, application and device control, host-based firewall and web 
control and endpoint detection and response – from one unified and 
cloud-managed agent. MDR Core pricing starts at $6.99 per endpoint per month. 

- Bitdefender MDR Advanced: Combines Bitdefender MDR Core along with proactive 
threat hunting, user-based analytics, customer-specific threat modeling and 
customized incident response playbooks. MDR Advanced pricing starts at $10.49 
per endpoint per month. IoT monitoring also available as an add-on service. 

- Bitdefender MDR Enterprise: Offers the most advanced MDR service available in 
today's marketplace. Includes MDR Core and MDR Advanced capabilities along with 
dark web monitoring, phishing domain registry monitoring, intellectual property 
monitoring, integration with custom tooling and high-value and high-risk target 
monitoring. MDR Enterprise pricing starts at $14.99 per endpoint per month. IoT 
monitoring also available as an add-on service. 

    Bitdefender MDR focuses on ease of use, connecting customers with a single 
point of contact on the MDR customer success team who intimately understands 
their business and their security needs. Customers are also supported by a 
formal call escalation and notification process, ensuring the correct personnel 
receive the necessary information as quickly as possible based on event 
severity, and Bitdefender MDR easily integrates with existing case management 
platforms and IT/ticketing workflow. Bitdefender MDR also simplifies reporting 
by providing real-time dashboards, post-incident analysis and recommendations, 
and long-term threat analysis coupled with monthly security reports and 
quarterly business reviews to inform the strategic decision-making process.  

    To talk with an expert and learn more about Bitdefender MDR click here 
[https://www.bitdefender.com/business/managed-detection-response-inquire/], or 
take Bitdefender's security incident response assessment 
[https://bitdefender.outgrow.us/security-incident-response-assessment-mdr] for 
a short incident response effectiveness survey. 
 
    About Bitdefender

    
    Bitdefender [ http://www.bitdefender.com/] is a global cybersecurity leader 
protecting over 500 million systems in more than 150 countries. Since 2001, 
Bitdefender innovation has consistently delivered award-winning security 
products and threat intelligence for the smart connected home, mobile users, 
modern businesses and their networks, devices, data centers and Cloud 
infrastructure. Today, Bitdefender is also the provider of choice, embedded in 
over 38% of the world's security solutions. Recognized by industry, respected 
by vendors and evangelized by customers, Bitdefender is the cybersecurity 
company you can trust and rely on.


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    Source: Bitdefender