Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response vs. Mandiant Managed Defense

[Artic Wolf SOC-as-a-Service is] great if you don't have a large team nor the time to look at all the systems in your network. They monitor 24x7x365 taking that burden away from a reduced IT team.

Incentivized

Rapid identification & Neutralization : The Madiant Rapid Response team will get work right away often within hours to identify and eject the adversary . Others Vendor takes days. Post Incidents Threat Summary: Mandiant provide formal summary of its investigation, detailing the actions it took & discovery it made as well as recommending long term guidance on how to mitigate the recurrence of similar threats in future . Also provide ongoing detection & response.

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• Monitoring 365 logins
• Monitoring Windows processes
• Active Directory monitoring

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• Excellent across all major tenant of incident response (detection, containment, eradication, etc.)
• Has a strong backend support system to perform advanced incident response activities (reverse malware engineering, etc.)
• Very scalable - no matter how small or large the incident, Managed Defense can tackle it, or escalate to Mandiant IR if the incident is complex and/or large enough.

• Too many independent dashboards to look at (they are working on consolidating)

Incentivized

• Due to split from FireEye Mandiant no longer can provide its own End Point Protection as part of MDR for customers that want to transition after incident is complete .
• Single remediation response with no-ongoing monitoring

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We are a quiet shop with few incidents, however, MD's response to questions and access to our assigned MD consultant is excellent.

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Different product and covers the gaps our other products do not address. CheckPoint does not offer the same security monitoring on emails and AD accounts. Ninja One is used mainly as an RMM. Arctic Wolf is just another layer of security with detailed reports and options our other products do not have.

Incentivized

Honestly, Mandiant seems to be the best all around. Even with being a smaller business, it’s help tremendously and keeps us feeling safe and protected

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• I have been informed about Zero days prior to vendors releasing information to the public which has allowed me to patch in advanced of the general release of the information

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• IT/SOC time saved by monitoring alerts
• Improved time to remediation due to 24/7 eyes on glass
• Hopefully less impact from security incidents due to early detection and containment

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