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.

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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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• Exposes hidden issues
• Response time is much quicker
• Risk against ransomware is low
• With the help lf experts from the mandiant team support is a click away

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

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• Very little opportunities for improvement. Perhaps support for more alert types. Currently, not all alerts reviewed by the in-house CSOC team are in-scope for Managed Defense.

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.

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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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• Mandiant is strong on automated remediation & rollback
• Predictable Pricing Rapid Response is sold as fixed days term license this takes way risk of hourly billing and runway costs

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