Mandiant Managed Defense vs. Red Canary

Managed Defense is a must-have for any organization with limited cybersecurity resources and staff. In Managed Defense you have some of the best threat analyst and incident responders in the world to augment your security capabilities 24/7. It is hard to quantify the value of that piece of mind for a small/medium business.

Incentivized

• Integration & Protection-Mandiant provide highest degree of integration with Endpoints, Networks ,email & Cloud and Identity solutions an organization already using
• Strong Protection- Mandiant has best threat landscape technology which provide holistic view of security & Protection.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

Mandiant MDR includes authorized hands on keyboard response , The defendor experts for Hunting services does not include managed response, only hunting detection and alerting. Unlike Mandiant ,\Microsoft will not offer detection and response based on third party product data. Nor does Microsoft have the capability to add Network detection & response for analyzing both clear and encrypted network traffic.

Incentivized

• 24/7 coverage has been huge - that ROI has allowed the company to refrain from additional internal staffing of CSOC resources.
• There is a significant improvement in time to remediate and recover from incidents.
• Managed Defense has the ability to perform threat hunt exercises and perform enterprise-wide forensics beyond the capabilities of in-house CSOC resources.