Bitdefender Releases MDR Foundations

Bitdefender, a cybersecurity leader, unveiled MDR Foundations, a managed security service that provides threat monitoring and response, intelligence-based threat hunting and elite security experts designed to provide MDR capabilities tailored specifically to managed service providers (MSPs) and customer organizations with limited resources.

The service augments in-house security and IT teams ability to overcome the cybersecurity skills gap and enables faster detection and threat elimination, reduced attacker dwell time and streamlined security operations for improved cyber resilience.

“MDR Foundations addresses critical gaps in security coverage by delivering managed threat detection and remediation that is affordable, easy to implement, and scales based on the business needs,” said Ryan Walsh, chief operating officer at Pax8. “The solution levels the playing field for MSPs and their customers by offering access to top cybersecurity talent without needing a large budget. Bitdefender gives our clients a powerful solution that combines leading-edge technology with some of the brightest minds in security adept at hunting cyberattacks and stopping them at each stage.”

Bitdefender MDR Foundations is built to address security challenges presented by digital transformation and the shift towards cloud environments. It adds to the company’s existing portfolio of MDR Premium and MDR Enterprise offerings. The service is delivered by leveraging the Bitdefender GravityZone Business Security Enterprise unified security platform, which incorporates risk assessment and hardening, prevention, endpoint detection and response (EDR), cross-endpoint threat correlation and extended detection and response (XDR) with sensors that go beyond the endpoint.

Unlike competing MDR offerings, which are managed anti-virus or managed EDR, MDR Foundations provides a full managed detection and response security service.

MDR Foundations’ key benefits include:

24×7 threat monitoring, detection and response – MDR Foundations helps customers harden environments to help prevent breaches and then monitors for and eliminates threats such as ransomware, zero-days, phishing attempts and more across endpoints, networks and cloud environments.

Proactive human-led threat hunting – Bitdefender threat hunters seek and destroy advanced persistent threats (APTs) residing in systems, investigate anomalous behavior from internal and outside sources and takes into consideration each customer’s industry, technology environment and most likely threat actors.

Improved security operations – MDR Foundations improves defense and response to threats by enabling MSPs and customers to work side-by-side with Bitdefender security analysts. Key pain points such as alert fatigue, running complex tooling, maintaining data compliance, and establishing security procedures are reduced or eliminated. An MDR portal allows clients to connect and communicate with their Bitdefender team 24×7, view alerts, manage endpoints and take recommended actions to contain or eliminate threats all from a single dashboard.

Easy onboarding and service management – The MDR Foundations onboarding process is automated and straightforward with most businesses up and running in less than a day. For MSP partners, Bitdefender offers the ability to onboard and manage multiple customers simultaneously.

Bitdefender MDR Foundations is available for through the Bitdefender’s extensive network of MSPs and value-added resellers. Bitdefender offers flexible month-to-month and termed contracts depending on customer needs.

For more information visit: https://www.bitdefender.com/business/enterprise-products/managed-detection-response-service.html