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Gartner® Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response Services

October 25, 2021

What’s inside this guide?

This report is a guide for buyers considering Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service providers. According to Gartner, “by 2025, 50% of organizations will be using MDR services for threat monitoring, detection and response functions that offer threat containment and mitigation capabilities.”

Download the full report to read Gartner’s analysis of the MDR market direction and evolution, Representative Vendors and recommendations.

Recommendations from the report include:

  •  “Use MDR services to obtain 24/7, remotely delivered modern security operations center capabilities when there are no existing internal capabilities, or when the organization needs to accelerate or augment existing security operations capabilities.”
  •  “Investigate whether the MDR provider’s technology stack or supported set of technologies fits with existing security controls and IT environment, from on-premises to cloud.”

Gartner, Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response Services, Pete Shoard, Craig Lawson, Mitchell Schneider, John Collins, Mark Wah, Andrew Davies, 25 October, 2021.

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