2021 Gartner Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response Services

Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Services

MDR services provide remotely delivered modern security operations center capabilities focused on quickly detecting, investigating and actively mitigating incidents. Security and risk management leaders should use this research to understand the MDR market and its dynamics.

Security and risk management leaders are increasingly cognizant that reducing the time to detect a threat is meaningless without a corresponding reduction in the time to respond to a threat and enable a return to a known good state.

By 2025, 50% of organizations will be using MDR services for threat monitoring, detection and response functions that offer threat containment and mitigation capabilities.

Read the report to learn:

• Gartner’s key findings and recommendations for MDR deployments
• Overview of MDR service options
• Gartner’s MDR market analysis

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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