In October 2019, Sophos introduced Managed Threat Response (MTR). It was a fully managed, around-the-clock service delivered by a team of Sophos experts. I wrote a blog post about it at the time, which you are welcome to review: Sophos MTR \u2013 24\/7 threat hunting by experts <\/a> <\/p>\n\n So far, the service has been offered in two different versions – either the Standard or the Advanced variant. We found MTR promising right from the start, and to this day we can’t say anything bad about it. Our customers who use MTR Standard or Advanced are all very satisfied. However, in order not only to express our opinion, I would also like to refer to the statistics from Gartner Peer Insights. There, Sophos achieved an average rating of 4.8 with its MTR service, and 97% of the respondents would recommend the service to others. <\/p>\n\n No. 1 customer-rated MDR service in Gartner Peer Insights<\/p>\n4.8 average rating + 97% would recommend it to others<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n Sophos says it has won over 12,100 customers worldwide for Managed Threat Response since launch. The market share of this service has grown by 261% in 2021.<\/p>\n\n Existing customers who already use MTR Standard or Advanced will only benefit when switching to MDR. Both MTR Standard and Advanced licenses will be upgraded to the new \u201cMDR Complete\u201d package at no additional cost. With this step, Sophos wants to reward the loyalty of customers who have trusted them with MTR so far. <\/p>\n\n By upgrading to MDR Complete, you’ll keep the same features as before, but you’ll even get additional benefits:<\/p>\n\n The biggest innovation in MDR is the support for third-party manufacturers. Here, security products from other vendors, such as Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Check Point, Rapid7, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, Okta, Darktrace and many more can be used as data sources for analysis. <\/p>\n\n I think it goes without saying that the more the Sophos MDR team can see in your network, the greater the likelihood that an attack can be detected and remediated in time. In addition, customers who want to use the Sophos MDR service don’t have to replace all their existing security solutions, but can continue to use a Fortinet firewall, for example. <\/p>\n\n Another improvement in MDR is the adjustment of data retention (Sophos Data Lake) from the previous 30 to 90 days. This enables analysts to better determine the cause of incidents and thus provide advice on how to defend against further attacks. <\/p>\n\n If the 90 days are not enough for you, you can extend the data storage up to one year with an additional license.<\/p>\n\n For MDR customers, Sophos exclusively distributes a so-called \u201cThreatCast\u201d every month. In this webinar, experts from the MDR team, who work behind the scenes to protect your business, share their latest insights and observations on current threats.<\/p>\n\n Once MDR Complete is officially available at the end of November, existing customers with MTR Standard and Advanced will be automatically switched to MDR Complete. So, you don’t have to do anything and can soon benefit from the new features.<\/p>\n\n Sophos Managed Threat Response Service from Sophos will get a new name at the end of November \u2013 formerly Sophos MTR will become Sophos MDR. Find out what this name change means for existing customers and what new features will be added in this article. Brief retrospect In October 2019, Sophos introduced Managed Threat Response […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":85955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unkategorisiert"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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Compatibility with non-Sophos tools<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n
Extended data storage<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n
Monthly webcast<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n
Automatic update to MDR Complete<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n
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