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Why Traditional MDR Solutions Aren’t Enough

The Evolving Threat Landscape: Why Traditional MDR Solutions Aren’t Enough

The cybersecurity landscape is evolving rapidly, with criminals deploying sophisticated tactics that challenge conventional defenses. High-profile breaches, like the SolarWinds supply chain attack and the Colonial Pipeline ransomware incident, highlight a critical truth: traditional Managed Detection and Response (MDR) solutions are becoming less effective. This blog examines why traditional MDR struggles against modern threats and how next-generation MDR solutions are stepping up to meet the challenge.

Let’s explore why traditional MDR is not enough and why it’s time to embrace new possibilities.

The Rise of Sophisticated Cyberattacks: A New Era of Threats

Gone are the days when reactive security measures sufficed; today, a Managed Detection and Response (MDR) solution is vital for continuous monitoring and swift threat response. Cyber criminals are now more organized, funded, and creative than ever. They employ advanced techniques using Generative AI, such as zero-day exploits, fileless malware, phishing and ransomware, to bypass traditional defences. As AI-driven threats like deepfakes for social engineering become more prevalent, enterprises should bolster security measures to counter these. This means cyber threats are not only more diverse but also faster and harder to detect. Traditional MDR solutions, typically reactive, lack the agility needed to tackle these rapidly evolving risks.

 

​Traditional MDR (Managed Detection and Response) providers frequently struggle to keep up with modern cyber threats due to various limitations including a reactive approach, delayed response time, lack of AI/ML technologies and and inadequate visibility across diverse infrastructures like hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

To gain deeper insights, let’s explore the differences between the methodologies and approaches used by traditional Managed Detection and Response (MDR) providers and those adopted by next-generation MDR solutions.

 

Traditional MDR Players

Next-Gen MDR Solution

Technology 
  • Traditional MDR providers depend on legacy tools that have limited integration with modern security technologies and focus solely on detection.
  • The tools provide very limited visibility acros the modern infrastructures such as OT (Operational technology) and hybrid or multi-cloud environments.  
  • Next-gen MDR providers offer cloud-native security solutions that seamlessly integrate with diverse infrastructures, including OT and cloud environments. 
  • These AI/ML-powered solutions emphasize out-of-the-box detection, automated response, and remediation. 

Threat Detection Approach 
  • Traditional MDR is often designed to detect threats only after they have infiltrated the network, relying heavily on predefined detection rules and EDR tools. 
  • Next-gen MDR utilizes advanced AI and machine learning to proactively detect anomalous behavior across the network, predicting potential attacks before they fully materialize.
  • With AI-driven automation, it identifies and mitigates threats more swiftly than ever before. 

 Automation & Orchestration 
  • Traditional MDR solutions provide very limited automation options, often requiring manual intervention. They are designed to rely on human analysts for reviewing alerts and investigating threats. 
  •  Next-gen MDR delivers automated triaging to ensure that critical threats are quickly addressed and responded to, enhancing incident response efficiency.
  • It also offers automated workflows for orchestration, minimizing manual efforts.

Response Times 
  • Traditional MDR depends on manual processes to carry out containment actions on incidents, making it not only time-consuming but also prone to human error. 
  • Next-gen MDR solutions streamline the response process by automatically containing and mitigating threats immediately, preventing widespread damage.
  •  Automated responses allow your security team to focus on higher-priority issues while ensuring that your defenses remain active.
  • Enables you to design a flow that automatically blocks an IP on the firewall, send an automated email notification to the relevant teams, disables a user, or quarantine an endpoint from the network- possibilities are limitless with automation.

Threat Intelligence

  • Traditional MDR depends on external threat intelligence feeds that provide limited integration and lack actionable insights. 
  • Next-gen MDR solutions offer integrated, real-time, actionable threat intelligence sharing along with collaborative features.

Scalability 
  • Most traditional MDR solutions depend on on-premise infrastructure, limiting scalability, with only a handful available in the cloud. 
  • Next-gen MDR solutions are built to scale alongside your organization, ensuring a robust cybersecurity posture despite any business changes.
  • Whether expanding into new regions, adopting new technologies, or transitioning to a more complex infrastructure, next-gen MDR provides comprehensive support. 
  • Next-gen MDR ensures no loss of logs at any point of time and collect data only once, reusing it to analyze threats from different dimensions. 

 

Posted on: 23/06/2025

Vinita Shinde

SENIOR CONSULTANT - Cybersecurity Services

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