For the third year in a row, Esentire has been listed in the managed detection and response services market guide published by Gartner. The only pure-play mdr service currently available on the market is provided by the innovative cybersecurity company. Ontario city of Cambridge – june 15 , 2018 – Today, esentire, inc., the world’s biggest pure-play managed detection and response (mdr) provider, made the announcement that the company has been included as a representative vendor in gartner’s 2018 market guide for managed detection and response services. Since it was first introduced in may of 2016, esentire has been listed in the guide for three years in a row, making this the third year in a row that it has done so. Demand in the industry is steadily increasing, and a primary driver of this growth is the need for turnkey managed threat detection and response services by medium-sized organizations. According to research conducted by Gartner, “approximately 25 percent of all inquiries in 2017 related to acquiring security event monitoring services were specifically about mdr.” Furthermore, Gartner forecasts that “by 2020, 15 percent of organizations will be using mdr services, up from less than 5 percent today.” According to kerry bailey, the chief executive officer of esentire, “digital change is exceeding the capabilities of conventional preventive and protection security approaches.” “dispersed assets and an increasing danger surface continue to speed up the acceleration of business risk.” Traditional preventative measures, in conjunction with identification and reaction, are required. When we consider the development of MDR, having full insight into a customer’s environment serves as a crucial building block. It is difficult to identify and react to an attack in a timeframe that is anything close to real-time without having access to enhanced signals and in-depth forensic information from many endpoints, the network, the cloud, and other log sources. In the end, it comes down to preventing your competitor from causing a business-changing event by causing them disruption. According to the guide, “gartner clients state that they want more comprehensive threat detection and response services than are typically provided by many mssps.” Furthermore, “gartner clients state that they see the value in mdr services that include advanced detection and containment tools like managed endpoint detection and response” (edr). The use of covert methods that are directed at the endpoint is becoming more common. According to a report by esentire threat intelligence, 91 percent of critical security events that occurred in the first quarter of 2018 were the result of endpoint events. These endpoint events retrieved and executed malicious code from remote sources through known, legitimate binaries, such as powershell or mshta. Both opportunistic and targeted attacks make advantage of these processes, which enable them to evade fundamental protections in order to transmit and install malware. Late in the month of January 2018, an esentire advanced threat analytics operation (named “blue steel” and powered by machine learning) discovered an adversary using an unknown exploit in kaseya’s virtual system administrator (vsa) product to deploy cryptocurrency miners across the infrastructure of a select group of esentire customers. The assault was designed to compromise a wide variety of trusted systems, including msps and cloud platforms, by using kaseya vsa endpoint agents to get initial access and then delivering malicious scripts. esentire was the one who uncovered the danger and informed kaseya about the incursions; as a consequence, many security flaws were patched. esentire mdr is able to aggregate and integrate all signals across the full danger surface at scale, and it does so with the assistance of expert analysis that is reinforced by machine learning. The business claims that it has reduced the number of false positives by 99.97 percent by increasing the effectiveness of its security analysts and using automated event suppression. Visit the following website to learn more about esentire mdr: https://www.esentire.com/what-we-do/managed-detection-and-response/ . about esentire: esentire® is the biggest pure-play managed detection and response (mdr) service provider in the world. The company protects businesses and organizations against continually developing cyberattacks, which technology alone is unable to stop. Its security operations center (soc), which is manned by top security analysts and operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, searches, investigates, and reacts in real time to known and undiscovered dangers before these threats become events that affect company operations. esentire protects business assets worth more than $5.7 trillion, absorbing the complexity of cybersecurity to give enterprise-grade protection and the flexibility to comply with increasing regulatory requirements. For further details, please go to www.esentire.com and follow @esentire on Twitter. It’s possible that the names of goods and services, as well as the logos of companies, that are mentioned in this text are registered trademarks owned by their respective companies. We reserve all of our rights. * Gartner’s Managed Detection and Response Services Market Guide, written by Toby Bussa, Kelly M. Kavanagh, Sid Deshpande, Craig Lawson, and Pete Shoard, was published in June of 2018. gartner Disclaimer: Gartner does not recommend that technology consumers choose just those companies that have received the highest ratings or other distinction when making their purchasing decisions. Neither does it support any vendor, product, or service that may be featured in its research publications. gartner research papers are not to be interpreted as declarations of truth since they include the views of the research organization that is part of gartner. Regarding this study, Gartner disclaims any and all warranties, whether explicit or implied, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a specific purpose. angela tuzzo, of MRB Public Relations for esentire, may be reached at +1 732-758.1100, extension 105, or atuzzo@mrb-pr.com. 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