Threat Protection Beyond the Endpoint with MDR Solutions and Services
Access the Right Expertise and Strategy for Integrated Threat Protection
Consolidated visibility, across SIEM and XDR, of your Microsoft environment – all in one portal.
Protection for advanced use cases including identity, email and cloud, with an all-in-one security approach that’s applied at every security layer.
Reduce risk exposure with human-led monitoring, rapid investigation, continuous threat hunting and response.
Strengthen security maturity with an ongoing, strong partnership that helps you get the most out of your Microsoft Security investment.
How Critical Start Helps You Realize Value from Microsoft 365 Defender
Given the volume and complexities of identities, data, applications, devices, and infrastructure, it’s essential to learn how secure your organization is now and how to mitigate and protect against threats moving forward.
- Develop a strategic plan customized for your organization’s priorities
- Implementation and onboarding focused on applying Microsoft security best practices and high-fidelity threat detection
- Continuous fine-tuning as new risks are identified
When minutes count, our Microsoft security experts can become and extension of your team and provide remediation and response actions to the threat as soon as it’s detected.
You’ll get:
- 24x7x365 monitoring, investigation and resolution of all alerts and incidents
- Management of out-of-the-box Indicators of Compromise (IOCs)
- Freedom from intelligence overload
- Visibility across your Microsoft security controls in one portal
With Critical Start, you have access to end-to-end solutions and services that move with you on your Defender journey, helping anticipate risk and strengthening security posture.
- Microsoft Security tools and ZTAP configured to eliminate false positives (>99% of alerts)
- Solutions for use cases like email phishing, brute force and stolen credential attacks, and attacks against cloud apps
- Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) mapped to MITRE ATT&CK® Framework
- Coverage of every alert and incident with 1-hour Time to Detection (TTD) and Median Time to Resolution (MTTR) SLAs
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Beyond the Endpoint: Detect and Disrupt User Account Attacks
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