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How Can MDR Protect My Business?

MDR protects your business from cyber attacks.

Businesses are increasingly targeted by hackers who attempt to steal confidential information and disrupt operations. These attempts include phishing scams, malware infections, ransomware attacks, and denial of service attacks. MDR provides comprehensive protection against these types of attacks.

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How does MDR protect your business?

MDR provides comprehensive protection against these types of attacks.

MDR helps prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data stored in your cloud environment. This includes email messages, files, and databases.

MDR also protects your business from malicious software such as viruses, worms, spyware, adware, and Trojan horses.

MDR detects and blocks known and unknown malware using signature detection technology.

MDR also provides real-time threat monitoring and reporting capabilities. You can view reports about potential threats and respond quickly to mitigate damage.

MDR offers 24×7 technical support via phone and online chat.

MDR also offers free security assessments to evaluate your current security posture and identify areas where improvements can be made.

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MDR protects businesses from cybercrime, downtime and data loss.

MDR provides security solutions that allow you to monitor your network and detect threats to your business. It also allows you to create policies that control how users interact with your systems. MDR is designed to help businesses safeguard against cyber attacks and breaches. It offers proactive monitoring services that alert you to potential problems before they happen.

MDR’s comprehensive suite of tools provide real-time visibility into user activity across your entire IT infrastructure.

Difenda MDR Features

  • Develop a quantitative and qualitative understanding of organizational risks posed by people, endpoints, data, and technologies prior to an incident
  • Implement a set of advanced security controls to monitor, identify, and mitigate risks through intelligent threat defence and threat hunting
  • Capture and secure all relevant security information for future use

What’s included in Difenda Managed EDR?

Difenda Managed EDR offers the latest in Microsoft’s extended detection and response (XDR) technology—allowing organizations of all sizes to benefit from a world-class cybersecurity program that’s built for scale, and integration-ready from day one. Difenda’s EDR uses top security frameworks like the MITRE ATT&CK® and NIST Cybersecurity Framework to continuously identify, develop, and release enhanced detection and response capabilities.

Threat Profiling

Difenda Managed EDR offers a thorough understanding of your organization’s attack surface, critical infrastructure, sensitive data, and operational processes, laying the foundation for a robust defence strategy.

• Gain critical insight into your organization’s attack surface
• Achieve a better understanding of real business problems and risk
• Prioritize defence efforts by thinking like an adversary
• Configuration Management Database

Threat Defense

Difenda Managed EDR leverages industry-leading endpoint detection & response (EDR) technology to prevent, contain, and remediate attacks from all threat vectors before, during, and after execution.

• Rely on artificial intelligence to detect threats, including zero-day attacks, eliminating the need for ineffective signature-based antivirus solutions
• Leverage behavioural AI to observe complex activities, automatically blocking and containing attacks at machine-speed
• Conduct rich forensic data collection that supports organization-wide auto-immunity

Threat Hunting

Difenda Managed EDR combines manual and automated threat hunting techniques to improve your threat hunting programs. Collect, analyze, and detect threats using Difenda’s industry-leading security incident and event management (SIEM) technologies.

• Run simulated attacks within your organization’s critical infrastructure using our ATT&CK-driven development methodology
• Leverage a Purple Team approach to identify hidden threats, build detection use cases, and deploy updates to managed SIEM platforms
• Draw real-time data from threat intelligence feeds to recognize known devices, users, or apps that are behaving suspiciously

Threat Response

Difenda Managed EDR includes remote incident response as a core service, giving you 24/7/365 managed threat protection and an immediate defense strategy to mitigate potential breaches.

• Streamline and coordinate your cybersecurity response, improving visibility and your ability to act
• Provide detailed post-incident documentation, including actions taken by Difenda, investigation results, and recommended next steps
• Follow industry best practices and rely on advanced tools to automate, monitor, record, and manage incident response processes
• Perform malware analysis to examine behavior and potential impacts of malware

Threat Intelligence

The Difenda Managed EDR service utilizes industry-leading threat intelligence in two ways: first to improve detection capabilities and second to provide proactive threat bulletins relative to your business.

• Leveraging the world’s largest and richest collection of sensor data to enrich detection capabilities
• Understand threats to your industry or geography through curated threat bulletins
• Get the same global situational awareness typically only available to governments, banks, and the world’s largest enterprises

DASHBOARDS & REPORTING

Gain access to insights far beyond the reporting offered by traditional Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs). GRC offers comprehensive dashboards and real-time reporting capabilities to maximize visibility across your entire organization.

• Dynamically report on current control compliance according to assets, industry standard frameworks, active risks, and ongoing audit engagements
• Access real-time dashboard and reporting data
• Offer up-to-date visibility for all stakeholders, including operational staff

Download the Difenda MDR ebook

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Supported technologies
(out-of-the-box)
• Microsoft Sentinel
• Microsoft Defender (Endpoint, Server, Office) on Windows, macOS, and Linux

Tap into the full spectrum of the Difenda Shield cybersecurity suite

Implement a robust cybersecurity solution that keeps your business protected at all levels. Difenda EDR is a fully managed and modular solution that integrates seamlessly with other components of Difenda Shield, including:

Brand Protection Services

Security Awareness Training

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Megan Miller

Megan Miller’s energy and passion for learning flow into all aspects of her work. As the Growth Manager, North America, she brings a background in sciences which she has transitioned to the tech sector in her role at Difenda.

With a Bachelors of Science in Geology, Megan is a lifelong learner who is voracious about learning anything she can get her hands on about cybersecurity. Her positive energy has built a sales strategy with a focus on expanding in the United States while nurturing the Canadian presence. She is responsible for recruiting and training the sales team. Together with the company’s leadership, she creates the sales process and the company’s product strategy in order to better serve the customer base. This ensures that our customers have a highly trained and highly motivated team to help them every step of the way, Megan has completed Microsoft SC-900 training and working towards mastering Microsoft.

Whether at work or play, Megan is fully committed. She took her love of hockey all the way to the semi-professional level as a competitive hockey player. Megan loves all things sports including water skiing, scuba diving, cycling, and snowboarding. She also enjoys time with family and reading about alternative energy, innovation, and cybersecurity.

Natasha Phanor

As the Microsoft Partner Manager at Difenda, Natasha Phanor is responsible for driving growth within our Microsoft Partnership. With six years in the industry, she offers a fresh, energetic approach, and the ability to focus on our customer’s needs throughout the entire process. Natasha has the innate ability to foresee customer needs and solve problems before they arise, which creates a smooth road for each customer she encounters.

As the recipient of the Outstanding Services Partner of the Year Award in 2018, it is clear that Natasha responds quickly to customer needs, creates a platform for understanding a customer’s business requirements, and walks them through the process to ensure their complete satisfaction.

In her spare time, Natasha is as energetic and passionate as she is on the job. A self-proclaimed foodie-extraordinaire, she enjoys dinner parties, traveling, downhill skiing, hiking, biking, and reading. Natasha has a Bachelor of Fine Arts, specializing in Dance, from Ryerson University.

Lisa Templeton

Lisa Templeton is the perfect combination of human empathy and technological prowess. In her role as People Services Manager, she takes care of our team members to support them in their daily work, as well as on their personal life paths. Happy employees make for happy customers, and Lisa excels in giving our employees the tools they need for success in order to become the best possible versions of themselves. Along with employee formation, she shines in the service delivery support domain to continuously improve the process. Her 24 years of experience in IT Operations and Service Management help her create quality and efficiency at Difenda.

Having attended the Information Systems Management certificate program at Ryerson University, and with various other certifications to her credit, Lisa is perceptive and innovative when it comes to information technology, but also sensitive to the needs of her human constituents. Responsible for achieving the first privately owned company HDI Support Center certification in Canada, she has also designed and implemented Service Management excellence programs and 24×7 IT Operations departments for multiple IT organizations, and has created corporate rewards and recognition programs to keep her employees engaged and motivated.

On the personal side, Lisa passionately supports the cause of breast cancer research, having lost her mother to the disease. She reads voraciously in her spare time, and enjoys the art of home renovation. The summer months also bring time on her boat and exploring new hiking trails.

Miranda McCurdy

Miranda McCurdy uses her myriad super powers in all aspects of her job and personal life. As the Marketing Director at Difenda, Miranda McCurdy brings over a decade of experience to the table, which includes expertise in all facets of operations, brand management, and content marketing, as well as a multitude of successful strategies for the ever-expanding digital world. She is an expert at simplifying the message the company is trying to send, filling in gaps in the information, and strengthening the content in order to create compelling narratives that strengthen the brand and developing programs that bring teams together.

With several Addy Awards issued by the American Advertising Federation Cleveland to her credit, and her never say die attitude, Miranda understands both the broader picture and the minute details that are needed to successfully market a product. With her abilities to harness both the talent needed to spread the message, as well as to create the message itself, she is an integral cog in the company’s ability to communicate with customers and other stakeholders.

When she is not building a brand, she shares her ability to fill the gaps in her community by volunteering with Habitat for Humanity, the Special Olympics, and the Charleston Food Bank. In her spare time, Miranda spends time with her family, enjoys fitness and health, paddle boarding, reading, and arts and crafts.

Juliana Zaremba

Connections are the name of the game for Juliana Zaremba. As Strategic Partnerships Director, she is responsible for Difenda’s channel partnerships and the development and ownership of the channel partner program. She is also responsible for the global Microsoft Partnership, including the creation of strategic plans with MSFT contacts that will facilitate the continued growth of the business and establish certification and training protocols in all security technologies. Her role is multifaceted, as she acquires partners, manages relationships with them, and develops strategies that will provide cutting edge security solutions to our customer base. Another integral aspect of her job is to facilitate growth.

With a Bachelor’s in Math from the University of Waterloo and 14 years of experience from her previous roles at Herjavec Group and CDW, her cutting edge focus and ability to develop long-lasting relationships and strategies provides world class security solutions to our customer base.

Juliana thrives on connections outside of work as well. She is a philanthropist and contributor with Women4Change based in Hamilton. This group of local women is passionate about supporting local causes, and she focuses her efforts around Women in STEM. She is also a member of Club Italia in Niagara Falls and supports their youth events throughout the year.

When not managing the Microsoft Global partnership, Juliana enjoys reading, often reading several books at once. Juliana enjoys exploring the Niagara Escarpment with her family, as well as sharing meals and experiences with her extended family. Juliana’s competitive nature has her always trying new things, like Whoop band challenges and Peloton.

Jeffry Jacob

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