Managed Extended Detection and Response (MXDR) Security Provider

Often abbreviated as Managed XDR, Managed eXtended Detection and Response, is defined by Gartner as an SaaS-based, vendor-specific threat detection and incident response tool that integrates multiple security products into a cohesive security operations system by unifying all licensed components. 

Microsoft’s XDR platform provides a solution for modern security challenges such as the integration of multi-cloud hybrid security environments. Microsoft XDR broadens the scope of security while eliminating silos by integrating protection across an organization’s endpoints, servers, cloud applications, emails, and more. From there, Difenda’s Managed XDR solutions combines threat prevention, detection, investigation, and threat response, providing visibility, analytics, and automated responses to mitigate the risk of cyber threats.   

Both MDR and XDR provide organizations with tools and personnel for threat hunting and incident management. Both solutions act to augment an organization’s existing cybersecurity capabilities and respond to threats faster.  

Managed XDR or MXDR extends the MDR framework into the endpoint; effectively providing visibility into the entire security environment and all its attack surfaces. MXDR includes the ability to correlate telemetry data across the network to deploy a cohesive real-time response to identified threats across the security network. 

Today, MDR solutions often use XDR systems to meet an enterprise’s security needs, but not always. Learn what it means to be Microsoft MXDR verified.  

Today, XDR represents an evolution of Endpoint Detection Response (EDR) that provides security teams with more information from the security environment, beyond just the endpoint.  

Managed EDR is focused on providing in-depth visibility and threat prevention for a particular device to protect each endpoint. Managed XDR takes a wider view, integrating security across an organization’s endpoints, servers, cloud applications, emails, and more. While EDR is a necessary and effective solution to protect an organization’s endpoints, XDR is designed to provide integrated visibility and threat management within a single solution to consolidate the security environment and remove silos within the entire network.

Microsoft Verified Managed Extended Detection and Response is third party verification status validating a vendors ability to deliver next-generation security solutions to clients, further increasing the level of protection it provides against new and emerging threats. 

Difenda was one of the first MSSPs to achieve MXDR solution status. By earning Microsoft MXDR Solution Status, Difenda has proven our ability to integrate the Microsoft Security platform with our expert Security Operation Center (SOC). Providing 24/7/365 proactive hunting, monitoring, and response capabilities all built on tight integrations with the Microsoft Security platform.

• Microsoft Sentinel
• Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)
• Microsoft Defender for Cloud (formally Azure Security Center)
• Microsoft Defender (Endpoint, Identity, Office 365, and Cloud Apps)
• Microsoft Purview Information Protection
• Integration of custom data sources is possible via API or log ingestion.