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What is MXDR?

MXDR provides a solution for modern security challenges such as the integration of multi-cloud, hybrid security environments.

MXDR broadens the scope of security while eliminating silos by integrating protection across an organization’s endpoints, servers, cloud applications, emails, and more. The goal is to effectively provide visibility into the entire security environment and all its attack surfaces.

Difenda MXDR combines threat prevention, detection, investigation, and threat response to provide visibility, analytics, and automated responses to mitigate the risk of cyber threats. With Difenda MXDR your organization is backed by an elite team of threat hunters and response experts who take targeted actions to mitigate even the most sophisticated threats.

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Difenda MXDR is Microsoft Verified

By achieving MXDR Solution Status, Difenda has proven its robust MXDR service capabilities including our Security Operation Centers (SOC’s) ability to deliver 24/7/365 proactive threat hunting, monitoring, and response capabilities all built on tight integrations with the Microsoft Security platform. Learn More >>

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MXDR Benefits

24/7/365 SOC and Cyber Research and Response Teams

24/7/365 SOC Cyber Research and Response Teams

Tool Consolidation Without Compromise

Tool Consolidation Without Compromise

Integrate On-prem, Cloud, or Hybrid Networks

Integrate On-prem, Cloud, or Hybrid Networks

Iteratively Collect, Categorize, and Display Network Assets

Iteratively Collect, Categorize, and Display Network Assets

Cloud-Native Program Offering Infinite Speed and Scale

Cloud-Native Program Offering Infinite Speed and Scale

Leverage Automation for Faster Response

Leverage Automation for Faster Response 

Proactive Threat Detection and Response

Proactive Threat Detection and Response 

You Maintain Data Residency

You Maintain Data Residency

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Difenda’s 4 Stage MXDR Methodology

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What’s included in Managed Extended Detection & response?

Difenda MXDR augments built-in Microsoft Security detection capabilities with Difenda’s ATT&CK®-driven development process with custom threat detection and hunting technology. Our service provides a fully Managed Extended Detection & Response solution leveraging industry leading Microsoft security technologies and Difenda’s highly automated MXDR service components, including:

Threat Profiling

Gain a thorough understanding of your organization’s attack surface, critical infrastructure, sensitive data, and operational processes with full visibility into your threat landscape, laying the foundation for a robust defense 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

Leverage Difenda MXDR and Microsoft 365 Security services, to prevent, detect, 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

Combine manual and automated techniques to improve your threat hunting programs. Proactively hunt for emerging threats by combining SIEM technologies, Microsoft Security API, and Difenda’s expert threat hunting team.

• 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

Contain threats faster with 24/7/365 managed threat response services designed to rapidly contain endpoint, user, and email-based threats 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

Access industry-leading threat intelligence to improve detection capabilities and provide proactive threat bulletins relative to your business. Stay current on specific industry trends, and leverage insights from our C3 security experts.

• 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

Maintain complete ownership over your critical security information and gain access to insights far beyond traditional MSSPs. Difenda MXDR offers comprehensive dashboards and real-time reporting capabilities to maximize visibility and support security decision making.

• 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

Work With a Microsoft Certified Partner
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Difenda is one of North America’s most certified teams that focused on architecting, implementing, configuring and supporting managed service delivery across the entire Microsoft ecosystem and beyond.

Microsoft Certifications

  • Microsoft 365 Security
  • Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
  • Microsoft Azure Security Engineer Associate
  • Microsoft AZ-500
  • Microsoft MS-5oa
  • Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA)
  • Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE)

How Does MXDR Work?

The Difenda Labs environment is a core part of our process that simulates common customer environment components. Within the Difenda Labs environment, our Cyber Research and Response team runs continuous attacks based on current cyber tactics and techniques used to breach customer environments. Successful attack patterns are translated into detection and response requirements, which are developed and released to Difenda Shield services using an agile delivery methodology.

How MXDR Works

Product Features

Difenda Shield harnesses the power of Microsoft and builds on giving your business a competitive advantage by layering vital operational functionality to the Microsoft Security Suite.

SIEM / EDR MANAGEMENT

ASSET DISCOVERY CMDB

IT DETECTION & RESPONSE

THREAT HUNTING

REMOTE INCIDENT RESPONSE (RIR)

OT / IoT DETECTION & RESPONSE

Simplify Your Security Process

After deploying the Microsoft Security infrastructure, security event data flows from your SaaS and cloud service providers into Microsoft Sentinel and Difenda Shield. 

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Effectively address gaps within the network to create a solid foundation.
Gain full visibility with next generation cybersecurity.
Reduce risk with increased security program controls.

Effectively address gaps within the network to create a solid foundation.

Gain full visibility with next generation cybersecurity.

Reduce risk with increased security program controls.

Customized outcome-based metrics and reporting dashboards.
Maximize Microsoft Security licensing capabilities.
Complete cloud adoption in 6 to 8 weeks

Customized outcome-based metrics and reporting dashboards.

Maximize Microsoft Security licensing capabilities. 

Complete adoption in 6 to 8 weeks.

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

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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.

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