MDR Buyer's Guide 2025: Cut Through Confusion and Choose the Right Protection
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Threats Changed in 2025 — Here's What You Must Know:
Cyberthreats are evolving faster than most teams can keep up. Attackers increasingly "log in instead of break in," and overworked IT teams struggle to maintain 24/7 vigilance — especially nights, weekends, and holidays.
This buyer's guide cuts through vendor jargon to help you understand what best-in-class MDR looks like, which capabilities matter most, and exactly what questions to ask providers before making your decision.
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17 pages of insights, benchmarks & vendor questions to help you choose the right MDR provider.
What's Inside This Premium Guide:
Who Should Download This?
Proven Results from Best-in-Class MDR
Sophos MDR secures 30,000+ organizations worldwide with 500+ threat experts across 7 global SOCs. Here's what best-in-class looks like:
Total incident response time — industry-crushing speed
Insurance claim amounts for MDR customers
Organizations trust Sophos MDR worldwide
In alert fatigue and analyst burnout
The end-to-end MDR pipeline that drives 38-minute response times.
"The pen testers were shocked they couldn't find a way in."
"We've freed up significant operational hours…"
"Sophos saves us the expense of recruiting up to five new employees."
What Your Organization Is Up Against
You're juggling limited resources, constant alerts, siloed tools, and unclear signals. The result? More stress, more risk, and too much time spent firefighting.
Ransomware recovery costs rising to $2.73M on average
Attackers exploiting credentials, misconfigurations, and remote ransomware
Noisy, siloed alerts that drain IT capacity
Coverage gaps — especially outside business hours
How This Guide Helps You Solve These Challenges
Instead of drowning in vendor jargon, you'll get clarity on what matters most:
What a modern, best-in-class MDR service actually looks like — from 24/7 human-led threat response to full-scale incident containment.
Which capabilities matter most when choosing a provider (and which features are just marketing noise).
How MDR strengthens your defenses, reduces risk, increases IT efficiency, and even improves cyber-insurance outcomes.
What questions to ask vendors so you make a confident, informed decision that fits your team, tech stack, and business goals.
Broad compatibility across Microsoft, Google, AWS, firewalls, email security, identity, and more.
This guide is about empowering you: your strategy, your time, your outcomes.
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Because you deserve clarity — and a partner that meets you where you are.
How MDR stops threats your tools alone can't catch, including human-led attacks and credential-based intrusions.
What best-in-class detection and response performance looks like, using real benchmarks (like the 38-minute total incident response time noted in the guide).
How to get more value from your current security investments with integrations that reduce noise and deliver richer visibility.
How MDR can improve your team's day-to-day reality, freeing them from manual investigations and alert overload.
How MDR enhances your cyber-insurance position, often lowering premiums by reducing your risk profile.
If you want stronger security without adding headcount, this guide is your starting point.
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