Armor launches new MDR service to enhance cyber defence

Armor has announced the release of its new Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service aimed at improving enterprise resilience against evolving cybersecurity threats.

The company has identified a gap in conventional MDR strategies, often criticised for focusing narrowly on detection and response without incorporating a comprehensive risk management approach. Armor MDR seeks to fill this gap by integrating with leading security platforms to provide enhanced threat context, which aims to deliver more precise triage, response, and defense capabilities.

Armor's collaboration with Microsoft enhances the efficacy of Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Sentinel, enabling a robust system for threat prevention, detection, and response. This partnership is a key component in Armor's attempt to provide adaptive threat management solutions.

Chris Drake, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Armor, commented on the limitations of existing approaches, saying, "Attempting to tackle emerging cybersecurity threats with traditional Threat Detection, Investigation and Response (TDIR) is a clumsy approach that likens playing whack-a-mole. To truly raise defensibility requires strategic and continuous improvements at the source—that's what Armor has launched."

Armor MDR is built on several distinct core principles that aim to offer improved security outcomes. The service focuses on contextual threat prioritization and response by developing a unique risk profile for each customer. This context is intended to enable the service to assess and neutralize potential threats more effectively.

The analytics-powered security strategies of Armor's MDR service leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning to identify opportunities for accelerating incident response, automating processes, and preemptively enhancing security configurations. This approach uses outcome-driven metrics to uncover areas for security improvements.

Armor also emphasises the importance of continuously raising defensibility. Insights gained from security incident triage and remediation are incorporated into a feedback loop, which serves to update security configurations and thereby improve enterprise risk resilience and threat prevention.

The Armor MDR service is now accessible to organisations looking to strengthen their cyber defences in the face of relentless cyber threats, as well as industry partners aiming to offer superior security outcomes to their clientele. Armor maintains a presence in Dallas, London, and Singapore, serving over 2,300 customers across more than 40 countries worldwide.