MDR Security Tools

Exaforce is building an AI first SOC platform that can serve as an augment to your existing SOC via agentic capabilities, a SIEM replacement or augment via its data lake, as well as offering MDR capabilities via a managed offering.

Huntress has established themselves as a trustworthy brand in the MDR space through their contribution of open source tools and analysis to the larger security community. They re-sell their huntress tool, which is essentially an XDR platform, to other security vendors.

AI Strike is combining LLMs with traditional SIEM and CSPM to provide a holistic LLM based approach to security incident response. They're combining robust asset data with log sources to give the LLM enough context to make accurate alerting decisions.

Artemis provides numerous services under a single platform - from MDR to AI SOC to Detection Engineering. Their key differentiator is intelligently storing and searching data within their own platform or other platforms depending on the context. This enables AI incident response, detection engineering management, or SIEM replacement use cases.

Daylight offers end-to-end MDR services powered by an AI data platform, but with a commitment to the human aspects of being a service provider. Daylight’s primary differentiation goes beyond AI or data lookup capabilities to focus on the quality of the human analysts and threat hunters behind the product. Teams get the speed benefits of an AI first pass, with the confidence of human expertise backing them up.

Tamnoon is one of the first cloud focused MDR/MSSPs that helps you prioritize, fix, and respond to CNAPP, CSPM, and CDR alerts. The use a combination of humans and AI guidance to help fix your detection backlog.

SentinelOne was one of the first major security providers to normalize their data into a data lake architecture, and the benefits are more clear than ever: giving customers a single place to manage all of their security programs, from EDR to CNAPP to AI Security. Consolidating this data enables teams to run cross-domain investigations without stitching integrations between separate products, and gives Purple AI (their agentic analyst) a unified data plane to reason across instead of guessing at relationships between siloed tools.

7AI started as an AI incident response tool but has quickly expanded to provide detection engineering, data storage, MDR services, and more. Their architecture supports advanced incident response automation especially for phishing and email security use cases, with specialized agents doing investigations within the context of your environment.

Fortra's AlertLogic has an interesting set of capabilities aimed at holistic security for the mid market. They provide a SOC alongside their in house built SIEM (ELK Stack), Managed WAF (Virtual Appliance), an agent that offers IDS and vulnerability scanning, and an EDR agent.

CrowdStrike's container runtime technically works, but deployment, maintenance, and usefulness do not compare to other tools at the time of testing. CrowdStrike's Windows offerings remain dominant in the space, but their CNAPP and container security solutions are difficult to recommend.

MindPoint Group offers a robust number of services, primarily differentiated by being able to assist with larger security engineering efforts like implementing secure terraform or active directory.

Cygnostic provides holistic application and cloud security services via partner products and management. They assist with everything from patch management to detection and response.

Cyrebro offers EDR, SaaS, and SIEM for re-sale by MSSPs and MDRs. They have a strong data backend for flexible log ingestion and SOAR capabilities.

Like Huntress, Dragos has earned a positive reputation in the general security community. Their threat detection capabilities and analysis are top notch - they've chosen to focus on ICS/OT security.

Kudelski is built on top of the huntress platform and offers MDR services for most enterprises. They have a strong backbone and history in various security sectors, and offer all of the standard MDR services.

Arctic Wolf is built like many older style providers, but has maintained a strong focus on providing meaningful guidance to their customers. They're behind from a platform perspective, but do a great job servicing their customers.