Security News > 2021 > February > Reinventing Managed Security Services' Detection and Response
Managed security services are undergoing a timely and significant transformation, armed with new hyperscalable technology stacks, hybrid enterprise and cross-cloud protection complexities, and a demand to evolve from 24/7 eyes-on-glass into hands-on customer-integrated early warning and response.
That transformation of traditional managed security services provider offerings, combined with an explosion of software product vendors and consulting services providers entering the fray with their newly hybridized managed detection and response solutions, is confusing to many.
In broad strokes EDR solutions is evolving into managed detection and response.
Tight product integrations and security ecosystem fusions with automation have made it exponentially easier to provide managed detection and response across a broader range of security products and technologies - and easier for service providers to offer highly scalable and managed XDR detection and response solutions.
Some software and SaaS vendors have launched stand-alone XDR products that aggregate detection alerts and automate response across multivendor EDR, NDR and CSPP products - enabling third-party human specialists to transform their XDR product into a managed service.
MSSPs and EDR vendors may have commenced their detection and response journeys from different starting points, but they are converging to roughly the same solution and reinventing the managed security services market along the way.