Managed Detection & Response (MDR) Services for UK Businesses
Managed detection and response (MDR) is a practical way to detect, analyse and respond to threats across your environment—without building a full in-house team. Our MDR cyber security service provides 24/7 monitoring to identify and contain incidents while minimising business disruption.
What is Managed Detection and Response?
Managed Detection and Response (MDR) is a cyber security service that provides continuous threat detection, expert analysis, and rapid response across your environment. MDR combines security technology with human expertise, using tools deployed across your systems alongside analysts who monitor and investigate activity around the clock.
MDR is built on three pillars: Detection, Analysis, and Response. These managed detection and response services are designed to support organisations that want effective threat detection and response without the cost and complexity of running a full in-house security function.
What's Included in MDR Services?
24/7 Threat Monitoring
Our analysts monitor activity across your environment around the clock to identify unusual or suspicious behaviour. This helps ensure potential incidents are identified, including activity that may occur outside normal business hours.
Advanced Threat Detection
We deploy leading technologies like SIEM and EDR to capture, correlate, and identify malicious activity based on behaviour and context, rather than relying only on known indicators.
Proactive Threat Hunting
Analysts actively search for indicators of compromise that automated detections may miss. Proactive threat hunting helps us uncover stealthy threats and improve detection quality over time.
Incident Investigation & Analysis
When suspicious activity is identified, our analysts investigate to understand what has happened, what systems are affected, and how serious the issue is.
Guided Response & Containment
We develop structured response playbooks and analyst guidance to support containment, limit impact and prevent further spread. This may include recommended steps to isolate affected systems and reduce risk.
Regular Threat Reports
We provide regular reports to summarise monitoring activity, investigations, and incidents over time. Reporting helps track trends, support internal discussions, and inform future security decisions.
Why Businesses Choose MDR
Evolving Threat Landscape
Cyber threats are becoming increasingly complex and sophisticated, making it very challenging for organisations to keep up. Managed detection and response services expertly evolve to significantly reduce the risk of falling victim to new attack types.
Alert Fatigue
Many growing SMBs struggle to manage the increasing volume of security alerts generated by their existing security tools as their employees, assets and networks grow. This ‘alert fatigue’ leads to missed incidents and higher risk of business interruptions.
Lack Of Specialist Expertise
Building and maintaining a dedicated security team with the necessary skills and tools to detect and respond to incidents is prohibitively expensive and resource-intensive. A managed detection and response service provides access to a team of highly skilled cyber security experts who work as a natural extension of your organisation.
Extended Detection & Response
Traditional security measures focus on specific endpoints or networks, leaving gaps. Our managed detection and response service uses a suite of technologies that provide comprehensive visibility across your entire tech stack, ensuring threats and incidents are identified no matter where they originate.
Evolving Threat Landscape
Cyber threats are becoming increasingly complex and sophisticated, making it very challenging for organisations to keep up. Managed detection and response services expertly evolve to significantly reduce the risk of falling victim to new attack types.
Alert Fatigue
Many growing SMBs struggle to manage the increasing volume of security alerts generated by their existing security tools as their employees, assets and networks grow. This ‘alert fatigue’ leads to missed incidents and higher risk of business interruptions.
Lack Of Specialist Expertise
Building and maintaining a dedicated security team with the necessary skills and tools to detect and respond to incidents is prohibitively expensive and resource-intensive. A managed detection and response service provides access to a team of highly skilled cyber security experts who work as a natural extension of your organisation.
Extended Detection & Response
Traditional security measures focus on specific endpoints or networks, leaving gaps. Our managed detection and response service uses a suite of technologies that provide comprehensive visibility across your entire tech stack, ensuring threats and incidents are identified no matter where they originate.
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Benefits of Managed Detection & Response
Our managed detection and response service provides an affordable level of protection against existing and future cyber threats.
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With managed detection and response, incidents are detected and mitigated in near real-time, minimising damage and reducing potential downtime on your systems.
Cost-Effective
Managed detection and response eliminates the need for significant investments in tooling and and in-house expertise, offering the most cost-effective solution.
24/7 Monitoring
With our managed detection and response service, your business is covered round the clock, ensuring you do not get caught out by incidents that happen outside normal working hours.
Scalable Solutions
As your business grows, so does the complexity of its IT. Our managed detection and response service scales elastically, so as your attack surface and threat landscape expand, our service grows with it.
Regulatory Support
Integrating a managed detection and response service helps your organisation easily meet the security monitoring and response requirements of regulations such as Cyber Essentials and ISO 27001.
Win New Clients
Having a managed detection and response service in place can be a crucial factor when seeking to win business with larger enterprise clients, who often require stringent security controls from their suppliers.
EDR vs MDR: What’s the Difference?
| Factor | Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) | Managed Detection and Response (MDR) |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Software tool | Managed service (people + process + tech) |
| Management | Your team manages alerts and tuning | Provider manages monitoring, tuning, investigation |
| Response | Often alerting + basic actions | Detection + investigation + guided or hands-on response |
| Expertise needed | High (you need analysts) | Low (analyst capability included) |
| Best fit | Teams with security operations maturity | Teams that want 24/7 capability without building a SOC |
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Frequently Asked Questions
- What is Managed Detection and Response?
MDR is a proactive cyber security service that combines advanced tools with expert analysis to monitor, detect, and respond to threats 24/7. MDR security provides comprehensive protection against evolving cyber risks to minimise the impact of cyber security incidents in your business.
- Do small businesses need MDR?
Yes. Small and medium-sized businesses face the same sophisticated threats as larger organisations but lack the in-house resources or specialist personnel to monitor and respond effectively. CyPro’s MDR services are designed to be scalable and cost-effective, giving smaller companies expert detection, investigation, and response capability without the overhead of an internal security team.
- What's the difference between MDR vs SOC?
Question MDR (Managed Detection & Response) SOC (Security Operations Centre) What is it? A managed service focused on detecting and responding to active cyber threats A security function or team responsible for running day-to-day security operations Main purpose Find and stop threats quickly Monitor and manage overall security operations What it does Detects threats, investigates alerts, and supports or performs incident response Monitors security tools, investigates alerts, and coordinates security activities Scope Focused on threat detection and response Broader scope covering networks, systems, applications, and security tooling Who runs it? Generally delivered by an external provider Run in-house, outsourced, or hybrid How they work together MDR often feeds high-quality detections and response support into a SOC A SOC may use MDR as a core detection and response capability - How much do MDR services cost?
Costs for managed detection and response vary depending on the size and complexity of your environment, the number of assets monitored, and the depth of response support included. CyPro typically structures MDR pricing based on your organisation’s scope, ensuring 24/7 coverage and expert support without the expense of building an in-house team.
- What's the difference between EDR and MDR?
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) refers to a security tool that collects endpoint data and produces alerts. In contrast, MDR is a managed service that not only detects threats across your environment (including endpoint telemetry) but also provides ongoing analysis, investigation, and response by a dedicated team of SOC analysts on your behalf.
- Does MDR help with compliance requirements?
Yes. CyPro’s MDR service supports regulatory compliance by implementing robust security measures and providing documentation aligned with standards such as GDPR, ISO 27001, Telecommunications Security Act and Cyber Essentials Plus.
- What kind of threats does MDR protect against?
MDR defends against a wide range of threats, including ransomware, phishing attacks, insider threats, and advanced persistent threats (APTs). It ensures you have the capability to detect incidents early on and, where possible, stop an incident before it has the chance to become significant.
- Do I need specialised tools or software to use MDR?
No. CyPro’s MDR service includes all necessary tools and technologies which we will deploy and integrate into your existing architecture to provide robust protection without additional overhead.
- How does MDR differ from traditional security solutions?
Unlike traditional security measures that often focus only on prevention, an MDR service accepts that security incidents will inevitably happen, and it provides you with an advanced capability to identify and rapidly respond to cyber security incidents when they occur.
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