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Get 24/7/365 Protection with Avalon's Managed Extended Detection & Response (MXDR) Service

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While Avalon Cyber has offered managed detection and response services for years, KnightVision MXDR, our managed extended detection and response service, provides your organization with the highest standard of cybersecurity protection available today.

KnightVision MXDR includes our world class 24/7/365 security operations center (SOC), staffed by expert security analysts, who tune, monitor, triage, and respond to security incidents in your environment. The SOC utilizes our state-of-the-industry SIEM platform (a software tool that helps increase the efficiency and timeliness of incident response activities) to perform advanced analytics and investigate indicators of compromise (IOCs), including malicious entities probing your infrastructure, compromised systems, and potentially unsecured user behaviors.

This combination of people, processes, and technologies delivers round-the-clock threat hunting, monitoring, and analysis across your organization’s entire environment, protecting it from the most sophisticated online threats.

What you’ll receive from our MXDR service:

  • Consolidated threat visibility that enables our security analysts to collect and correlate log data across siloed security solutions
  • Comprehensive cross-domain threat context and event information throughout the investigation and remediation processes
  • Automated alerts and response actions activate workflows that vastly improve SOC efficiency, as well as threat neutralization
  • A security review that includes real-time service health/performance, log analytics, reporting, and recommendations
  • Ongoing tuning via our threat detection and response platform to identify new IOCs
  • The ability to open and manage your cases in the KnightVision portal, as well as via email

To learn more about our KnightVision MXDR service, contact one of our experts today.

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