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The transition to hybrid IT architectures and remote work strategies has greatly expanded the IT estates of most organizations in recent years. Couple this expansion with the growing number of computing and IoT devices that connect to company networks today and you understand why cybersecurity is a growing challenge: As your IT footprint grows, so does your attack surface.

Active Directory (AD) is a database and set of services that offers centralized management of IT infrastructure resources. It connects users with the resources they require to get their work done. Therefore, technicians must be able to quickly check and recover AD attributes that are modified or deleted by hardware failures, cyberattacks, scripting mistakes and other problems.

The prediction is that $8 trillion will be lost to cyber crimes by the end of 2023, which is almost a third of the USA’s GDP in 2022 and twice as much as India’s predicted GDP in March 2023. The global loss to cybercrime is will grow more than 15% year by year to reach $10.5 trillion by 2025.

Managed detection and response (MDR) is justifiably one of the fastest-growing areas of cybersecurity, with Gartner estimating 50 percent of organizations will be using MDR services by 2025. But in choosing an MDR service, security pros should take into consideration what kind of expertise the provider can bring to bear – and how that expertise should extend beyond the MDR service itself.