Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

While security professionals know well that a defense-in-depth strategy is crucial to proper cybersecurity, sometimes a detailed story of how a threat was discovered and eradicated can bring the value home, especially to the uninitiated. This is one such story. In this case, the story relates to the value of employing a cybersecurity threat hunting service alongside a managed detection and response offering.

The world of cybersecurity doesn’t lack for acronyms. Whether it’s protocols and standards or tools and technology, the market is dominated by an endless array of capital letters.

SC Media and SC Media Europe have each named Trustwave's Managed Detection and Response (MDR) solution as a finalist for the publication's Best Managed Security Service awards. The 2025 SC Awards were judged across 33 specialty categories by a distinguished panel of cybersecurity professionals, industry leaders, and CyberRisk Alliance CISO community members.

Managed Detection and Response is crucial in strengthening securing systems from cyber-attacks. MDR integrates latest technology that detects threats providing around-the-clock monitoring and speedy response to problems. To detect and eliminate advanced threats such as advanced persistent threats (APTs) and zero-day vulnerabilities, it resorts to a mix of automated tools and human intervention. These threats pose serious risk to organizations and their compliance to security requirements.

While various AI and machine learning automated workflows offer a great deal of insights into complex prediction and computation problems, recent advances in generative AI provide excellent summarization and content generation capabilities for a broad range of use cases. This means that search results are more comprehensive and accurate, often tailored to end-user needs. However, one remaining opportunity is to get the end-to-end job done with accuracy, speed and more importantly, agility.

CrowdStrike has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Services, Q1 2025. Forrester researched, analyzed, and scored the ten most significant vendors in the MDR market. CrowdStrike was named a Leader and ranked highest of any vendor evaluated in the Strategy category.

Trustwave has attained authorized status by the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) for its Government Fusion platform. This announcement follows Trustwave being named last year as an official StateRAMP-authorized vendor. These achievements cap a multi-year journey through the FedRAMP process and make Trustwave the only pure-play Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider recognized by FedRAMP.