Managed Detection Response

Antivirus Tells You What Already Happened. MDR Stops It While It’s Happening

Traditional antivirus checks files against a known-bad list.

It misses anything new. MDR watches for the behavior of an attack in progress — unusual login patterns, ransomware encrypting files, lateral movement across your network — and puts a real analyst on it around the clock, not a dashboard nobody is watching at 2am.

Security analyst monitoring threats for Delvetek's managed detection and response service

Managed Detection Response

Antivirus Tells You What Already Happened. MDR Stops It While It’s Happening

Security analyst monitoring threats for Delvetek's managed detection and response service

Traditional antivirus checks files against a known-bad list.

It misses anything new. MDR watches for the behavior of an attack in progress — unusual login patterns, ransomware encrypting files, lateral movement across your network — and puts a real analyst on it around the clock, not a dashboard nobody is watching at 2am.

// THE PROBLEM:

A Tool Alerting Isn’t the Same as Someone Responding

Many SMBs already have an endpoint protection tool installed. What’s missing is the second half of the equation: someone actually watching what it flags, at 2am on a Saturday, and acting on it before ransomware finishes encrypting a file server.

Ransomware is present in a substantial share of confirmed breaches and disproportionately hits smaller businesses — and Canadian breach costs average roughly CA$6.98M when one gets through. An unmonitored alert is not protection; it’s a record of what happened after the fact.

// THE PROBLEM:

A Tool Alerting Isn’t the Same as Someone Responding

Many SMBs already have an endpoint protection tool installed. What’s missing is the second half of the equation: someone actually watching what it flags, at 2am on a Saturday, and acting on it before ransomware finishes encrypting a file server.

Ransomware is present in a substantial share of confirmed breaches and disproportionately hits smaller businesses — and Canadian breach costs average roughly CA$6.98M when one gets through. An unmonitored alert is not protection; it’s a record of what happened after the fact.

// WHAT'S INCLUDED

24/7 Threat Monitoring

Endpoint activity monitored around the clock, every day of the year — not business hours only.

Human-Led Analysis & Response

Real security analysts investigate flagged activity and take action — isolating a device, killing a process — within minutes, not after a morning review.

Behavioral Detection Technology

Built on SentinelOne’s behavioral detection engine, which identifies attack patterns rather than relying solely on known-threat signatures.

Automated Containment

Compromised endpoints can be isolated from the network automatically to stop lateral spread while a full response is coordinated.

Incident Reporting

A written incident summary after every significant event — what happened, what was done, what changes prevent a repeat.

Quarterly Posture Reporting

MDR coverage and incident history tracked as part of the broader risk posture insurers and clients ask about.

// WHAT'S INCLUDED

24/7 Threat Monitoring

Endpoint activity monitored around the clock, every day of the year — not business hours only.

Human-Led Analysis & Response

Real security analysts investigate flagged activity and take action — isolating a device, killing a process — within minutes, not after a morning review.

Behavioral Detection Technology

Built on SentinelOne’s behavioral detection engine, which identifies attack patterns rather than relying solely on known-threat signatures.

Automated Containment

Compromised endpoints can be isolated from the network automatically to stop lateral spread while a full response is coordinated.

Incident Reporting

A written incident summary after every significant event — what happened, what was done, what changes prevent a repeat.

Quarterly Posture Reporting

MDR coverage and incident history tracked as part of the broader risk posture insurers and clients ask about.

// Why This Is Different

A lot of “managed” security offerings are the software license with the word “managed” added to the name — no one is actually watching it.

Delvetek’s MDR pairs SentinelOne’s detection technology with actual human response, so an alert at 2am gets acted on at 2am, not reviewed the next business day when the damage is already done.

// Why This Is Different

A lot of “managed” security offerings are the software license with the word “managed” added to the name — no one is actually watching it.

Delvetek’s MDR pairs SentinelOne’s detection technology with actual human response, so an alert at 2am gets acted on at 2am, not reviewed the next business day when the damage is already done.

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// OBJECTIONS ADDRESSED:

“We already have antivirus — isn’t that enough?”

Antivirus flags known threats. MDR catches behavior antivirus has never seen before, and has a human respond to it in real time.

“Isn’t this just expensive jargon — EDR, XDR, MDR?”

In plain terms: it’s a person watching for an attack in progress and stopping it, 24/7, instead of a tool that only tells you after.

“We’re too small for this level of monitoring.”

Ransomware disproportionately hits smaller businesses precisely because they’re assumed to be unmonitored — that assumption is the vulnerability.

See What MDR Actually Monitors

MDR coverage is one of the specific controls cyber insurers underwrite against and a core input into the Insurability & Contract-Readiness Assessment.

Get ahead of your IT problems instead of reacting to them.

See What MDR Actually Monitors

MDR coverage is one of the specific controls cyber insurers underwrite against and a core input into the Insurability & Contract-Readiness Assessment.

Get ahead of your IT problems instead of reacting to them.

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