A time to contain you can report
Mean time to respond is the one number a board and an insurer both want. An operated service produces it. An unwatched tool can’t.
Endpoint detection and responseInternal research
Detection that someone acts on.
Attackers move in minutes, and an unwatched alert waits until morning. We match you to detection and response a 24/7 team runs for you, so threats are contained at any hour.
Free. No fit, no obligation.
Architecture
EDR, XDR and MDR do different jobs.
The difference between them is the whole decision.
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EDR, the sensor
The agent on each device. It records what runs, spots suspicious behaviour, and lets you respond on the endpoint.
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XDR, the correlation
Endpoint signal joined with identity, cloud, email and network, so an attack that crosses surfaces has nowhere to hide.
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MDR, the operated service
A 24/7 team running it for you. They triage, hunt and contain, so you’re not the one watching alerts at 2am.
The problem
Your real choice is who operates it.
The two best detection tools are close enough that a mid-market team won't go wrong on the product. But an attacker can move from a first foothold into the wider network in minutes, and an unwatched tool responds in business hours, if at all.
So the real question is whether a 24/7 team operates the detection, and how fast they contain a threat once they see it. An EDR licence still needs someone to run it.
Minutesfor an attacker to move from a first foothold into the wider network.
What you get
What good detection and response gives you.
The measures that separate protection from a paid-up licence.
Threats contained and undone
The best platforms contain and undo damage on the device, so an alert becomes a closed incident rather than a job for the morning.
One platform to consolidate onto
Detection is the tip of a wider platform. Identity, cloud and SIEM can move onto the same core over time, so you run fewer tools.
What to look for
What can the top platforms do?
Behavioural detection, a single light agent and automated response are a given now; take them as read. What follows is where a real detection and response outcome pulls away from a licence sitting idle.
A 24/7 operated SOC
Experts watching, hunting and containing around the clock, so response doesn’t wait for business hours.
Correlation across surfaces
Endpoint joined with identity, cloud and email, so the cross-surface attack chain is visible in one place.
Autonomous response and rollback
Malicious changes undone on the device as well as recorded.
An agentic AI analyst
Triage and investigation at machine speed, with people supervising the calls that matter.
First-party threat intelligence
Adversary insight the vendor gathers itself, so it doesn’t run a step behind a third-party feed.
Local support on the ground
Engineers here in Australia and a fast time to respond when it counts.
Maturity
Where most teams sit today.
Detection and response maturity, tier by tier.
Focused
Legacy or built-in antivirus, self-managed, alerts reviewed in business hours if at all. Many mid-market teams sit here.
Typical features
- Built-in or legacy antivirus
- Self-managed
- Alerts reviewed in business hours
- No agreed response time
Broad
A tier-one tool, a genuine 24/7 managed service, and identity protection working together.
Typical features
- A tier-one EDR tool
- A genuine 24/7 managed service
- Identity threat protection
- Agreed authority to contain
- A time to contain you can report
Best fit if you’re being targeted
Comprehensive
Everything Broad does, plus correlation across every surface, SIEM tuned for prevention, and cloud and exposure management on one core. The most room to adapt as attackers speed up. We’d start here if you’ve already had an incident, or your insurer is asking who watches your alerts out of hours.
Everything in Broad, plus
- Correlation across endpoint, identity, cloud and email
- SIEM tuned for prevention
- Exposure management on the same core
- An AI analyst in the loop
- Fewer tools on one platform
Endpoint detection and response
Detection is one layer of three.
Prevention, detection and response, and hygiene share the same endpoint. Each makes the others' job smaller.
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Prevention
Prevention decides what is allowed to run at all. Controlling execution shrinks what your detection layer ever has to catch.
Explore application control - 02
Detection and response
Catching and containing what operates inside what you have allowed. This is the layer you’re on now.
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Hygiene
Hygiene closes the doors before anyone tries them. Patching and remediation shrink the surface both other layers watch.
Explore vulnerability management
Tekspace Research
We research the endpoint detection and response field.
Internal research
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR/XDR)
Spots and stops attacks on laptops and servers, with someone watching around the clock.
Vendors assessed
- Bitdefender
- CrowdStrike
- Huntress
- Microsoft Defender
- Palo Alto Cortex XDR
- SentinelOne
- Sophos
- Trend Micro
What we test
- 24/7 managed detection (MDR)
- Correlates identity and cloud
- Automated containment
Same tests on every product. The scores publish with the benchmark.
The Tekspace Fit Method
How we’d help you choose.
Five steps from the problem you have to the product that fits, each leaving you with something you keep.
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Understand
For endpoint detection and response
Agree how fast a threat must be contained, at any hour, and what you report to the board and insurer.
What you get
Problem brief. The agreed problem and what success looks like.
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Map
For endpoint detection and response
Your endpoints, identity, cloud, current antivirus, and who watches alerts out of hours.
What you get
Environment map. Your tools, identity, users and constraints.
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Narrow
For endpoint detection and response
The tool and the 24/7 service that suit your estate, judged on how fast the service contains.
What you get
Shortlist with reasons. Why each option made it, and why the rest did not.
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Prove
For endpoint detection and response
A trial on your own devices shows what each one detects and how fast the service responds.
What you get
Proof-of-value results. How each option did against your problem.
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Enable
For endpoint detection and response
Deploy, agree who may contain what, and connect the service to your team. Then it runs around the clock.
What you get
Handover plan. Deployment, training and who owns what.
Questions we hear most.
Even where we have a product we like, we’ll recommend something else if your context calls for it.
- No consulting fee
- If nothing fits, we say so
- Vendor-independent
- Operating since 2006