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Checklist: Questions to Ask a Potential MDR Vendor

Does your potential MDR vendor check the right boxes?

As a managed service, Managed Detection and Response (MDR) offerings can (and should) prompt many questions for chief information security officers (CISOs) and other leaders responsible for their organization’s security. This checklist helps focus your approach to evaluating MDR vendors to ensure you are comparing “apples to apples” – and helps you determine which offering is a good fit for your company, risk tolerance, and threat landscape. ​

The checklist contains 30 questions to help you:

• Assess a vendor’s scope and scale of security coverage
• Determine the levels of communications and support provided
• Understand the levels of a vendor’s service solutions