November 26, 2024
By: Douglas DePeppe
“What’s past is prologue”—Shakespeare’s quote from “The Tempest”—means that history can shape the future. This quote foreshadows the state of the managed detection and response (MDR) market for 2025 based upon its evolution so far.
“How’s that?” you might ask. Well, even though the modern MDR market did not exist a decade ago, efforts in the cybersecurity industry over 10 years ago signaled an evolution toward detection-based strategies. FBI Director Robert Mueller critically warned in 2012, “There are only two types of companies—those that have been hacked and those that will be.” Similarly, NSA Director Keith Alexander proclaimed in 2012 that cyber espionage constituted the “greatest transfer of wealth in history.” These leaders revealed that hackers were already regularly intruding inside networks and causing havoc, and they called for change in the approach to cybersecurity.”
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