Managed Detection & Response (MDR) | 24/7 SOC Monitoring

🛡️ Managed Detection & Response — 24/7/365 SOC

Managed Detection & Response: a 24/7 SOC Watching Your Environment

Attackers do not work business hours — most ransomware detonates nights, weekends, and holidays, and the median intrusion sits undetected for days. MDR closes that gap: continuous monitoring of your endpoints, identities, email, and cloud by analysts who investigate every alert and shut down real threats in minutes, not Monday morning.

  • 24/7/365 monitoring of endpoints, Microsoft 365, identities, and network
  • EDR/XDR telemetry investigated by human analysts — not just automated alerts
  • Active containment: compromised hosts isolated in minutes, not after the damage
  • Dark-web and credential-leak monitoring for your domains
  • Monthly reporting your board, insurer, and auditors can actually read
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8minAvg. Help Desk Response
24/7Live, Staffed Coverage
20+Years Running Help Desks
85%Issues Fixed Proactively
#36MSP 501 Nationally
200+Businesses Protected
The Advanced Networks team

The Desk That Answers
Eight minutes, any hour
Advanced Networks advisors working with a client

Hands-On When It Counts
Onsite from our Westwood office
The Advanced Networks engineering team

One Accountable Team
No vendor ping-pong
What MDR Actually Is

Detection Is a Discipline, Not a Product

Buying an EDR license is not a security program. Somebody has to watch it, tune it, chase every alert at 3am, and know the difference between a false positive and the first move of a ransomware crew. That somebody is our security operations team — watching hundreds of Southern California environments around the clock from our Los Angeles headquarters.

We deploy and manage the full detection stack — endpoint detection and response, Microsoft 365 and identity monitoring, DNS and email security, SIEM correlation — then wrap it in human triage. When something real happens, we do not send you an email and hope: we isolate the machine, kill the session, reset the credentials, and call you with what happened and what we did.

A representative finding from a recent engagement: a mid-sized firm’s scanner report buried a critical item at position 212 — an internet-reachable legacy VPN appliance with a known exploited vulnerability. CVSS scoring alone ranked hundreds of internal items above it. Exploitability-based ranking put it first, and it was patched the same week. That is the difference prioritization makes.

  • Median time from alert to containment: minutes
  • Every alert human-reviewed — you are never the triage team
  • Security included on every client, flat-rate
  • Local escalation: a Los Angeles engineer can be on-site same day
24/7
SOC CoverageNights, weekends, holidays
8min
Avg. ResponseHelp desk + SOC escalation
<1hr
Critical System RestoreThe recovery objective we design backups to hit
#4
MSP in CaliforniaChannel Futures MSP 501
What Is Included

The Full Detection & Response Stack, One Flat Rate

Everything below is included in MDR — deployed, tuned, watched, and acted on for you.

Endpoint Detection & Response
Enterprise EDR on every workstation and server, tuned to your environment, with behavioral detection that catches what antivirus misses.
Microsoft 365 & Identity Monitoring
Impossible-travel logins, token theft, mailbox rules, OAuth abuse — the identity layer is where 2026 breaches start, so it is where we watch hardest.
24/7 Human Triage & Containment
Analysts investigate every alert, isolate compromised hosts, and terminate active sessions in minutes — then document everything.
Email & DNS Security
Phishing, business email compromise, and malicious-domain blocking at the layer where 90% of attacks arrive.
SIEM & Log Correlation
Signals from endpoints, firewalls, cloud, and identity correlated in one place — so a quiet pattern becomes a loud alarm.
Dark-Web & Credential Monitoring
Continuous monitoring for leaked employee credentials and company data, with forced resets before they are used against you.
MDR vs. the Alternatives

How MDR Compares to What You Have Now

Where managed detection sits against the other ways companies handle security.

01
Antivirus Alone
Signature-based AV catches commodity malware and misses modern hands-on-keyboard attacks entirely. No one is watching it.
02
EDR Without a Team
Good telemetry, no eyes. Alerts pile up unread — the average unmanaged EDR alert sits for hours. Attackers need minutes.
03
In-House SOC
Effective but brutal: 24/7 coverage takes 5+ analysts and seven figures a year. Very few mid-market companies can justify it.
04
MSSP Alert Forwarding
Many providers just forward alerts and make them your problem at 2am. Detection without response is half the job.
05
Our MDR
Full stack, human triage, active containment, LA-local escalation, flat monthly rate — detection and response, actually finished.
06
Cyber Insurance Alignment
MDR satisfies the EDR/monitoring requirements now standard on every cyber policy renewal — often lowering your premium.
Industries With Scan Requirements

Security for Every Southern California Industry

From law firms holding privileged files to manufacturers running OT networks, we secure the full range of LA, OC, and SF businesses.

Working With Us

What Clients Say About Our Support

LA companies on the switch — cost, coverage, and control.

★★★★★

“When our IT guy left, we outsourced instead of rehiring. Coverage tripled, spend dropped 30%, and nobody has looked back.”

Brian Foster CFO, Horizon Cloud Software · Santa Monica
★★★★★

“The transition month was the tell: everything documented, nothing lost, tickets closing same-day by week two.”

Emily Carter Chief Financial Officer, Blue Harbor Technologies · Westwood
★★★★★

“We grew from one warehouse to three. IT scaled with a phone call — no hiring, no drama, same flat structure.”

James Bennett IT Director, Summit Digital Systems · Glendale
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Straight Answers

Managed Detection & Response FAQ

What LA owners ask before outsourcing IT.

What is the difference between MDR and EDR?
EDR is the software that records what happens on endpoints. MDR is the service: people watching that telemetry 24/7, investigating alerts, and containing real threats. EDR without MDR is a camera nobody monitors.
Do you replace our existing antivirus or EDR?
Usually we deploy our managed EDR stack, but if you already run a platform we support (SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike), we can often manage what you have.
What happens when you detect a real threat?
We contain first, then call: the affected host is isolated, active sessions are terminated, credentials are reset, and you get a plain-English incident summary with next steps.
Does MDR satisfy our cyber insurance requirements?
Yes — 24/7 monitoring with EDR and documented response is exactly what carriers now require. We complete the security sections of your renewal questionnaires as part of the service.
Is MDR included in your managed IT plans?
Core security is built into every plan; full MDR with 24/7 SOC coverage is available in our security tier or standalone alongside your existing IT provider or internal team.
How fast can MDR be deployed?
Endpoint agents and identity monitoring deploy in days, baseline tuning completes in the first two weeks, and you have full coverage from the first night.

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Start with a free security assessment: we deploy detection tooling for two weeks and show you exactly what has been happening on your network — no commitment, and the findings are yours either way.