The 12 Best Managed Detection & Response (MDR) Services, Compared and Priced
Buyer's guide compares 12 MDR services, naming Huntress best value, CrowdStrike Falcon Complete for response authority and Expel for transparency.
The article compares 12 managed detection and response providers across response authority, tool bundling and pricing, highlighting Huntress for published SMB pricing and CrowdStrike Falcon Complete for unilateral containment. It stresses the consolidation landscape: Sophos completed its acquisition of Secureworks in February 2025 for approximately $859 million, and Arctic Wolf closed its purchase of BlackBerry's Cylance endpoint assets the same month. It also warns that only full-response contract tiers isolate hosts and kill processes, while lower tiers only triage or guide.
- Response authority varies by tier: full-response providers isolate hosts and kill processes; monitoring or triage tiers only alert or advise.
- Sophos completed its ~$859M Secureworks acquisition in February 2025; Arctic Wolf closed the BlackBerry Cylance endpoint asset deal.
- Huntress publishes pricing, unlike quote-based rivals; CrowdStrike Falcon Complete requires separate Falcon platform licensing.
- Products
- Falcon CompleteTaegisCylance
- Organizations
- SecureworksBlackBerry
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Best value overall: Huntress — published pricing, purpose-built for small business, and genuinely good at the threats that segment faces. Best response authority: CrowdStrike Falcon Complete. Best transparency: Expel.
By Kavichselvan · gbhackers.com
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