Basic Protection Leaves Too Much Up To Chance.
Security tools can identify suspicious activity. The harder part is knowing what is real, understanding what happened, and acting before a threat has time to spread. Detect & Respond gives you the protection, visibility, and response capabilities to do more than generate another alert.
Many Businesses Are Struggling With...
Too Many Alerts, Too Little Context
Security tools generate constant activity, but individual alerts rarely tell the full story or make the next step clear.
No One Watching Around the Clock
Threats do not wait for business hours, but most organizations cannot maintain continuous security coverage on their own.
Uncertainty When Something Happens
Without the right expertise and response capabilities, valuable time can be lost determining what happened and what to do next.
Protection That Doesn't Stop at the Alert.
Detect & Respond combines layered security protection with continuous monitoring, expert investigation, and response to help stop more threats and act quickly when something gets through.
Enable More Prevention Measures
Strengthen defenses across your environment to reduce the activity that becomes an incident in the first place.
Investigate What Matters
Bring security activity together with the context and expertise to separate real threats from noise.
Respond & Act When It Counts
Take action to contain confirmed threats and limit their opportunity to spread or cause further damage.
Detect & Respond fits at the Strengthen stage, where identified risks become active protections and ongoing security capabilities.
You may be ready for a Detect & Respond if:
- You need stronger protection across your environment.
- You lack continuous monitoring for suspicious activity.
- Your team does not have the time or expertise to investigate every potential threat.
- You need a clear response process when real security incidents occur.
Detect & Respond strengthens the protection around your business while adding the visibility and response capabilities needed when prevention is not enough.
Connected Security Coverage
Unified Active Defense.
Detect & Respond brings together the capabilities needed to prevent threats, uncover suspicious activity, and respond when action is required.
Endpoint Protection
Help stop malware, ransomware, and other threats before they can compromise your devices.
Email Security
Help stop malicious messages, links, and attachments before they can put users and systems at risk.
Identity Protection
Detect suspicious account activity and signs that credentials or identities may be compromised.
Threat Monitoring
Connect activity across the environment to uncover threats that may not be obvious from a single alert.
Posture Metrics
Translate security data into trends, posture insights, and useful reporting that helps leaders understand progress.
Security Automation
Increase consistency and efficiency with automation that supports workflows, policy enforcement, and repeatable security operations.
24/7 Security Coverage
We Review First.
Threats Don't Wait for Someone to Check the Alerts.
Security activity can happen at any time. Detect & Respond adds continuous monitoring and expert investigation so potential threats are reviewed when they emerge, not the next time someone has time to look.
When suspicious activity requires action, the focus shifts quickly from detection to understanding what happened, containing the threat, and limiting further impact.
You get more than another stream of alerts. You get a security capability built to act on them.
Don't Leave The Next Alert Unanswered.
Add the protection, monitoring, and response capabilities needed to act when suspicious activity becomes a real threat.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Detect & Respond?
Detect & Respond is a managed security service that combines layered protection, continuous monitoring, expert investigation, and response to help organizations prevent threats and act quickly when suspicious activity occurs.
What are the security capabilities of Detect & Respond?
Detect & Respond includes endpoint protection, endpoint detection and response, managed detection and response, email security, identity protection, and centralized security monitoring.
Is Detect & Respond monitored 24/7?
Yes. The service includes continuous security monitoring and expert investigation of potential threats.
What happens when a treat is detected?
Suspicious activity is investigated to understand what happened, determine the level of risk, and identify the appropriate response. Confirmed threats can then be contained to help limit further impact.
Does Detect & Respond Require Microsoft Security?
No. Detect & Respond provides managed protection, detection, and response capabilities without requiring an organization to adopt Microsoft Security.
How is Detect & Respond different from Business Protection?
Business Protection is built around a managed Microsoft security program. Detect & Respond provides protection, monitoring, investigation, and response for organizations using a different security approach.
I would include that last question. It does not undermine Business Protection or tell the visitor that Detect & Respond is secondary. It simply prevents confusion for anyone who has looked at both pages.