Dan Dugal

-Kaseya 365 protects IT environments with Datto backup and a suite of modern products that are included the Kaseya 365 package. These products are designed to fit today’s needs bundling RMM, EDR, SOC II, MDR, Image Backup, Antivirus, and Ransomware Detection & Protection into an integrated data protection suite. Other affordable add-on services include SaaS Backup for Google Workspace, MS365 backup, QuickBooks backup, and Salesforce. Kaseya/Datto offers affordable Microsoft Azure Backup.

Topics: What is SOC II, SOC, MDR, EDR, and XDR? Cyberattacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated now requiring a variety of tools to keep networks secure. Although each of these terms are concerned with cybersecurity, this article aims to define the terms specifically and to compare and contrast their purposes.

What Are The Differences Between SOC II, SOC, MDR, EDR, and XDR?

The SOC (System and Organization Controls) team manages EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) and MDR (Managed Detection and Response), as well as XDR (Extended Detection and Response).

SOC is a security personnel team that manages the cybersecurity of an IT infrastructure.  EDR, MDR, and XDR are cybersecurity softwares that are frequently integrated into the SOC plan. XDR and EDR are tools used within the MDR. Cyberprotection is the core purpose of each. 

SOC is used internally, in-house, by a SOC team that monitors and manages the internal landscape and security of the IT infrastructure. SOC management may also rely on dedicated hardware.  SOC frameworks are frequently labor-intensive and expensive to deploy. And they can be scaled up to grow with a companies needs. While the purpose of SOC is to focus on managing the overall health of an organization’s IT environment, MDR software is an added layer that is designed to be proactive in its function; crawling the network to find and stop cyberthreats.

Kaseya offers MDR, EDR, XDR and a SOC II product. 

 Kaseya’s SOC II product (included in the Kaseya 365 package Schedule a meeting) is a managed threat monitoring and response Securities Operation Center. It is managed 24/7 by a dedicated Kaseya SOC cybersecurity team, and RocketCyber XDR software now owned by Kaseya. The Kaseya SOC II product allows companies the ability to outsource a SOC management team, thereby dramatically lowering organizational costs and increasing IT security.

SOC II is a series of compliance requirements and audits set forth by The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA). The SOC II software is tested through assessments for data availability, risk mitigation, confidentiality, and more. Kaseya 365 achieved SOC II status.

MDR software is deployed remotely out-of-house. It requires some human management, but  does require the intensive  setup and management process as a SOC does. MDR software scans layers of the network and detects security threats, stopping  them in real-time. Some modern MDR’s are becoming more sophisticated and able to handle internal environments too. Examples of this are MDR’s proactive capabilities. Sophisticated MDR can perform 24/7 monitoring of the business endpoints,  searches for viruses, scanning for security breaches and corruption, and automatically stop identified threats.

EDR is similar to MDR. But EDR is specifically focused on automated endpoint threat detection and response of smartphones, servers and PCs. EDR runs like an automated ai tool to manage and stop suspicious activity and identify patterns associated with cybercrime. EDR does not require the human management required in MDR deployments. EDR is frequently included in an MDR solution. And EDR reduces the amount of time an intruder in the network is undetected.

Lastly, XDR is often a component of EDR. Like EDR, it is a continuous monitoring tool that runs automatically and uses ai. And XDR is often used as a tool of MDR.  XDR is the most new approach to cyberprotection compared to the others discussed. XDR can include machine learning systems to detect and stop threats. Kaseya owns RocketCyber XDR which is built into its SOC II product included in the Data Protection Suite: Kaseya 365.

While EDR focuses on endpoints, XDR has a wider scope of protection capabilities. XDR usually includes email, servers hosted in the cloud, networks, and many layers of the security stack. XDR can also protect endpoints like EDR.  XDR is not programmed like a silo. 

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Thanks for reading. Remember, cybercrime is everywhere. Choose you data protection wisely. 

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