DEFEND Guardian XDR for Business

Maximise your return on investment in Microsoft Business Premium and protect your business with 24/7 managed detection and response.

Microsoft Business Premium provides you advanced security to defend against cyberthreats such as phishing and ransomware across apps and devices. However, having the right tools is only one part of the equation. They need to be configured to give you optimal protection, monitored 24/7 by a team experienced in detecting and responding to threats before they impact your business, and kept up to date to defend you against the ever-evolving threat landscape.

DEFEND Guardian XDR leverages our extensive experience with Microsoft security solutions and providing managed detection and response services to many of New Zealand’s critical Enterprise and Government organisations, delivered to you at the right scale and right price. DEFEND provides a fully managed 24/7 service across the core capabilities provided by Microsoft Business Premium licensing, which is open and extensible as far as your technology and threat landscape needs it to be.

DEFEND Guardian XDR for Business provides the following features to secure your business:

• 24/7 Incident Monitoring, Triage & Analysis
• Threat Protection including MFN® and CERTNZ PDS
• Defender Threat Detection Policy Management
• Minimum Secure Baseline Requirements
• AI AugmentedIncident Response
• Alert Tuning and Optimisation
• Monthly Reporting
• IaC (Infrastructure as Code) deployment and updates

Benefits

• Maximise your return on investment in Microsoft and avoid investment in other solutions (e.g. CrowdStrike, SentinelOne)
• Predictable and affordable pricing: Monthly recurring fee for all incident response¹
• 24/7 monitoring and incident response by skilled incident responders and Microsoft security experts
• Detect and prevent the latest threats with Threat Intelligence from multiple sources including the NCSC’s Malware free Networks and CERT NZ’s Phishing Disruption Service
• Assurance your Microsoft 365 Business Premium security is optimally configured to protect your business
• Open and extensible to meet your wider cybersecurity needs as your business grows and evolves

Details

Minimum requirement: Microsoft 365 Business Premium.
Managed Service Priced from $2,000 per month (Core Service only) and based on number of users.
Microsoft charges and license costs not included.

Available for additional Managed Services Fee (dependent on scoping):

• Extending coverage of Managed XDR across uplifts, plans and licenses not included in Microsoft 365 Business Premium
• Additional log sources can also be included using Microsoft Sentinel

It is a prerequisite to service onboarding that your environment meets the Minimum Secure Baseline configuration. DEFEND Professional Services available for any remedial activity. One-off charges may apply.

Policy management restricted to threat detection and alerting policies for Defender XDR and Defender workloads in scope of the service only.