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Microsoft-Native Managed Detection and Response

We operate inside the Microsoft tools you already own, so your data always stays in your tenant. No additional platform needed.

Most MDR providers watch for and respond to security threats. Accelerynt actively partners with you to prevent attackers from succeeding.

Here’s what that starts with, and how we go further inside your environment.

Service Baseline

Every MDR Provider Should Deliver These Capabilities

Managed Detection and Response is a security service that combines technology and human expertise to monitor your environment, investigate threats, and respond to attacks around the clock.

Our MDR operating model is different.

24/7 Monitoring

Your environment is watched around the clock across endpoints, cloud, identity, and email.

Threat Detection

Alerts are generated from real-time analysis of security data, not just signature matching.

Investigation

Human analysts investigate alerts, determine scope, and identify root cause.

Threat Hunting

Analysts proactively search for hidden threats that haven’t triggered an alert.

Containment

When a threat is confirmed, the team acts to stop it from spreading.

Response Guidance

Your team knows what happened, how the attacker got in, and what to do next.

Tool Integration

The service works with your existing security stack, not against it.

Operating Model

Choose How MDR Runs

The operating model you choose affects more than detection quality.Every additional platform adds cost and complexity. Our model works inside what you already own. Your investment in Microsoft security goes further without adding another vendor to manage.

Traditional MDR
The typical provider model
  • Provider installs agents on your machines.
  • Your log data moves to the provider’s cloud.
  • A proprietary engine analyzes your data.
  • You view results in their portal.
  • Your team learns a new platform.
  • Leave, and your history and playbooks stay with them.
Accelerynt MDR
Microsoft-native detection and response
  • We connect through Azure Lighthouse. No agents.
  • Your log data stays in your tenant.
  • We build detection rules directly in your Sentinel.
  • You see everything in your own Microsoft environment.
  • Your team uses the tools they already know.
  • Everything we build is yours. Always.
Recommended
Accelerynt MDR Plus
Detection, response, and proactive posture
  • We connect through Azure Lighthouse. No agents.
  • Your log data stays in your tenant.
  • We build detection rules directly in your Sentinel.
  • You see everything in your own Microsoft environment.
  • Your team uses the tools they already know.
  • Everything we build is yours. Always.
Plus Adds
  • On-demand M365 assessment: a monthly report with configuration drift detection and actor attribution.
  • Quarterly expert-reviewed assessment.
  • External attack surface monitoring, included.
  • Monthly posture review call.
  • Incident response retainer hours.
Speed Gap Metrics
ATTACKER BREAKOUT 29 minutes average [1]
INDUSTRY MTTC (MANUAL) 8 to 12 hours average [1] [2]
ACCELERYNT MTTC Minutes, not hours. Guaranteed.*
*MTTC guarantees require Stage 2 engagement with documented containment authority.

Detection and Containment Speed

When an attacker gains initial access, they move to a second machine in an average of 29 minutes [1]. Most organizations take eight to 12 hours to contain the threat manually. Pre-authorized automation inside your tenant closes that gap at machine speed.

We respond quickly because our teams agree on threat response protocols before an incident happens. When a threat matches those agreed-upon criteria, our team acts immediately inside your tenant.

Beyond Standard MDR

What You Get With Accelerynt

Active Drift Control

We establish your security baseline together, then verify your configurations against it on a regular cycle. When something drifts, we find it and work with your team to fix it.

Tool Consolidation

We identify the security tools that overlap with what your Microsoft licenses already include. When you can see the overlap clearly, you can decide which tools to keep and which ones to cut.

Your Team Gets Stronger

Your team works with ours through every finding and every remediation, building deeper expertise in your own Microsoft security environment.

Compliance-Ready Reporting

We provide the documented evidence auditors require: control effectiveness, configuration state, and incident response records mapped to NIST CSF, HIPAA, SOC 2, and MITRE ATT&CK.

Open by Design

Our detection rules and playbooks are built directly inside your Sentinel workspace, and every one of them is public.

View our playbook library on GitHub

Contractual Guarantees

We publish measurable SLAs on detection quality and containment speed at each stage, so the commitment is in writing.

View the Engagement Model
What Our Customers Say
“You get a team that understands Microsoft better than anyone.”
Director of IT and Security, E-Commerce
“It is the effort and time investment that Accelerynt puts forth to understand our business model and help identify key risk opportunities.”
VP and Chief Information Officer, Global Medical Device Company

This is a partnership not a purchase

We work inside your environment, with your team, using your tools. Everything we build is yours. Your security posture gets stronger over time, and so does your team.

Talk to an Engineer

In 30 minutes, we’ll map your current stage and identify the specific gaps between where you are and guaranteed containment.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

MDR is a security service where expert operators monitor, investigate, and respond to threats in your environment 24/7. With Accelerynt, that team works inside your existing Microsoft tools, hunts for hidden threats, and contains attacks before they cause damage.
MDR and SOC operations serve different functions. SOC as a Service provides operational coverage: monitoring, SIEM management, configuration governance, and compliance reporting. MDR adds proactive threat hunting, incident investigation, and rapid containment. With Accelerynt, MDR also includes finding and fixing configuration gaps and working inside your own tools. We offer both services separately.
Most MDR providers require a proprietary platform that moves your data to their cloud. We operate inside your Microsoft tenant through Azure Lighthouse. Your data never leaves, you see everything we do, and everything we build is yours. We also monitor for configuration drift, which most providers don’t address.
MDR pricing varies by environment size, coverage scope, and service level. Accelerynt provides predictable pricing with no hidden costs. We also identify overlapping security tools in your environment that can be consolidated, which often reduces your overall security spend.

[1] 2026 CrowdStrike Global Threat Report

[2] Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2024

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