Managed Detection and Response in 2023

Kaspersky’s 2023 MDR overview highlights more than 431,000 security alerts processed, with SOC analysts handling the majority and reporting around 14,000 incidents to customers. It details geographic and industry distributions (noting high incident rates in media, development, and government; and highest counts in finance, industrial, and government) and emphasizes trends such as fewer high-severity malware incidents but more medium/low ones. The report recommends threat hunting, offensive exercises, multi-layered protection, and using MITRE ATT&CK to add context and improve detection and investigation.