Binary Defense announced a collaboration with Aon to serve as Aon?s exclusive MDR provider for small and medium-sized enterprises. Binary Defense's cutting-edge MDR solution provides several critical advantages, including leveraging existing technology and security investments, advanced detection strategy, vast threat intelligence library, robust counterintelligence, threat hunting operations, collective defense and highly tailored solutions based on customers' individual security needs. Its MDR services have been recognized in several analyst reports, including a five-time Representative Vendor in the Gartner Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response Services report and a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave: Managed Detection and Response, Second Quarter 2023 report.

Unlike most providers, which think like defenders, Binary Defense uses the attacker's perspective to guide its security strategy, providing customers with cutting-edge early detection capabilities. Aon, offering the Stroz Friedberg global Incident Response services and named a Leader in the Forrester Wave? for Cybersecurity Incident Response Services, combines decades of cyber risk management insights with its deep cybersecurity consulting experience to enable data-driven decision making when collaborating with clients to better identify and holistically manage cyber risk.

Aon?s 2023 Cyber Resilience Report shows that nearly half of all companies (47%) have not segregated their end-of-life software from application systems, potentially increasing their vulnerability to cyber threats. Further compounding this issue, 40% of companies lack necessary SOC controls, intensifying their exposure to insider risk. Aon recognizes the importance of implementing robust cybersecurity measures, including appropriate security monitoring capabilities, to create a holistic ecosystem to help support clients from risk identification to remediation.

The collaboration can significantly enhance customer security and improve cyber resilience by providing the visibility clients require to deliver on their monitoring outcomes through Binary Defense?s robust MDR offering which combines an advanced threat analyst team (24x7 SOC) with a unique Open Extended Detection and Response (XDR) strategy that monitors all leading security controls to deliver high-speed, high-fidelity threat detections. The combined effect with Aon?s Digital Forensics Incident Response, Investigations and Risk Transfer services, enables customers to better analyze and respond to threats before they become large-scale incidents, leverage their existing technology stacks and current investments to respond to incidents quickly and effectively, and reduce risk exposure by more closely identifying insurance coverage gaps during renewals.