Palo Alto Networks, PwC partner to deliver managed detection and response services

Palo Alto Networks and PwC have announced an expanded partnership to deliver managed detection and response services to joint customers. The offering combines MDR services delivered by PwC, Managed Cyber Defence, and Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks. Together, customers can take advantage of a state-of-the-art managed threat hunting, protection, detection and response service from anywhere, globally. The Managed Cyber Defence service fuses the power of PwC’s global threat intelligence, thousands of hours of incident response expertise, and advisory services with Cortex XDR, the industry’s first fully integrated detection and response platform, to provide a unique level of protection with unrivalled visibility and detection capabilities. As a result, security teams can significantly reduce attack dwell time, down to minutes, and manual day-to-day security operations workloads by up to 90%, elevating organisations to a mature security posture.

Built to cater to organisations of any size, in any industry, PwC’s Managed Cyber Defence reduces response times from what typically takes days to minutes, minimising the likelihood of an emerging threat manifesting as a breach. Detection of emerging attacker behaviours and pivoted attack scenarios put organisations on a path to proactive defence against the unknown, while extending protection across on-premises, cloud, virtualised and IoT environments.

Cortex XDR is the industry’s first extended detection and response platform that runs on integrated endpoint, network, cloud and third-party data to reduce noise and focus on real threats. By combining Cortex XDR with MDR services, customers can relieve the day-to-day burden of security operations and achieve 24 by 7 coverage, from alert management and investigation to incident response.

Shailesh Rao, Senior Vice President for Cortex at Palo Alto Networks, offered, “We are thrilled to expand our partnership with PwC through the delivery of best-in-class managed detection and response services powered by Cortex XDR to our joint customers. More and more enterprise customers have validated PwC’s service over the last year in detecting and responding to cyberattacks. The combination of advisory services, analytics, and modern, AI-driven detection and response capabilities and metrics, with visibility across an enterprise’s entire infrastructure, is made possible by our unmatched joint Cortex XDR and MDR service offering.”