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Emerging Tech: Top Use Cases for Network Detection and Response

Published: 05 April 2023

Summary

Based on user adoption, the network detection and response market is driven by three core use cases. To maximize revenue, product leaders should enhance capabilities and focus roadmap efforts on detection, incident response and response use cases.

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Overview

Key Findings
  • Though slipping in importance, detection is still the starting point for most network detection and response (NDR) buyers.

  • Incident response (IR) is often the determining factor in NDR buyer selection.

  • Endpoint integration is popular with buyers and is seeing accelerated vendor AI investment.

Recommendations

To understand and meet the needs of end users, product leaders involved in NDR development should:

  • Remain relevant to evolving NDR buyer needs by Investing in non-network detection sources.

  • Improve NDR sales’ close rate by investing to streamline IR workflows.

  • Broaden the appeal of your response capabilities by focusing NDR response integration investments on endpoint protection platform (EPP) vendors with

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