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Managed Detection and Response

Important

The MDR Product Trial feature will be released in stages and has limited availability at the moment. Check the release notes for news and updates.

As a Managed Service Provider (MSP) you can choose the Managed Detection and Response (Bitdefender MDR) service for you and your customers, to benefit from outsourced cybersecurity operations 24 hours a day, every day of the year.

The Bitdefender Managed Detection and Response (Bitdefender MDR) service combines cybersecurity for endpoints, network and security analytics with the threat-hunting expertise of a SOC fully staffed by security analysts with expertise from a wide range of environments, including global intelligence agencies.

Start the trial

For the purpose of this guide, these steps are applicable when enrolling a direct client. If that is not the case, steps 2 and 3 need to be performed on the target company's direct Partner.

To start the trial, follow the steps below:

  1. Log in to GravityZone Control Center with a partner account.

  2. Make sure your company has all information under My Company > Contact person for MDR filled in, including the email address and phone number.

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    Important

    If this information is not filled in, no companies will be eligible for enlistment in the trial. This requirement does not apply to Partner companies that have had the service enabled for resell and have started the onboarding process prior to April 2024.

  3. Make sure the Your Bitdefender partner can assist with the security management option is enabled.

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    This option needs to be enabled both for your company and the target company while using the MDR service.

  4. Go to the Companies page from the left side menu.

  5. Click on the name of the client company you want to enroll in the trial.

    Important

    The company's direct partner must have valid data entered for all the fields in the My Company page, under the Contact Details for MDR section. When onboarded, an Emergency Contact will automatically be created in the MDR console using this information.

    This information is used by the MDR Customer Success Team to contact the Partner in the event of a security incident in one of your client environments.

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    Tip

    Only eligible companies can be enrolled in a product trial. Check the Product Trial status column to see the companies that are eligible for a trial.

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    The Edit company window is displayed.

  6. Go to the Product Trials Hub tab.

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  7. Select Learn more under the Managed Detection and Response section.

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    The individual product trial page is displayed.

  8. Select Start free trial.

    Note

    Companies that enroll in the MDR trial that do not have the ATS or EDR features enabled, will have them enabled for the duration of the trial. No feature included in the trial will result in additional charges or changes in your monthly license usage reports.

    A confirmation window is displayed.

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  9. Confirm your company's location and industry and elect Start trial to confirm the enrollment.

The trial has started and the onboarding process will begin soon. The Product Trial Hub tab is displayed, containing updated trial information and buttons.

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A Reconfigure Agent task is created for every eligible endpoint on the target company, which will deploy the EDR Sensor module.

The company's trial status is updated:

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The features included in the trial are enabled in the company's Licensing page:

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First steps

Once all the prerequisites have been met, the following events will trigger:

  • An email is sent to the Partner company with login instructions for the MDR console:

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    For more information on getting started with the MDR console, refer to this kb article.

    Note

    If the Partner already has an account on the MSP platform, no email is sent.

  • The onboarding process will initiate for the Client company. This process is automated.

To get get started using MDR, follow these steps:

  1. Read the requirements for the MDR console.

  2. Open the onboarding email, set up your credentials, and log in to the MDR console.

  3. Familiarize yourself with the MDR console:

    1. Read our MDR Portal Getting Started guide.

    2. Go through the MDR Portal Interface walkthrough.

    3. Learn more about the MDR Portal Dashboards.

  4. Go to the Pre-Approved Actions page to configure what actions the SOC team can take without explicit approval in case of an emergency. These settings apply to all your clients.

  5. Go to the Users page and set up the required accounts for your organization.

  6. Go to the Emergency Contacts page and create one or more contacts.

    When faced with an emergency that requires an action that must be handled by your or your client, the SOC team will contact the designated person and communicate the situation.

    Tip

    We recommend adding multiple decision makes, preferably working in different time zones to have a 24/7 coverage.

Configure and install the feature

If your endpoints already have the BEST agent deployed, a Reconfigure Agent task is created automatically when the trial starts to add the EDR Sensor module to all eligible endpoints on the target company.

Tip

If the reconfigure client task fails, you can go back to the Product Trial Hub page for EDR and click the Add new module button:

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If the task fails to add the module to your endpoints, check the task status and try manually creating another one. If the problem persists, contact support.

Tip

You can click the Generate Report button to open the Reports page in the MDR console.

If no agent is installed, you will need to use an installation package to deploy BEST on your endpoints along with all required modules.

To start using this feature, follow the steps below:

View results

Once the onboarding is complete and the service is fully enabled, you can check the MDR Portal Dashboards to verify if all the company's endpoints are being monitored.

You can also go to the Reports page and view information regarding the activity of the service.

Manually stop the trial

  1. Log in to GravityZone Control Center with a partner account.

  2. Go to the Companies page from the left side menu.

  3. Click on the name of the company you want to remove from the trial.

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    Tip

    You can use the the Product Trial status column to see the companies that are have an ongoing trial.

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    The Edit company window is displayed.

  4. Go to the Product Trials Hub tab.

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  5. Select Learn more under the Endpoint Detection and Response section.

    The Endpoint Detection and Response trial page is displayed.

  6. Select Stop trial.

    A confirmation window is displayed.

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  7. Select the Remove module from endpoints checkbox to automatically create a Reconfigure agent task and remove the EDR Sensor module from all eligible endpoints on the target company.

    If requested, a Reconfigure Agent task is created for every eligible endpoint on the target company, which will remove the EDR Sensor module. If you do not remove the modules, they will remain on the company's endpoints, but the feature will no longer be licensed.

  8. Click End trial to confirm the request.

The trial has ended.

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