PulseADT vs. Traditional MDR / MSSP
Traditional MDR relies on analysts working in shifts. Modern adversaries act in seconds. Humans can't win that race.
Managed Detection and Response providers dispatch human analysts to investigate alerts. But a ransomware operator doesn't wait for your MDR provider's shift to start. PulseADT's Coordinated Defense Agents respond the moment a threat is confirmed - at machine speed, 24/7, without handoffs.
Why customers choose PulseADT over MDR/MSSP
Human shifts vs. machine-speed response
MDR/MSSP
Analyst shifts can't match adversary speed
- MDR providers rotate analysts across shifts - coverage gaps at every handoff
- Alert investigation queues mean real threats wait hours for attention
- Mean time to respond for most MDR providers: 4–8 hours from detection
- Adversaries encrypt and exfiltrate in under 10 minutes - MDR cannot respond in time
PulseADT
Autonomous response: 0.8 minutes from detection to containment
PulseADT's Coordinated Defense Agents respond the moment a threat is confirmed - in seconds, not hours. There are no shift changes, no alert queues, no analyst handoffs. Every action is logged, every decision is traceable, and every response is proportional to the threat - automatically.
Limited scope vs. full-estate visibility
MDR/MSSP
Coverage limited to what their agent can see
- MDR coverage is limited to the log sources and agents your provider supports
- OT/ICS environments are typically excluded from MDR scope
- Coverage gaps across cloud-native environments and SaaS applications
- No cross-customer threat intelligence correlation beyond generic feeds
PulseADT
Full estate visibility - endpoint, cloud, identity, and OT
PulseADT sees across your entire estate - endpoints, cloud workloads, identities, network traffic, and OT/ICS environments - from one unified platform. Threat intelligence from 200+ tracked adversaries is automatically applied to your environment, enriching every detection with real-world context.
Headcount-constrained vs. infinitely scalable AI
MDR/MSSP
Coverage is capped by analyst headcount
- MDR quality is tied to the skill and availability of the analyst assigned to your account
- Scaling coverage means adding headcount - expensive and slow
- Alert triage quality varies between analysts and across shifts
- Customer handoffs between analysts cause loss of institutional context
PulseADT
AI scales infinitely - no headcount ceiling
PulseADT's AI capacity scales with your infrastructure - not with analyst headcount. Whether you add 100 endpoints or 100,000, response time and coverage quality remain constant. There's no analyst shortage, no skill variance, and no coverage ceiling.
Compare
0.8 minutes - autonomous detection-to-containment without human in the loop
4–8 hours average - analysts investigate and approve each response action
Continuous autonomous AI with zero shift-change gaps
Analyst shift rotations create coverage gaps and quality variance
Native OT monitoring and actuation included in platform
Most MDR providers exclude OT/ICS environments from scope
AI scales to any infrastructure size instantly - no headcount required
Coverage growth requires additional analyst headcount and ramp time
200+ tracked adversaries automatically applied to your environment
Generic threat feeds; adversary attribution varies by provider quality
See what our customers think
"Our MDR provider called us 4 hours after our ransomware executed. PulseADT would have contained it in 45 seconds. We made the switch the same week."
Robert T.
IT Director
Regional Hospital System
"We were paying our MDR $40K/month for human analysts. PulseADT costs a fraction of that and responds 300× faster. It's not a close comparison."
Amanda L.
CFO / CISO
Logistics Company
"The shift handoff issue was real. Every morning, the analyst who knew our environment was replaced by someone reading notes. PulseADT has perfect memory and never changes shifts."
Kevin P.
Security Manager
Utilities Group
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