Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response vs Binary Defense MDR comparison

Arctic Wolf Networks and Binary Defense are both solutions in the Managed Detection and Response (MDR) category. Arctic Wolf Networks is ranked #4 with an average rating of 9.2, while Binary Defense is ranked #14 with an average rating of 9.7. Arctic Wolf Networks holds a 5.1% mindshare in MDR, compared to Binary Defense’s 1.0% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Arctic Wolf Networks users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Binary Defense users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

Binary Defense MDR and Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response compete in the managed threat detection and response category. Binary Defense appears to have an advantage in terms of customizability and rapid response times, while Arctic Wolf is stronger in comprehensive reporting and 24/7 monitoring.

Features: Binary Defense MDR stands out with its seamless integration with existing systems, proactive threat detection, and highly customizable solutions that adapt to client needs. Arctic Wolf features strong 24/7 monitoring capabilities, cost-effective managed services, and comprehensive threat visibility supported by a dedicated security team.

Room for Improvement: Binary Defense MDR could enhance non-English language support, improve API integration, and consider introducing an in-house SIEM solution. Users also express a desire for increased personal interactions and advanced XDR capabilities. Arctic Wolf could improve response times, expand integration options with additional products, and refine its dashboards for better user experience.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Binary Defense MDR supports public, hybrid, and on-premise cloud environments with commendable customizability and rapid, solution-oriented customer service. Arctic Wolf offers similarly versatile deployment options and maintains a good reputation for customer service, ensuring prompt issue resolution and strong communication.

Pricing and ROI: Binary Defense MDR offers competitive pricing, providing substantial value for small to midsize businesses seeking security without extensive internal teams, with ROI highlighted through staffing cost savings. Arctic Wolf, while priced higher, justifies costs with comprehensive services that support increased security posture and regulatory compliance, appealing to those prioritizing thorough coverage and integration.

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Categories and Ranking

Arctic Wolf Managed Detecti...

Ranking in Managed Detection and Response (MDR)

4th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

SOC as a Service (1st)

Binary Defense MDR

Ranking in Managed Detection and Response (MDR)

14th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Managed Detection and Response (MDR) category, the mindshare of Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response is 5.1%, down from 9.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Binary Defense MDR is 1.0%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response	5.1%
Binary Defense MDR	1.0%
Other	93.9%

Managed Detection and Response (MDR)

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Dan Stepanukha

Network Administrator at a real estate/law firm with 201-500 employees

Stays ahead of threats with fast alerts and improves compliance documentation for investor readiness

The best features Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response offers are its time sensitivity. It alerts us right away if an anomaly occurs. The time sensitivity helps our team by making our response faster in case it's an actual attack, which luckily hasn't happened yet. Speed is definitely one of the best features of Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response. The documentation is really good with Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response, making filling out our NIST and incident response really easy. Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response has positively impacted my organization as it's an added layer of security, which has been really good. It also helped us stay up to date with our security posture so we can work better with investors who require certain paperwork or security postures. Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response has helped with investor requirements by assisting us with incident response paperwork, providing a score for NIST 2.0 framework rating, and allowing us to easily fill out documentation for bigger investors like Merrill Lynch so we can continue to work with them.

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Cybersecurity Architect, Information Technology Division at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Phenomenal response time and good handling of context in our diverse environment

We are going to have a meeting with them the following Monday. It will be our first quarterly business review. Half of it is going to be looking at new products and new functions that they are bringing out. So far, I do not have anything negative or a concern. There were two small mistakes that the technician made, and they were remedied immediately. Once we brought them to their attention, they were remedied. I do not have any complaints. They were just simple mistakes that anybody could make, and their response was a positive response. So far, I have not had anything negative to say. The only area for improvement that I can think of relates to statistical analysis for SLAs. They are in the middle of moving to a new product called D3 which is going to do some backend work for them. I know they are working to improve some of the help desk statistics, such as the time the tickets open and the time they are closed. They are working on that function. It is going to be resolved in the next month or two. We have service level agreements with them, but they can use improved statistics for service level agreements. This is the only point of improvement I can identify.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"Whenever there is a major thing like Exchange vulnerabilities, it scans our Exchange server for indicators of compromise. It then alerts us and points exactly where we need to go to check for ourselves if it is normal or not."

"We can effectively manage the massive amounts of security data that we receive from various sources such as firewalls, switches, endpoints, and other log sources."

"The tool's most valuable feature is its ease of implementation."

"What's valuable about Arctic Wolf AWN CyberSOC is the cost savings it provides for companies that no longer have to hire a bunch of security people and pay for a SIM."

"The visibility into our endpoints is huge."

"Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response helped secure our investor relationships, specifically with Merrill Lynch, which required us to document our security posture, and Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response made it really easy for that."

"The most valuable aspect of this solution is the managed detection and response component."

"The integration between Cisco AMPs and the Windows servers is most valuable. So, they can also sandbox machines on which they see something suspicious."

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"The most valuable features are the SIEM and the ticketing function; the latter is very smooth and easy to read and understand. We don't have any issues looking at the ticketing information when we're trying to identify what's going on."

"Binary Defense is comprehensive. We see most of the questionable activity. Once you see things a couple of times and are familiar with the processes, you know what those are. The level of activity is definitely favorable."

"The most valuable part of Binary Defense is its team of cybersecurity analysts. Their analysts filter out the noise and only forward the critical threats that require a response instead of false positives."

"The biggest aspect for us is that they are able to conform to our environment and utilize our tools. That way, we still maintain ownership of all the data and access to the applications, and we never lose control of the ability to run the solution ourselves if we need to."

"The case interface is Binary Defense MDR's most valuable feature."

"The speed at which their services are reactive is valuable. Nowadays, when a threat hits an endpoint, you've got minutes, not hours or days. Their average response time is about four minutes on an alert. For anything that needs to be sent to us, it's about fourteen minutes, which is pretty good. They're the third SOC that I've used in fifteen years. By far, they are the quickest ones to act. When you're looking at prevention, that's a key factor."

"Binary Defense has a human service department that provides live monitoring for our systems."

"The best part about Binary Defense MDR is that it runs on everything, and they keep an eye on things 24/7."

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Cons

"The implementation process could be a little more streamlined."

"It's nitpicky; however, if it could integrate with more of our products, like our CRM, that would be ideal. They may only integrate with Salesforce. We use a different mid-market CRM."

"They could probably expand on their integration tools. They can integrate with more security tools."

"While they do inventory assets, including software inventory and CVE updates based on software subscriptions, would be a major improvement."

"I would like to see them build the ability to co-sell an EDR platform, manage an EDR or manage the actual response, potentially from the issues that are coming up from the security risks."

"They focus on detecting administrator-level control compromises. Because they're focusing more on administrator-level compromise, they are less able to see if an individual user has been compromised. It is, admittedly, very difficult because they don't know what normal human behavior is. If a hacker compromises a human account and then acts just like the human, how are you ever going to notice, unless you have some inside knowledge of how the company works? For example, they overlook account lockouts on user accounts, whereas in our own alerting system, we do not. We review every account lockout, and if it is bad, we contact the person, whereas they think of that as noise because they're more focused on the administrator-level compromise."

"While they do inventory assets, including software inventory and CVE updates based on software subscriptions, would be a major improvement."

"While it isn't a regular occurrence, there have been some gaps in response to some support questions. Questions get answered, yet there are times it takes longer than I'm comfortable with."

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"It's sometimes difficult to know when to engage Binary Defense or TrustedSec, their sister company. TrustedSec is more focused on offensive security, as opposed to the defensive security that the MDR solution provides. It would be awesome if there were a better bridge between that relationship for when we need to get more proactive services or when we need to do a penetration test."

"While my understanding is that they're working on this, I would like to see some more of the quantification or reporting."

"The only area I see for improvement with Binary Defense is their service portal. It could benefit from some enhancements."

"We found that an earlier version of the agent had high memory usage and that was a bit concerning, but we raised the concern with their support team and they immediately replied that they had noticed the same thing and had a candidate fix already available... it totally fixed the issue."

"We should be able to isolate devices faster. They should shorten the time between clicking on a device to contain it and carrying out the action. That would be a welcome improvement."

"The current reporting system could benefit from improvement."

"We found a couple of bugs in the user interface."

"The only area for improvement that I can think of relates to statistical analysis for SLAs. They are in the middle of moving to a new product called D3 which is going to do some backend work for them. I know they are working to improve some of the help desk statistics, such as the time the tickets open and the time they are closed."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I find their pricing to be reasonable and competitive."

"The pricing is pretty competitive."

"I rate the tool's pricing a nine out of ten."

"It is more expensive than CrowdStrike, but it also has more features. I don't remember the amount, but I do remember that it was on the higher side. I believe we have five sensors, and the sensors have a yearly cost. We don't have any additional costs, but I know that if we have more features, they will add to the cost."

"The pricing is fair."

"From the initial cost that Binary Defense came in with, we pared it down quite a bit over the course of 30 or 60 days. My leadership would say that their cost was high, but realistically, they were in line with the market."

"Binary Defense has changed its pricing model from being primarily based on the volume of data to one based on escalations and incidents they handle."

"After we acquired this platform, we met with a number of different vendors. Binary Defense came in with a proposal that was surprisingly affordable. In fact, we were able to recoup the cost of their services within a short period of time. This is because Binary Defense is able to provide the same level of security as a team of two or three in-house analysts but at a fraction of the cost. As a result, Binary Defense is saving us an estimated $250,000 to $300,000 per year."

"The pricing is very good. They are definitely competitive and they were lower at the time that we went with them."

"Binary Defense MDR is priced competitively and may be slightly lower than CrowdStrike."

"The solution's price is spot on; if anything, it's slightly below the norm for most services. Compared to building the same team internally, it would cost more to create the same amount of capability than what we get from an external team. Price-wise, Binary Defense is in a great spot."

"It's valued at the right price. Even with the number of endpoints we have, we don't feel that it's a lot more than any competitor. In fact, it might be less expensive when you look at the fact that you're getting a full flex SOC out of it along with the tools."

"The pricing isn't that bad, it's very competitive. I don't feel that it's over-priced and I don't feel that it's under-priced."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Healthcare Company

Government

Computer Software Company

17%

Healthcare Company

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	17
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	1

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	7

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response?

The agents give pretty good visibility into what is happening at the endpoint.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response?

I had no issues with pricing, setup cost, or licensing. Everything was smooth, and the salesmen were really easy to work with.

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What needs improvement with Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response?

I do not see any point of criticism so far regarding Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response. The three points off are due to the menu being hard to use when trying to get to specific locations.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Binary Defense MDR?

It has been good. We have saved money, and we have a better product. We are a company that has become an enterprise from a small medium business in two years. Our company passed a certain dollar ma...

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What needs improvement with Binary Defense MDR?

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What is your primary use case for Binary Defense MDR?

They co-manage our Sentinel SIEM instance, and they provide a Security Operations Center (SOC) with 24/7 coverage. They perform research and remediation. They have a separate team for phishing. Tha...

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Also Known As

Arctic Wolf AWN CyberSOC

Binary Defense Vision, Binary Defense Managed Detection and Response, Binary Defense Managed Detection & Response

Overview

Built on the industry’s only cloud-native platform to deliver security operations as a concierge service, the Arctic Wolf® Managed Detection and Response (MDR) solution eliminates alert fatigue and false positives to promote a faster response with detection and response capabilities tailored to the specific needs of your organization. Your Arctic Wolf Concierge Security® Team (CST) works directly with you to perform threat hunting, incident response, and guided remediation, while also providing strategic recommendations uniquely customized for your environment.

Arctic Wolf Networks

Binary Defense provides a Managed Detection and Response service using an Open XDR strategy that detects and isolates threats early in the attack lifecycle. Expert security analysts in the Binary Defense Security Operations Center leverage an attacker’s mindset, monitoring your environments for security events 24x7x365 and acting as an extension of your security teams. When a security event occurs, Binary Defense analysts triage, disposition, and prioritize the event. Analysts conduct full kill chain analysis and supply tactical and strategic mitigation recommendations to your security team with the goal of increasing your organization’s security posture against the latest adversary threats.

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Sample Customers

Agero, Madison Memorial Hospital, DLZ, Howard LLP, City of Sparks

Securitas USA, Black Hills Energy, Lincoln Electric,The J.M. Smuckers Company, New York Community Bank, State of Connecticut, NCR

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