Managed Detection and Response, Global, 2025–2028
Description
Managed detection and response (MDR) has become a staple of modern cybersecurity, occupying a space between extended detection and response (XDR) platforms and traditional managed security services. It combines advanced analytics, 24/7 monitoring, proactive threat hunting, identity threat detection and response (ITDR), behavioral analytics, and adjacent services to deliver holistic, AI-enhanced protection across endpoint, network, cloud, operational technology (OT), Internet of Things (IoT), and mobile environments while reducing operational burden for security teams.
This study analyzes MDR’s position in a maturing yet fast-growing market, with projected revenue growth of 24.8% in 2025 and an 18.1% CAGR from 2025 to 2028. It examines how MDR adoption is evolving across regions (North America, EMEA, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific); key verticals, such as financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, technology, telecommunications, and government; and shifting pricing and packaging models, including per-asset, tiered, and risk/regulation-based approaches alongside modular add-on services.
The analysis also offers guidance for CISOs on how to evaluate and select MDR providers. It highlights MDR’s role as a compliance accelerator and a mechanism that can define, track, and communicate meaningful security KPIs. It also underlines the importance of trust and transparency in the ongoing relationship between organizations and their MDR partners.
Finally, the report identifies emerging growth opportunities in technology, product, and service design, as well as new strategies, vertical focus, expansion, and other novel approaches that connect these dynamics to outline how providers can drive sustainable growth and succeed in an increasingly competitive market.
This study analyzes MDR’s position in a maturing yet fast-growing market, with projected revenue growth of 24.8% in 2025 and an 18.1% CAGR from 2025 to 2028. It examines how MDR adoption is evolving across regions (North America, EMEA, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific); key verticals, such as financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, technology, telecommunications, and government; and shifting pricing and packaging models, including per-asset, tiered, and risk/regulation-based approaches alongside modular add-on services.
The analysis also offers guidance for CISOs on how to evaluate and select MDR providers. It highlights MDR’s role as a compliance accelerator and a mechanism that can define, track, and communicate meaningful security KPIs. It also underlines the importance of trust and transparency in the ongoing relationship between organizations and their MDR partners.
Finally, the report identifies emerging growth opportunities in technology, product, and service design, as well as new strategies, vertical focus, expansion, and other novel approaches that connect these dynamics to outline how providers can drive sustainable growth and succeed in an increasingly competitive market.
Table of Contents
57 Pages
- Scope of Analysis
- Why is it Increasingly Difficult to Grow?
- The Strategic Imperative 8TM
- The Impact of the Top 3 Strategic Imperatives on the MDR Market
- Competitive Environment
- Key Competitors
- MDR Overview
- Key Growth Metrics
- Growth Drivers
- Growth Restraints
- Forecast Considerations
- Revenue Forecast
- Revenue Forecast by Region
- Revenue Forecast by Company Size
- Revenue Forecast by Industry Vertical or Application
- Revenue Forecast Analysis
- Pricing Trends and Forecast Analysis
- Growth Opportunity 1: Switching the Focus from Reactive to Proactive MDR for a More Effective Holistic Security
- Growth Opportunity 2: Expanding and Improving Agentic AI to Raise Trust and Improve SOC Workflows
- Growth Opportunity 3: Building Industry-Specific MDR Platforms and Services
- Growth Opportunity 4: Delivering Regulation-Driven MDR Packages
- Growth Opportunity 5: Securing OT Environments More Effectively with Tailored Response Modes
- Growth Opportunity 6: Harnessing Digital Twins to Augment MDR's Attack Simulation Capabilities
- Growth Opportunity 7: Aligning and Partnering with Cyber Insurance Providers
- Any Organization Can Harness the Advantages of MDR
- Selecting an MDR Provider
- MDR as a Compliance Accelerator
- Metrics that Matter: KPIs to Set the Path to Success
- The Backbone of an Effective SOC: Trust
- Benefits and Impacts of Growth Opportunities
- Next Steps
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