Secureworks vs. Arctic Wolf: Choose the Best MDR Solution

Secureworks vs. Arctic Wolf

Secureworks offer superior detection and unmatched response, integrating seamlessly with your existing products while providing the best overall value.

Comparison

VS. Arctic Wolf

	Secureworks MDR	Arctic Wolf MDR
Support for endpoint, network, and cloud	yes	yes
Investigation and response	yes	yes
Advanced analytics	yes	no ¹
Threat hunting	yes	yes
Open platform with support for third-party integrations and automated playbooks that accelerate response	Yes	no ²
<90 seconds for direct access to a SOC analyst with unlimited support	yes	no ³
Use the same interface and platform as the SOC delivering MDR, with full transparency on investigations	yes	no ⁴
Mixed-EDR agent environment support, with included and/or supported third-party agents	yes	yes
Full-service incident response available, with unlimited response for in-scope environments	yes ⁵	no ⁶
Freedom to keep or remove the managed service and take over yourself with zero technology changes	yes	no ⁷
One year of raw telemetry from all sources included — plus up to five years available to support compliance needs	yes	no ⁸
Filters the most noise from the most sources	yes ⁹	no ¹⁰
Dedicated team of 100+ threat researchers and detection algorithms powered by 40B+ unique threat and knowledge nodes	yes ¹¹	no ¹²
Quarterly customized security maturity and performance update	yes	*yes*

Arctic Wolf received a score of 3 in the Forrester Wave™ Q2 2023 for analytics while Secureworks scored a perfect 5.
Arctic Wolf offers minimal automation by API, lacking integration connectors, orchestration, or playbooks.
Arctic Wolf provides access to Concierge but not to an analyst directly within the platform.
Arctic Wolf provides a front-end dashboard only, with no exposure to advanced queries or correlations.
Secureworks is one of only four companies worldwide to be accredited by both the NSA CIRA (US) and NCSC CIR (UK).
Arctic Wolf only offers the IR JumpStart Retainer.
Arctic Wolf is an MDR service only, not a true XDR platform.
Arctic Wolf only offers standard data retention of 90 days, with extra costs for 6 months, one year, or multiple years.
99.6% of alerts we receive from third-party security products are filtered as false positives.
After Secureworks' reasonable review, Secureworks cannot find any publicly available information validating that this feature is available from Arctic Wolf.
Secureworks has 100+ elite threat researchers tracking 150+ active threat groups.
After Secureworks' reasonable review, Secureworks cannot find any publicly available information validating that this feature is available from Arctic Wolf.