Aurora Managed Detection & Response
Security that keeps
watch. 24×7.
Bring round-the-clock investigation and a clear response to your security signals. Arctic Wolf’s Aurora Agentic SOC combines AI-led operations with human expertise, while Braintree connects the service to your Microsoft estate and response owners.
Global security expertise. Local Microsoft depth.
Detect.
Investigate.
Respond.
Aurora Managed Detection & Response
24×7 monitoring
Investigation in context
Authorised response
AURORA MANAGED DETECTION & RESPONSE
Fewer unanswered alerts. A clearer response.
Security tools produce signals. Your business needs someone to connect them, decide what matters and help you respond. MDR pairs the Aurora platform with security specialists who learn your environment.
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Monitor the agreed environment
Connect supported endpoint, network, identity and cloud sources for continuous detection. Confirm the useful signals and detection use cases behind each integration.
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Investigate with context
The Aurora Agentic SOC combines AI-led investigation with human oversight. Threat intelligence and knowledge of your environment help turn activity into a meaningful finding.
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Contain through supported tools
Active Response can connect findings to host, email, identity or network actions. The selected integrations, permissions and agreed authority determine what the service can do.
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Turn findings into improvements
The Concierge Experience supports security-posture reviews and guided remediation priorities. Braintree helps connect the resulting work to your environment and change process.
HOW THE WORK CONNECTS
From a signal to a response.
Data Explorer Lite and full licences have different data windows. Custom alerts and Raw Log Search require a full licence; raw-log history follows the retention policy. Specialist incident response and restoration are separate scope decisions.
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Collect
Supported sources send security telemetry.
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Investigate
Analysts examine activity and its business context.
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Respond
The authorised team contains or remediates the issue.
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Improve
Findings inform the next hardening priorities.
THE SERVICE IN PRACTICE
What your team
will work with.
Search the activity
Use Data Explorer to examine analysed events and build views around your questions. The licence determines the available history and additional functions.
Understand the investigation
Review the affected systems, evidence and next action in the ticket. Aurora Security Assistant can help explain the ticket and related security questions.
Review what needs to change
Work through the security priorities arising from incidents and posture reviews, with internal owners assigned to the changes your organisation must make.
Close to your business.
Braintree connects the security operation to the Microsoft estate, people and processes it needs to protect.
Microsoft integration and local implementation
Agreed service scope and response ownership
Coordination as your environment evolves
Built to see. Ready to act.
Arctic Wolf combines the Aurora Superintelligence Platform, its Agentic SOC and specialist security teams.
24×7 monitoring within the MDR service scope
AI-led investigation with human oversight
The Concierge Experience and security guidance
AURORA MANAGED DETECTION & RESPONSE IN DETAIL
The detail behind the decision.
Explore the fit, implementation requirements and practical questions with your team.
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Connect the signals that matter to your business
Braintree’s managed detection and response offering with Arctic Wolf brings network, endpoint, identity and cloud information into a monitored security operation. The practical benefit is a route from technical activity to an investigated issue and an agreed response. The starting point is coverage: which systems generate useful signals, how those signals reach the service and who can act on the findings.
Arctic Wolf’s MDR documentation describes physical or virtual sensors, endpoint agents and cloud or log-forwarding integrations. It also warns that the ability to ingest a log source does not establish that every source has supported parsing or detection rules. Braintree can use the estate inventory to distinguish a configured source from a validated detection use case.
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Add context to the alert
Aurora Managed Detection and Response combines continuous monitoring with investigation through the Aurora Agentic SOC. Specialised AI agents work with human oversight, threat intelligence and context about the customer’s environment. The Concierge Experience connects findings with security-improvement priorities, so the service can help your team understand the issue and decide what needs to happen next.
The review should show how an issue is communicated, which information appears in the ticket and what the customer is expected to do next. A useful demonstration includes the source of the finding, its significance to the business and the decision that follows. Your agreed service terms define the response commitments that apply to your organisation.
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Agree the actions before an incident
Active Response supports specific actions through first-party and third-party integrations. Arctic Wolf’s current documentation separates email, identity, host and network response surfaces and lists the products supported on each. The ability to collect an alert and the ability to take an action are separate integration requirements.
Braintree should therefore scope response authority alongside the connection. Identify which approved actions may proceed, which systems need special handling and who is contacted when an action affects a critical service. Customer remediation can include work outside the provider’s configured control, such as an application change or a wider recovery decision. Those responsibilities belong in the operating plan.
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Keep monitoring connected as the estate changes
New sites, endpoints, tenants and security tools can change the signals available for investigation. A useful ongoing review checks whether the inventory and the monitored environment still agree, whether contacts remain correct and whether recommendations have been assigned to an owner. This turns service reporting into a record of decisions and follow-through.
The Braintree offer connects investigation to guided remediation and security improvement. The agreed service and Concierge tier determine the actual review arrangements. A dashboard alone does not show that a remediation task has been completed; the customer and service team need a shared way to record the action and examine the resulting evidence.
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Define the monitoring and response handover
An MDR assessment with Braintree should produce an explicit view of the sources, integrations and people in scope. Existing Microsoft security services can form part of that design where their licences and supported connectors provide the required data.
Map sites, users, servers, identity services and cloud workloads to the proposed monitoring sources.
Confirm supported parsing, detections and the health of each required data connection.
Identify approved response actions and the customer contacts for critical systems.
Demonstrate the path from investigation to ticket, escalation and customer action.
Agree reporting, service review and change-notification responsibilities.
BEFORE YOU DECIDE
Practical questions.
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Does MDR replace every existing security product?
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Is collecting logs the same as detecting every threat?
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Can Arctic Wolf contain a threat directly?
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What remains with the internal IT team?
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How far back can our team investigate the data?
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Can Aurora Security Assistant query every part of our environment?
THE WIDER SECURITY OPERATION
Connect the next layer.
Explore the related services with your team. Each has a defined role, with product dependencies and responsibilities to agree.
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Aurora Exposure Management
Discover assets, prioritise vulnerabilities and connect exposure findings to remediation.
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Aurora Incident Response
Incident preparation and specialist response, with the engagement and responsibilities agreed in advance.
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Aurora Awareness & Training
Regular security learning, phishing simulations and practical follow-up for your people.
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Aurora Endpoint Security
Endpoint protection and detection, with policies, compatibility and response ownership planned together.
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Microsoft 365 Integration
Microsoft security signals connected to managed investigation, with the right licences and permissions.
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Security Operations Warranty
Conditional financial protection for eligible customers, with programme enrolment and obligations defined.
BUILD YOUR BUSINESS CASE
Decide who will investigate the signals.
The problem to solve.
Collecting alerts is different from maintaining an investigation process. Gaps appear when coverage, context or escalation depends on whoever happens to be available.
What success should look like.
Define the monitored scope, investigation handover and customer responsibilities so detection leads to an understood response.
Bring these into the discussion.
A useful starting point for your team and the people approving the investment.
Useful reading for your proposal.
Evidence, examples and questions to take into the decision.
Insight
14 August 2026
Detection operations
Make analyst access and runbooks part of readiness
A Microsoft workflow example for testing the investigation handover.
Read the insight
Insight
2 September 2026
Endpoint context
Look for the controls an alert may expose
Consider endpoint exclusions and other configuration changes during investigation.
Read the insight
LET’S GROW.
Work through the next step with Braintree.
Bring the current tools and alert-handling process. We can help identify the detection and response gap.