A new layer of around-the-clock monitoring and zero-trust protection, built in direct response to the more advanced attacks we're seeing today.
Not long ago, one of our clients was hit by attackers who found a way past standard defenses and reached the hypervisor itself — shutting down virtual machines and encrypting the drives and backups attached to them. We recovered the client fully within 24 hours because we had air-gapped and cloud backups in place. But recovering fast isn't the same as stopping an attack from getting that far in the first place. That incident is why we built out two new layers of protection, and why we're rolling them out across our client base now.
MDR means around-the-clock monitoring of your servers and workstations by people actively watching for signs of compromise — not just software running quietly in the background. When something suspicious happens, it gets caught and acted on immediately, rather than discovered after the damage is done.
Traditional security assumes that anything already inside your network is safe. Zero trust doesn't make that assumption. Every process, every action, every attempt to run something on a server or workstation is checked against what's actually allowed — which makes it far harder for an attacker to move from one compromised system deeper into your environment, even if they get an initial foothold.
This isn't monitored by our team alone. Our MDR service is backed by a dedicated security operations partner — a global security operation with thousands of security professionals working around the clock, not a handful of screens in one office. Incoming activity from your servers and workstations is first filtered through AI-driven triage that strips out noise and false positives at machine speed, so that only validated, real threats ever reach a human analyst. From there, a live team is standing by 24/7/365 to take direct action the moment it's needed — isolating a device, locking an account, revoking a session — with a phone line open if a situation calls for it. It's the kind of always-on coverage no single internal team, ours or anyone else's, could staff alone.
Attacks have gotten more sophisticated, and the businesses we protect have gotten more dependent on the systems we manage for them. AI has raised the stakes further — attackers are now using it to probe for weaknesses, write more convincing phishing attempts, and move through a compromised network faster than ever, which means the threat level facing every business has escalated, not just the sophisticated targets. We've always built our approach around recovery — because you can't prevent everything. MDR and Zero Trust Endpoint Protection are how we're raising the bar on prevention, without ever losing sight of the fact that recovery is what protects you when prevention isn't enough.
If you're an existing ADS client and want to know whether MDR and Zero Trust Endpoint Protection are already part of your service, or how to add them, we'll walk you through it.