FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
Granite Expands Granite Guardian Solution with Managed
Detection and Response Security Service
Granite Guardian MDR Combines Threat Detection
with 24/7 Monitoring and Rapid Response by Expert Security Analysts
QUINCY,
Mass. – January 1, 2021 – Granite Telecommunications, a $1.6 billion provider of communications services to multilocation
businesses and government agencies, announced the expansion of its new Granite Guardian end-to-end managed network
services with
the addition of Managed Detection and Response (MDR) security services.
Granite Guardian MDR is ideal for organizations
that don’t have the internal expertise and/or bandwidth to keep a vigilant
watch over the security of their
IT environment. MDR efficiently supplements an
organization’s security threat management efforts by combining intrusion detection and threat hunting
with rapid incident response by expert security analysts and 24/7/365 Security
Operations Center (SOC) support.
The
introduction of Granite Guardian MDR is timely as MDR is one of the fastest
growing segments in the cybersecurity market, driven by a spike in the volume
and sophistication of cyberthreats.
“Granite Guardian MDR proactively addresses today’s
challenges in protecting valuable assets, including the surge in cybersecurity
threats and the shortage of skilled IT and security talent,” said Granite COO Rand
Currier. “Granite Guardian MDR allows our customers to focus on what they do
best while we focus on what we do best —affordable and reliable managed
endpoint protection.”
Granite
Guardian MDR includes:
·
Managed next-generation
antivirus and antimalware
·
Managed threat
intelligence
·
Endpoint detection
and response (EDR)
·
Log event collection
and correlation (managed SIEM)
·
File integrity
monitoring
·
Proactive threat
hunting
·
SaaS threat monitoring
(cloud IaaS and PaaS)
·
Log data retention
Granite Guardian
MDR is available immediately from Granite and Granite sales partners. For more
information, contact your Sales Representative or Premier Account Manager for
additional details and information.
About Granite
Granite delivers one-stop communications
solutions to multilocation businesses and government agencies throughout the
United States and Canada. The $1.6 billion company serves more than two-thirds
of the Fortune 100 companies in the United States and has 1.75 million voice
and data lines under management. Granite launched in 2002 and grew quickly by
helping businesses simplify sourcing and management of local and long-distance
phone services with one point of contact and one invoice for all their office
locations nationwide. Today, Granite is the leader in aggregating Plain Old
Telephone Services (POTS) and has extended its unique value proposition – “one
company, one contact, one bill” – to include a range of advance business
communications services, including Internet access, SD-WAN, wireless WAN,
hosted PBX, SIP trunking, mobile voice and data, mobile device management,
managed security, network integration and much more. Granite employs more than
2,200 people at its headquarters in Quincy, Mass., and nine regional offices
nationwide. For more information, visit www.granitenet.com.
Media Contact:
Lauren Grenier
Marketing Director
Granite
781.884.5290
lgrenier@granitenet.com