The Growing Complexity of the Enterprise Attack Surface
Enterprise IT is more complex than ever. Hybrid cloud adoption, SaaS sprawl and remote endpoints have created an environment where organisations are managing a constantly shifting attack surface. Each system generates its own logs and alerts, leaving already stretched SOC teams overwhelmed.
Fragmented tooling increases both cost and risk, while alert fatigue reduces the effectiveness of security teams. For IT leaders, CISOs and SecOps managers, the key challenge is not whether they have coverage, but whether that coverage is integrated, contextual and fast enough to counter advanced cyber threats.
Managed eXtended Detection and Response (MXDR) provides a way forward.
What Is Complete MXDR and Why It’s Different
MXDR consolidates and enhances detection and response across the enterprise. Acumen Cyber’s Complete MXDR is designed for organisations that need visibility across endpoints, cloud infrastructure, SaaS applications and networks.
Unlike traditional endpoint-only solutions, Complete MXDR delivers a unified security platform with correlated data, embedded threat intelligence and human-led response. This model reflects a central theme from Acumen’s pitch deck: mid-market organisations face enterprise-grade risks but often lack the budget or resources for enterprise-grade security teams. Complete MXDR closes that gap.
Benefits of an Integrated Security Approach
Unifying Disconnected Data Sources and Infrastructure
Many organisations still face fragmented visibility, with endpoint, cloud, SaaS, and on-premise infrastructure data separated across multiple tools.
Acumen’s MXDR platform unifies these sources into a single view, correlating data across endpoints, SaaS applications, cloud environments, and network infrastructure. This delivers the context needed to detect threats faster and eliminate blind spots.
By ingesting logs from both modern and legacy systems, Acumen ensures no part of the environment is overlooked. This flexibility leads to more accurate detections, quicker investigations, and a stronger understanding of overall risk.
Real-Time Threat Hunting and Response
Acumen’s Glasgow-based SOC operates 24/7, with engineers continuously monitoring activity, tuning detections, and responding to incidents as they happen.
Fewer False Positives, Faster Action
Smarter alerting and contextual prioritisation reduce noise, allowing security teams to focus on genuine threats and respond with greater speed and confidence.
Cloud and SaaS Visibility
Modern business depends on SaaS and multi-cloud environments. MXDR extends protection into these areas, closing common coverage gaps that leave many organisations exposed.
Embedded Threat Intelligence
Through integrations such as Recorded Future, MXDR delivers near real-time threat intelligence, helping teams anticipate and defend against emerging attacks before they escalate.
Compliance and Reporting: The Overlooked Advantage
Security leaders must be able to prove resilience, not just maintain it. Regulations including ISO 27001, NIST CSF, CAF and GDPR require continuous monitoring, audit trails and evidence-based reporting.
Unified MXDR makes this achievable. Complete MXDR can support consolidating compliance telemetry and the underlying technology allows for searching across vast data volume which can be further represented with visualisations and dashboards, ultimately giving actionable compliance insight.
“Our Complete MXDR platform simplifies compliance management and reporting, giving security leaders the clarity they need to satisfy auditors and stakeholders alike.”
This capability reduces operational overhead while ensuring compliance requirements are met with confidence.
Why Engineer-Led MXDR Makes the Difference
Automation alone cannot meet the demands of today’s cyber threat landscape. Many MSSPs rely heavily on automated workflows, leaving gaps in detailed analysis and contextual response based on findings. Acumen Cyber takes a different approach. Our SOC is staffed by engineers who manage incidents end to end.
This approach ensures threat dwell time is minimised by eliminating ticket handling problems associated with a ‘tiered approach’, and that a dedicated individual can take an investigative and engineering approach tailored to each client’s environment. This enables faster decision-making and more effective collaboration than purely tool-driven operations. Clients consistently highlight this engineer-led model as a reason they view Acumen as a partner and an extension of their existing teams, rather than just a provider.
Unified Security for an Unpredictable World
Fragmented tooling no longer meets the needs of modern enterprises. Today’s attack surface spans endpoints, cloud, SaaS and infrastructure, and defending it requires integrated visibility, embedded intelligence and human-led response.
Acumen Cyber’s Complete MXDR delivers all of this in a single platform. By combining enterprise-grade technology with the expertise of our in-house engineers, we enable organisations to move from reactive firefighting to proactive resilience.
If your organisation is ready to simplify security while strengthening defences, explore how Acumen Cyber’s Complete MXDR can protect what matters most.
