The story of the last decade in identity security was the deployment of multi-factor authentication. The story of the last 18 months has been the systematic defeat of MFA at scale, by attackers using techniques that bypass the authentication layer entirely. Here is what is happening, and what works against it.
The endpoint, network, and extended detection-and-response categories overlap in vendor marketing and diverge in capability. For procurement teams, the practical question is rarely “which is better” but “which combination matches our threat model, our team, and our existing investments”. Here is the framework we use with clients.
UK mid-market enterprises — typically 250 to 2,000 employees — have a structural blind spot that is now driving a measurable proportion of breaches. It is not malware. It is not a sophisticated adversary. It is the SaaS application that someone in marketing signed up for last year, with a corporate credit card, and that nobody in IT has ever heard of.
Every detection-and-response platform in the market now claims AI as a core capability. For SOC teams who have lived through previous AI cycles, scepticism is reasonable — but this time the underlying technology has actually delivered. The interesting question is not whether AI works, but what it changes in how SOCs operate.
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