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Competitive Comparison

Alaris vs MDR / MSSP

Managed detection and response services offload the work, but also the visibility, control, and context. Your data leaves your perimeter, response times are measured in hours, and the team watching your environment knows nothing about your business. Alaris delivers autonomous SOC-level security with complete transparency and data sovereignty.

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Quick Verdict

Where Alaris wins

< 5 min
Mean time to respond
autonomous action vs. 1–4 hour MDR escalation SLAs
100%
Data sovereignty
your data never leaves your environment
Full
Visibility & control
every decision explainable, every action auditable
Side-by-Side

Alaris vs MDR / MSSP

Alaris
MDR / MSSP
Response time
Autonomous response in under 5 minutes
1–4 hour SLA for analyst escalation
Data sovereignty
All data stays in your environment
Logs and telemetry sent to third-party SOC
Business context
Deep knowledge of your assets, users, and processes
Generic playbooks without environment-specific context
Transparency
Full decision audit trail with evidence per action
Black-box SOC, limited visibility into decisions
Customization
Fully configurable to your policies and risk tolerance
Standardized service tiers with limited tuning
After-hours coverage
24/7 autonomous operation, no shift gaps
24/7 coverage, but analyst fatigue affects quality
False positive handling
AI resolves 95%+ of noise before escalation
Analysts manually review high alert volumes
Compliance audit support
Built-in reports mapped to SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST
Separate reporting deliverables, often delayed
Cost model
Predictable per-asset SaaS pricing
High retainer fees plus per-incident charges
Internal team growth
Augments your team, builds institutional knowledge
Security skill atrophies as team defers to vendor
The Philosophy

Why the difference runs deeper than features

Your data, your control

Every MDR and MSSP engagement starts the same way: send us your logs. Your most sensitive telemetry travels to a third-party SOC, often on shared infrastructure. Alaris runs entirely within your environment. Your data never leaves your perimeter, and you retain full control over every action taken in your name.

Context the SOC analysts don't have

An external analyst seeing an alert at 2 AM knows nothing about your business. They don't know the flagged IP is your payroll system or that the executive who triggered a sign-in anomaly is traveling abroad. Alaris builds a persistent security graph of your environment, learning your assets, users, and normal behaviors, so every decision reflects your specific context.

Speed that SLAs can't match

A 1-hour MDR response SLA might sound fast until you consider that ransomware can encrypt an environment in 45 minutes. Human-dependent response has an irreducible floor set by shift handoffs, escalation chains, and analyst workload. Alaris has no such floor, it detects, verifies, and contains threats autonomously in minutes. When every second of dwell time increases blast radius, the speed difference between AI-native and human-dependent security is measured in real damage avoided.

Keep your data in-house. Keep your security autonomous.