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The Next Evolution of MDR: Preemptive Defense and Agentic Investigation

medrapid7Published 2026-07-28

<p style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-size: undefined;">For years, security operations followed a familiar sequence: detect suspicious activity, investigate what happened, and respond before it caused significant harm. That model developed in a threat landscape where defenders had considerably more time to establish the facts and decide what to do next. In 2019, the average data breach took

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Original source: https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/dr-the-next-evolution-mdr-preemptive-defense-agentic-investigation