Ontinue Highlights Gartner® 2025 Market Guide Findings on the Evolving Role of Managed Detection and Response

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Oct. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Ontinue, a leading provider of AI-powered managed extended detection and response (MXDR) services and winner of the 2023 Microsoft Security Services Innovator of the Year award, today announced the availability of the Gartner® 2025 Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response (MDR), a report that we believe captures how buyer expectations and service models continue to evolve in the rapidly advancing MDR market.

MDR Market Growth and Direction

According to Gartner, MDR is an established services market, providing detection and response to enterprise customers (see Gartner's DataHub: Forecast - Information Security — Q3 2025). End-user spending growth is forecast to outpace other managed security services at 9.6% globally, and emerging regions are expected to have far faster uptake, with Asia/Pacific at 19% CAGR.
In our opinion, the Market Guide also highlights that as AI-driven automation enables faster containment, MDR providers must maintain trust and transparency while offering pathways to self-service, a dynamic Ontinue continues to advance through its MXDR platform and human-in-the-loop delivery model which accelerates, rather than replaces, human expertise. By automating routine investigation tasks, surfacing relevant context in real time, and connecting signals across cloud, SaaS, and identity environments, Ontinue enables its analysts to focus on what matters most: understanding intent, validating impact, and guiding customers toward faster, more informed decisions. The result is an MDR service that not only detects and responds faster, but delivers deeper insight and measurable outcomes for every customer interaction.

"Turnkey, human-delivered, threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) capabilities are a core requirement for buyers of MDR services, who demand remotely delivered services deployed quickly and predictably,"
— Gartner, Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response, 2025.

"This report reinforces what we've believed, and built Ontinue around, from day one," said Geoff Haydon, CEO of Ontinue. "Cybersecurity is no longer just about protection; it's a strategic business advantage. As organizations evolve, they're looking for partners who don't just detect threats, but help them operate more confidently, make faster decisions, and achieve stronger business outcomes. We believe Gartner findings validate Ontinue's approach - one that fuses 24/7 human expertise with Agentic AI and automation to continuously reduce exposure, build trust, and drive resilience."

Extending Gartner Insights with Ontinue Research

Ontinue's 1H 2025 Threat Intelligence Report reinforces the Gartner finding that the expansion into cloud services has increased the visibility gap for organizations that now regularly suffer attacks via the supply chain.. Ontinue's research shows a 24% year-over-year increase in identity-linked intrusions and identifies supply chain compromise as one of the top three exposure concerns across industries.

Ontinue's Advanced Threat Operations (ATO) team continuously integrates these real-world learnings into its service delivery, helping customers anticipate, identify, and mitigate threats before they disrupt operations.

Get the Report

Download the Gartner 2025 Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response and see why Ontinue was recognized.

Gartner, Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response, Pete Shoard, Andrew Davies, Angel Berrios, 1 October 2025

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About Ontinue: Nonstop SecOps

As a leading provider of AI-powered managed extended detection and response (MXDR) service, Ontinue is on a mission to be the most trusted security partner that empowers customers to embrace and accelerate digital transformation by using AI to operate more at scale, and with less risk. The combination of AI and human expertise is essential for delivering effective managed security that is tailored to a customer's unique environment, operational constraints, and risks. Our MXDR service combines powerful proprietary AI with the industry's first collaboration with Microsoft Teams to continuously build a deep understanding of our customers' environments, informing how we prevent, detect, and respond to threats. Our Microsoft expertise allows customers to achieve these outcomes with the Microsoft Security tools they already own. The result is highly localized managed protection that empowers security teams to be faster, smarter, and more cost efficient than ever before.

Continuous protection. AI-powered Nonstop SecOps. That's Ontinue.

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