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Arctic Wolf Aurora MDR
Your EDR raises alerts at 3 a.m. and nobody is awake to read them. Someone should be watching the tools you already own — Arctic Wolf Aurora MDR puts a 24×7 agentic SOC and a named Concierge team over the EDR, network and cloud tools you already run, with containment included and full incident response sold as a retainer.
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The Arctic Wolf platform family
This page covers Arctic Wolf Aurora MDR — the managed service, including Cloud Detection and Response, CSPM and the MSP-only Aurora MDR Connect. The rest:
Quick facts
30-second orientation- Product
- 24×7 MDR delivered by the Aurora Agentic SOC, with a named Concierge Security Team
- Maker
- Arctic Wolf Networks, Eden Prairie, Minnesota; private, CEO Nick Schneider since August 2021
- Platform
- Aurora Superintelligence Platform; Arctic Wolf lists 200+ integrations on the MDR page
- Price
- AWS Marketplace public offer (US): MDR Basic, up to 100 users, $44,000 for 12 months
- Telemetry
- Your EDR: CrowdStrike Falcon, Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne and Sophos Central documented
- Response
- Containment and remediation guidance; full IR is the separate Incident360 retainer
- Folded in
- Cloud Detection and Response and CSPM, run by the same MDR security teams
- MSP tier
- Aurora MDR Connect, sold only to MSPs, deploys without a network sensor
- India
- No India storage region and no India SOC; Bengaluru is an R&D centre
- In India via
- TechBag — scoping, bundle choice, quote in INR with GST, onboarding
Understand managed detection and response before you buy it
Most product pages skip this. We start here — so you buy a capability, not a buzzword.
What is managed detection and response?
An outside security operations team watches your tools around the clock, triages what they raise, and acts on real threats.
An unwatched console and an on-call phone vs Arctic Wolf Aurora MDR — the honest table
What consolidation actually replaces, dimension by dimension.
| Dimension | An unwatched console, an on-call phone | Arctic Wolf Aurora MDR |
|---|---|---|
| Who watches at 3 a.m. | Nobody, or an on-call phone that rings late | The Aurora Agentic SOC, with humans in the loop |
| Alerts reaching your team | Hundreds a day from each console | About one a day for most customers, by Arctic Wolf’s count |
| Your endpoint agent | Replaced by whoever sells the service | Kept: CrowdStrike, Defender, SentinelOne or Sophos |
| Who you speak to | A ticket number in a shared queue | A named Concierge team and SPiDR reviews |
| After containment | You work out the clean-up alone | Guidance included; Incident360 for full recovery |
| What it is NOT | — | A SIEM you run, an India-hosted service, or full IR |
The cheapest first step is a scoping call: list your EDR, identity provider and firewalls, and see which feeds Arctic Wolf already documents.
The five pieces of the platform
Vendors love diagrams; buyers need to know what they’re actually operating. Here’s the whole platform, demystified.
Collect
Arctic Wolf sensors and agents sit in your network, and integrations pull in your EDR, identity and cloud tools; the MSP-only MDR Connect tier runs without the network sensor.
Platform
The platform Arctic Wolf renamed in March 2026 takes in what it says is more than 10 trillion security events a week across its customers and correlates them into cases.
SOC
AI agents run first-pass investigations, which Arctic Wolf puts at 200,000+ a week, with humans in the loop deciding on containment; most customers see about one alert a day.
Concierge
A named team stays with your account, explains incidents, and runs Security Posture in-Depth Reviews (SPiDRs) so findings turn into a list of fixes you own.
Sensors and your own EDR feed one platform — an agentic SOC triages, and a named Concierge team turns cases into fixes.
Nine capabilities. Detect, respond, improve.
Arctic Wolf Aurora MDR watches the tools you already own, around the clock — and hands you about one alert a day.
Alerts worked around the clock
The Aurora Agentic SOC investigates every signal 24×7 with humans in the loop; Arctic Wolf says most customers get about one alert a day.
Reads the agent you own
Documented integrations take in CrowdStrike Falcon, Defender for Endpoint and Defender XDR, SentinelOne, Sophos Central and Okta.
Eyes on the wire as well
Arctic Wolf places sensors in your network beside its agents, so traffic with no endpoint agent is still seen by the SOC.
Containment you pre-approve
Active Response is configured with you in advance; the exact list of actions it can take is not printed on the product page.
A fix list after each case
Incident response and remediation guidance come with MDR; hands-on forensics and restoration are bought as the Incident360 retainer.
Cloud detection and posture
Cloud Detection and Response and CSPM are run by the same MDR teams; Arctic Wolf’s pages do not say whether either sells alone.
Posture reviews, not tickets
The Concierge Security Team holds SPiDR sessions on your posture, so recurring weaknesses get an owner instead of another ticket.
Retention in the Plus bundle
Log Retention and Data Explorer Lite join MDR in Security Operations Plus; the bundles page does not state the retention period.
Money behind the bundles
The Security Operations Warranty runs from a $100k option on Core to $1.5M on Total, and up to $3M in the Cyber Resilience offering.
Watch Arctic Wolf Aurora MDR in action
The Aurora Agentic SOC explained in September 2026, the MDR service end to end, configuring Active Response, and a 2021 look at Cloud Detection and Response.
How the Arctic Wolf Agentic SOC Delivers Faster, More Accurate Security Outcomes
How the Aurora Agentic SOC splits investigation work between AI agents and the human analysts who sign off.
How Arctic Wolf Delivers Managed Detection and Response with Broad Visibility and Proactive Security
The MDR service end to end: what is collected, how cases are raised, and where the Concierge team comes in.
How to Neutralize Cyber Threats through the Configuration of Active Response
Setting up Active Response, the pre-approved containment the SOC may run without waiting for your call.
Arctic Wolf® Cloud Detection and Response
A 2021 look at the cloud add-on now folded into this page; names and features have moved on since.
Want a live, India-context walkthrough for your environment?
Book a guided demo →Most teams own good security tools and nobody to watch them overnight. Aurora MDR watches them for you, 24×7.
Here’s what genuinely sets it apart — and exactly where it stops.
It runs on the security stack you already paid for
Aurora MDR reads CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender, SentinelOne, Sophos Central and Okta among 200+ integrations; Trend Vision One, Prisma Access and VMware ESXi arrived in August 2026. You keep your endpoint agent, and the SOC watches it beside network and cloud.
A named team instead of an anonymous queue
Each customer gets a Concierge Security Team that stays on the account and runs Security Posture in-Depth Reviews. The aim is fewer, better alerts — Arctic Wolf says most customers see about one a day — and a running list of weaknesses that someone in your team owns and closes.
Bundles that come with a warranty
MDR sells alone or in Security Operations Core, Plus and Total. Plus adds Log Retention, Data Explorer Lite, vulnerability management, awareness training and the JumpStart Retainer; Total carries a warranty of up to $1.5M over three years. No bundle price is published.
Where it stops
Included response means containment and guidance; forensics and restoration need the Incident360 retainer. Data sits outside India, with no India SOC. The only public price covers 100 users. Network sensors add an install step, and no Gartner Magic Quadrant for MDR exists, so the Leader badges are IDC and Frost.
The numbers behind the platform
What your Arctic Wolf Aurora MDR rollout looks like
Map what the SOC will read
List your EDR, identity provider, firewalls and cloud accounts, and check each against Arctic Wolf’s documented integrations.
Pick MDR alone or a bundle
Decide whether Core, Plus or Total fits, and whether logs, vulnerability scans and the warranty justify the larger bundle.
Place sensors, connect tools
Rack the network sensors, deploy agents where needed, and connect the EDR and Okta or Microsoft feeds to the platform.
Agree Active Response
Set which containment actions the SOC may take without asking, and run a test case through to a Concierge debrief.
First posture review
Hold the first SPiDR session, assign owners to each finding, and decide whether an Incident360 retainer is needed.
The review scoreboard
Modelled on Gartner Peer Insights structure. *Counts and breakdowns are illustrative pending verified review collection.
Quick poll — what’s driving your evaluation?
Talk to an advisor“We kept our Defender licences and the SOC simply started reading them. Nobody had to touch a laptop for the switch.”
“Our Concierge contact knows our network by name. The posture review is the one security meeting I actually look forward to.”
“Alert volume fell to a handful a week, each with a clear next step. My team stopped muting the inbox overnight.”
“Containment was quick on a compromised account, but the forensics needed the retainer. Budget for it before you need it.”
“Installing the network sensor at three branch offices took longer than the contract talks. Plan the racks early.”
“Good service, but our auditors asked where logs are held and the answer was not India. That took a legal review.”
Where everyone sits — the grids
Analyst firms bury this view behind paywalls, and G2 retired its Grid. So here’s TechBag’s synthesis of the managed detection and response market — tap any vendor to see why it sits where it does.
TechBag MDR Grid
Execution strength vs product vision — the classic market map, minus the paywall.
Over 10,000 customers, by Arctic Wolf’s count; IDC Leader 2026.
Telemetry Openness × Response Depth
The grid nobody publishes — how much of other vendors’ telemetry the SOC reads vs how much response the fee includes.
Reads your EDR and 200+ sources; containment and guidance, IR sold apart.
Positions are TechBag’s illustrative synthesis of public review-platform data and vendor documentation — not a reproduction of any analyst graphic. Verify before relying on it.
Arctic Wolf Aurora MDR vs the MDR field
Set beside CrowdStrike Falcon Complete, Sophos MDR, SentinelOne Wayfinder MDR, Rapid7 Managed Threat Complete and Barracuda Managed XDR — on telemetry, response, price, retention, India storage and exit.
| Dimension | Arctic Wolf Aurora MDR | CrowdStrike Falcon Complete | Sophos MDR | SentinelOne Wayfinder MDR | Rapid7 Managed Threat Complete | Barracuda Managed XDR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | Agentic SOC as a service | CrowdStrike runs Falcon | Pure-play, Taegis-backed | Successor to Vigilance | MDR on its own SIEM | SOC over 40+ feeds |
| Collection and deployment | Sensors plus agents | Falcon agent on hosts | Sophos Central, cloud | Singularity underneath | Agent on every asset | Fully managed |
| Whose telemetry | Your EDR, 200+ feeds | Falcon first | Sophos or yours | Singularity + partners | Into Rapid7’s SIEM | Vendor-agnostic |
| Response authority | Contain + guide | Full-cycle remediation | Full IR at Complete | Contain; IR at Elite | Two actions only | Contain via SOAR |
| Incident response | Separate retainer | Remediation in the fee | No hourly cap | IRR hours at Elite | Unlimited, remote only | Not itemised |
| SOC and contact | Named Concierge team | 24/7, cities unnamed | Global, unnamed cities | Threat Advisor at Elite | 15-minute start | Follow-the-sun |
| Pricing model | Per user, by term | By scope, quoted | Per user or device | Per-endpoint add-on | Per asset | Via MSPs, quoted |
| Published entry price | $44,000/yr, 100 users | ~$25–45/endpoint/mo | $239.64 on AWS | Platform $179.99/yr | ~$15–22/asset/mo | Not published |
| Included vs add-on | Bundles add the extras | Warranty included | Integrations in the fee | Intel in, IR at Elite | Scanning and IR bundled | Vulnerability apart |
| Log retention | Period not stated | Not published | Not published | Not published | 13 months, every tier | Not published |
| India storage region | No India region | Announced, not live | Mumbai DC; confirm | Mumbai region | No India region | AWS Mumbai listed |
| Analyst standing | IDC + Frost Leader | IDC + Forrester Leader | IDC Leader, 2026 | None cited for MDR | Frost Leader, 2025 | None cited |
| Lock-in and exit | Your EDR stays | Falcon at the core | Tools can stay | Agent goes too | Agent to uninstall | Terms unpublished |
| Best fit | Mid-market, no SOC | Falcon-standard estates | Mixed agents, full IR | SentinelOne estates | SOC plus scanning | MSP-served, India logs |
Which approach fits you?
Honest fit signals — because the fastest way to lose your trust is to pretend one product wins every scenario.
Choose Arctic Wolf Aurora MDR if…
- ✓You have no SOC and want 24×7 detection over the CrowdStrike, Defender, SentinelOne or Sophos agent you already run
- ✓A named Concierge team and regular posture reviews matter to you as much as the alerts themselves
- ✓You want MDR, vulnerability management, awareness training and a warranty bought as one Security Operations bundle
Compare alternatives if…
- ✓You need full incident response inside the fee — Sophos MDR Complete and Rapid7 include it, Arctic Wolf sells it apart
- ✓Security logs must be stored in India — Barracuda lists AWS Mumbai, and SentinelOne documents a Mumbai region
- ✓Your estate is standardised on one EDR maker and you want that maker to run it — Falcon Complete or Wayfinder
Do not expect…
- ✓Forensics and restoration without buying the Incident360 retainer
- ✓An India storage region, an India SOC, or a price beyond the 100-user marketplace offer
- ✓A Gartner Magic Quadrant placement — none exists for MDR; the Leader badges are IDC and Frost
Arctic Wolf Aurora MDR is one of 19 managed detection & response products TechBag carries. The Managed Detection & Response guide narrows them to a shortlist and shows the reasoning. →
What does watching alerts in-house cost you?
Drag the sliders (users monitored; IT-security hour cost). Estimates model in-house time spent triaging alerts and chasing false positives at an assumed 1.5 hours per user a year, with 70% of it removed by a managed SOC that escalates only real cases. Both figures are assumptions. Illustrative.
Loaded cost = salary + overheads per productive hour. Illustrative only — your TechBag quote models your actual environment and modules.
Three ways to consume it
Partly public: Arctic Wolf prints no list price, but its own AWS Marketplace public offer prices MDR Basic at $44,000 for 12 months for up to 100 users, about $440 per user a year, with 24- and 36-month terms. Larger estates and the Core, Plus and Total bundles are quoted, and incident response beyond containment is a separate retainer. TechBag scopes users and sources first, then quotes in INR with GST.
Aurora MDR
Best for MDR on its own
- AWS Marketplace: $44,000 a year, 100 users
- 12, 24 or 36-month terms
- Larger estates on quote
+ Platform add-ons
Best for a broader rollout
- Scoped to your estate
- Add-on modules as needed
- Phased, right-sized deployment
Security Operations bundles
Best for MDR plus logs, VM and training
- Core, Plus and Total; prices not published
- Plus adds Log Retention, VM, SAT, JumpStart
- Warranty up to $1.5M; $3M in Cyber Resilience
Buy it for less — TechBag pricing beats list
Whatever the list prices above, TechBag negotiates a significantly better deal — with GST-compliant INR invoicing and local support. Ask us for your discounted quote.
Get an India-ready quote
Tell us your requirements and current tools — we’ll model it against what you spend today.
The 8 questions to ask every vendor
Take this into your next vendor call — including ours.
Is your EDR one Arctic Wolf documents — CrowdStrike, Defender, SentinelOne or Sophos — or will it need a custom feed?
Where will network sensors go at each site, and who racks and powers them? MDR Connect skips them only through an MSP.
Which Active Response actions will you pre-approve, and who in your team is called before anything else happens?
Will you add an Incident360 retainer for forensics and restoration, or the JumpStart Retainer at $325 an hour?
Does MDR alone cover you, or do Log Retention, vulnerability management and awareness training make Plus cheaper?
How many days of logs does your regulator or insurer expect, and will Arctic Wolf put that figure in writing?
Is storage outside India acceptable to your board, auditors and sector regulator? There is no India region today.
Is the quote for 12, 24 or 36 months, per user, with any warranty itemised? Ask for INR with GST and the exit terms.
Questions buyers ask
Ready to evaluate Arctic Wolf Aurora MDR?
Count the users and log sources the SOC would watch first, or let a TechBag advisor check your EDR against the integrations and compare the bundles.
Stats, ratings, review counts and pricing are illustrative and sourced from public materials; verify before purchase.