The IT Leader's MDR Reality Check: Build, Buy, or Get Left Behind
Date: Thursday, May 14 at 11am PT / 2pm ET
The threat landscape has fundamentally changed — ransomware executes in minutes, AI-powered attacks adapt in real time, and the attack surface now extends well beyond the endpoint to email, user identities, and cloud applications. Yet most IT teams still rely on alerting tools that no one has bandwidth to monitor 24/7. An alert that goes unread is no different from having no protection at all. In this session, ThreatDown's Matt Sherman, Director of Managed Detection & Response (MDR), delivers a practical reality check for IT leaders on what modern threat monitoring actually requires — and whether building it in-house is worth the cost.
You'll walk away understanding:
- Why endpoint-only protection strategies no longer hold up in a cloud-first, remote-work world
- How ransomware and AI-driven attacks have compressed response windows from hours to minutes
- What it really takes to build in-house security operations — SIEM, SOAR, and round-the-clock staffing
- Why identity and cloud account monitoring are now just as critical as endpoint detection
- How an MDR service closes the gap between alerts firing and someone actually acting on them
Who should attend: IT Directors, CISOs, VPs of IT, and security leaders evaluating whether their detection and response capabilities can keep pace with today's threats.
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About the presenter:
Matt Sherman, Director of Managed Detection & Response (MDR) at ThreatDown
Matt Sherman — a self-described colossal nerd — brings over 25 years of cybersecurity experience to his role leading ThreatDown's MDR team. Before joining ThreatDown, he spent six years as an Incident Response Lead Investigator at Symantec, responding to ransomware, data exfiltration, denial of service attacks, and malware outbreaks across industries including finance, healthcare, energy, and the public sector. He also led international IR engagements at Accenture and spent over a decade as a subject matter expert on Symantec's Endpoint Protection suite. Today, Matt and his team are on the front lines 24/7, triaging and responding to threats across endpoints, identities, and cloud environments for ThreatDown customers.
Date: May 14, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM PT
Duration: 1 hour