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Managed detection & response,
run by people who do it for a living.
Mandala IT runs the SOC your team can't staff alone — real-time detection, automated containment, and the evidence trail your board, cyber-insurer, and regulator will ask for. Outcome-aligned pricing: retainer covers the standing team, per-event fees track blocked attacks, surfaced vulnerabilities, and contained incidents.
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01 · Market
A multi-hundred-billion-dollar defensive industry, still in early innings.
Cybersecurity is no longer a cost center — it's the operational license to run a digital business. Within it, Managed Detection & Response (MDR) is the segment Mandala IT targets, and it is compounding fastest.
MDR market by 2031
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Projected size — driven by AI-powered threats, cloud expansion, and regulatory pressure.
Growth band
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Estimated annual CAGR across MDR segments — one of tech's strongest growth profiles.
Why budgets keep growing
Boards no longer ask if they'll be attacked — only when. Cybercrime damage is measured in hundreds of billions, trending to trillions, and CFOs are signing defensive budgets accordingly.
Why the model is shifting
Buyers are moving away from passive software licenses toward performance-based protection — paying for measurable prevention, not shelfware. That is exactly where Mandala IT is positioned.
02 · Threat surface
The attack landscape Mandala IT is built to defend against.
Eight overlapping threat categories — every one is growing in scale, speed and AI sophistication.
- RW
Ransomware
Encrypted shutdowns, double-extortion, supply-chain pivots.
- AI
AI-powered attacks
Automated reconnaissance, deepfake social engineering, model abuse.
- DB
Data breaches
Mass PII exfiltration, customer database compromise.
- CL
Cloud intrusions
Misconfigured workloads, token theft, lateral movement.
- PH
Phishing & identity
Credential harvesting, MFA fatigue, account takeover.
- FR
Financial fraud
Payment manipulation, BEC, transaction tampering.
- NT
Network intrusions
Edge exploits, persistence, command-and-control.
- CI
Critical infrastructure
Operational shutdowns of services people depend on.
03 · The company
Mandala IT — positioned in the high-growth protection sector.
Mandala IT operates inside the rapidly expanding cybersecurity protection and attack-response sector, delivering advanced security technologies designed to detect, respond, and prevent in real time.
- Real-time threat detection across web, cloud and endpoints
- Identification of suspicious activity before damage occurs
- Rapid, automated response to active attacks
- Operational continuity — reducing downtime and revenue loss
- AI-powered monitoring, 24/7
“The vision aligns with the strongest trend in cybersecurity: AI-powered automated protection combined with real-time response.”
04 · Differentiator
Outcome-aligned pricing — built for how CISOs actually buy.
Base retainer holds the team on call. Per-event fees track work delivered — blocked intrusions, patched vulnerabilities, incidents contained. Caps agreed up front so a noisy month never blows up the budget.
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Predictable spend
Retainer covers the analyst hours; per-event fees scale with actual threat volume, not with your seat count.
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Aligned interests
Our fee rises when our work prevents loss. It does not rise because your headcount grew.
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No shelfware risk
If the controls don't fire, you don't pay for them. Most months they fire constantly.
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Coverage without hiring
A 24/7 SOC needs 8–12 analysts to staff properly. We staff it; you carry the retainer line.
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Board-readable metrics
Every billable event maps to a board-pack line: prevented, contained, surfaced, remediated.
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Vendor consolidation
Replace 3–5 point tools (SIEM, EDR, vuln scanner, phishing gate, IR retainer) with one team that operates them all and owns the verdict.
05 · Product
What we cover for you.
A unified detection-and-response layer for the surfaces that revenue actually runs on.
Surfaces protected
- Service websites and SaaS platforms
- E-commerce & payment flows
- Customer databases & PII stores
- Online systems and digital infrastructure
What it prevents
- Data theft and exfiltration
- Cyber intrusions and hacker attacks
- Service disruption and downtime
- Financial and reputational damage
How it operates
- AI-driven monitoring, 24/7
- Real-time detection & automated response
- Continuous security operations
- Performance-based commercial model
Case study · anonymised under client NDA
How we cut a mid-cap fintech CISO's MTTR from 4 hours to under 12 minutes.
Buyer profile
Fintech · mid-cap
- 11m MTTR p50 ↓ from 4 hours
- −62% False-positive volume first 6 weeks
- 0 Material incidents across 24 months
The situation
The CISO inherited a 24/7 detection function staffed by 3 generalist engineers, an alert backlog above 2,400/week, and a board demanding sub-15-minute response on critical incidents. Their existing SIEM and EDR licences had 18 months left; replacing them was not an option.
What we did
- 01Stood up the full SOC against the client's existing Splunk + CrowdStrike + Okta stack — no rip-and-replace.
- 02Tuned 1,400 detection rules in 6 weeks, cutting false-positive volume 62% before adding any new logic.
- 03Built the case-management runbooks the client's in-house team now operates between business hours.
- 04Delivered weekly board metrics on prevented / contained / surfaced / remediated counts.
06 · Architecture
A five-layer protection stack — built for real-time defense.
Every customer session is evaluated by five cooperating layers in under two seconds. Each layer produces a measurable defensive event — and each delivered outcome is what the per-event fee bills against.
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L1
Identity
Decide who is on the other end of every session.
- Single sign-on and federated authentication across protected apps
- Step-up verification — one-time codes, hardware keys, push approvals
- Short-lived signed tokens issued to downstream services
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L2
Behavioral monitoring
Decide whether the behavior is real, in real time.
- Continuous analysis of login patterns and session shape
- Geography / device / IP heuristics — same user, different signal
- Brute-force, credential-stuffing and session-hijack detection
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L3
Web & API protection
Stop the payload at the door of the application.
- Inline blocking of injection, XSS and CSRF class attacks
- Continuous vulnerability scanning of public-facing endpoints
- API abuse detection — scraping, enumeration, business-logic abuse
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L4
Threat intelligence
Decide whether the source is already known to be hostile.
- Reputation enrichment on every requesting IP and domain
- Live phishing-domain and malware-distribution feeds
- Cross-tenant signal sharing — one customer's defense, every customer's benefit
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L5
Control plane
Your team's case workspace. Where our hours and your per-event fees are reconciled each month.
- Multi-tenant administration with per-organization isolation
- Real-time dashboards — detected, blocked, response latency
- Multi-channel alerting and billing against the performance model
A suspicious login, end to end · under 2 seconds
- 01Auth
- 02Session shape
- 03Payload check
- 04Source reputation
- 05Risk score
- 06Verdict
- 07Allow · step-up · block
07 · Tailwinds
Five secular trends accelerating demand.
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AI-driven threats
Attackers use AI to automate intrusion, phishing and code exploitation.
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Cloud expansion
Every new workload widens the attack surface — defense must scale with it.
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Regulatory pressure
Governments worldwide are mandating stricter cyber and data-protection controls.
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Talent shortage
Skilled defenders are scarce — managed detection becomes a structural buy.
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Real-time mandate
Boards demand seconds-to-minutes response — not hours or days.
08 · Engage
Engage Mandala IT across the defense surface of your domain.
Engagement terms
- Issuer
- Mandala IT (IT services consultancy)
- Engagement model
- Project · Managed · Retainer · Staff-aug
- Minimum engagement
- From USD 10,000 per engagement
- Sector
- Cybersecurity · MDR · AI defense
- Pricing model
- Outcome-aligned hybrid
- Status
- Open
Note. Scope, deliverables, timelines, and SLA tiers are agreed in a mutual Statement of Work. Commitments on this page are illustrative; binding terms live in the engagement contract.
09 · FAQ
Quick answers.
What does Mandala IT actually deliver?
Managed cybersecurity services — design, build, and 24/7 operation of detection, response and attack-mitigation programs for service websites, e-commerce platforms, customer databases and digital infrastructure. We deliver the team, the tooling, and the evidence trail.
How is the performance-based model different?
Base retainer covers the standing SOC team. Per-event fees track work delivered — blocked attacks, patched vulnerabilities, incidents contained, with caps negotiated up front.
What is the minimum engagement?
Engagements start from USD 10,000 for a focused assessment. Project, managed-service, and multi-year retainer pricing is quoted under signed engagement scope.
Which buyer segment does Mandala IT serve in cybersecurity?
Any-company CISO — mid-market and lower-enterprise where in-house security teams are partial or stretched. Managed Detection & Response (MDR), incident response retainer, vulnerability management, and security-engineering staff augmentation are our core offerings.
Do you guarantee outcomes?
We commit to measurable improvement against your baseline — quantified per engagement in the Statement of Work. Absolute outcome guarantees are vendor-fiction; we offer SLA-backed commitments and clear remedies instead.
How fast can you start?
Scoping call within 2 business days. Signed Statement of Work typically within 7–14 days. Monitoring live within 30 days of SOW for standard engagements; emergency incident-response retainer can be activated within 24 hours.
Do you sub-contract any of the work?
We deliver primarily with directly-employed analysts and engineers. Where a vertical needs specialist coverage (forensics, firmware analysis, jurisdiction-specific filings), named partners are disclosed in the SOW before signature — never silently white-labelled.
What if we're already using Splunk / CrowdStrike / SentinelOne / Okta?
We integrate with your existing stack rather than displace it. Our team runs the operating layer over the tools you've already paid for — we tune them, staff the SOC against them, and own the verdict and evidence chain. If a tool is genuinely failing, we say so in writing.
Where does our data live? Can we keep it in-region?
Region-specific options — EU, UK, US, Israel, GCC — are scoped per engagement. BAA (US healthcare), DPA (EU), and ISO 27001-aligned controls are issued under the engagement contract. Production data and PII do not leave your designated region without written consent.
Can we see reference clients?
After the first scoping call, under mutual NDA. Most of our clients are regulated and contractually cannot be named publicly. Reference calls with comparable-size buyers in your vertical are arranged before SOW signature.