Small IT team (3 people) approaching EDR renewal — ESET vs Arctic Wolf Aurora MDR, thoughts?
Hi everyone,
We’re a small IT team of 3 managing a mid-size company’s endpoints. Our **ESET EDR** license is coming up for renewal, and we’re evaluating whether to stick with ESET or move to **Arctic Wolf Aurora** (MDR + EDR).
Some context:
* Current setup: ESET EDR, all alert triage and response handled internally by our team.
* We don’t have a dedicated SOC; after-hours monitoring is basically impossible.
* Goal: maximize security coverage, reduce risk, but stay within reason on cost and operational overhead.
We’re trying to figure out:
1. For a team this size, how valuable is having **MDR / 24×7 SOC support** like Aurora provides?
2. Are there practical differences in day-to-day operations between **ESET alone vs Aurora**?
3. Any experiences on **alert fatigue, false positives, and actual remediation help** with small IT teams?
Appreciate any honest feedback or lessons learned from folks who’ve had to make a similar decision.
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From a practical angle, the way this is presented changes how it lands which turns this into more of a debate That’s what changes the context. Feels like there’s more coming here. Others will probably see it differently.
this feels rushed rather than thought through which explains why reactions are split
I get the idea, the main issue seems to be how this is handled and that tension shows up immediately
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