Comparisons
Marketing says everyone is the best. These comparisons rank what is documented: carrier-published panels, issuer-registry certifications, and source-cited engagements. Where the data is missing, the comparison says so instead of guessing.
CrowdStrike is a fine IR firm. It shows up on more carrier panels than almost anyone else in our data. But being on many panels does not make it the right fit for you. The other firms are worth an hour of your time before you sign.
Read the comparisonBoth carriers publish lists of the firms they trust for incident response. The two lists are built very differently. This piece uses their own published data. We show what we checked and when.
Read the comparisonDFIR is help you call after something bad happens. MDR is a service you pay for each month to catch problems early. They are not the same thing. Mixing them up costs money.
Read the comparisonThreat hunting means trained people search your systems for what your tools missed. Incident response means a team jumps on what your tools caught. One assumes your tools have holes. The other assumes they worked. Strong security teams do both.
Read the comparisonSearch for the best incident response companies and you get two things. Vendor blogs that rank themselves first. And listicles that rank by adjectives. Neither survives contact with a real incident. What survives is evidence: which firms carriers' claims teams keep re-hiring, what the firms document about their own capability, and how their claims check out. This page ranks the market's most-documented IR firms. It tells you exactly what the ranking can and cannot say.
Read the comparisonCarriers publish the lists of firms they trust with breach response. Individually, each page is a roster. Together, they are a map of the incident response market as the insurance industry actually uses it: who the repeat names are, how concentrated the market is, and where the coverage is thin. We read ten of those pages and documented every relationship. Here is what the data shows, and what it cannot.
Read the comparisonThe directory is the live comparison: filter the documented firms by carrier panel, disclosed SLA, certifications, and evidence tier, side by side. For requirements that go deeper, the structured RFP returns comparable answers instead of sales decks.
