The Forrester Wave™: Managed Detection And Response Services In Europe, Q3 2025

The Forrester Wave™: Managed Detection And Response Services in Europe, Q3 2025 is an evaluation of Managed Detection and Response (MDR) vendors. Forrester identifies the most significant providers and how they have researched, analyzed, and scored them, outlining how each provider measures up to help you select the right MDR vendor for your needs.

The Forrester Wave™ evaluation highlights Leaders, Strong Performers, and Contenders. It is intended to be a starting point to view product evaluations and adapt the findings based on their priorities using Forrester’s interactive provider comparison experience.

In this report, Forrester highlights that European CISOs are turning to MDR providers not just for faster detection, but also to sustain operations in the face of regulatory, economic and threat pressures. MDR can help enable operational resilience when internal teams lack the 24/7 detection coverage and mature response capabilities needed to address today’s evolving threats.

Customers using this report to inform their MDR purchase decision should consider:

• Localized service delivery and data sovereignty: Firms with strict sovereignty and localization requirements must validate a provider’s data flows and response action execution to avoid regulatory exposure
• The maturity of the providers AI capabilities and how it uses AI in response: Inquire how a provider applies AI in response beyond summarization and understand how automated steps that would otherwise require analyst intervention are being utilized
• Integrated detection, response and forensics: Verify that containment and forensic investigations can be initiated in the same environment as detection and that incident reports cover the full attack chain, not just the initial compromise.

eSentire has been recognized as one of only two Leaders in the Forrester MDR Wave for Europe. eSentire MDR was specifically called out in this report for:

• An integrated MDR and CTEM offering
• Agentic AI that provides faster delivery and process improvements
• Flexible tech integrations
• Localized SOC support
• Mature detection engineering practices
• A customer favorite in the evaluation

Forrester highlights that customers should consider eSentire if they are looking for “a provider that offers rapid data source integrations and an integrated exposure management offering.”

eSentire received top scores in the evaluation for:

• Cloud detection surface
• Identify detection surface
• Managed response: manual and automated
• Detection engineering
• Integrations
• Generative AI
• Dashboards and reporting
• Metrics
• Posture Management
• Resilience
• Customer retention and satisfaction
• Vision
• Partner ecosystem

Download The Forrester Wave™: Managed Detection And Response Services Europe, Q3 2025 for more information and to learn about MDR services, the direction of the MDR market and how each provider compares to help you find the right provider for your organization.

1. The Forrester Wave™: Managed Detection And Response Services in Europe, Q3 2025, 27 February 2025
Author(s): Tope Olufon
Contributor(s): Jinan Budge, Angela Lozada, and Bill Nagel
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