Ransomware is the most obvious: by encrypting critical data, threat actors effectively bring operations to a standstill in the targeted organization. According to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025, 86% of organizations that suffered a data breach over the past year experienced this sort of operational disruption. Building proactive resilienceOf course, speed is not the only way to differentiate top-tier MDR services from the rest. Other related elements you should be looking for include 24/7 monitoring to ensure threat actors are stopped in their tracks, wherever in the world they’re located. Speed is of the essence here, as threat actors often try to victimize the same organization multiple times.