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Fast or fully managed? How to choose your AI SOC.

Two ways to run the AI SOC by AirMDR — one you drive yourself, one we drive for you. Here's how to tell which fits your team right now.

If you already run a lean security team, you don't need another dashboard. You need alerts to turn into decisions. Both Fast and the fully managed AirMDR do exactly that — the difference is who holds the wheel.

The short version

Fast is the taste. AirMDR is the full meal.

Fast is the self-serve version of the AI SOC by AirMDR: a complete triage-and-response product you run yourself, today, with no onboarding cycle. AirMDR is the fully managed version: the same AI SOC, plus an expert human SOC and a complete handoff of your security operations.

Fast puts the AI SOC in your hands. AirMDR is the concierge that runs it for you.

What you get with Fast

A self-serve AI SOC — a complete triage-and-response product a lean team can genuinely live on. You connect your stack, and it goes to work:

  • Monitors your entire IT stack across cloud, SIEM, EDR, and identity. 60+ integrations available.
  • Runs a top-tier investigation on every alert, at a quality bar above most human SOC analysts — and roughly 10× faster.
  • Leaves no alert uninvestigated, so you get complete visibility into your risk posture — not just the alerts someone had time for.
  • Learns continuously from every investigation and interaction, the way a good analyst would.
  • Gives proactive guidance through an AI security advisor that helps keep the stack safe.
  • Stays simple to operate. One interface for alerts, investigations, cases, and to-dos.

Fast in one line: complete, self-serve triage and investigation in minutes — no analyst headcount required.

What AirMDR adds on top

Everything in Fast, plus the layers that turn a tool you operate into a service that operates for you:

  • Multi-tenancy for teams and providers who manage security across multiple tenants.
  • Managed detections. We build and tune detections for you, driven by a feedback loop from your own investigations. Every investigation makes the next detection better.
  • An expert human SOC for the last 1%. AI handles the overwhelming majority — and that share grows every day. For the fraction it can't close alone, our SOC team steps in and either guides you through it or does it for you.
  • A complete handoff of security operations. You focus on building what matters, without carrying the weight of attacks or data leaks yourself.

AirMDR in one line: a cybersecurity concierge that takes the entire job off your plate.

How to choose

Start with Fast if
  • ✓ You want real coverage today — self-serve, no procurement.
  • ✓ You run a lean team and can't add analyst headcount.
  • ✓ You'd rather try it and live with it before you commit.
Move to AirMDR when
  • ✓ You want an expert human SOC for the last 1%.
  • ✓ You need managed detections and multi-tenant coverage.
  • ✓ You're ready to hand off security operations entirely.

The honest way to read it: Fast is the on-ramp, AirMDR is the destination. Most teams start on Fast, get complete coverage in an afternoon, and grow into the managed service when they want the human SOC and a full handoff. You never lose what Fast gave you — AirMDR is that same engine with people and process wrapped around it.

Try it on your own alerts.

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