Ontinue ION MXDR autonomous investigations (agentic AI SOC for Microsoft Defender and Sentinel)

What it does

Ontinue's ION is a Microsoft-focused managed extended detection and response (MXDR) service. Its press release says autonomous investigations powered by agentic AI have been live in production for every customer since December 2024. When an incident is escalated to the Ontinue Cyber Defense Center, 'a team of AI agents automatically aggregates telemetry, forms and tests hypotheses, and conducts a full investigation', work Ontinue says would typically need a Tier 2/3 analyst. The result is a detailed summary with step-by-step logic that is passed to a human Cyber Defender. Ontinue says this cut mean time to investigate by up to 50% and that it resolves 99.5% of incidents without customer involvement (vendor claims). The ION IQ layer learns each customer's environment, people and operations using Ontinue's own models plus Azure OpenAI, and Ontinue says customer data never flows into third-party models. This is a managed service: the AI agents investigate and Ontinue's analysts decide and respond. Add-ons cover enhanced phishing protection and vulnerability mitigation. Pricing is not published.

Frameworks (vendor-stated)

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Pricing (as published)

Not published

Tasks

security operationsalert triagecase investigationincident responsethreat detection

Sources

1. ontinue.com/first-to-launch-agentic-ai-mdr/ (primary)
2. ontinue.com/ion-mxdr-service/ion-iq/
3. ontinue.com/corporate-information/
4. ontinue.com/ontinue-opens-new-zurich-headquarters/

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Use-case comparisons

• AI SOC and security-analyst agents — 51 verified listings (Security operations, alert investigation and threat detection)

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FAQ (from this dataset)

What does Ontinue ION MXDR autonomous investigations do?

Zurich-headquartered managed detection and response provider for Microsoft Defender and Sentinel whose ION MXDR service uses a team of AI agents to run autonomous Tier 2-level incident investigations (aggregate telemetry, form and test hypotheses) before handing a step-by-step summary to an Ontinue Cyber Defender.

How much does Ontinue ION MXDR autonomous investigations cost?

Not published

Where is Ontinue (Ontinue AG) headquartered?

Switzerland

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