Managed SOC
Someone is finally watching your security signals.
Your environment already generates security telemetry — risky sign-ins, endpoint detections, firewall events, audit anomalies. Our managed SOC service collects those signals, triages them into real incidents, and reports posture in terms your leadership and auditors understand.
Managed Security Monitoring Overview
Detection is a staffing problem, not just a tooling problem.
Most SMBs already pay for security tools that raise alerts — Microsoft Defender, firewalls, EDR. What's missing is the discipline around them: someone assigned to look, a process to separate noise from threats, and reporting that proves the work happened. That's the service.
Watch
Security alerts from your identity platform, endpoints, email security, cloud, and network devices flow into one monitored queue instead of six ignored consoles.
Triage
An engineer classifies each alert: false positive, low-risk noise, or an incident that needs action — with severity, scope, and evidence recorded.
Coordinate
Confirmed incidents trigger your escalation plan. We coordinate containment steps with your team or IT provider and document the timeline end to end.
Threat Detection & Alert Triage
The security signals we monitor.
Coverage is scoped to the tooling and licensing you actually have — and we'll tell you plainly where a licensing gap limits visibility.
Identity & sign-in risk
- Risky users and risky sign-ins from Entra ID (where licensed)
- Impossible-travel and unfamiliar location sign-in patterns
- MFA registration coverage and privileged account activity
- New OAuth application consents and suspicious grants
- Admin role changes and privilege escalation signals
Endpoint security
- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint / EDR alert review
- Malware, ransomware-behavior, and persistence detections
- Device compliance and security-baseline drift signals
- Unusual process and lateral-movement indicators surfaced by your EDR
- Coverage-gap reporting: which endpoints aren't protected or reporting
Cloud & Microsoft 365
- Defender for Office 365 phishing and malware alerts
- Unified audit log anomalies — mass downloads, forwarding rules, deletions
- Data loss prevention (DLP) alert visibility where licensed
- External sharing and guest access risk signals
- Secure Score trend as a monthly posture measure
Network & perimeter
- Firewall security events: blocked scans, IPS/IDS hits, geo-anomalies
- VPN authentication failures and brute-force patterns
- Wazuh host-based detection on servers (SOC-Lite deployments)
- DNS and egress anomalies where log sources permit
- Correlation with NOC availability data — attacks often look like outages first
SIEM / SOC-Lite Options
Right-sized SIEM: Microsoft-native or open-source.
A full enterprise SIEM is overkill for many SMBs — and no SIEM at all is a gamble. We deploy the tier that fits your licensing, budget, and compliance needs, and we're straightforward about the trade-offs.
Microsoft-native
Defender XDR + Entra
For organizations on Microsoft 365 Business Premium or E5-family licensing. We monitor and triage the alerts Microsoft's stack already produces — often the fastest path to real coverage.
- Defender XDR incident queue monitoring
- Entra ID protection signals
- No new infrastructure required
Microsoft Sentinel
Sentinel SIEM on your Azure tenant
Cloud-native SIEM in your own Azure subscription: connectors, analytics rules, and workbooks tuned to your environment. Data stays in your tenant; costs stay visible in your Azure bill.
- Custom analytics rules & workbooks
- Log retention under your control
- Scales from SMB to mid-market
Wazuh SOC-Lite
Open-source, customer-hosted
Wazuh deployed on your servers for host-based detection, log analysis, file integrity monitoring, and compliance rule packs — enterprise-style capability without per-GB SIEM pricing.
- Host intrusion detection & FIM
- CIS benchmark & vulnerability views
- No per-seat or per-GB license fees
Incident Response Coordination
When something is real, the process is already written.
We are a visibility and triage service, not a replacement for your administrators or an emergency forensics firm — and we're precise about that boundary. What we bring is an agreed playbook, so nobody is inventing a process at 7am on a bad day.
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Detect & verify
Alert is validated against context: affected user or host, scope, and whether it's still active.
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Classify & notify
Severity assigned per your escalation matrix. The right contacts are notified with evidence, not just an alarm.
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Coordinate containment
We recommend and coordinate containment steps — disable account, isolate endpoint, block indicator — executed by whoever holds admin rights, per your policy.
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Document & debrief
Timeline, actions, and outcomes are documented — evidence for insurers, auditors, and your own lessons-learned review.
Compliance Support & Evidence
Reporting your auditor can actually use.
Frameworks like HIPAA, SOC 2, CIS Controls, and cyber-insurance questionnaires expect security monitoring, log review, and incident procedures. Our service produces the recurring evidence those controls call for.
- Monthly monitoring and log-review evidence packages
- Incident records with timelines and dispositions
- Control-mapped reporting aligned to common framework language
- Honest wording: we support readiness and controls — we do not certify compliance
Executive Security Reporting
Posture in one page, not one hundred.
Leadership doesn't need raw alerts — it needs trend lines and decisions. The monthly executive report answers three questions: are we being attacked, are our defenses working, and what should we invest in next.
- Incident and alert-volume trends with plain-language commentary
- Identity, endpoint, and email risk summaries
- Secure Score / posture trajectory over time
- Top prioritized recommendations with effort estimates
Start with a security monitoring assessment.
We inventory your security tooling, licensing, and signal sources, then show you exactly what a managed SOC service would watch — and what it would cost.