Microsoft Sentinel — Configured, Not Just Connected
A SIEM is only as good as its rules. We engineer Sentinel for signal, not noise.
Data Connectors
We connect your critical data sources — Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Defender for Endpoint, Azure Activity, firewalls, and third-party tools. Every connector is configured for cost-effective ingestion, with basic log tiers where appropriate to control Log Analytics costs.
Analytics Rules
Out-of-the-box rules are a starting point. Our security engineers create and tune custom analytics rules for your environment — scheduled queries, near-real-time rules, and fusion detections that correlate signals across data sources to surface real threats.
Automated Playbooks
Logic Apps-powered playbooks that automate response actions — isolating compromised devices, disabling accounts, enriching alerts with threat intelligence, and notifying your team. We build playbooks that reduce mean-time-to-respond from hours to seconds.
Workbooks & Reporting
Custom workbooks that give your team and leadership real-time security dashboards. Incident trends, alert volumes, compliance posture, and threat landscape — visualized in Sentinel without requiring a separate BI tool.
The cost of not monitoring
Security operations isn't optional — it's the difference between a contained incident and a catastrophic breach.
Without 24/7 monitoring
Organizations without continuous monitoring take an average of 241 days to identify and contain a breach. Every additional day increases financial damage — breaches contained under 200 days cost $1.14M USD less.
IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report, 2025
Internal SOC annual cost
A single SOC analyst costs $80–120K USD/year. 24/7 coverage requires 4-5 analysts minimum. Add Sentinel licensing, training, and tooling — and an internal SOC costs $480K+ USD annually before it's operational.
Industry benchmark, 2025
Attacks happen after hours
The majority of ransomware deployments occur outside business hours — evenings, weekends, and holidays. If your security team works 9-to-5, attackers work the other 16 hours.
Mandiant M-Trends, 2025
Alerts go uninvestigated
Over half of security alerts are never investigated due to analyst fatigue, lack of context, or insufficient staffing. A managed SOC ensures every alert is triaged — no exceptions.
Cisco Security Report, 2025
Who's watching your environment at 2 AM?
If the answer is “nobody,” you have a coverage gap that attackers actively exploit. A SOC consultation shows you what 24/7 monitoring actually looks like — and what it costs compared to building one internally.
How Our SOC Operates
Detection, triage, escalation, response — a structured pipeline that runs 24/7.
Detection
Sentinel analytics rules, Defender alerts, and custom detections continuously scan your environment. When something anomalous happens, our systems catch it — often before users notice.
Triage
Our security analysts classify each alert — true positive, benign, or false positive. We correlate across data sources, check threat intelligence, and determine severity before your team is ever contacted.
Escalation
Confirmed threats are escalated with full context — affected users, devices, timelines, and recommended actions. Your team gets actionable intelligence, not raw alerts.
Response
Automated playbooks execute immediate containment — device isolation, account lockout, malicious email purge. Manual response actions are coordinated with your team for complex incidents.
Continuous Security Posture
SOC monitoring is only half the equation. We pair it with vulnerability management and compliance reporting.
Vulnerability management
Ongoing vulnerability scanning that identifies exposed software, misconfigurations, and missing patches. We prioritize by actual exploitability — not just CVSS score — and track remediation to closure.
Compliance dashboards
Executive-level security reports delivered monthly — incident summary, threat trends, vulnerability status, compliance posture, and recommendations. Board-ready documentation without your team spending hours building it.
Threat intelligence
Microsoft threat intelligence feeds integrated into Sentinel. Known-malicious IPs, domains, and file hashes correlated against your environment in real-time. Threats are identified by global intelligence, not just your local data.
Does this sound like your organization?
SOC monitoring is for organizations that need security operations but can't or shouldn't build it internally.
No internal security analysts
You don't have dedicated security staff and can't justify hiring 4-5 analysts for 24/7 coverage. You need SOC-level protection without SOC-level headcount.
Sentinel deployed but nobody watching
You've connected data sources and analytics rules exist, but nobody is triaging alerts or investigating incidents. Sentinel without analysts is just expensive logging.
Compliance requires 24/7 monitoring
Your compliance framework — HIPAA, SOC 2, CMMC, or PCI — requires documented 24/7 security monitoring. You need evidence, not just a checkbox.
Vulnerability management is quarterly at best
You run a vulnerability scan once a quarter from a third party. By the time you get results, the threat landscape has already moved on.
Board asking for security operations evidence
Your board, auditors, or insurance carrier wants proof that someone is actively monitoring your environment. Monthly reports and incident documentation are now a requirement.
No incident response capability
If a confirmed threat appears at 2 AM Saturday, nobody is there to contain it. You need a security team on call without hiring one.
Strengthen your security operations
SOC monitoring detects and responds. These solutions reduce the attack surface it has to watch.
Endpoint Security
Defender for Endpoint, ASR rules, and BitLocker — the endpoint protection layer that feeds alerts into your SOC.
Secure every endpoint →CIS Endpoint Hardening
457 Center for Internet Security (CIS) controls that reduce your attack surface before threats reach your SOC.
Harden every device →Azure Architecture
Landing zones, networking, and governance — the cloud infrastructure that Sentinel monitors and protects.
Architect the foundation →Need 24/7 security monitoring without building an internal SOC?
Book a SOC consultation. Our security engineers will assess your monitoring gaps and design a managed SOC solution built on your existing Microsoft investment.