Intelligence-driven defense that never sleeps: Microsoft Sentinel SIEM, CrowdStrike XDR, SOAR automation that auto-triages 95% of alerts, MITRE ATT&CK detection coverage, and proactive threat hunting to find what automated tools miss.
The volume of security signals generated by modern environments, including cloud logs, endpoint telemetry, identity events, and network flows, far exceeds what any human team can process without automation. A SOC without SOAR and AI-assisted detection is reactive at best, blind at worst.
We build and operate SOC programs anchored in Microsoft Sentinel with Fusion ML and UEBA analytics, CrowdStrike Falcon XDR for endpoint/identity/cloud signal correlation, and Palo Alto XSOAR playbooks that auto-triage phishing, block IOCs, and create tickets without human intervention. Every detection rule is mapped to MITRE ATT&CK for coverage visualization and gap analysis.
Key differentiator: Our threat hunt capability goes beyond automated detection. We run hypothesis-driven hunts using Velociraptor, EQL/KQL query libraries, and MITRE ATT&CK Navigator to find advanced persistent threats that signature-based detection misses: the 20% of breaches where the attacker is living off the land.
The specific SOC tools, detection capabilities, and response automation we deploy for every engagement.
Microsoft Sentinel with analytics rules covering 200+ data connectors, UEBA behavioral baselines detecting insider threat and compromised account anomalies, and Fusion ML correlating multi-stage attack indicators across endpoints, identity, and cloud. Splunk ES with risk-based alerting, accumulating risk scores per entity until threshold triggers investigation, reducing alert fatigue 80%. Tiered data retention with hot/warm/cold/archive tiers for cost optimization without losing compliance coverage.
CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR correlating endpoint, identity, cloud, and network telemetry into unified attack stories that show the complete kill chain from initial access through persistence, lateral movement, and impact. Microsoft Defender XDR correlating endpoints, email (Defender for Office 365), identity (Defender for Identity), and cloud apps (Defender for Cloud Apps) into single unified incidents. Attack story visualization reduces analyst mean time to understand from hours to minutes.
Palo Alto XSOAR and Splunk SOAR playbooks automating the full incident response lifecycle. Phishing playbook: email ingestion, URL/attachment sandbox analysis, IOC extraction, user isolation, mailbox quarantine, and ticket creation in under 90 seconds, with zero analyst intervention for known patterns. IOC enrichment via VirusTotal, Shodan, MISP, and Recorded Future integrated automatically. 95%+ auto-closure rate for known threat patterns. Human analyst review focused on novel and high-severity incidents only.
MISP (Malware Information Sharing Platform) for IOC sharing across trusted communities and internal enrichment. Recorded Future for real-time threat context: threat actor attribution, malware campaigns targeting your industry, and dark web monitoring. ThreatConnect for TIP workflows and indicator lifecycle management. STIX/TAXII feed integration delivering intelligence directly into SIEM detection rules for real-time blocking of known malicious infrastructure and actor TTPs.
Custom detection rules mapped to ATT&CK techniques, with each rule tagged with Tactic, Technique, and Sub-technique IDs. ATT&CK Navigator heatmap visualizing detection coverage gaps across all 14 tactics. Detection engineering sprint process: identify coverage gap, write detection rule, test against CALDERA adversary simulation, deploy to production, validate with purple team. Target: 85%+ technique coverage for top threat actor profiles relevant to your industry.
Structured hypothesis-driven threat hunting using Velociraptor for live remote forensics, querying 10,000 endpoints simultaneously for IOCs, suspicious processes, persistence mechanisms, or lateral movement artifacts. KAPE for targeted disk forensic collection. OSQuery fleet management for continuous compliance and anomaly detection. EQL (Endpoint Query Language) and KQL query libraries for common hunt hypotheses. Structured hunting playbooks with documented hypotheses, data sources, analysis steps, and findings templates.
SOC modernization is not a tool purchase; it is an operational program. We start with your current state and build toward a data-driven, automation-heavy SOC that frees analysts to do the work that only humans can do: hunting, investigating, and responding to novel threats.
Our SOC architects and engineers hold Microsoft Sentinel Certifications, CrowdStrike CCA/CCFR, Splunk Certified Architect, and GCIA/GCIH certifications. Many have operated 24/7 federal SOCs under FISMA/CJIS requirements.
Assess current SIEM coverage, alert volumes, false positive rates, and MITRE ATT&CK detection coverage. Measure MTTD and MTTR for recent incidents. Evaluate SOAR maturity and automation rate. Map current data connectors and identify critical log source gaps (common gaps: cloud-native logs, identity provider events, DNS). ATT&CK Navigator heatmap delivered as part of assessment output showing coverage vs. priority threat actors.
Deploy or optimize Microsoft Sentinel/Splunk ES with prioritized data connectors based on risk-ranked log sources. Tune ingestion to avoid ingesting low-value noisy data (verbose debug logs, full packet capture) while ensuring all security-relevant sources are covered. Configure data normalization using ASIM (Advanced Security Information Model) for cross-source correlation. Establish baseline retention policies aligned to compliance requirements.
Deploy detection rule library covering priority ATT&CK techniques relevant to your threat actor profile. Tune all detection rules to reduce false positive rate to acceptable levels before deploying to production. Configure UEBA behavioral baselines. Build detection-as-code pipeline: detections stored in Git, tested in CALDERA simulation environment, reviewed via PR, deployed to SIEM. Monthly detection engineering sprint to close ATT&CK coverage gaps.
Deploy priority SOAR playbooks: phishing triage (highest volume), IOC enrichment and blocking, user risk response, and malware containment. Configure integrations with ticketing (ServiceNow/Jira), EDR (CrowdStrike), identity (Entra ID/Okta), email (Defender for Office 365), and threat intelligence (Recorded Future). Measure auto-closure rate weekly, targeting 80% within 30 days of SOAR go-live and 95% within 90 days.
Configure threat intelligence feeds (MISP, Recorded Future) with STIX/TAXII ingestion into SIEM. Establish monthly threat hunting cadence, with each hunt cycle beginning with a hypothesis based on recent threat intelligence relevant to your industry. Document hunt methodology, queries, and findings. Completed hunt playbooks enter the detection engineering pipeline, and successful hunts become automated detections. Quarterly purple team exercise validating detection coverage.
How SOC modernization is transforming detection and response capabilities across sectors.
Modernized a federal cabinet agency's SOC from a legacy QRadar deployment with 72-hour MTTD to Microsoft Sentinel with 1,200 analytics rules, Fusion ML, and XSOAR automation. MTTD reduced from 3 days to 8 minutes for high-fidelity alerts. Auto-triage rate reached 91% within 90 days. ATT&CK Navigator coverage improved from 23% to 74% of techniques across priority threat actor TTPs. SOC analyst capacity freed for threat hunting and advanced investigation.
MTTD: 3 days to 8 minutesDeployed CrowdStrike Falcon XDR across a financial services firm with 8,000 endpoints, integrating with Microsoft Defender XDR for email and identity coverage. Unified attack stories replaced 7 separate investigation contexts (endpoint, email, identity, network, cloud). Mean time to investigate P1 incidents dropped from 4.5 hours to 22 minutes. First quarter post-deployment: detected and contained a supply chain attack in 14 minutes that would have been invisible to the prior SIEM-only setup.
Supply chain attack contained in 14 minutesDeployed Palo Alto XSOAR for a managed security provider supporting 40 clients. Built 35 playbooks covering phishing, malware, insider threat, and cloud security incidents. Average phishing triage time reduced from 45 minutes (manual) to 90 seconds (automated). Monthly alert volume: 280,000 raw alerts processed automatically, 14,000 incidents created, 13,300 auto-closed without analyst involvement. Analyst capacity effectively tripled without adding headcount.
280K alerts reduced to 700 requiring analyst actionConducted a 3-week threat hunt for a defense contractor after an industry alert about APT29 targeting similar organizations. Using Velociraptor and custom KQL queries against 6 months of Microsoft Sentinel data. Discovered dormant persistence: a scheduled task created 4 months prior deploying a custom PowerShell loader that bypassed all existing detection rules. Full digital forensics investigation traced the initial access to a spear-phishing email. Complete remediation achieved before any data exfiltration.
APT persistence discovered, zero data exfiltratedStart with a SOC Assessment: we measure your current detection coverage against MITRE ATT&CK, audit alert quality, and deliver a modernization roadmap with quick wins in 30 days.