Security Monitoring
Design, implement, or optimize security monitoring programs using SIEM, EDR, and advanced threat intelligence. Gain 24/7 visibility into your security posture.
Key Capabilities
- SIEM implementation and optimization
- EDR/XDR deployment and tuning
- Threat hunting programs
- Security Operations Center (SOC) design
- Detection engineering and use case development
- Log management strategy
- Alert tuning and false positive reduction
- Threat intelligence integration
Overview
You can't protect what you can't see. Effective security monitoring is the eyes and ears of your security program—detecting threats before they become breaches and providing the visibility needed for rapid response. Our security monitoring services help organizations at every stage of maturity. Whether you're implementing your first SIEM, optimizing an existing SOC, or building advanced threat hunting capabilities, we bring the expertise to make your monitoring program truly effective. We've designed and operated security operations centers for government agencies and Fortune 500 companies. We know what good looks like—and more importantly, we know how to get there efficiently. Our approach focuses on meaningful detection over noise, ensuring your team spends time on real threats rather than false positives.
What We Deliver
Tangible outcomes and deliverables from our engagement.
Monitoring Architecture
Comprehensive design for security monitoring infrastructure including data flows and integrations.
Use Case Library
Customized detection rules and alerts mapped to MITRE ATT&CK framework.
Playbook Collection
Incident response procedures for common alert types and threat scenarios.
Log Management Strategy
Data retention policies, storage optimization, and compliance-aligned logging.
SOC Metrics Dashboard
KPIs for monitoring program effectiveness, MTTD, MTTR, and analyst performance.
Threat Hunt Reports
Findings from proactive threat hunting exercises with recommendations.
Our Process
A proven methodology that delivers results.
Requirements Analysis
Assess current capabilities, define monitoring objectives, and identify critical assets and threats.
Architecture Design
Design monitoring infrastructure, data collection strategy, and tool selection/configuration.
Implementation
Deploy and configure SIEM, EDR, and supporting technologies. Integrate log sources and validate data.
Detection Engineering
Develop custom use cases, detection rules, and alerts tailored to your environment and threats.
Playbook Development
Create response procedures and runbooks for each detection scenario.
Optimization & Training
Tune alerts, reduce false positives, and train your team on effective monitoring operations.
Ideal For
- Organizations implementing first SIEM/EDR solutions
- Companies with alert fatigue and false positive overload
- Businesses building internal SOC capabilities
- Organizations needing 24/7 monitoring without building in-house SOC
- Teams wanting to mature from reactive to proactive detection
- Companies requiring compliance-driven monitoring
What to expect
Three engagement shapes most clients pick from. We scope and fixed-bid before signature — no open-ended T&M.
SIEM / EDR Implementation
4–8 week fixed-bidOrganizations standing up first-time security monitoring — typically driven by an audit finding (SOC 2, HITRUST, HIPAA), a cyber-insurance requirement, or a recent peer-organization incident.
Deploy and configure SIEM (Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk Cloud) and EDR (Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne) with initial detection use cases mapped to MITRE ATT&CK and your top threat scenarios.
Included
- Tool selection guidance (vendor-neutral)
- Deployment and configuration
- 10+ baseline detection use cases mapped to MITRE ATT&CK
- Tuning to reduce false positives below 5%
- Runbook for triage and escalation
- Knowledge transfer to your team or MSP
Not included (scoped separately)
- Tool licensing (passed through at cost)
- Ongoing monitoring (Managed Detection below)
SOC Design & Build
6–12 week fixed-bidHealthcare-tech firms and mid-size organizations standing up a real SOC capability (in-house or hybrid) — typically when MSSP costs exceed $200K/year and the in-house build becomes economically rational.
End-to-end SOC design: staffing model, technology stack, processes, runbooks, KPIs, and 24×7 coverage plan (in-house, hybrid, or fully outsourced).
Included
- Staffing model and role definitions
- Technology stack architecture (SIEM, EDR, SOAR, threat intel)
- Detection-engineering playbook
- Incident response integration
- KPI dashboard and reporting cadence
- Implementation roadmap with named owners
Managed Detection
Monthly retainer · 12-month engagementOrganizations that need senior-led detection oversight without standing up an in-house SOC — covered as advisory atop your existing MDR/MSSP, not as a 24×7 operational replacement.
We are advisory, not operations. We provide senior-led detection-engineering oversight, monthly threat-hunting reviews, and incident escalation triage — atop the MDR/MSSP relationship you already have.
Included
- Monthly detection-engineering review
- Quarterly threat-hunting playbook updates
- Incident escalation triage support
- Annual SOC effectiveness assessment
Not included (scoped separately)
- 24×7 monitoring (we are advisory; we partner with vetted MDR providers)
Each engagement is fixed-bid against a written scope. We publish methodology, not pricing — every quote is custom to your environment, regulated obligations, and timeline.
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