Cybersecurity Solutions
Security Monitoring & Incident Response
Suspicious activity seen early, and a plan for when it happens
Most attacks leave signs before they cause damage, but only if someone is watching the right logs. We set up monitoring that surfaces suspicious activity early, and prepare your team with a clear plan for what to do when something happens.
- Log collection
- Detection rules
- SIEM setup and tuning
- Incident response planning
- Tabletop exercises
- Incident support
Why it matters
Detection without a response plan is just an alarm. The goal is to see trouble early and know exactly who does what next.
What this includes
Six parts of the work. Which of them you need depends on where you are starting from, and we agree that before anything is built.
- 01
Log collection
Security-relevant logs from identity, endpoints, cloud and applications brought together.
- 02
Detection rules
Alerts tuned to real threats, such as unusual sign-ins or data exfiltration, with the noise reduced.
- 03
SIEM setup and tuning
Security information and event management configured for your environment.
- 04
Incident response planning
Playbooks, roles and communication plans for the incidents you are most likely to face.
- 05
Tabletop exercises
Rehearsing incidents with your team so the plan works under pressure.
- 06
Incident support
Help to contain, investigate and recover when an incident occurs.
Not sure which of these you need?
Tell us where things stand for you today and we will suggest where to start.
How we deliver it
Four stages, agreed with you before the work starts, with a working result at the end of each rather than one reveal at the end.
Assess visibility
We review which logs exist, where the gaps are and what threats matter most.
Build detection
Logs are centralized and detection rules are created and tuned.
Prepare response
Playbooks are written and rehearsed with your team.
Operate and improve
Alerts are reviewed, rules refined and lessons fed back after each incident.
The stack
Technologies we work with
The tools we reach for most often in this work. We fit in with what you already run rather than asking you to change it.
3 groups
- 01 / 034
SIEM and detection
- Microsoft Sentinel
- Amazon GuardDuty
- Splunk
- Elastic Security
- 02 / 032
Endpoint
- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
- CrowdStrike Falcon
- 03 / 033
Response
- MITRE ATT&CK
- NIST incident handling guidance
- Runbooks
What you receive
Yours to keep when the engagement ends, whether we carry on working together or not.
Centralized security logging
The logs that matter, collected and retained.
Tuned detection rules
Alerts for the threats most relevant to your business.
Incident response playbooks
Step-by-step plans for your most likely incidents.
An exercise report
What a tabletop exercise revealed, and the improvements agreed.
Common questions
The ones that come up in almost every first conversation about this work.
Not always. Many organizations start with well-tuned alerts routed to the right people and a clear response plan, then add round-the-clock coverage if their risk requires it.
A guided discussion where your team walks through a realistic incident scenario to test the plan, roles and communication, without touching live systems.
Yes. We can help contain the incident, investigate what happened and guide recovery, alongside your team and any other parties involved.
Let's talk about Monitoring & Response
A short call is usually enough to work out whether we can help and where it makes sense to start. No preparation needed.