Detection & Response — SOC, SIEM, IR, and Threat Hunting
SIEM architecture, detection engineering, threat hunting, incident response planning, and tabletop exercises. We make your team faster and your detections truer.
10,000 alerts a day. Your team checks 50.
Most security teams have more alerts than people. The default response — buy a bigger SIEM, license more rules, add another analyst — makes the problem worse, not better. The fix is detection that’s tuned to your environment, response runbooks your team has actually rehearsed, and an incident response plan that maps to your real comms structure when something breaks at 3 a.m. We don’t sell you a managed SOC. We make your existing one work.
What’s Included
SIEM architecture review — current log sources, rule coverage, alert volume, dwell time. Output: a tuning roadmap and a noise-reduction plan.
Detection engineering — write and tune detections aligned to MITRE ATT&CK techniques relevant to your environment. Sigma, KQL, SPL, or whatever your platform speaks.
Threat hunting — proactive hunts on your data, scoped to specific threat actor TTPs or recent vulnerabilities.
Incident response plan development — written IR plan, escalation tree, communication templates, legal-hold procedures, and external-comms language ready before the incident.
Tabletop exercises — facilitated scenarios mapped to your business risks. Outcome is a list of process gaps you didn’t know you had.
Post-incident review — for incidents that have already happened. Forensic analysis, root cause, control gap mapping, lessons learned.
ENGAGEMENT MODEL
Assess, build, rehearse, sustain.
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Assess (2 weeks)
Current detection coverage, alert volume, IR plan review, gap analysis.
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Build (4–8 weeks)
Detection tuning, IR plan refresh, runbook authoring, comms templates.
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Rehearse (1–2 days)
Tabletop with your team. Real scenarios, real comms, real timing.
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Sustain (optional, monthly)
Detection-quality reviews, threat-hunt retainer, IR plan refresh.
Framework Mapping
| Capability | Frameworks |
|---|---|
| SIEM + detection engineering | NIST CSF 2.0 (Detect) · NIST 800-53 (SI-4) · MITRE ATT&CK |
| Incident response | NIST 800-61 Rev 2 · NIST 800-53 (IR family) · SANS IR Process |
| Threat hunting | MITRE ATT&CK · NIST CSF (Detect/Respond) |
Outcomes
- A tuned SIEM that escalates the alerts that matter and stays quiet on the ones that don’t.
- An IR plan your team has actually rehearsed, with comms templates that don’t require a lawyer at 3 a.m.
- A tabletop after-action report you can take to your board as evidence of due diligence.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you run a managed SOC? No. Managed SOCs have their place; this isn’t it. We make your team and your platform better. If you want a managed SOC, we’ll recommend one.
What SIEM platforms do you work with? Splunk, Sentinel, Elastic, Chronicle, Sumo, Devo, and others. Detection content is tuned to whatever you run.
How often should we run tabletops? Annually at minimum. Quarterly is better. We run yours; we also train your team to run their own.
What’s in the IR plan deliverable? Plan document (scope, roles, escalation), runbook library (top 5 scenarios), comms templates (legal, exec, press, customer, regulator), and a contact tree.
Can you respond to an active incident? Through the SecureLayer7 partnership, yes — but we prefer to be your second call, not your first. The first call is your incident-response retainer; we coordinate, advise, and run lessons-learned.
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