Detect more. Pay less.

Specialists across Microsoft Sentinel and Defender XDR. We sharpen your detections, cut your ingestion bill, clear your incident queue, and hunt down the intrusion that never alerted.

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Why We Can Help

We specialise in Microsoft Sentinel and Defender XDR, and that is all we do. We help you get more from the platform you already run: stronger detection mapped to the attacks that matter, a lower ingestion bill with nothing you rely on lost, a cleaner incident queue, and proactive hunting for the intrusion that never alerted. Our approach is agentic-assisted, expert analysts working at machine scale, so every recommendation is proven against your own data. Detection coverage always comes first; the cost savings are a by-product of knowing exactly which data your detections need. We work read-only by default, and change nothing in your workspace without your approval.

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At Your Service

Nine focused, evidence-based services across Microsoft Sentinel, your data pipeline and your automations, from hunting down the intrusion that never alerted to cutting your ingestion bill. Each is a defined engagement or ongoing managed service, delivered by specialists.

SIEM Smarter

One review of your whole Sentinel estate: what it costs, what it catches, and what it misses. Six areas in one read-only review: cost, MITRE ATT&CK coverage, data-source coverage, rule misconfiguration, rule efficiency and rule tuning. A ranked report, a workshop, and your choice of who implements.

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Sentinel Cost Optimisation

Cut your SIEM bill, keep your coverage. Most Sentinel data pays a premium rate for detections that never use it. We prove which data earns its keep and deliver a ranked plan, with reductions of around 50% on average, measured against your own data before we quote them.

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Detection Engineering

The right detections, built for your estate and firing on signal. Detections developed against the attack scenarios that matter, tuned and deployed without an alert flood, and your existing rules tuned so analysts only see what counts. Read-only until you approve each change.

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Incident Triage & Closure

Clear the queue. Keep the signal. We fully investigate live Sentinel incidents, reconstruct what happened from the raw events, cross-check the verdict with a second automated method, and close each one with the correct classification and a clean, auditable record. Genuine compromises are held for your sign-off.

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Incident Closure Validation

Check every closure, whoever made it. An independent, read-only review of already-closed incidents, analyst-closed or automation-closed, that re-investigates each one to confirm the classification was right, catching true positives wrongly closed as benign and checking whether a missed threat stayed active.

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Threat Hunting

Go looking for what your detections missed. Read-only hunting across your raw Sentinel data for the intrusion that never alerted. We reconstruct what happened from your own records, build bespoke hunts to reach threats standard detection cannot see, and hand back a clear finding with a prioritised action plan.

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Managed Data Pipeline

Tame the pipeline, cut the bill. We run your Cribl Stream pipeline end to end: onboarding sources, cutting what you pay to ingest, and delivering the right data, parseable, to every destination. Ingest cost cut and measured against your own volume. Own the instance yourself, or let us host it.

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Automation Engineering

Take the toil off your team. We build and maintain the automations that remove manual work, in the SOC and across the business. In security operations, playbooks enrich alerts, triage incidents and drive response and ticketing with no analyst at the keyboard. Across the business, workflows join up the systems people copy between by hand. Every automation is tested and kept under change control.

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Agentic Assisted SOC

Agents work the queue around the clock, so your analysts work the incidents that matter. Agents investigate every incident at full depth, 24 hours a day. Your analysts and ours judge and authorise, genuine compromises are held for your sign-off, and you choose where the handover to your team sits. Priced on the incidents we work, not your headcount.

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Evidence, not adjectives

Outcomes from real engagements, anonymised. Every figure is measured against a client's own data before we quote it.

Tune
96 to 1
alerts a day from a single rule after tuning, with the detection kept intact.
Reduce
50%
average reduction in SIEM ingestion cost, measured against each customer's own data, with no coverage lost.
Validate
13 of 31
incidents an automation had closed as benign were genuine compromises. We re-checked every one closed that week.

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