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SIEM Smarter

A fixed-price, read-only review of your Microsoft Sentinel workspace across six areas: cost, MITRE ATT&CK coverage, data-source coverage, rule misconfiguration, rule efficiency and rule tuning. One report, one workshop, and your choice of who implements.

The problem

Sentinel workspaces drift. Sources get onboarded and forgotten. Rules go live from the gallery and are never tuned. Some rules point at data you no longer collect, so they can never fire. Whole attack techniques go unwatched while high-volume tables run up the bill. From inside, it is hard to see any of it.

What the review covers

  • Cost: your highest-volume tables, which detections each one drives, and the right lever for the rest, whether that is a filter, a lower-cost tier or a data lake.
  • MITRE ATT&CK coverage: your detections mapped across tactics and techniques, with the weak areas named and the detections that would close them.
  • Data-source coverage: the high-value sources you should have and do not, and the connectors that are present but silent.
  • Rule misconfiguration: rules set up incorrectly, including rules that reference data you no longer ingest and so can never fire.
  • Rule efficiency: rules that cost more, or run slower, than the value they return.
  • Rule tuning: specific recommendations, including entity mapping, so alerts are precise and faster to investigate.
Detection coverage comes first

We never trade detection coverage for cost savings. Detecting the attack scenarios that matter to you is the deliverable; the saving is a by-product of doing that well. Because we identify exactly the events that drive each detection, nothing a detection depends on is ever tiered down, filtered out or sampled away. Every working detection, and the evidence a responder needs to investigate, is preserved.

What you get

  • A ranked findings report across all six areas, so you know what to fix first.
  • A MITRE ATT&CK coverage view of your current detections, with the gaps and the detections that close them.
  • A saving measured against your own bill, broken down by table.
  • A prioritised data-source and detection plan: what to onboard, what to tune, what to retire, and what to build.
  • A workshop with your stakeholders to walk the findings and agree what happens next.

How it works

The review is read-only. Nothing in your workspace is changed without your explicit approval. You then choose whether to implement the findings in-house, using the report as the plan, or add an implementation phase for us to make the changes for you.

The return

For a high-volume estate, the return scales with volume. The saving is a percentage of your ingestion bill, around 50% on average across delivered engagements, so a higher-volume estate saves more in absolute terms and generally recovers the cost of the assessment and implementation within the first year. The saving then recurs annually while the engagement is a one-off. We measure it against your own data before we quote, so the number is yours, not a model.

Interested in SIEM Smarter?

A brief, no-cost call confirms fit. Tell us what you run and what you need, and we will tell you plainly whether we can help.

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