Managed security
Attackers like the hours
when you’re asleep.
So the watch was never built around anybody’s shift. Automation triages every alert as it lands, engineers are on call, and what we’re allowed to do without waking you is agreed before anything happens.
Four acronyms
EDR, XDR, SOC and MDR, in plain English
Every security vendor lists these side by side and explains none of them. Here’s the straight version, because buying the wrong one is expensive in a way you only find out later.
- EDR
The sensor
Software on every laptop, desktop and server, watching what programs actually do rather than what they’re called. Everything else reads from it. On its own it raises alerts. It doesn’t decide what they mean.
- XDR
The joined-up view
That same sensor data, joined to email, cloud workloads and the network. One odd login is noise. That login plus a new mailbox rule plus a bulk download is an incident, and only the layer that sees all three can tell.
- SOC
The watch
Eyes on every alert, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Automation triages as alerts arrive and engineers are on call, so a 3am alert gets the same handling as one at 3pm.
- MDR
The hunt, and the hands
Going looking for what never set off an alert, then containing it. This is the one with the authority to act, whether that means isolating a machine, killing a session or locking an account, within limits you agreed up front.
Most businesses start with the sensor and the watch, then add hunting once there’s enough data worth hunting through.
The catalogue
Sixteen managed security services
You won’t want all of them. Tell us who’s asking you for security and what they want, whether that’s a customer, an insurer or a regulator, and we’ll point at the ones that answer it.
Security Operations Center (SOC) as a Service
Round-the-clock monitoring of your network alerts, 365 days a year, with triage and escalation built in. Automation reads each alert the second it lands, so the watch never depends on who happens to be awake.
Read moreManaged Detection & Response (MDR)
Active threat hunting through your endpoint data for the intruder no alert caught, and a fast response the moment we find one. The SOC watches what fires. MDR goes looking, with your written permission to act.
Read moreExtended Detection & Response (XDR)
XDR correlates what your endpoints, email, cloud workloads and network each see, so signals that look harmless alone get read together. Think of it as the layer above EDR, joining its dots to everyone else’s.
Read moreEndpoint Detection & Response (EDR)
Continuous monitoring of every laptop, desktop and server for behavior that looks like an attack, whether anyone’s seen that particular malware before or not. It’s the sensor the rest of your security runs on.
Read moreManaged SIEM
We set up your SIEM, aggregate the logs that matter into it, and analyze them in real time. Most SIEM projects fail as plumbing long before they fail as security, so the plumbing is where we start.
Read moreVulnerability Management
Regular scans of your systems and networks, then the bit most programs skip, which is patching what they found. We rank flaws by what an attacker can actually reach, not by the color the scanner painted them.
Read morePenetration Testing
Simulated attacks on your external and internal defenses, run by our own engineers, never a subcontractor. You get the scope in writing, a report you can act on, and a retest to prove the fixes held.
Read moreIncident Response & Digital Forensics
Immediate containment, breach investigation and evidence gathering while the attack is still underway. Set it up as a retainer and your first call is a call, not a contract negotiation, and the cleanup won’t destroy the proof you’ll need later.
Read moreThreat Intelligence
Real-time feeds on emerging attacker tactics and indicators of compromise, filtered against what you actually run and wired straight into detection. No weekly PDF. No shared inbox.
Read moreEmail Security & Phishing Defense
We block malicious attachments, spam and credential-harvesting email before it reaches anyone, then lock down your own domain so nobody can send as you. The message asking for new bank details waits until someone checks by phone.
Read moreManaged Firewalls & Network Security
Firewalls configured, intrusion detection and prevention tuned, VPN tunnels kept tight. Every rule gets a reason and an owner, and the network gets split up so one bad laptop stays one bad laptop.
Read moreIdentity & Access Management (IAM)
Multi-factor authentication, single sign-on and privileged accounts, managed so a stolen password isn’t enough on its own. Admin rights get borrowed for an hour instead of kept for a career.
Read moreSecurity Awareness Training
Phishing simulations and short training modules, run often and never used as a stick. The number we care about is how many people report the fake, because that’s what saves you when the real one turns up.
Read moreDark Web Monitoring
Leaked employee and company credentials, tracked across underground forums and dumps, with a forced reset the moment yours turn up. Nothing gets removed from anywhere, because nobody can do that. The value is shrinking the gap between leaked and useless.
Read moreCompliance Management
We audit your setup against HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2 and ISO 27001, get you ready, and keep you there. The controls run all year and the evidence falls out of the running, so nobody spends audit week rebuilding twelve months from memory.
Read moreVirtual CISO (vCISO)
Fractional executive leadership for your security strategy and risk governance. One named lead on your side of the table, for the slice of the week the job needs, who owns the risk register, the board report, and that questionnaire your biggest customer sent on Friday.
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What holds it together
Security bolted onto IT that someone else runs is guesswork with a dashboard. These four are why ours isn’t.
One inventory, not two
Our security tooling reads the same asset list our managed IT side keeps. You can’t defend a device nobody wrote down, and the gap between what IT knows about and what security watches is where incidents like to start.
Containment limits, agreed first
Which actions we take without asking, on which systems, at what confidence. Written down when we start and changed only on the record. Nobody wants that conversation at 2am.
The log is the deliverable
Every detection, automated action and decision, with what triggered it and how it ended. That’s what makes an incident explainable afterwards, and what turns an audit into a search instead of a dig.
New once, automated after
The first time something genuinely new happens, an engineer works it. The second time, software handles it. Your coverage grows the longer we work together, not the bigger your invoice gets.
Questions worth asking any security provider
Especially the last one. More people should ask it.
We already have antivirus. Isn’t this the same thing?
No. Antivirus asks whether a file matches something already known to be bad. Detection and response asks what a program is doing, and ransomware encrypting your shared drive is doing something obvious whatever the file is called. Signature matching is the floor now, not the answer.
Do we need all sixteen?
Almost certainly not, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling, not advising. Most businesses want detection on their machines, a round-the-clock watch, email security, and whichever compliance framework somebody is actually asking about. The rest is worth buying when there’s a reason. Every quote is built to your scope, one-off or recurring, so there’s no bundle to talk you into.
What actually happens at 3am?
Automation triages, and inside the limits you agreed, it acts. Isolating a machine or killing a session doesn’t wait for anyone to wake up, which is the whole reason automation goes first. Anything genuinely new or high-stakes pages an on-call engineer. Either way you get the record, and you hear it from us before you hear it anywhere else.
Can you work with the security tools we already own?
Usually, yes, and we’d rather do that than sell you a replacement for something that works. What we won’t do is pretend a tool covers ground it doesn’t. If there’s a gap between what you own and what you think you own, finding it is part of getting started.
Do you ever come on site?
Most security work is remote, and remote works anywhere in the world. When it needs someone in the room, we visit routinely across Denver Metro to Colorado Springs, and anywhere else by arrangement, with the travel in the quote.
Are you certified for SOC 2 or ISO 27001?
No, and we won’t hint otherwise. We get clients ready for those audits and keep them ready, from the controls to the evidence to the questionnaire answers. Our staff hold active certifications on the platforms they work on, which is a different thing, and we’ll always tell you which is which.
Tell us what you're trying to build
Or what you're trying to get off. Either way, the first conversation is about what the thing has to do.
Write to us and a person reads it. You'll get a straight answer about whether this is work we should be doing, and a quote written for you if it is.
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