Stop threats in their tracks in minutes with 24/7 MXDR

Save up to 30% on data consumption costs

Data ingestion into Microsoft Sentinel can quickly run up large bills if it’s deployed out-of-the-box or left unmanaged.

That’s where our cost optimisation layer comes in. This additional layer ensures that the data ingested into Microsoft Sentinel is efficiently managed to minimise unnecessary costs.

By fine-tuning data ingestion parameters and filtering out irrelevant data or metadata, we help you optimise your cybersecurity investment. This ensures that you only pay for the data that is essential for effective threat detection and response, maximising the value of your security operations.

Our PROTECT MXDR service also eliminates the need for costly investments in standalone security solutions, and the associated maintenance and management overheads.

Introducing GuardianAI

Now that your data is being ingested in the most efficient and cost-effective way, our PROTECT MXDR service is ready to guard your organisation. This begins with AnselAI.

GuardianAI is our proprietary AI engine, continuously analysing security event data ingested into Microsoft Sentinel, identifying potential threats, and taking proactive measures to mitigate risks.

By combining advanced artificial intelligence with automation capabilities, the entire threat detection and response process is reduced from hours to seconds.

Handling threats – turning hours into minutes

Time is everything when there’s an active threat in your organisation. Every minute counts as the longer it’s left unchecked, the more damage it can cause. The process of handling a threat typically takes a human SOC Anlyst hours to intensive work, GuardianAI follows a four-step process to handle any threats across your organisation in minutes.

Phase 0 – Detect

The detection phase involves GuardianAI consolidating threats from multiple sources in real-time. By analying your security event data, it identifies anomalies, suspicious activities, and potential threats across your digital infrastructure. This proactive approach enables us to detect security incidents at the earliest stages, minimising the impact on your organisation. Once an suspcious event has been detected, it’s handed over to ANSEL – our automated SOC Analyst.

Phase 1 – Enrich

Once a threat is detected, ANSEL enriches the security event data with additional contextual information. This enrichment process provides valuable insights into the nature and severity of the threat, enabling us to make informed decisions and prioritise response efforts effectively.

Phase 2 – Investigate

ANSEL conducts automated investigations using predefined rules, techniques, and investigation playbooks. By referring to the enriched security event data, ANSEL performs in-depth analysis to determine the root cause of the threat, identify any related indicators of compromise (IOCs), and assess the potential impact on your organisation.

Phase 3 – Remediate

In the remediation phase, ANSEL takes proactive measures to mitigate the identified threats. Drawing upon advanced decision criteria and automation capabilities, ANSEL executes predefined remediation actions to contain, neutralise, or eliminate the threat. This swift and automated response helps prevent security incidents from escalating and minimises the impact on your business’ operations.

If an alert falls outside of ANSEL’s prefined actions, it is automatically triaged to our Managed SOC team to provide that extra layer of human analysis and critical thinking.

Using threat intel to automatically enrich every incident

By integrating threat intelligence, industry insights, and signals data into our analysis, we enrich our understanding of the threat landscape for more informed decision-making. This multidimensional approach allows us to prioritise threats based on their relevance and severity, ensuring that our response efforts are focused where they matter most.

Threat Intelligence Integration

Our Managed XDR service incorporates leading threat intelligence feeds from industry-renowned providers such as Recorded Future, as well as our own proprietary threat intelligence sources. These feeds deliver real-time updates on emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and malicious actors, enriching our analysis and decision-making processes. By leveraging threat intelligence, we augment our detection capabilities, ensuring that even the most sophisticated threats are swiftly identified and neutralised.

Industry Insights

In addition to threat intelligence feeds, we gather industry-specific insights tailored to your organisation’s context. Whether you operate in financial services, healthcare, or other sectors, our Managed XDR service takes into account the unique challenges and threat landscapes relevant to your industry. These insights provide valuable context for threat analysis and prioritisation, enabling us to focus on mitigating risks that pose the greatest impact to your business operations.

Signals Data Integration

Our approach extends beyond traditional threat intelligence sources to include signals data from various monitoring sources, including the dark web and other online channels. Our dedicated threat ops team continuously monitors these signals for indicators of potential threats, such as compromised credentials, data breaches, and emerging attack vectors. By integrating signals data into our analysis, we improve our ability to detect and respond to emerging threats proactively.

Continuous Improvement

By using the latest threat intelligence, industry insights, and signals data, we able to stay ahead of the curve. This ensures you’re protected against emerging cyber threats, both now and in the future.

24/7 UK Managed SOC – human and artificial intelligence combined

The Managed SOC element of our service blends human expertise with advanced, AI-driven capabilities.

Based in the UK, our 24/7 Managed SOC team have plenty of experience in identifying, analysing, and responding to security incidents. While GuardianAI and ANSEL play a pivotal role in threat detection and initial incident response, our Managed SOC team adds a critical layer of human intelligence and judgment to the process.

When security incidents are triaged to the SOC, our analysts use their deep understanding of your organisation’s environment, industry-specific threats, and regulatory requirements to contextualise and prioritise alerts effectively.

They collaborate closely with ANSEL, validating alerts, conducting further investigation if needed, and making informed decisions about the appropriate course of action. This human-machine partnership enables us to strike the optimal balance between automation and human intervention, ensuring that each security incident is addressed with the right level of scrutiny and expertise.

By combining the speed and scalability of ANSEL with the nuanced decision-making and contextual understanding of human analysts, our Managed SOC element ensures protection against even the most sophisticated cyber threats.

The CloudGuard MXDR Dashboard provides you with real-time visibility into your security posture, automation metrics, and actionable insights.

• Total alerts
• Data Connector activity
• Automation impact – time saved through automation
• Alerts by severity
• Tickets awaiting your feedback
• Data consumption

Accessible 24/7, the dashboard helps you to monitor security events, track remediation activities, and assess your overall cybersecurity posture at a glance. The intuitive interface helps you stay informed, make data-driven decisions, and collaborate effectively with our team to strengthen your defences.

You’ll be up and running in under an hour

Deploying our PROTECT Managed XDR service is a streamlined process, designed to minimise disruption to your operations while maximising the speed of implementation.

We follow best practices, and reference architectures, to ensure seamless integration within your existing environment. Our in-house automated deployment tool launches the service within your Microsoft tenant in under an hour, allowing you to quickly realise the benefits of improved cybersecurity protection.

We take a custodial approach to your tenant, ensuring that your data remains secure and confidential at all times. With strict RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) controls in place, you can trust that only authorised personnel have access to sensitive information. Our goal is to provide a hassle-free deployment experience that helps your organisation to strengthen its security posture without sacrificing productivity or efficiency.