SecOps Services — Security Operations, Detection Engineering & Incident Response

Problem Statement

Security operations teams are overwhelmed — too many alerts, too few analysts, too much manual investigation. Mean time to detect a breach is measured in months. Mean time to respond is measured in days. And when an incident happens, the investigation is manual, inconsistent, and dependent on tribal knowledge. SecOps industrializes security operations: automated detection, orchestrated response, threat intelligence integration, and continuous improvement — so your security team investigates threats, not alerts.

Business Outcomes

• Mean time to detect (MTTD): Months → hours (automated detection engineering)
• Mean time to respond (MTTR): Days → minutes (SOAR automation)
• Alert triage time: 80%+ reduction through automated enrichment and prioritization
• False positive rate: 50%+ → under 10% (tuned detection rules)
• Compliance evidence for security operations: Manual → automated, audit-ready

What We Do — SecOps Consulting

We design and implement security operations capabilities: SIEM/SOAR deployment, detection engineering, threat hunting programs, vulnerability management automation, and incident response playbooks — all built by practitioners who have responded to real incidents at enterprise scale.

Consulting Services

• SecOps Maturity Assessment: Evaluate your security operations across detection, response, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, and tooling. Output: scored assessment with prioritized SecOps roadmap.
• SOC Design: Design your security operations center — people, process, technology. Tier 1/2/3 analyst structure. Shift design. Metrics and reporting for leadership.
• Detection Engineering Strategy: Design your detection engineering program — log sources, detection rules, alert prioritization, false positive reduction, detection-as-code.

Implementation Services

• SIEM Implementation: Splunk, Elastic Security, Microsoft Sentinel, Chronicle. Log ingestion architecture. Parsing and normalization. Detection rules. Dashboards for SOC analysts and leadership.
• SOAR Automation: Splunk SOAR, Cortex XSOAR, Tines, custom automation. Automated alert enrichment. Automated containment actions. Playbook-driven incident response.
• Detection-as-Code: Version-controlled detection rules. CI/CD for detection content. Automated testing of detection rules against historical data. Detection coverage mapping to MITRE ATT&CK.
• Vulnerability Management Automation: Automated scanning (Qualys, Tenable, CrowdStrike, Wiz). Risk-based prioritization. Automated ticket creation and SLAs. Patch verification.

Support Services

• Managed SecOps / Co-Managed SOC: 24×7 security monitoring. Alert triage and investigation. Incident response coordination. Threat hunting. Vulnerability management operations.
• Incident Response Retainer: Guaranteed response times for security incidents. Forensic investigation. Containment and eradication. Post-incident review facilitation.

Tools & Ecosystem

SIEM: Splunk, Elastic Security, Microsoft Sentinel, Chronicle SOAR: Splunk SOAR, Cortex XSOAR, Tines, Swimlane EDR/XDR: CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management: Qualys, Tenable, CrowdStrike Spotlight, Wiz, Orca Threat Intelligence: MISP, OpenCTI, commercial feeds Detection-as-Code: Sigma, Splunk ESCU, Elastic Detection Rules

Operating Model

1. Collect: Centralized logging from all infrastructure, applications, and security tools
2. Detect: Automated detection rules mapped to MITRE ATT&CK
3. Enrich: Automated context enrichment — threat intel, asset context, user context
4. Respond: Playbook-driven or automated response actions
5. Hunt: Proactive threat hunting based on threat intelligence and hypotheses
6. Improve: Continuous detection engineering — measure, tune, expand coverage

Typical Deliverables

• SecOps maturity assessment
• SOC design document (people, process, technology)
• SIEM — deployed, configured, with detection rules
• SOAR playbooks for top 10 incident types
• Detection-as-code pipeline (version-controlled, tested detection content)
• Vulnerability management automation framework
• Incident response runbooks
• Knowledge transfer workshop for SOC team

Who Should Use This Service

• CISOs / Security Directors building or maturing a security operations function
• SOC Managers overwhelmed by alert volume and analyst burnout
• Heads of Infrastructure needing to integrate security operations with engineering operations
• CTOs at startups needing security operations capability without hiring a full SOC team
• Organizations subject to compliance (PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2) requiring documented security operations

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you co-manage our SOC with our existing team? Yes. Co-managed SOC is one of our core offerings. We integrate with your team — your analysts handle business-hours triage, our team covers nights and weekends. Or we handle Tier 1 triage and your team handles Tier 2/3 investigation. Flexible models based on your team’s capacity and capability.

How does SecOps relate to DevSecOps? They are complementary. DevSecOps focuses on shifting security left — integrating security into the development and delivery pipeline (SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets scanning, image signing). SecOps focuses on security operations — detecting and responding to threats in production (SIEM, SOAR, EDR, threat hunting). Most mature security programs need both: DevSecOps to prevent issues from reaching production, and SecOps to detect and respond to what gets through.

Do you work with specific compliance frameworks? Yes. Our SecOps implementations are designed to satisfy the security operations requirements of PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and FedRAMP — including log retention, alerting, incident response, and evidence collection.