Overview
This engagement establishes a production-ready Microsoft Sentinel foundation, connects priority security data sources, and validates analytics and automation to accelerate SOC readiness.
What You Will Gain
- Centralized Security Visibility: Unified view across security signals, logs, and threat intelligence.
- Faster Threat Detection & Response: Built-in analytics, automation, and playbooks to accelerate incident handling.
- Reduced SIEM Complexity: Modern, cloud-native alternative to traditional SIEM platforms.
- SOC Readiness Roadmap: Clear path toward operationalizing a scalable, Microsoft-based Security Operations Center (SOC).
What Is Included
Scope includes Sentinel deployment, priority source onboarding, detection enablement, and initial automation setup.
- Production-ready Microsoft Sentinel workspace deployment.
- Ingestion and normalization of 3–5 priority data sources (e.g., Microsoft Defender, Entra ID, Microsoft 365, Azure resources, or selected third-party logs).
- Enabled analytics rules, dashboards, alerting, and workbooks.
- Basic automation and playbooks for incident response.
- High-level SOC and Sentinel optimization roadmap.
Engagement Timeline
- Week 1 – Discovery & Design: Review current security tooling and logging, define threat scenarios and compliance requirements, establish PoC scope and success criteria
- Weeks 2–3 – Build & Integration: Deploy Sentinel workspace, connect priority data sources, configure analytics rules and automation
- Week 4 – Validation & Roadmap: Validate detections and workflows, review dashboards and alerts, deliver scaling roadmap
- Overall Duration: 4–6 Weeks
Who This Offer Is For
- Organizations evaluating Microsoft Sentinel as a cloud-native SIEM/SOAR solution.
- Security teams seeking centralized log visibility and improved incident response.
- Enterprises looking to modernize or replace legacy SIEM platforms.
Prerequisites
- Existing Azure tenant with appropriate permissions.
- Defined priority data sources and access to logging systems.
- Understanding that log ingestion costs are separate from engagement fees.
- Advanced SOAR workflows, custom detections, or extensive third-party integrations scoped separately.
