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Technical Implementation

Security Technology Implementation

Technology that is actually deployed, not left at the licence

  • Microsoft 365
  • SIEM & SOAR
  • Endpoint Protection
  • Cloud Migration

Many organisations have already bought security licences that never reach production: default configuration, integrations left unfinished, and nobody who can read the output. We close that gap — architecture design, migration, configuration, and handover to your internal team.

What you receive

  • Architecture document and migration plan
  • Deployed configuration with its change record
  • Detection rules, response playbooks, and monitoring dashboards
  • Operational runbooks and operator training material
  • Pilot results report and closure of findings
Context & Urgency

Why this matters now

Security spending keeps rising, but the gap is often not in the product. The licence is bought, the console is running, yet the configuration is still at defaults and nobody reads the alerts.

  • A licence bought is not a licence used

    Higher Microsoft 365 tiers are often bought for one feature, while the Conditional Access, MFA, and Purview already included in them are never switched on.

  • Legacy antivirus is no longer enough

    Modern attacks run without files and abuse the system's own tooling. Signature-based detection misses them; what is needed is behavioural monitoring.

  • Alerts without response change nothing

    A SIEM that is not wired to playbooks only accumulates alerts. Without automation, handling depends on who happens to be on shift.

Signs your organisation needs this

  • Security licences are renewed every year but the console is rarely opened
  • Mail migration keeps being deferred for fear of disrupting operations
  • Antivirus is still signature-based and its reports are never reviewed
  • Security alerts land in an inbox with no defined handling path
  • No architecture documentation remains once the engineer who deployed it has left

Any one of these is reason enough to start the conversation early.

Scope

What we cover

  • Microsoft 365 Migration

    Moving mail and files off legacy systems, tenant setup, Entra ID, MFA, Conditional Access, and Purview policies.

  • SOC & SIEM Build-out

    SIEM deployment, log source onboarding, detection rules, and monitoring dashboards.

  • Endpoint Protection & Antivirus

    Replacing legacy antivirus with modern EDR, policy design, and detection testing before organisation-wide rollout.

  • Incident Response Automation

    SOAR playbooks that connect alerts to action, so response no longer depends on who happens to be on shift.

  • Application & Cloud Security

    Code, dependency, and cloud configuration scanning wired into your development team's CI/CD pipeline.

  • Handover & Enablement

    Architecture documentation, runbooks, and operator training so your own team can run the system.

How We Work

Clear stages, with no surprises along the way

Every stage has agreed deliverables, so progress is never in question.

  1. 01

    Assessment

    Mapping the systems in use, licences already owned, and the operational gaps between them.

  2. 02

    Design

    Target architecture, migration plan, and success criteria agreed before any change is made.

  3. 03

    Pilot

    Rollout to a small group to measure impact before the wider organisation is touched.

  4. 04

    Rollout

    Staged deployment with change windows and a rollback plan where one is warranted.

  5. 05

    Handover

    Runbooks, operator training, and a support period once the system is live.

Reference Basis

The standards and regulations we work from

Every recommendation traces back to the references below and can be verified independently.

  • CIS Critical Security Controls v8A priority order for which technical controls to deploy first.
  • Microsoft Secure ScoreA measure of how well a Microsoft 365 tenant is configured.
  • MITRE ATT&CKA reference of attacker techniques used to test detection coverage.
  • NIST SP 800-61Incident handling guidance that playbooks are built on.
  • ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex AThe technology controls that must be shown to work at audit.

Success indicators

Agreed upfront so the work is judged objectively rather than by impression.

  • Share of devices covered by an active endpoint agent
  • Number of log sources actually reaching the SIEM
  • Average time from alert to first action
  • Tenant configuration score before and after hardening
  • Pilot findings closed before organisation-wide rollout
Glossary

Terms that come up in these discussions

The vocabulary you will meet in documents, reports, and conversations with auditors.

EDR
Endpoint Detection and Response — behavioural monitoring on user devices that records suspicious activity and allows remote isolation.
SIEM
Security Information and Event Management — a collector that correlates logs from many systems into alerts that can be acted on.
SOAR
Security Orchestration, Automation and Response — the automation layer that runs standard handling steps as soon as a given alert fires.
Conditional Access
Microsoft Entra ID rules that weigh user, device, and location before granting access, rather than checking a password alone.
Cutover
The formal switch from the old system to the new one, once data is copied and the pilot is confirmed safe.
Frequently Asked

The questions we hear most

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