We architect, tune, and operate Microsoft Sentinel in your tenant: detection engineering, automation, and cost control. Your analysts keep triage, investigation, and response, on a platform that finally works for them.
Most providers blur this line until the contract makes it clear. Here is ours, up front.
Want the response outsourced too? That is MDR, the layer above this one.
Everything below is included in Managed Sentinel. Nothing is a premium add-on.
Workspace design that fits your estate, not a template. Data connectors across Microsoft 365, Azure, Entra ID, and the third-party sources worth their ingestion cost, each one justified before it bills you.
Custom KQL detections written against real attacker behaviour, version-controlled, tested before deploy, and mapped to MITRE ATT&CK. Noisy Microsoft defaults are replaced, not stacked on top of.
Enrichment, orchestration, and containment hand-offs that let a lean team punch above its weight. We automate the toil; your analysts make the calls.
Not a bullet point here: a discipline with its own section below. Every lever Microsoft gives us, pulled deliberately, reported monthly.
False-positive burn-down, connector health monitoring, and rule updates as your environment and the threat landscape move. The workspace you have in month twelve is better than the one you started with.
Redacted from a live workspace: a distributed password-spray detection that Microsoft’s defaults miss because no single source trips a threshold.
// Distributed password spray - low-and-slow, multi-IP // Owner: ████████ · Reviewed: ████████ SigninLogs | where ResultType in ("50126", "50053") | summarize Attempts = count(), Targets = dcount(UserPrincipalName) by IPAddress, bin(TimeGenerated, 15m) | where Targets > ████ and Attempts < ████ // per-target threshold stays under lockout, the tell | join kind=inner (_GetWatchlist('█████████')) on $left.IPAddress | project TimeGenerated, IPAddress, Targets, Attempts
Sentinel bills by the gigabyte, so every gigabyte has to earn its place. Most providers stop at the promise; here is what we actually pull.
One customer’s first optimisation pass. Typical engagements land 30-40%, reported line by line in your monthly cost review.
Data-collection transforms drop the noise before it is billed, not after. Verbose sources get trimmed at the pipe.
Pay-as-you-go is the default and usually the most expensive choice. We size commitment tiers to your real volume.
Verbose, low-query logs move to cheaper tiers, still searchable when an investigation needs them.
Retention set per table instead of one workspace-wide number. Compliance keeps what it needs; nothing else lingers at full price.
Long-tail telemetry lands in the data lake at a fraction of analytics pricing, ready for hunting and audits.
Defender and Sentinel often ingest the same events twice. We find the overlap and kill the double billing.
We publish how we do this. Read the Sentinel cost breakdowns on the blog, then ask us to run the same autopsy on your workspace.
Every Managed Sentinel conversation starts from one of these two places.
We design the workspace around your estate and your budget from day one: connector strategy, use-case design, detections that matter to your business, and a cost model that will not surprise anyone in month three.
The most common starting point. Somebody deployed Sentinel with defaults, the bill grew, the alerts are noise, and nobody trusts it. We start with the health and cost review, then fix what it finds, keeping everything worth keeping.
Sentinel is changing fast. Keeping the lights on is not the job; staying ahead of Microsoft’s roadmap is.
Microsoft is retiring Sentinel in the Azure portal by March 2027. We plan and execute the move to the Defender portal for you: workflows, permissions, and muscle memory included, before the deadline forces it.
Adopted where it cuts your cost, not because it is new. Long-tail telemetry moves to lake pricing; analytics-tier spend stays reserved for the tables your detections actually query.
Microsoft ships new detections, connectors, and Copilot-era features monthly. We evaluate each against your environment and fold in what earns its place, so the platform improves without you tracking release notes.
The workspace lives in your Azure subscription. The detection rules, playbooks, and workbooks we write are deployed into it and documented. If you leave, you revoke our access and keep a working platform, which is exactly why clients stay.
A fixed-fee engagement, not a sales call. We audit your workspace and hand you the findings, whether or not you engage us afterwards.
A free assessment produces a sales deck. A paid one produces the ingestion breakdown, the savings number, and the gap list your team can act on with us or without us.
If we then run your Sentinel, the review’s findings become the first quarter’s work plan, so nothing is paid for twice.
Scoped to your workspace size; quoted before anything starts. Managed Sentinel itself is priced by scope, data volume, and sources, not per seat. You get the exact figure after the review.
Every source, its volume, its retention and its tier, with the rows we would change already marked.
We walk it with you on the readout call and cost each change before you decide. The breakdown is yours either way.
One honest question decides it: who should respond when something is found?
Choose it if you have analysts and want the platform run properly: detections engineered, costs controlled, toil automated. Your team triages, investigates, and responds.
The platform layer. It is also what MDR runs on, so nothing is thrown away if you upgrade later.
Choose it if you want the response outsourced too: analyst monitoring, investigation, and containment at the authority level you set, day and night.
Everything on this page is included in MDR, plus the human response on top.
Professional, spot-on, and personal. Their consultants give the concise answers we need and proactively bring in valid points to strengthen our monitoring and setup on Managed Sentinel and Microsoft MDR.
The review is the front door; everything after it is already scoped by its findings.
The fixed-fee audit: ingestion breakdown, savings estimate, noisy-rule hotspots, and MITRE coverage gaps. You keep the findings either way.
Findings become a work plan: what gets filtered, retired, rebuilt, and in what order. Cost wins usually land first because they fund everything else.
Ingestion filtered, tiers right-sized, noisy rules replaced with engineered detections, automation deployed. Your team sees every change.
Continuous tuning, connector health, new detections as threats evolve, and a monthly cost report with the receipts, line by line.
Just the platform, and we say so plainly. Managed Sentinel is platform engineering: architecture, detections, automation, cost, and health. Triage, investigation, and response stay with your analysts. If you want the response outsourced as well, that is MDR, and everything built here carries straight into it.
Yours, always. The workspace lives in your Azure subscription, the data never leaves it, and every rule, playbook, and workbook we build is deployed into your tenant and documented. We work through scoped, revocable access.
Yes. We tune, we do not raze. The health and cost review maps what you have; anything worth keeping stays, noisy defaults get replaced with engineered detections, and your team sees every change before it lands.
Six levers, all standard practice in our engagements: ingestion filtering at the pipe, commitment tiers sized to real volume, Basic and Auxiliary log tiers for verbose sources, table-level retention plans, the Sentinel data lake for long-tail telemetry, and removing duplicate connectors. One customer’s first pass cut the bill 58%; 30-40% is typical.
We do not do SIEM lift-and-shift migrations. If you are moving off another SIEM, we build Sentinel properly in parallel: fresh architecture and engineered detections rather than translated legacy rules, and you decommission the old platform on your own schedule.
Microsoft retires Sentinel in the Azure portal by March 2027. Planning and executing that transition is part of the service: workflows, permissions, and training included, well before the deadline forces a rushed move.
Yes, and many clients do. It is a fixed-fee engagement with a written findings report you keep. There is no obligation to continue, though the findings usually make the case one way or the other.
Everything. The workspace, the data, the detection rules, the playbooks, the workbooks, and the documentation. You revoke our access and keep a working platform. No proprietary layer sits between you and your SIEM.
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