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Security

Detection, response and compliance built on Microsoft Security

Identity-first security across your Microsoft estate: hardened cloud workloads, a Microsoft Sentinel deployment tuned to real threats, and governance you can evidence to an auditor.

The challenge

Why this matters

Security tooling is rarely the problem. Most organisations already own more Microsoft security capability than they have switched on, and the gap between licensed and configured is where incidents happen.

We work identity-first, because in a cloud estate identity is the perimeter. From there we harden the workloads, get meaningful telemetry into Microsoft Sentinel, tune detections so the alerts that fire are worth acting on, and put the governance around it that lets you evidence compliance rather than assert it.

Scope at a glance
Azure cloud security
Microsoft Sentinel deployment & optimisation
Compliance & security governance
Response readiness
Service scope

What’s included

The capabilities we deliver within Security, and what each one covers in practice.

Azure cloud security

Identity and access hardening with Microsoft Entra ID: conditional access, multi-factor authentication, privileged identity management and least-privilege review. Plus network security, key and secret management, secure baselines for workloads, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud posture management.

Microsoft Sentinel deployment & optimisation

Workspace and data-connector design, log ingestion and retention strategy (the decision that drives both coverage and cost), analytics rules and detection tuning, watchlists and threat intelligence, workbooks for reporting, and SOAR playbooks that automate the repetitive parts of response.

Compliance & security governance

Security baselines and policy-as-code, Microsoft Purview for data classification, sensitivity labelling and data loss prevention, audit and retention configuration, secure-score improvement planning, and reporting mapped to the frameworks and regulatory requirements you are held to.

Response readiness

Incident response runbooks, escalation paths, tabletop exercises, and recovery validation so that when something does happen, the plan is documented, rehearsed and owned rather than improvised.

Customer benefits

What you get out of it

Visibility that means something

Telemetry from identity, endpoint, cloud and email in one place, so an attack path is visible end to end rather than as disconnected alerts.

Faster detection and response

Tuned analytics and automated playbooks cut the time between a signal appearing and someone acting on it.

Less alert fatigue

Detection tuning removes the noise that trains teams to ignore their own SIEM, the most common failure mode in a SOC.

Evidence for auditors

Policy, classification, retention and reporting configured so compliance can be demonstrated with data, not assertions.

Controlled SIEM cost

Ingestion tiering and retention design keep Sentinel affordable as data volume grows, instead of forcing coverage cuts later.

Value from what you own

Most organisations are under-using licensed Microsoft security capability. We find it and switch it on before proposing anything new.

How we deliver

Our approach to Security

A staged method with clear checkpoints, so you can evaluate progress and change direction before committing to the next phase.

Stage 1

Assess

Security posture review, identity and secure-score assessment, gap analysis against your compliance obligations.

Stage 2

Design

Target security architecture, Sentinel data and detection strategy, policy and governance model.

Stage 3

Implement

Phased hardening, connector onboarding, detection rules, playbooks and documented baselines.

Stage 4

Operate

Detection tuning, posture reporting, response rehearsals and continuous improvement cycles.

Questions

Security FAQs

Often not much. E5 includes a substantial security stack, including Defender, Entra ID P2, Purview and a Sentinel data grant, and in most assessments we find a meaningful portion of it unconfigured. Our first recommendation is usually to switch on and tune what you already pay for, and only then look at whether anything additional is genuinely needed.
Sentinel is priced primarily on data ingested and retained, which makes the connector and retention strategy the single biggest cost lever. We design ingestion in tiers, putting high-value security telemetry into the analytics tier and high-volume, lower-value logs into auxiliary or archive tiers, and we model the monthly cost before deployment so there are no surprises on the first invoice.
Our core focus is deployment, optimisation and governance: building the platform, tuning detections and enabling your team. Where round-the-clock monitoring is required, we design the operating model and runbooks around it and can discuss ongoing support arrangements as part of scoping.
Yes. We map your current configuration against the control requirements you are held to, identify the gaps, and implement the policy, labelling, retention, logging and reporting needed to evidence them. We are not an accredited audit firm. What we do is make the technical evidence available and reliable for whoever performs your audit.
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Talk to us about Security

Book a short consultation and we will walk through your current position, the realistic options and what an assessment would involve.