MDR with measurable coverage — not opaque promises.
Most MDR programs operate as a black box: a portal, an SLA, and an alert volume. We design the coverage map, the detection content, and the QA discipline that make the service something you can govern.
Managed Detection & Response (MDR) outsources the 24×7 detection-and-response function — but the buyer remains accountable for outcomes. The most common failure mode is buying the service without owning the coverage map, the tuning, or the QA. Alerts get closed; incidents get missed; the SLA dashboard looks healthy.
What changes for your organization:
- You own the coverage map. Every adversary technique relevant to your sector is mapped to a detection path.
- Tuning is continuous and instrumented — not a launch milestone.
- Provider performance is measured against outcome metrics — not just SLA timestamps.
- Onboarding produces evidence-grade documentation that survives a provider change.
- Co-managed operations route the right alerts to the right team — yours or theirs — by design.
A five-phase methodology engineered for Managed Detection & Response.
1 — Onboard
Define requirements, build the coverage map, and onboard the provider against documented success criteria. New or existing service.
2 — Detect
Stand up the detection content for your environment, your protocols, and your sector's adversary tradecraft. Replace default rule packs.
3 — Triage
Define the escalation criteria and the QA framework that audit provider triage. Random sampling, false-negative review, and feedback loops.
4 — Respond
Co-design the response playbooks across provider and internal team. Document hand-offs, decision points, and escalation paths.
5 — Improve
Quarterly review of coverage, tuning, and provider performance. Drive the backlog of detection-content investment.
- Coverage map aligned to MITRE ATT&CK and your sector's threat profile
- RFP scaffolding (for new procurement) or independent QA (for existing service)
- Tuned detection content backlog with owner assignment
- QA framework with random-sample audit cadence
- Co-managed response playbooks with documented hand-offs
- Quarterly executive reporting cadence with outcome metrics
Vendor-neutral evaluator
No reseller margin. No bundled SOC service of our own. Recommendations follow the mission.
Detection-engineering bench
We have written more detection content than we have evaluated MDR providers. The QA function is grounded in real engineering.
Federal-grade rigor at any scope
The discipline that produces a provider-governance program for a Federal customer is the same discipline applied at smaller scale.
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