Managed SOC & Detection and Response
Most breaches are not clever. They are ordinary activity that nobody was watching at 3am on a Sunday. Astra runs the monitoring, triage and response function for organisations that need round-the-clock coverage without standing up a security operations centre of their own — analysts, platform, playbooks and escalation, delivered against a signed response SLA.
- Monitoring coverage
- 24x7x365
- Critical incident response target
- 15 min
- Searchable log retention
- 365 days
- Threat intelligence feeds
- 40+
What you get
Outcomes, not activity.
- Coverage that does not sleepAnalysts on shift every hour of the year, with named escalation paths into your team and a response clock that starts the moment an alert is raised.
- Detection tuned to your estateUse cases are mapped to MITRE ATT&CK and to the log sources you actually have, then tuned until the alerts that reach a human are worth a human's time.
- Behavioural detection, not just signaturesUser and entity behaviour analytics baselines people, service accounts and hosts against their peers, which is what surfaces credential misuse and insider activity that rules alone miss.
- Automated containmentOrchestration playbooks push confirmed indicators straight into your firewalls, endpoint agents, proxies, mail gateway and cloud policies, so containment is not gated on someone reading an email.
- Evidence you can hand an auditorA year of searchable retention, an executive dashboard, and incident records that stand up in an ISO, RBI or NHB audit without a scramble.
How it runs
A defined sequence, agreed up front.
You know what happens in each stage, who is involved, and what lands at the end of it before the engagement starts.
- 01
Scope and baseline
We inventory log sources across servers, network, identity, endpoint, cloud and applications, size the daily ingest, and agree what good looks like before anything is connected.
- 02
Onboard and integrate
Log forwarding is established over encrypted transport, threat intelligence feeds are attached, and the initial detection content is deployed against your priority use cases.
- 03
Tune
The first weeks are spent suppressing what is normal in your environment. Noise reduction is a deliverable, not an afterthought — an alert queue nobody trusts is worse than no queue.
- 04
Operate
Shift analysts triage, investigate and escalate by severity. Response playbooks execute automatically where the decision is unambiguous and with an analyst in the loop where it is not.
- 05
Review and improve
Monthly service reviews cover detection coverage, mean time to detect and respond, tuning changes and gaps. Maturity is reassessed against NIST CSF on a defined cycle.
Deliverables
What lands on your desk.
Written for two audiences: the engineers who have to fix it and the executives who have to fund it.
- Severity-based incident notifications with agreed response times
- Weekly operational and monthly executive reporting
- A CISO dashboard covering risk trend, MTTD/MTTR and coverage by log source
- Detection use-case catalogue mapped to MITRE ATT&CK
- Threat intelligence advisories relevant to your sector
- Post-incident reports with root cause and corrective actions
Related
Often engaged alongside
Next step
Scope a managed soc & mdr engagement.
Half an hour with a practitioner. You will leave knowing what the work involves, roughly how long it takes, and what it would find.