SIEM & Threat Detection

Most breaches aren’t discovered immediately. The average dwell time — the time between initial compromise and detection — is measured in weeks.

Every system in your environment generates logs: authentication events, file access records, network connection attempts, configuration changes, application activity. Those logs are where the evidence of an intrusion lives — the failed login attempts before the successful one, the account that accessed files it had never touched before, the outbound connection to an unfamiliar destination at 2am.

The problem is that logs from individual systems are isolated, voluminous, and impossible to monitor manually. A Security Information and Event Management platform — SIEM — aggregates those logs in one place, applies correlation rules and behavioral analytics to identify patterns that individual systems can't see in isolation, and generates alerts when activity matches known attack patterns or deviates from established baselines.

We deploy, tune, and actively monitor a SIEM for your environment so the evidence of an intrusion gets surfaced when it's happening — not weeks later when the damage is already done.

What's covered

• SIEM platform deployment and configuration appropriate to your environment size and compliance requirements
• Log source integration across workstations, servers, firewalls, cloud platforms, and SaaS applications
• Correlation rule configuration and tuning to your environment — minimizing false positives without creating blind spots
• Behavioral baseline establishment and anomaly detection
• 24/7 alert monitoring with human triage — every high-priority alert is reviewed, not just acknowledged by a platform
• Incident investigation and escalation with documented findings
• Log retention configured to meet your compliance requirements — FTC Safeguards, HIPAA, and cyber insurance policy requirements
• Regular threat intelligence updates to keep detection rules current against evolving attack techniques
• Monthly reporting on alert volume, investigation outcomes, and security posture trends

Why this matters for your compliance program

FTC Safeguards requires monitoring and testing of your security controls. HIPAA requires audit controls — hardware, software, and procedural mechanisms that record and examine activity in systems containing protected health information. A SIEM satisfies both requirements while generating the log retention and audit trail documentation that regulators and insurers expect to see.

For firms that have experienced a breach, the SIEM log is also the record that answers the questions that follow: What happened? When did it start? What data was accessed? How did it end? Without that record, those questions are unanswerable — and the inability to answer them compounds the regulatory and legal exposure of the incident itself.