MDR Services for Microsoft Sentinel™ (formerly Azure Sentinel)

Achieve the full operating potential of your Microsoft Sentinel investment.

Security and Information Event Management (SIEM) solutions can be complex. The combination of Microsoft Sentinel’s cloud-native scalability and CRITICALSTART^®’s trust-oriented approach to managed detection and response (MDR) simplifies breach prevention and gives you comprehensive insight into your security coverage.

Key Benefits

Accelerate your return on your Sentinel investment

Prioritize the data to be ingested and increase visibility across your security environment.

Reduce the noise

Get fewer false positives while adding new Sentinel log source feeds.

Improve your security posture

Strategically add new data sources while continuously validating MITRE ATT&CK^® Framework coverage.

Increase your SOC’s efficiency and productivity

We do all the heavy lifting for you with the combination of our Zero-Trust Analytics Platform^® (ZTAP^®) and seasoned security operations center (SOC) and Threat Detection Engineering teams.

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How Our MDR Service for Microsoft Sentinel Works

We help you prioritize the data being ingested into Microsoft Sentinel while applying Critical Start Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) to enhance threat detection.

ZTAP, which is tightly integrated with Microsoft Sentinel, automates the investigation and triage of alerts while eliminating false positives. True positives are then escalated to our SOC for further enrichment and investigation.

And it doesn’t stop there. We continuously make recommendations on other data sources to add and update detection content to uncover more attacks so you get the most out of your Microsoft Sentinel investment.

Partnering for Your Success

Enhance the effectiveness of your MDR while simplifying breach prevention.

Onboard quickly:

We use a proven process that shortens the time it takes to take your operations live. The average time from onboarding to production is 14.65 days and the total onboarding process normally takes 4-6 weeks.

Personalize based on your unique requirements:

To improve threat detection and enrich the content needed for investigations, we’ll help you prioritize your Sentinel data sources and create playbooks to reduce false positives.

Investigate and resolve alerts:

You’ll get 24x7x365 security monitoring, investigation and response from our U.S.-based SOC with complete transparency and guaranteed one-hour SLAs for Time to Detection and Median Time to Resolution on every alert.

You can expect an approximately 90% reduction in false positives on the first day of production monitoring. We also boost your team’s efficiency by escalating only 1-2 alerts a day, and we never send you the same alert twice.

Mature your Sentinel investment:

Our relationship doesn’t stop after onboarding is complete. Your named Customer Success Manager will check in with you regularly to make sure that our services are still meeting your needs— even as your requirements change.

As we work together, we’ll continue to help you achieve full operating potential for threat detection. As a result, your team will have more time to focus on strategic initiatives, and you’ll get the most out of your Sentinel security investment.

Why Critical Start MDR?

Microsoft experts at your service

Our Microsoft-certified security staff has deep experience with Microsoft tools and uses Microsoft Security Best Practices. They focus on end-to-end monitoring, which increases your security operations team’s productivity and efficiency.

Our security analysts have MS-500: Microsoft 365 Security Administration, SC200 and AZ-500: Microsoft Azure Security Technologies certifications
We use Microsoft Security Best Practices to deploy Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft 365 Defender tools to optimize Microsoft content for both Scheduled Query Rules and Indicators of Compromise (IOCs)
Our highly skilled analysts provide 24x7x365 end-to-end monitoring, investigation and response

Resolution of all alerts

We take a different approach than most MDR providers by resolving every alert and only forwarding those that truly warrant additional investigation. As a result, your team is more productive and can focus on strategic initiatives.

Trust-oriented approach leverages the power of ZTAP and the Trusted Behavior Registry^® (TBR) to address all alerts
Resolution of more than 99% of alerts
Escalation of less than 0.01% of alerts – you’ll only get the alerts that require your security team’s attention

Detection engineering expertise

We’re experts at threat detection. Our dedicated Threat Detection Engineering (TDE) team has 100+ years of collective experience curating content to ensure detections are working across multiple threat vectors and industries.

Get expert guidance about how to deploy Sentinel in your environment and optimize your log data sources for effective threat detection with the Microsoft Defender security suite or other third-party security tools in your environment
Leveraging the CRITICALSTART^® Threat Navigator, we manage, maintain and curate Sentinel out-of-box detections and Indicators of Compromise (IOCs)
Detection content is mapped to the industry-approved MITRE ATT&CK^® Framework

Instant event notifications with MOBILESOC^®

Take threat detection and response on the go with MobileSOC, an iOS and Android application. An industry-leading first, MobileSOC puts the power of ZTAP in your hands so you can contain breaches right from your phone. It features 100% transparency, with full alert detail and a timeline of all actions taken.

Need MDR for other Microsoft Security tools?

We also provide unified managed detection and response services for these Microsoft solutions:

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Microsoft 365 Defender

Learn more about our Microsoft integrations

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MDR for Microsoft Sentinel

Our Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Services for Microsoft Sentinel™ simplifies breach prevention and helps you achieve the full operation potential of your Microsoft Sentinel investment.

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