Achieve Full Microsoft Sentinel Operating Potential

Accelerate return on your Microsoft Sentinel investment with proven Microsoft experience

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Optimize Sentinel for Threat Detection-Specific Use Cases

• 

  ROI

  Accelerate ROI with Sentinel dashboards, reports and log sources aligned to support your specific security, risk, compliance and audit use cases, and to prove value to your executive team.

• 

  Cost

  Reduce cost by ensuring you are ingesting the right security data to get the most value from your threat-detection use cases.

• 

  Posture

  Improve your detection coverage and security posture with the ability to strategically add new data sources while continuously mapping to the MITRE ATT&CK^® Framework to achieve optimal threat detection coverage.

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  Productivity

  Maximize team productivity with 24x7x365 Microsoft security expertise to handle the heavy lifting around your Sentinel implementation, management, monitoring and threat protection.

Guide for MDR Services for Sentinel

How Critical Start Helps You Realize Value from Microsoft Sentinel

• Simplify

  Simplify your Sentinel implementation and operations

  SIEM is complex. Critical Start experts understand the cloud-native capabilities of SIEM for threat detection and response and have proven experience in deploying, tuning and managing SIEM for threat detection use cases.
  The value of data from log sources is not equal. Our Microsoft experts help you sort out the highest-fidelity telemetry which you can use to take actions and leverage for specific detections or enrichment purposes. In addition, with our industry-exclusive ingest cost analysis that optimizes cost and ingest for specific Microsoft data sources, we ensure you never have to compromise security for value.

  What We’ll Do:

  • Analyze your requirements for a Sentinel deployment, management and monitoring
  • Create a defined deployment and operations roadmap based on your goals
  • Help you sort out the highest-fidelity telemetry which you can use to take action and leverage for specific detections
• 

  Monitor

  Monitor to quickly detect and respond to threats

  We do the heavy lifting for you with 24x7x365 monitoring and investigation. Leveraging our seamless integration with Microsoft Sentinel, our Cyber Operations Risk & Response^™ platform automates the investigation and triage of alerts and incidents across all users, devices, applications and infrastructure.

  The platform removes false positives and escalates true positives to the Critical Start Risk & Security Operations Center (RSOC) for enrichment and investigation.

• 

  Mature

  Advance security maturity with a focus on continuous improvement

  Realizing the value of your investment in Microsoft Sentinel is a journey. We stay with you every step of the way to help verify coverage against the latest techniques, tactics and procedures (TTPs).

  • Curate out-of-the box detections and Indicators of Compromise (IOCs)
  • Map detection content to industry-approved MITRE ATT&CK Framework
  • Leverage Critical Start proprietary detections and IOCs
  • Get a named Customer Success Manager (CSM) who ensures you are receiving the tools and support for continuous security improvement

Featured resources to learn more about how to improve security posture with Sentinel

• 

  Buyer’s Guide for MDR Services for Microsoft Sentinel

  In this guide, you will learn the criteria of how to maximize the performance of Microsoft Sentinel through managed detection and response (MDR) deployment strategies.

  Read Now

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  How to Plan a Migration from SIEM Solutions to Sentinel

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  Explore a migration plan to help you avoid potential pitfalls and ensure a smooth transition from an existing SIEM to Microsoft Sentinel.

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  Managed Detection and Response services for Microsoft Sentinel

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  The combination of Microsoft Sentinel’s cloud-native scalability and Critical Start’s trust-oriented approach to managed detection and response (MDR) simplifies breach prevention and gives you comprehensive insight into your security coverage.

  Learn More

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