Access the Right Expertise and Strategy for Integrated Threat Protection
Consolidated visibility, across SIEM and XDR, of your Microsoft environment – all in one portal.
Protection for advanced use cases including identity, email and cloud, with an all-in-one security approach that’s applied at every security layer.
Reduce risk exposure with human-led monitoring, rapid investigation, continuous threat hunting and response.
Strengthen security maturity with an ongoing, strong partnership that helps you get the most out of your Microsoft Security investment.
How Critical Start Helps You Realize Value from Microsoft 365 Defender
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Given the volume and complexities of identities, data, applications, devices, and infrastructure, it’s essential to learn how secure your organization is now and how to mitigate and protect against threats moving forward.
- Develop a strategic plan customized for your organization’s priorities
- Implementation and onboarding focused on applying Microsoft security best practices and high-fidelity threat detection
- Continuous fine-tuning as new risks are identified
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When minutes count, our Microsoft security experts can become and extension of your team and provide remediation and response actions to the threat as soon as it’s detected.
You’ll get:
- 24x7x365 monitoring, investigation and resolution of all alerts and incidents
- Management of out-of-the-box Indicators of Compromise (IOCs)
- Freedom from intelligence overload
- Visibility across your Microsoft security controls in one portal
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With Critical Start, you have access to end-to-end solutions and services that move with you on your Defender journey, helping anticipate risk and strengthening security posture.
- Microsoft Security tools and ZTAP configured to eliminate false positives (>99% of alerts)
- Solutions for use cases like email phishing, brute force and stolen credential attacks, and attacks against cloud apps
- Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) mapped to MITRE ATT&CK® Framework
- Coverage of every alert and incident with 1-hour Time to Detection (TTD) and Median Time to Resolution (MTTR) SLAs
Featured resources to learn how to optimize SIEM + XDR
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XDR 101: What is Extended Detection and Response
Extended Detection and Response (XDR) is by far one of the hottest topics and trends in cybersecurity today. Learn what XDR is, why its important, and how it works with MDR services.
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Ransomware Protection Guide
This guide outlines best practices on how to protect and defend against ransomware attacks leveraging the Microsoft Security stack.
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Beyond the Endpoint: Detect and Disrupt User Account Attacks
Learn about capabilities developed by Critical Start to extend Managed Detection and Response services to support Microsoft 365 Defender’s user account attacks and credential misuse detection alerts.
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Three Reasons Companies Fall Victim to Ransomware – and One Big Way the Game is Changing
What are the key reasons companies fall victim to ransomware? In this blog, we explore 3 main reasons and one thing about ransomware that might surprise you.
