Security Tool Effectiveness

Materialize the power of your security tools

Optimize Security Tools

Understand and measure gaps in threat coverage.

Gain confidence in your security program by measuring controls’ effectiveness and coverage.

Disparate security tools add complexities to your security program

Disconnected security tools diminish their effectiveness and may result in missed alerts, increased risk exposure, and costly business downtime. A managed detection and response (MDR) service partners with you to alleviate these problems, while measuring control’s effectiveness and coverage.

Optimization is possible

In times of economic uncertainty, maximizing the investment in security is important. Optimization is possible through performance visibility and enhanced threat detection, which is achievable through MDR services. An MDR service will reduce complexity, tools, and risk exposure, while optimizing costs and teams performance.

How Critical Start Helps You

Maximize utilization of your security tools and reduce spend

By integrating with multiple vendors’ technologies, we consolidate visibility across disparate security tools to help you monitor and improve their detection coverage. The result is improved operational efficiency and high-fidelity threat detection content that reduces risk.

Find threat coverage gaps to improve detection effectiveness

82% of security leaders have been surprised by a security event, incident, or breach which evaded a control they thought was in place.2

Preventing breaches starts with effectively detecting attacks across controls. Alerts and threat detection coverage are mapped against the MITRE ATT&CK® Framework to enforce, manage and maintain effective detection content. You can also use this these metrics to identify gaps in your security tool set and prioritize security spend.

Leverage operational metrics to advance security maturity

Our MDR service optimizes your security controls and provide visibility and performance metrics into how they are covering against the latest threats. We also add incremental value with curated threat intelligence from our Cyber Research Unit (CRU).

Continuously improve your defenses

Your threat landscape is constantly evolving. Our Critical Start Threat Detection Engineering (TDE) team continuously adds new detections to your security tools based on the latest threat intelligence curated by our Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) team, Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT) investigations and other 3rd party sources. This means the overall quality of the alerting by your security tools significantly improves.

Your customer success manager is a trusted security advisor who will also provide recommendations to improve detection coverage over time.

Manage costs and reduce threat coverage gaps

88% of organizations have challenges with their current SIEM platform3

Maximize the value of your SIEM investment and stop struggling with the deployment, maintenance and staffing for your SIEM tool. Critical Start Managed SIEM Services takes responsibility for the back-end components of your SIEM tool and relieves you from the burden of maintaining your application, including managing version updates and application performance.


  • Solutions Brief

    Optimize Your Security Tools’ Detection & Operational Effectiveness

    Are you concerned about gaps in your threats coverage and managing multiple security tools? Learn how our MDR service can increase your visibility across controls and simplify your breach prevention.

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  • Solution Brief

    Maximize the Value of Your SIEM Investment

    The strength of your security posture depends on a well-managed SIEM solution. Beginning with administering and operationalizing your SIEM, Critical Start delivers comprehensive security solutions tailored to your organization’s needs.

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  • eBook

    Materialize the Power of Microsoft Security

    Within this guide, you’ll find step by step guidance to help you mature your Microsoft Security tools and approach breach prevention with simplified threat detection and response.

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