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Sentinel & SOC

Microsoft Sentinel and Security Operations Centre

Build, operate, and continuously improve your security operations centre on Microsoft Sentinel — from workspace architecture through detection engineering to full SOC operating model maturity.

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What We Cover

Comprehensive coverage across the entire sentinel & soc surface

Workspace Architecture & Data Connectors

  • Multi-workspace and multi-tenant Sentinel architecture design
  • Data connector deployment (Microsoft, third-party, CEF, Syslog, API)
  • Log Analytics workspace sizing, retention, and cost optimisation
  • Data Collection Rules (DCR) and transformation pipelines
  • Ingestion cost management with Basic Logs and archive tiers

Analytics Rules & Detection Engineering

  • Scheduled, NRT, and Microsoft security alert rules
  • Custom KQL detection rules mapped to MITRE ATT&CK
  • Detection-as-code with CI/CD pipeline deployment
  • Alert tuning and false positive reduction strategies
  • Threat intelligence indicator matching rules

SOAR & Automation Playbooks

  • Logic App playbooks for automated enrichment and response
  • Auto-close, auto-assign, and auto-escalation automation rules
  • Integration with ServiceNow, Jira, PagerDuty, and Teams
  • Entity enrichment from VirusTotal, AbuseIPDB, Shodan
  • Orchestrated response workflows for common incident types

Threat Hunting & KQL

  • Proactive hunting queries aligned to organisational threat profile
  • Hunting bookmarks and incident promotion workflows
  • Livestream queries for real-time threat monitoring
  • Notebook-based hunting with Jupyter and MSTICPy
  • Hunting hypothesis development and campaign tracking

Workbooks & Reporting

  • Executive security dashboards with incident trends and KPIs
  • Operational workbooks for analyst shift handover
  • Data source health and ingestion monitoring workbooks
  • Compliance and audit evidence workbooks
  • Custom visualisations for threat landscape reporting

SOC Operating Model

  • Tiered analyst model (L1/L2/L3) with escalation paths
  • Incident classification, triage, and response procedures
  • Shift patterns, handover processes, and on-call rotas
  • SOC maturity assessment and improvement roadmap
  • Analyst training programme and skill development paths
Our Approach

How CyberZonic delivers sentinel & soc engagements

1

SOC Maturity Assessment

Evaluate current SIEM/SOC capability, detection coverage, analyst workflows, and automation maturity against industry benchmarks.

2

Architecture & Deployment

Design and deploy Sentinel workspace architecture, onboard priority data sources, and implement foundational analytics rules.

3

Detection & Automation Build

Engineer custom detections, build SOAR playbooks, and create hunting queries aligned to your priority threat scenarios.

4

Operate & Evolve

Establish the SOC operating model with runbooks, dashboards, training, and a continuous detection improvement cadence.

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Scope

3-week Sentinel setup with 5 data connectors, 10 analytics rules, 3 automation playbooks, and executive dashboard

Timeline

3 weeks

Outcome

Production-ready Sentinel workspace with detection baseline, automation workflows, cost model, and 90-day improvement plan

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Who This Is For

Built to serve every stakeholder in the conversation

C-Suite & Board

SOC investment justification, incident trend visibility, mean time to respond metrics, and regulatory compliance reporting.

IT Directors

SIEM architecture decisions, data source prioritisation, cost optimisation, and migration from legacy SIEM platforms.

Security Analysts

KQL hunting queries, detection engineering, playbook development, investigation workflows, and shift handover processes.

Compliance Officers

Audit evidence from Sentinel, log retention compliance, incident response documentation, and regulatory alignment dashboards.

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Ready to strengthen your sentinel & soc posture?

Whether you need a full programme, a targeted POC, or an architecture review, CyberZonic can shape the right engagement for your environment.

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