Microsoft Defender, deployed and tuned by certified engineers.
- 80+Defender tenants
- 5minP1 Incident SLA
- 24/7SOC monitoring
- Endpoint+ID+CloudFull suite
A real Defender tenant after baseline tuning.
- Endpoint EDR100%
- Identity (Entra + AD)100%
- Email & collab100%
- Cloud apps (CASB)92%
- All systems operational2 min ago
- Phishing campaign blocked, 14 mailboxes12 min ago
- Vulnerability scan completed1 hr ago
- Suspicious sign-in flagged for review4 hr ago
Indicative dashboard. Real client tenants vary by licence and threat profile, the engagement model below applies to all of them.
Eight layers, one threat-protection platform.
Defender for Endpoint
EDR with behavioural analytics, automated investigation, attack-surface reduction. Tuned for your endpoint estate, with custom indicators and policies.
Defender for Identity
On-prem AD and Entra ID threat detection. Lateral-movement detection, golden-ticket alerts, privilege-escalation visibility, integrated with the SIEM.
Defender for Office 365
Email anti-phishing, attachment sandboxing, link rewriting, impersonation protection. Tuned to your email patterns; false-positives reduced through baselining.
Defender for Cloud Apps
CASB across SaaS apps. Shadow-IT discovery, session controls, anomaly detection, conditional access integration with Entra ID.
Defender Vulnerability Management
Continuous vulnerability scanning across endpoints, prioritised by CVSS plus exploit context, integrated with patch management for closed-loop remediation.
Microsoft 365 Defender portal
Unified incident view across the suite. Threat-hunting queries, automated investigation playbooks, integrated with our SOC for 24/7 coverage.
Defender for Family / Individuals
Microsoft's consumer-grade Defender for personal devices and family accounts. Identity-theft monitoring, credit alerts, and cross-device protection for staff who BYOD.
Defender for Threat Intelligence
Microsoft Threat Intelligence feed and IOCs surfaced into your SOC. Adversary tracking, TTP mapping, and curated indicators integrated with Sentinel for proactive hunting.
How we deploy Defender, week by week.
- 01Phase 1· 1-2 weeks
Assessment & Planning
Posture assessment, infrastructure inventory, compliance review, threat-model workshop. Output: written gap report, deployment plan, and licence map.
- Security posture assessment report
- Infrastructure and identity inventory
- Compliance requirements review
- Deployment roadmap with sign-off gate
- 02Phase 2· 2-3 weeks
Configuration & Setup
Defender suite rollout: Endpoint, Identity, Office 365, Cloud Apps. Policies configured to baseline, custom indicators deployed, integrations stood up.
- Defender suite deployed across estate
- Baseline policies and conditional access
- SIEM integration (Sentinel / Splunk / QRadar)
- Custom detection rules and hunt queries
- 03Phase 3· 1-2 weeks
Testing & Optimisation
Simulated attacks, penetration testing, false-positive triage. Every alert is tuned. We do not hand over a noisy SOC.
- Simulated phishing and ransomware exercises
- Performance and signal-to-noise tuning
- False-positive suppression rules
- Alert volume baseline and SLO
- 04Phase 4· 1 week
Training & Handover
Your team learns the portal, the playbooks, and the escalation paths. Documentation handed over. Managed-SOC contract starts the same day if applicable.
- Admin and IR team training sessions
- Runbook and playbook documentation
- Incident response plan with escalation matrix
- Ongoing managed-SOC handover
Four reasons clients pick us for the deployment.
80+ Defender tenants
Pattern recognition matters. We have tuned Defender across SMEs, regulated firms, and multi-tenant deployments. Common false-positives, common configuration traps.
Tuned, not just enabled
We baseline your environment, tune detections, suppress false positives, and document what we changed. Out-of-the-box Defender is a starting point, not a destination.
US-based SOC
24/7 SOC operations from USA. P1 incidents get a senior engineer on the case in 5 minutes. Same team that deployed Defender operates it.
Audit-ready evidence
ISO 27001, NIST CSF, SOX reviews answered with Defender telemetry, configuration history, and incident response logs. Compliance-ready by default.
Defender deployments by sector.
Financial services
SEC- and NYDFS-regulated firms using Defender to satisfy regulator-required threat protection. Audit-ready logs, regulator-coordinated incident response.
Healthcare
Clinics, hospitals, and medical groups using Defender for PHI protection, ransomware containment, and HIPAA-compliant incident reporting.
Professional services
Law firms, accountancies, consultancies. Confidentiality-aware email protection, document-level DLP, ethical-wall enforcement via Defender for Cloud Apps.
Tech and SaaS
SaaS companies and software vendors using Defender as part of SOC 2 readiness. Endpoint EDR, identity threat protection, vulnerability management.
Retail and e-commerce
Retail groups using Defender to protect POS endpoints, e-commerce admin accounts, and PCI-relevant systems against ransomware and account takeover.
Education
Schools and universities using Defender to protect student devices, faculty accounts, and exam systems against phishing and ransomware.
Cloud-side controls beyond endpoint.
Cloud Security Posture Management
Defender CSPM gives full visibility into your Azure, AWS, and GCP posture. Contextual insights, prioritised by exploit context, with built-in remediation workflows.
- Multi-cloud posture, Azure / AWS / GCP
- Critical-risk prioritisation with exploit context
- Built-in remediation workflows
- Compliance mapping (ISO, NIST CSF, PCI)
Defender for DevOps
Pipeline security across GitHub, Azure DevOps, GitLab. Code scanning, secret detection, IaC review, container image scanning. Shift-left security without blocking developers.
- Code, secrets, and IaC scanning in pipelines
- Container image vulnerability scanning
- GitHub / Azure DevOps / GitLab integration
- Per-repo posture scoring
External Attack Surface Management
Continuous discovery of internet-facing assets you forgot you had. Subdomains, leaked credentials, exposed APIs. Findings prioritised by exploitability.
- Continuous external asset discovery
- Exposure scoring and remediation guidance
- Domain, IP, and certificate monitoring
- Threat-actor TTP mapping
What Defender adds over Exchange Online Protection.
| Feature | Native M365 Exchange Online Protection | Defender suite EDR + identity + cloud |
|---|---|---|
Email anti-phishing | Basic | Behavioural and impersonation protection |
Endpoint EDR | ||
Identity threat detection | AD + Entra ID telemetry | |
Vulnerability management | ||
Cloud-app DLP and CASB | ||
Automated investigation | ||
Audit-ready incident logs | Limited | Full evidence chain |
Defender across every endpoint surface.
Microsoft 365 Defender
Unified XDR across Microsoft 365 endpoints, identity, email, and apps. Cross-signal correlation surfaces multi-stage attacks a single product would miss.
- Cross-signal incident correlation
- Automated investigation and response
- Threat-hunting with KQL
- Unified portal for SOC teams
Defender for Endpoint
Industry-leading EDR with behavioural analytics, attack-surface reduction, and proactive threat hunting. Tuned per-environment, not out-of-the-box defaults.
- EDR with behavioural detection
- Attack-surface reduction rules
- Custom indicators and policies
- Live-response shell for incident handlers
Defender for IoT
Operational technology and IoT-device monitoring. Real-time visibility, asset discovery, and OT-specific threat detection for manufacturing, utilities, and healthcare.
- Passive OT asset discovery
- Network anomaly detection
- CVE matching for OT devices
- Integration with M365 Defender
Defender Vulnerability Management
Continuous vulnerability assessment across endpoints and servers, prioritised by CVSS plus exploit-in-the-wild context, integrated with patch workflow.
- Continuous CVE discovery
- Exploit-context prioritisation
- Integration with Intune / SCCM
- Remediation tracking and SLA
The business case in eight cards.
Seamless deployment
Cloud-delivered policies push from a single console. No agent rebuild on every endpoint, no on-site rollout truck. Most deployments complete inside 2-6 weeks.
Centralised management
M365 Defender portal unifies endpoint, identity, email, and cloud-app security into one console. One incident view, one threat-hunting surface, one set of policies.
Real-time protection
Behavioural detection, attack-surface reduction, and automatic remediation block threats at execution time, not on next-day signature update.
Behaviour-based detection
EDR analytics surface zero-day and fileless attacks signature-based AV cannot see. Tuned per environment so legitimate admin tools do not generate noise.
Threat intelligence integration
Microsoft Threat Intelligence feed, third-party IOCs, and your custom indicators all consumed into the same detection surface. Adversary tracking baked in.
Cloud-powered protection
Detection logic runs in the cloud at Microsoft scale. Endpoints stay light, telemetry feeds back to the SOC for correlation across the estate.
Compatibility and scalability
Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android all in scope. Single-tenant or multi-tenant. From 50-endpoint SMEs to 5,000-endpoint enterprises, same platform.
Compliance and reporting
ISO 27001, NIST CSF, SOX, PCI evidence packaged from Defender telemetry. Audit-ready by default; control-mapping documentation produced for every engagement.
Defender done right is an operating posture, not a product purchase.
Most organisations buy Defender, deploy it with default policies, and never look at it again. The result is a noisy SOC, alert fatigue, and a false sense of security. The point of a managed Defender deployment is to make Defender disappear into the background while still catching real threats.
- Reduce alert volume by 80%+ through baseline tuning
- Pair Endpoint + Identity + Email for full XDR coverage
- Operationalise threat-hunting queries, not just alerts
- Keep audit-ready evidence ISO / NIST CSF / SOX reviewers accept
- Hand off operations to a US-based 24/7 SOC, not a ticket queue
- Re-tune quarterly as the threat landscape shifts
From discovery to managed SOC operations.
- 1
Discovery
1-2 weeks
Tenant audit, current-state assessment, licence review, threat-model workshop. Output: gap report and deployment plan.
- 2
Deployment
2-6 weeks
Endpoint rollout, policy configuration, baseline tuning, false-positive suppression. Custom detections and queries deployed.
- 3
Validation
1 week
Penetration test against the deployment, simulated phishing, simulated ransomware. Findings closed before SOC handover.
- 4
Managed SOC
Continuous
24/7 monitoring, incident response, monthly threat reports, quarterly tuning reviews. Same team that deployed runs the SOC.
“We deployed Defender out of the box and got 4,000 alerts a week, mostly noise. GR IT spent two weeks tuning detections and suppressing false positives, and our alert volume dropped to 30 a week with the same coverage. The team that finally caught a real phishing campaign was the same team that did the tuning. Match.”
See Defender across five core security workloads.
Endpoint EDR with behavioural detection
Defender for Endpoint sits on every workstation and server, blocking malware before execution and capturing forensic telemetry for investigations. Tuned with your golden-image baseline so legitimate admin tools do not generate noise.
- Behavioural EDR with attack-surface reduction
- Custom indicators and live-response shell
- Managed via Intune or SCCM, single agent
- P1 incidents triaged within 5 minutes by SOC
Microsoft Defender, frequently asked.
Resources for security leads.
Microsoft Entra
Identity-first security: SSO, MFA, conditional access, privileged-access management. Often deployed alongside Defender for full identity coverage.
Learn moreMicrosoft Sentinel
SIEM and SOAR built on Azure. Pairs with Defender XDR for unified detection, automated response, custom KQL detections at scale.
Learn moreCybersecurity audit
Independent security audit before or after Defender deployment. Penetration test, framework gap analysis, written remediation programme.
Learn moreTalk to a security specialist.
Three-minute form. Our security team gets back the same business day to schedule a discovery call. We will tell you which Defender products fit your licence and risk before you commit to a deployment.
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