Security Ops · 3-6 weeks
Microsoft Sentinel deployment
Microsoft Sentinel gives you cloud-native SIEM and SOAR, but a default deployment is noisy and expensive. We deploy Sentinel with a workspace design that controls ingestion cost, the connectors that matter for a Microsoft estate, tuned analytics rules, and automation playbooks - plus the runbooks your team needs to actually respond.
What's included
- Log Analytics workspace and Sentinel design with data-retention and cost controls
- Data connectors: Entra ID, Microsoft 365, Defender XDR, Azure activity, key third parties
- Analytics rules tuned to reduce false positives, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK
- Automation (SOAR) playbooks for common containment actions
- Workbooks for the metrics leadership asks about
- Incident response runbooks and an operations handover
How we work
Scope
A fixed statement of work: what we will do, what you receive, and the timeline. Agreed before any work starts.
Execute
We do the work in your tenant with least-privilege access, with updates at defined checkpoints - not radio silence.
Hand off
Documentation, runbooks, and a walkthrough so your team can operate what we built.
Microsoft Sentinel Deployment: common questions
Will Sentinel be expensive to run?
It depends entirely on what you ingest. We design the workspace around cost from the start - the right tables, the right retention, and filtering noisy sources - and give you a projected monthly figure before deployment.
Do you provide a managed SOC after deployment?
We deploy and document Sentinel so your team or an MSSP can operate it. Ongoing tuning and incident support can be scoped as a retainer.
How long until we see alerts?
Core connectors and detections are usually live within the first week or two; the remaining time is tuning and automation.
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A short call to understand your environment, then a fixed-scope proposal. Based in Denver, Colorado; we work with clients across the US remotely.