Centralised security monitoring and expert analysts watching your environment around the clock.
Building your own Security Operations Centre is expensive and hard to staff. Most businesses can't justify it, but still need the visibility.
WhizzIT gives you managed SIEM and SOC-as-a-Service: centralised log collection, correlation and 24/7 expert monitoring, so threats are spotted and actioned fast.
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A SIEM does something quite specific: it gathers logs from everywhere, puts them into a common format, and looks for patterns across them that no single system could ever see on its own.
Your firewall records a connection from an unfamiliar country. Microsoft 365 records a successful sign-in for a finance account. An endpoint records a script running out of a temporary folder. Individually each one is unremarkable and would never justify waking anybody. In sequence, within nine minutes, they describe an attack in progress.
Correlation is the difference between having logs and being able to use them. Most businesses already produce all the evidence they need and simply have it scattered across six consoles that nobody compares, each retained for a different length of time, several of which quietly overwrite themselves.
What gets collected
These two get sold interchangeably and they are not the same thing. Managed detection and response is focused: it watches endpoints and identities for behaviour that looks like an attack and acts to contain it. SIEM and SOC is wide: it collects from everything, correlates across sources, keeps the history, and gives you the evidence trail. Most businesses start with MDR because it stops incidents. SIEM earns its place when you need to see across the whole estate, or you have compliance and audit obligations to satisfy.
In working hours alerts raise a ticket in our helpdesk and our engineers investigate. Outside those hours monitoring and first response are handled by a specialist partner we work with. We would rather set that out plainly than imply we run our own overnight operations centre, because a team our size cannot honestly staff three shifts and you can check.
When something does happen, the first question is always how long this has been going on.
Intrusions are routinely weeks old before anything visible happens. If your firewall keeps a fortnight of logs and your endpoint tooling a month, the answer to how they got in may simply no longer exist. Centralised retention is what makes that question answerable.
Cyber insurance applications increasingly ask directly whether you have centralised logging and monitoring. The answer affects your premium, and after an incident it affects whether a claim is straightforward. Being able to produce a timeline is worth a great deal at that point.
Saying that only authorised people can reach the finance system is a claim. Showing who accessed it, when, from where, and what changed is evidence. Centralised logs and reporting are what turn one into the other, which is why this tends to arrive on the agenda alongside a contract or a certification.
Independently assessed against the UK government-backed scheme, so our security fundamentals are verified rather than simply claimed. We help clients certify too.
How Cyber Essentials helps you
A direct partnership with Microsoft. We license, deploy and support Microsoft 365 and Azure for you, with escalation straight to Microsoft when it is needed.
Our Microsoft cloud servicesCyber Essentials is a UK government scheme run by the National Cyber Security Centre, delivered by IASME. You can verify what the certification covers at source.
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We centralise logs and events from across your environment.
SIEM and analysts spot the patterns that signal an attack.
Incidents are investigated and actioned quickly, day or night.
We hold partner status with the vendors behind the tools we deploy, so your licensing, support and escalation come direct from the source rather than through a reseller chain.
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