Managed Detection and Alert Services: Monitor, Locate and Alert on Cyber Security Threats
Protect your organisation from cyber threats around the clock with managed detection and alert services and Six Degrees’ government-accredited Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC).
Speak to an ExpertWhat is Managed Detection and Alert?
Strengthen your cyber security posture and stay alert around the clock.
Managed detection and alert service provides monitoring and alert systems for your network around the clock. Cyber incidents can – and do – occur at all times, not just during business hours. If a suspicious event occurs somewhere on your infrastructure, will you be able to detect it – especially in amongst the noise of the myriad events that occur on your infrastructure every day?
With Six Degrees’ Managed Detection and Alert (MDA) service, you can secure your platforms through our experienced SOC team that will monitor and manage your infrastructure 24×7.
Our experienced SOC Analysts will engage in proactive monitoring to identify potential cyber security breaches and incidents, and alert you and provide guidance on how to isolate and contain threats. Vigilant detection strengthens the detect stage of your cyber security posture, providing you with full awareness of potential threats before they materialise and guiding you to respond appropriately to keep your business safe.
MDA differs from Managed Detection and Response by not including a response function within the service.
Your Business Challenges
Our Managed Detection and Alert service is aligned to the challenges your organisation faces
Detecting events 24x7
It’s hard enough detecting events across your environment during business hours – let alone round-the-clock. But hackers like to attack when you’re least prepared, and that means your organisation needs to be able to detect events 24x7.
Sifting through the alerting noise
Your environment generates thousands of alerts every day. How do you sift through the alerting noise to disregard what’s mundane and focus on what’s malicious?
Alerting in a timely manner
If a suspicious event occurs on your environment, time is of the essence to review and address it. There is no use in alerting on a suspicious event hours after it occurred – the damage may have already been done.
Accessing the latest security tooling
The latest security tooling can be difficult to access and use – especially if you lack seriously deep pockets and the skilled professionals to make the most the tools available.
Introducing Managed Detection and Alert Services from Six Degrees
Protect your organisation with Six Degrees’ government-accredited Security Operations Centre (SOC).
The Managed Detection and Alert service leverages a Security Information Event Management (SIEM) platform that receives event log data from devices and services within your technical infrastructure including on-premises, SaaS, PaaS, public and private cloud, and hybrid-based environments. By compiling data from across your organisation, potential threats can be viewed and analysed immediately – which ensures your organisation’s entire infrastructure is fully monitored and protected.
The service is provided by knowledgeable and professional human SOC analysts who are continuously trained and certified to discover and identify and contain increasingly advanced and sophisticated cyber threats.
Features of Six Degree's Managed Detection and Alert Solution
The Managed Detection and Alert service provides round-the-clock eyes on your environment.
Threat Mitigation
Proactive and effective response guidance across cloud environments, on-premise servers and hybrid networks to mitigate potential threats and breaches.
24x7 Protection
Protected 24x7x365 by experienced and professional SOC Analysts through the use of advanced threat monitoring and anomaly detection.
Strategic Guidance
Access guidance on strategic decisions through monthly reports that track incidents, all aligned with your business processes and threat landscape.
Regulatory Compliance
Assistance with cyber security compliance and regulations to enable greater protection and build trust with your users.
Benefits of our Managed Detection and Alert Service
A SOC service that is designed and configured to your environment.
Proactive triage and alert analysis to inform you of all potential threats.
The SOC Analysts will monitor your environment 24x7, review and triage all incidents, and provide mitigation guidance, issuing a prioritised notification to you via the Incident Management System (IMS). If incidents are connected, they will be linked together for clarity and focused effort.
Threat analytics and investigation enables quick response to threats.
The SOC Analysts will conduct further investigations across priority incidents to identify possible causes, indirect associations to other indicators, and scale of potential breach. The SOC will provide you with further mitigation guidance relevant to the incident, allowing quick actions to be taken and for threats and risks to be remediated promptly.
Assurance with meeting important compliance regulations.
The Managed Detection and Alert service also helps you align to your chosen compliance frameworks. The service is provided as an HMG PSN accredited service, and can be delivered to assist with your own HMG, ISO, PCI DSS or other information security standards.
Develop your cyber security maturity with monthly reports.
We will provide you with a monthly report on key findings and issues detected by our SOC. The reports will assist in tracking security performance, identifying common issues, and allowing strategic decisions to be made for developing your security maturity.
Provide a full understanding of the importance and impact of incidents.
As part of the deployment, your solution will be tuned to a baseline – establishing rules and policies to suppress false positives and filter out irrelevant events and data emanating from your monitored assets.
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MDA and the Cyber Security Lifecycle
Time is critical when it comes to keeping your business safe from cyber threats. The sooner you detect a potential threat, and the more you know about it, the more effectively you can respond, mitigating and minimising the damage.
With managed detection and alert from Six Degrees, you gain vigilance across your entire infrastructure with rapid alerts and response guidance when threats do materialise, enabling better detection and improving your whole security posture.
Identify: Six Degrees offers Cyber Security Assessments to evaluate your organisation’s security posture against industry benchmarks. These assessments help you understand your risk landscape and identify potential vulnerabilities. Learn more about Penetration Testing and Cyber Security Assessments.
Protect: Implementing proactive measures is crucial. Six Degrees provides consultancy services to help design and implement security controls, ensuring your environment is safeguarded against potential threats. Learn more about Cyber Security Frameworks, Penetration Testing as a Service, Phishing and Scenario Testing, Information Security Manager and Virtual Chief Information Officer (vCISO).
Detect: Continuous monitoring is essential for early threat detection. Six Degrees’ Managed Detection and Alert (MDA) service offers 24×7 monitoring to identify and alert you to any suspicious activities. Learn more about Red Teaming and Managed Detection and Alert (MDA).
Respond: When a threat is detected, Six Degrees’ Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service springs into action, containing, mitigating, and minimising damage in real time to keep your organisation secure and operational. Learn more about Managed Extended Detection and Response and Threat Intelligence.
Recover: Post-incident, restoring normal operations and learning from the event is vital. Six Degrees’ consultancy services assist in recovery efforts, helping to strengthen defences and prevent future incidents. Learn more about Incident Response.
How does an MDA service support the other stages of cybersecurity?
Managed Detection and Alert concentrates on the Detect stage of the cyber security lifestyle but helps strengthen your whole posture. Insights from threat intelligence and investigations can help strengthen strategies used in the identify and protect stages, while threat mitigation also improves your overall threat response capability.
By combining different solutions, you can create a comprehensive cyber security posture: identify vulnerabilities (with penetration testing), protect assets (with cyber security certifications), detect threats (with MDA), Respond (with MDR), and recover operations.
Our Managed Security Services
Six Degrees’ Managed Security Services scale from incident analysis to containment and eradication, across endpoints and cloud.
Managed Detection and Alert
Protect your organisation with Six Degrees’ government-accredited Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC).
Managed Detection and Response
Managed Detection and Response with integrated world leading threat intelligence that helps protect your endpoints and keep your organisation safe 24x7.
Managed Extended Detection and Response
Actively protect and defend your organisation against cyber-attacks and vulnerability exploits, 24x7.
Why Six Degrees?
Six Degrees is best placed to deliver Managed Detection and Alert services to your organisation. See why CNS at Six Degrees can help you and your business.
Our heritage
20 plus years of cyber security heritage and experience.
Best talent
SC cleared, UK-based Analysts.
Industry credentials
CHECK, CREST and Cyber Scheme certified.
Tailored services
Tailored cyber security services from CNS at Six Degrees that suit your organisational requirements.
“We’re committed to enabling our customers to enhance their cyber security postures and protect themselves in today’s hostile digital landscape.”
Marcus Jeffes Product Manager
We have serious credentials when it comes to delivering cyber security services.
Frequently Asked Questions - Managed Detection and Alert
While traditional cyber security services will utilise passive threat monitoring, we opt for active and vigilant surveillance of your infrastructure for active monitoring – even employing threat hunting to find potential threats the moment they appear. Once a threat has been discovered, we provide both a rapid alert and guidance on responding to the threat. By acting proactively, we help businesses discover and respond to threats quicker and smarter.
Managed Detection and Response differs from MDA by combining in a response functionality into the managed service. In MDR, the third-party service provider also handles responding to cyber threats as well as detection and alerting the business to their appearance. In short, this solution provides further support when dealing with surfaced cyber-attacks.
When combined with other cyber security services and tools, MDA can have a positive benefit across the entirety of an organisation’s security posture. Detection and alert bolsters the detection phase of the security lifestyle and, when paired with effective response capabilities, can enable organisations to better prevent or mitigate damage from active cyber threats.
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At Six Degrees we’ve been delivering cyber security services to organisations throughout the UK public and private sectors for over 20 years. We’re committed to enabling our customers to enhance their cyber security postures and protect themselves in today’s hostile digital landscape – that’s why we’re constantly evolving our cyber security strategy and advisory, consultancy, and managed services to ensure they deliver tangible return on
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