Threat Detection & Sentinel Assessment

Determine whether Microsoft Sentinel is collecting the right security evidence, detecting priority attack paths, and helping analysts respond quickly without uncontrolled data cost or alert noise.
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Which threats could your SOC miss?

This assessment is for CISOs, SOC leaders, security architects, and Microsoft Sentinel owners after a security incident, rapid cloud growth, a Defender XDR rollout, SIEM migration, audit finding, or sustained alert fatigue. It is useful when data cost is rising, detections are difficult to trust, incidents lack context, or leadership cannot measure whether monitoring covers the organization’s highest-risk attack scenarios.
We review the Microsoft Sentinel and connected security capabilities relevant to your environment: workspace and tenant architecture, Microsoft Defender portal integration, data connectors and collection rules, Log Analytics tables and retention, Content Hub solutions, analytics rules, MITRE ATT&CK coverage, automation rules and Logic Apps playbooks, UEBA and entity behavior, incidents, hunting queries, workbooks, ASIM normalization, watchlists, threat intelligence, and integrations with Microsoft Defender XDR, Azure, Microsoft 365, identity, endpoint, network, and approved third-party data sources.
You receive a Sentinel Detection and Operations Assessment Report, data-source and cost inventory, detection-coverage matrix mapped to priority attack scenarios, analytics-rule and automation review, incident workflow assessment, prioritized findings, and a 90-day improvement roadmap. Sample findings may include critical logs not collected, duplicate ingestion, stale or noisy rules, disabled content updates, broken playbooks, missing ownership, weak entity mapping, incidents without escalation targets, or high-cost tables with little detection value.
Our process

Turn security telemetry into reliable detection and response

We trace priority attack scenarios from data source through normalization, detection, enrichment, incident creation, analyst action, containment, and measurement. Each finding identifies the affected threat scenario, evidence gap, operational impact, cost implication, owner, dependency, and recommended action.

Define priority threats and SOC outcomes

We identify critical assets, business services, threat actors and attack paths, regulatory obligations, incident priorities, response targets, and current SOC responsibilities. Inputs include architecture and data-flow diagrams, risk register, recent incidents, security tooling inventory, escalation matrix, and agreed detection use cases.
Threat priorities

Inventory telemetry and ingestion cost

We review Microsoft and third-party data connectors, collection rules, table plans, retention, transformation, parsing, data quality, latency, workspace design, and cost trends. We verify whether each high-value data source supports a defined detection, investigation, compliance, or response requirement.
Data coverage

Test detections, automation, and incidents

We sample analytics rules, entity mapping, incident grouping, alert enrichment, UEBA, watchlists, threat intelligence, automation rules, playbooks, and Defender XDR correlation. Tests check fidelity, noise, ownership, response steps, and whether priority scenarios create actionable incidents.
Detection validation

Prioritize SOC and Sentinel improvements

We rank gaps by threat exposure, detection value, analyst effort, response impact, data cost, licensing, and dependency. The roadmap separates urgent connector and rule repairs from content deployment, automation, normalization, portal integration, cost optimization, and longer-term SOC operating-model work.
Improvement roadmap

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