Detection & Response

If an attacker got in today, would you catch them?

Most teams cannot answer that with evidence. A SOC Assessment can: we measure your security operations honestly, place you on a maturity scale, and hand you a costed path to the next level.

Why assess

You cannot improve what you have never honestly measured. Most security operations grew by accretion, tool by tool, and nobody has stood back to ask how well the whole thing actually works. An assessment answers that, with evidence.

We evaluate your people, process, and technology against established maturity models and the real attacker behaviors you face. The result is a clear picture of where you stand, where the gaps are, and a prioritized, costed roadmap to a stronger position. No theater, just an honest baseline.

A two minute diagnostic

Eight honest statements. How many are true for you?

Tap the ones you can say with a straight face. No data leaves this page.

The maturity scale

Five levels, and where you really sit

We place your security operations on a five-level scale, with evidence for the rating. Most teams are not where they assume.

1

Initial

Ad hoc, reactive, reliant on a few individuals

Reactive
2

Developing

Some tooling and process, inconsistent coverage

Inconsistent
3

Defined

Documented processes and measured detection coverage

Measured
4

Managed

Metrics-driven, tuned, and continuously improving

Tuned
5

Optimized

Proactive, automated where it counts, threat-led

Proactive

Illustrative maturity scale for orientation. Your rating is established from evidence during the assessment.

What we assess

People, process, technology

A SOC is more than its tools. We look across all three dimensions, because a gap in any one undermines the others.

People

Skills, coverage, on-call, and whether the team can sustain the load without burning out.

Process

Playbooks, escalation, response times, and how well the documented process matches reality.

Technology

Tooling, telemetry coverage, detection content, and the blind spots in what you collect.

What you get

A baseline and a path

Maturity rating

An evidence-backed score across people, process, and technology, benchmarked to a recognized model.

Detection coverage

How well your telemetry and detections map to real attacker behavior, with the gaps named.

Prioritized roadmap

A costed, sequenced plan to the next level, with the highest-impact moves first.

Board-ready summary

A plain-language view leadership can fund and follow, with the risk stated clearly.

Part of the loop

Where the assessment sits in VIGILE

Measure to move

Validate the operation, Enhance the maturity

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A SOC Assessment is the Validate and Enhance motions applied to your operation itself. We baseline where you stand, then the roadmap drives the maturity climb that follows.

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FAQ

Top 10 questions, frequently asked

Because most SOCs grew tool by tool and nobody has measured how well the whole thing works against real attacks. An assessment gives you an honest, evidence-backed baseline and a costed path to improve, so investment goes where it changes the outcome rather than where it feels urgent.

We benchmark against recognized SOC maturity models and map detection coverage to attacker behavior using MITRE ATT&CK. The combination gives you both a maturity rating and a concrete view of what your defenses would actually catch.

No. We assess in-house teams, outsourced arrangements, and hybrids. If anything, an assessment is especially useful when responsibility is split, because that is where coverage gaps and unclear ownership tend to hide.

Then you have the clarity to fix it, with a prioritized roadmap. Many clients use the findings to build the case for investment, and some move to our Managed Detection and Response to close the gap quickly. The point of measuring is to improve.

Two to four weeks from kickoff to findings: documentation review, analyst interviews, detection coverage measurement against ATT&CK, and a live look at how alerts actually flow.

A maturity score against the agreed model, detection coverage mapped to ATT&CK, the workflow bottlenecks observed, and a prioritized roadmap with quick wins separated from structural fixes.

No. Interviews are scheduled around shifts, and observation is passive. The team usually finds the process validating: it surfaces the constraints they have been working around.

No. The roadmap stands on its own whether you build, keep, or buy. If the answer is to strengthen your in-house SOC, that is what the report says.

Fixed scope, based on SOC size and telemetry breadth. The deliverable and timeline are agreed before work starts.

A SOC assessment is the Validate motion applied to your detection capability, and its roadmap feeds Guard and Implement.

SOC Assessment datasheetThe maturity scale, the coverage measurement, the process, and the deliverables.
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Find out where you really stand

Book a session with a Principal Engineer. We assess your operation honestly and hand you the path to better.