Security Automation & Orchestration Assessment
Comprehensive evaluation of your organization's security automation capabilities and integration with security workflows. Our assessment analyzes your current security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) implementation, identifies opportunities for enhanced efficiency, and provides a roadmap to accelerate threat response through optimized automation.
In scope
- Security automation platform assessment
- Workflow integration analysis
- Playbook effectiveness evaluation
- Alert triage automation review
- Orchestration capability assessment
- Response time metrics analysis
- Integration ecosystem evaluation
- Automation governance review
- Security tool integration assessment
- Automation ROI analysis
- Skills gap identification
- Use case prioritization
You receive
- Security automation maturity report
- Workflow optimization recommendations
- Playbook enhancement strategy
- Integration architecture recommendations
- Automation roadmap and timeline
- Response time improvement projections
- ROI analysis for proposed automations
- Use case prioritization framework
- Skills development recommendations
- Tool integration guidance
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Essential Automation Assessment
$36K
Assessment of 1 automation platform: up to 10 existing playbooks and up to 10 tool integrations reviewed, alert triage and response time metrics analysis, maturity report and prioritized use case list. 160 consulting hours. No playbooks are written.
- hours
- 160
- Automation maturity report for 1 platform
- Review of up to 10 playbooks and 10 integrations
- Alert triage and response time metrics analysis
- Use case prioritization framework
- Skills gap findings
- — New playbook design or development
- — Integration architecture design
- — ROI model for proposed automations
- — Implementation support
Advanced Automation & Orchestration Program
$65K
Comprehensive assessment with detailed automation roadmap, playbook development, and integration architecture
- — Building and deploying playbooks in the platform
- — Post-deployment ROI measurement
- — Platform licensing or procurement
Enterprise Security Automation Transformation
$95K
Complete automation transformation program with custom playbook development, implementation support, and ROI validation
- — Platform licensing costs
- — 24x7 operation of the automation platform
- — Development beyond the included hours
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What's inside this engagement
Phase by phase.
How a incident response readiness engagement runs, what happens in each phase and what you see. Exact scope, tier and timeline are fixed in your proposal and SOW.
01Current-state review
Plans, playbooks, contacts, logging and insurance requirements reviewed.
You see · Your IR plan and insurance policy.
02Scenario design
Scenarios chosen for your threat profile: ransomware, BEC, insider, cloud compromise.
You see · Participant list and scenario sign-off.
03Exercise / readiness work
Tabletop facilitation or readiness build-out, depending on the service.
You see · Your team's time in the room.
04After-action report
Gaps found, decisions that stalled, and an improvement plan with owners.
You see · A report your board and insurer can read.
Commercials
From first call to final report.
- 01
Scoping call
A practitioner, not a salesperson, walks through targets, constraints and what a good outcome looks like for you.
- 02
Proposal & rules of engagement
A fixed-scope proposal with tier, price and deliverables. Rules of engagement, contacts and out-of-bounds systems are agreed in writing.
- 03
Sign, then start
MSA and SOW are signed electronically and the deposit is paid. Only then does testing begin.
- 04
Execution
Testing runs to the agreed plan. Critical findings are escalated as they are found; you don't wait for the report.
- 05
Report & debrief
An executive summary plus technical findings with evidence, reproduction steps and fixes, walked through with your team.
- 06
Retest
Where the tier includes it, we verify your fixes and reissue the report, so auditors and customers see the issues closed.
Timelines are set per engagement in the SOW.
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