SOC Maturity & Incident Response Assessment
Comprehensive evaluation of your organization's Security Operations Center (SOC) capabilities and incident response readiness. Our assessment examines detection coverage, response procedures, team capabilities, and technology effectiveness to identify gaps in your security operations and provide a roadmap for enhanced threat detection and response capabilities.
In scope
- SOC maturity model assessment
- Incident response procedure evaluation
- Detection coverage analysis
- Threat hunting capabilities review
- SOC technology stack assessment
- Analyst workflow evaluation
- Alert triage effectiveness
- Incident response tabletop exercise
- Metrics and KPI evaluation
- Threat intelligence integration
- MITRE ATT&CK coverage analysis
- SOC team skills assessment
- SIEM configuration analysis
- Detection rule coverage
- Alert triage process review
You receive
- SOC maturity assessment report
- Incident response capability analysis
- Detection gap recommendations
- SOC enhancement roadmap
- Tabletop exercise findings
- Technology optimization guidance
- Workflow improvement plan
- Metrics framework development
- Staffing and skills recommendations
- Implementation timeline and prioritization
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Essential SOC & IR Assessment
$40K
One SOC site: maturity model scoring, IR procedure review, MITRE ATT&CK detection coverage analysis, alert triage and KPI evaluation, up to 6 analyst interviews. 180 consulting hours. IR procedures are walked through; no facilitated tabletop.
- Sites
- 1
- hours
- 180
- SOC maturity model assessment
- IR procedure evaluation by walkthrough
- MITRE ATT&CK coverage analysis
- Alert triage and metrics evaluation
- Maturity report with prioritized recommendations
- — Facilitated tabletop exercise
- — Detection engineering recommendations at rule level
- — SOC team skills assessment
- — Implementation support
Comprehensive SOC Enhancement Program
$75K
Up to 2 SOC sites. Adds up to 2 IR tabletop scenarios for up to 20 participants, rule-level detection engineering recommendations, threat intelligence integration review, team skills assessment, and a sequenced roadmap. 330 consulting hours.
- Sites
- 2
- Objectives
- 2
- participants
- 20
- hours
- 330
- Everything in the basic tier
- Up to 2 IR tabletop scenarios
- Rule-level detection engineering recommendations
- Threat hunting and threat intelligence integration review
- SOC team skills assessment
- Roadmap with timeline and prioritization
- — Writing and deploying the detections
- — Hands-on technical incident simulation
- — Implementation support after the roadmap
Enterprise Security Operations Transformation
$120K
Advanced SOC transformation with implementation support, custom detection engineering, and advanced incident simulation exercises
- Objectives
- 4
- participants
- 40
- — 24x7 monitoring or staff augmentation
- — Incident response retainer
- — Tool licensing costs
Members: engagement coupons from the CISO Marketplace coupon book apply to services. There is no blanket discount.
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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