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Security engineering and observability

Senior security engineers, embedded in your team. Detection engineering, SIEM tuning, SOC implementation, and the automation that turns alert noise into actionable signal.

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The problem

You bought the tools. They're drowning your team in alerts.

Most security tooling generates more noise than signal. Your SIEM fires 10,000 alerts a day; your team triages 100 and ignores the rest. The next breach hides in the ignored 99%.

The fix isn't a new tool. It's the engineering work to make the tools you have actually work — properly tuned detections, automated triage, runbook-driven response, and an observability backbone that lets you see what's happening across your stack.

What we engineer

SIEM implementation & tuning

We deploy or tune your SIEM — Splunk, Sentinel, Elastic, Chronicle, Wazuh, Sumo — to reduce false positives, improve detection coverage, and produce alerts your team will actually action.

Detection engineering

We write the detections that catch what your stock rules miss. Mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, tested against real adversary techniques, version-controlled in your repo.

SOC implementation

Standing up an in-house SOC from scratch — staffing model, tooling stack, runbook library, escalation paths, metrics. Or augmenting an existing SOC to scale.

Security observability & automation

The plumbing that ties everything together — log pipelines, SOAR automation, security data lake architecture, and dashboards your CISO can read at a glance.

The embedded model

Embedded engineering — senior security talent inside your team

Some of our most successful engagements aren't projects — they're embedded engineers. We place a senior security engineer (or a small team) inside your engineering org for 3–12 months. They show up in your standups, your PR reviews, your incident channels. They write code that ships to production.

It's the model that works when you need ongoing execution but a full-time hire would take 6 months to recruit and ramp. We start in 2 weeks.

Engagement models

Three ways to engage

Most common

Embedded engineer

A senior security engineer dedicated to your team, 3–12 month minimum. Full integration with your engineering workflows.

Defined-scope project

SIEM tune-up, SOC build-out, detection engineering sprint. Fixed scope, fixed fee, 4–12 weeks.

Detection-as-a-Service

Ongoing detection engineering as a managed service. We maintain and expand your detection library; you focus on response.

Deliverables

Deliverables and outcomes

Tuned SIEM with false positive rate dropped 60–80%
Detection library mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, version-controlled in your repo
Runbooks for your top 20 incident types
SOAR automations for common L1 triage tasks
Dashboards that surface meaningful security signal
Documentation your team will actually maintain after we leave

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Do you work with our existing tools, or do you push your own?

We work with what you have. We don't take vendor referral fees, and we don't have a tooling product to upsell. Our incentive is your stack working, not your stack growing.

How do you handle access and security for embedded engineers?

Each embedded engineer signs your access agreements, follows your access controls, and uses your provided hardware where required. We treat your environment with the same controls as our own.

Can you take 24/7 SOC operations?

We build and tune SOCs. For 24/7 staffing, we partner with managed SOC providers. We'll help you choose one and integrate with our engineering work.

What if we need to scale up or down quickly?

Embedded engagements have a flexible scaling clause. We can move from one to three engineers in 2 weeks, and we provide 30 days' notice on the way down.

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