Accelerate Your MDR Excellence with SOC Prime

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November 28, 2023 · 9 min read
Accelerate Your MDR Excellence with SOC Prime

Managed Detection and Response (MDR) providers operate in a realm where maintaining the integrity of client security is paramount despite the constantly evolving threat landscape and 24/7 attack risk. Always fighting on the frontline, the majority of MDR providers are seeking innovative ways to address ever-growing technical debt, overcome the risks of client SLA breach, and keep steady business growth while minimizing customer churn. Delivering next-gen, high-margin, premium managed detection and response services to new and existing customers plays a pivotal role in this business-scaling strategy, typically backed by reliable technology partners. 

SOC Prime drives a transformational change in cybersecurity, relying on a zero-trust & multi-cloud approach to empower advanced threat detection capabilities, smart data orchestration, dynamic attack surface visibility, and cost-efficient threat hunting. Backed by its curated cybersecurity solutions, Threat Detection Marketplace, Uncoder AI, and Attack Detective, SOC Prime enables organizations to boost their cyber defense capabilities at scale, covering custom business use cases tailored to existing cybersecurity needs.

SOC Prime’s global MDR ecosystem consists of 300+ service providers, including 32 commercial partnerships with leading MDR organizations relying on SOC Prime to overcome the most common hurdles faced by the industry.

Addressing the Challenges Typical of Most MDR-Focused Organizations 

As a service provider regardless of your company size, tech stack in use, or the level of cybersecurity maturity, you probably have experienced one of the following hurdles that limit your business margin:

  • Customer Churn. Out-of-the-box SIEM and EDR content is missing the latest attack methods, which leads to overlooked incidents and a customer SLA breach, and inevitably, to a customer churn. 
  • Technical Debt. It takes time to adapt legacy SIEMs, tools, and detection engineering processes to the evolving threatscape to ensure that clients receive high-quality follow-the-sun security services. 
  • High SIEM Costs. All SIEM technologies bill you based on data ingested or stored rather than on security outcomes, which requires constantly filtering out unused data to reduce costs and improve SIEM performance.
  • Hunt for Hunting Expertise. All SIEMs on the market have a limit on the number of real-time correlation rules that can be deployed to generate alerts, which fuels the need for continuous threat hunting. According to the State of Cybersecurity 2022 Report, 70% of global organizations face a cybersecurity talent shortage. The latter accompanied by a high turnover rate and a technical backlog for such top experts adds to the challenge.

Considering the above-mentioned hurdles, what can be the key to driving high-margin and scalable services to your end-customers? Imagine you have a brilliant security engineer on board always backing your team. Who operates 24/7 and never takes sick leaves. Capable of delivering detection logic for emerging threats in under 24 hours and keeping a steady pace of creating over 1,000 new behavior rules per year, all mapped to MITRE ATT&CK® and thoroughly documented. Sounds like a dream? By joining our MDR partnership network connecting 300+ service providers from across the globe, you can have it all backed by innovative technologies SOC Prime Platform operates to take your security offerings to the next level. 

With SOC Prime, we have rapidly accelerated our clients’ cybersecurity maturity by delivering proactive cyber defense against pressing, prioritized, and emerging attacks.

Eder de Abreu,
Cybersecurity Partner at Deloitte Brazil

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Scaling Your MDR Excellence Backed by SOC Prime’s Cutting-Edge Technologies

According to the latest MSSP Alert, the most prevailing cyber threats targeting service providers in 2023 include phishing (95%), vulnerability exploitation (91%), and ransomware attacks (86%). SOC Prime Platform for collective cyber defense curates 300,000+ detection algorithms against emerging threats of any scale, including SOC content to detect phishing campaigns, CVE exploits, ransomware and APT attacks. By partnering with SOC Prime, MDRs can accelerate and scale their security offerings with the existing engineering team.

With SOC Prime, we can obtain detection algorithms for emerging threats in less than 24 hours, and clients have already seen seen a huge improvement in our services.

Babis Kalevrosoglou,
Managed Security Services Manager at Neurosoft

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Explore how MDR-focused organizations can optimize the key processes that constrain their business profit margins by equipping teams with SOC Prime’s next-gen solutions — Threat Detection Marketplace, Uncoder AI, and Attack Detective:

  • Reduce Customer Churn. With SOC Prime’s Threat Detection Marketplace, get access to always updated, commercially supported, essential, and extended detection rules helping you to be prepared for any common attack before it hits your customers. This transforms the use case management lifecycle by reducing MTTD & MTTR and boosting the engineering team’s productivity.
  • Address the Technical Debt in Threat Detection. Your engineering team deserves the best tools to research and craft detection code, control its quality end-to-end, and collaborate with peers without sharing sensitive customer information. SOC Prime’s Uncoder AI delivers this capability instead of writing detections in a notepad and storing them in Excel, Sharepoint, or file folders.
  • Save on SIEM Costs to Broaden Your Service Portfolio. SOC Prime provides a vendor-agnostic data audit of SIEM and Data Lake solutions that can be run automatically in less than 300 seconds per tenant, which is faster than any other technology on the market. Optimize SIEM costs via the audit outcomes by filtering out unused data. Provide your clients with ATT&CK coverage benchmarks, upsell consulting, foster SIEM migration, or augment the client tech stack with your managed detection and response services.
  • Sell Premium Threat Hunting with the Team You Have. SOC Prime’s Attack Detective helps to turn your existing Level 1 SOC Analysts into Threat Hunters, overcoming all SIEM performance and detection limitations and helping to learn on the job as attacks unfold. Built on zero-trust architecture, Attack Detective securely sends queries to your SIEM, EDR, and Data Lakes to reduce compute costs on data transfer and eliminate privacy and security risks. 

Technical Benefits for MDR-Focused Organizations

Security teams of MDR-focused organizations are continuously overloaded with an avalanche of routine tasks, which fuels the need to rely on cutting-edge technological advantages to accelerate detection and response capabilities.

SOC Prime Platform for collective cyber defense enables security engineers to combat the challenges of talent shortage, threat complexity, alert fatigue, data quality, and manual burden leveraging collective industry expertise, automation capabilities, and augmented intelligence backed by its core products, Threat Detection Marketplace, Uncoder AI, and Attack Detective. 

Threat Detection Marketplace

Threat Detection Marketplace (TDM) empowers cyber defenders with access to the global feed of security news, tailored threat intelligence, and a curated Sigma rule repository continuously enriched with new detection ideas. It aggregates a dataset of the latest TTPs used by adversaries in the wild, as well as proactive methods not yet linked to cyber attacks. 

Security engineers can manually download selected SOC content or automate detection, content deployment, and management from a single UI. The latter involves arranging detections in curated lists and automatically pushing customized algorithms directly into SIEM instances, centrally managing deployed content, and tracking the latest changes to the content in production. Leveraging Threat Detection Marketplace, cybersecurity professionals can reach the latest ready-to-deploy behavioral detection algorithms and explore relevant context on any cyber attack or threat, including zero-days, CTI and ATT&CK references, and Red Team tooling. 

In addition, Threat Detection Marketplace equips teams with custom repositories for their Detection-as-Code projects smartly linked to MITRE ATT&CK with the ability to save and manage any rules and queries supported by the SOC Prime Platform in a separate encrypted storage build to streamline the use case management lifecycle. 

Attack Detective

Attack Detective enables security professionals to validate the entire detection stack in less than 300 seconds backed by an automatic read-only MITRE ATT&CK data audit, identify blind spots in their detection coverage, and timely address them to ensure complete threat visibility based on the organization-specific logs.

Moreover, Attack Detective empowers security engineers to avoid alert fatigue without compromising on threat detection coverage by clearly separating SOC content for alerting from the hunting hypothesis logic. This enables implementing the automated query validation process end-to-end and making sure queries flawlessly perform before deploying them to production. 

Another technical advantage of Attack Detective involves automated threat hunting and breach discovery. Security engineers can automatically and continuously match all available data for threat detection with threat hunting queries and IOCs as they become available, while seamlessly overcoming SIEM performance limitations.

Uncoder AI

Uncoder AI unlocks the power of augmented intelligence and collective industry expertise acting as a as a single Detection Engineering IDE to seamlessly code, validate, and share detection ideas using RootA, Sigma, and MITRE ATT&CK as code assistants. Security engineers can rely on Uncoder AI to generate open-source, vendor-agnostic, and future-proof detections describing tools, host artifacts, and TTPs used in cyber attacks. The solution also enables tuning rules and queries based on global hit rate statistics and external intelligence, false positive recommendations and triage guides, with automatically generated templates for use case documentation.

To ensure flawless performance of detection algorithms, MDR partners might use smart autocompletion and quality control capabilities of Uncoder AI. Security engineers can automatically validate syntax & logic for RootA, Sigma, and SIEM-native queries with the built-in Green Warde tool. Uncoder AI also allows leveraging MITRE ATT&CK and the industry-largest detection stack as a dictionary to create new detections faster and at the highest possible quality. Moreover, there is an option to automate the detection engineering routine with CI/CD API. 

Finally, Uncoder AI acts as an industry-first translation engine to parse IOCs into performance-optimized queries and enable cross-platform query translation through 65 SIEM, EDR, XDR, and Data Lake formats. 

Register for SOC Prime Platform to embark on your collective cyber defense journey and explore game-changing technologies to fuel your MDR excellence and accelerate the maturity of your security offerings for enhanced end-customer experience. 

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