Silver Fox Consulting

Service 05 / 06

Cyber Defence & Managed Security

Security operations should do more than produce alerts.

SilverFox combines continuous monitoring, detection engineering, threat hunting and security automation to identify meaningful activity and accelerate defensive action.

The objective is not more telemetry.

It is better security decisions.

More alerts are not more security.

Modern environments generate security data across endpoints, identities, networks, applications and cloud platforms.

Without context, ownership and disciplined investigation, important activity can disappear inside that volume.

Effective cyber defence requires teams to answer:

  • What is happening?
  • Which activity matters?
  • What does the evidence show?
  • How far has the activity progressed?
  • What should happen next?
  • Did the response contain the threat?

Security Operations

Build operations around decisions, not dashboards.

SilverFox can design, implement and improve security operations capabilities.

  • SOC strategy and operating model
  • SOC design and implementation
  • SOC modernisation
  • Managed SOC
  • SOC as a Service
  • Security monitoring architecture
  • SIEM engineering
  • SOAR
  • Use-case development
  • Case-management workflows
  • Analyst processes
  • Metrics and reporting
  • Escalation and response integration

Managed Detection & Response

Continuous defence across the environment.

SilverFox MDR can bring together monitoring, investigation and coordinated response across:

Coverage

  • endpoints
  • networks
  • identities
  • cloud platforms
  • applications
  • security infrastructure

Capabilities

  • 24/7 security monitoring
  • Alert triage
  • Investigation
  • Endpoint Detection and Response
  • Network Detection and Response
  • Cloud Detection and Response
  • Identity threat detection
  • Threat-intelligence enrichment
  • Analyst escalation
  • Coordinated containment
  • Incident handover
  • Operational reporting

Any public promise of continuous or 24/7 service must match the service model available at launch.

Detection Engineering

Detect behaviour that matters in the customer's environment.

Detection engineering connects threats, telemetry and defensive controls.

SilverFox can support:

  • threat-informed detection design
  • SIEM detection rules
  • EDR detections
  • identity detections
  • cloud detections
  • network detections
  • behavioural analytics
  • MITRE ATT&CK mapping
  • detection testing
  • false-positive reduction
  • detection lifecycle management
  • coverage assessment

Threat Hunting

Ask questions the existing rules did not.

Proactive hunting can focus on:

  • endpoint activity
  • network behaviour
  • cloud activity
  • suspicious authentication
  • identity abuse
  • persistence
  • privilege escalation
  • lateral movement
  • command and control
  • data access
  • intelligence-led hypotheses

Hunting should produce more than a search result. It should improve detections, investigations and future response.

Managed Security

SilverFox can operate or support selected security capabilities, including:

  • Managed SIEM
  • Managed EDR/XDR
  • Managed vulnerability management
  • Managed attack-surface monitoring
  • Managed cloud security
  • Managed identity security
  • Security-platform administration
  • Security-control health monitoring
  • Exposure and remediation workflows

The service should be scoped around measurable operational outcomes rather than generic tool management.

Security Automation

Automate repetition, preserve judgement.

Automation can improve speed and consistency across:

  • alert enrichment
  • IOC processing
  • case creation
  • ticket routing
  • evidence collection
  • response playbooks
  • containment requests
  • vulnerability workflows
  • notification
  • reporting

Automation should support analysts without hiding decisions that require human accountability.

Our Approach

  1. 01

    Observe

    Collect relevant telemetry from endpoints, identity, network, cloud and applications.

  2. 02

    Detect

    Identify suspicious behaviour using rules, analytics, intelligence and environmental context.

  3. 03

    Investigate

    Connect alerts, entities and evidence into a coherent understanding of activity.

  4. 04

    Contain

    Coordinate proportionate defensive action when malicious activity is confirmed.

  5. 05

    Hunt

    Look for activity that predefined detections may have missed.

  6. 06

    Improve

    Turn incidents, exercises and hunting results into stronger detections and processes.

The Offensive and Defensive Loop

Defence improves when it is challenged.

SilverFox red-team and purple-team exercises can test whether activity is:

  • visible
  • detected
  • enriched
  • investigated
  • escalated
  • contained

The resulting evidence improves telemetry, detections and response workflows.

Particularly Relevant For

  • Organisations building or modernising a SOC
  • Teams with fragmented security tooling
  • Cloud and hybrid enterprises
  • Organisations requiring continuous monitoring
  • Regulated businesses
  • Security teams seeking better detection coverage
  • Organisations without sufficient in-house analyst capacity
  • Enterprises preparing for more advanced threats

More telemetry is not the answer. Better decisions are.

Turn security data into detection, investigation and action.