24/7 Threat Detection and Response, Without Building a SOC

Most Breaches Are Detected Too Late

The median time for a UK business to detect a breach is still 197 days. That is over six months of an attacker sitting inside your network, moving laterally, escalating privileges, and exfiltrating data before anyone notices.

The reason is straightforward: most businesses rely on preventive tools — firewalls, antivirus, email filters — but have nobody actively watching for the attacks that get through. And attacks do get through. Every perimeter has gaps. Every user makes mistakes. Every piece of software has vulnerabilities.

Managed detection and response closes that gap with continuous monitoring, proactive threat hunting, and rapid incident response.

What MDR Actually Provides

SOC as a service means a team of security analysts monitoring your environment around the clock. They are not just watching dashboards. They are actively hunting for indicators of compromise, investigating anomalous behaviour, and correlating events across your endpoints, network, cloud platforms, and identity systems.

When our analysts detect a confirmed threat, they act immediately. If malware is executing on an endpoint, we isolate that device from the network within minutes — automatically if the threat is clear-cut, with analyst approval for more nuanced situations. If an account shows signs of compromise, we disable it and initiate investigation.

This is not a case of receiving an alert email the next morning. Our average detection-to-containment time is 11 minutes. For a ransomware attack, that difference between 11 minutes and 11 hours is the difference between one isolated machine and an encrypted network.

Beyond Alerts: Proactive Threat Hunting

Automated detection catches known patterns. But sophisticated attackers deliberately avoid known signatures. They use legitimate tools already installed on your systems, move slowly to blend with normal traffic, and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities that no rule has been written for yet.

Our threat hunters proactively search for these stealthy intrusions. They analyse behavioural patterns, look for lateral movement indicators, investigate unusual authentication activity, and correlate weak signals that individually look benign but together indicate compromise. This human layer is what separates MDR from a tool that sends alert emails.

Built for Regulated Firms

For financial services companies in London, MDR is increasingly not optional. FCA operational resilience requirements expect firms to demonstrate they can detect and respond to cyber incidents quickly. DORA mandates continuous monitoring and incident classification capabilities. Our managed detection response service satisfies these requirements and generates the evidence your compliance team needs.

We provide monthly threat intelligence briefings tailored to the financial services sector, covering emerging attack techniques, sector-specific campaigns, and recommendations for strengthening your defences. You stay informed without having to track the threat landscape yourself.