Unified SOC with Microsoft Defender XDR and Sentinel (SIEM & SOAR): 4-8 Weeks Engagement

Modern enterprises operate across hybrid infrastructure, multiple cloud platforms, SaaS ecosystems, and distributed identities, increasing the complexity of security monitoring and incident response. Fragmented security tools, limited signal correlation, and manual investigation workflows can delay threat detection, increase operational effort, and introduce compliance risks.

Celebal Technologies delivers a structured Microsoft Unified SOC implementation engagement using Microsoft Sentinel to establish centralized threat visibility through cloud native SIEM and SOAR capabilities integrated with Microsoft Defender XDR. The service focuses on designing, deploying, and operationalizing scalable SOC architectures that modernize security operations across hybrid and multi cloud environments while aligning with Microsoft Security best practices.

Engagement Scope

The implementation covers end-to-end design and deployment of a Unified SOC environment tailored to enterprise security requirements.

Key activities include:

• Unified SIEM/XDR design aligned with Microsoft Security Reference Architecture, including Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender XDR, and RBAC.
• Data and signal onboarding across Azure, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Defender XDR, SaaS, on-prem, AWS/GCP, and identity/network sources.
• Analytics rule development using Microsoft templates and custom business-specific detections.
• SOAR automation via Logic Apps for enrichment, containment, and response.
• SOC enablement with dashboards, workflows, and alert lifecycle tuning.

Environment & Readiness Assessment

Before deployment, we conduct a structured assessment to align security controls with enterprise risk posture and regulatory obligations.

Assessment focus areas include:

• Current usage and coverage of cloud security tools such as CSPM, CWPP, or CNAPP solutions.
• Compliance and regulatory requirements influencing monitoring and response controls.
• Hybrid and multi-cloud footprint analysis across Azure, AWS, GCP, and other environments.
• Identification of critical workloads, services, and data flows requiring prioritized protection.
• Review of DevOps pipelines and operational practices to identify configuration risks and security gaps.

Security Capabilities Delivered

• Continuous Cloud Security Posture Monitoring (CSPM) with secure score tracking and improvement recommendations.
• Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP) across compute resources, container environments, APIs, sensitive data stores, and secret management systems.
• Governance enforcement across subscriptions and environments using baseline security policies and tagging standards.
• Centralized alert correlation, threat analytics, and attack path visualization for faster investigation and decision-making.

AI-Driven SOC Enhancements

To improve analyst productivity and response speed, the solution incorporates AI-enabled security operations features.

These include:

• Natural language security queries to quickly retrieve insights on high-risk assets, alerts, or vulnerabilities.
• AI-generated remediation guidance presented in simplified, actionable language for incidents and alerts.
• Automated weekly SOC intelligence summaries highlighting trends, threat patterns, and risk exposure across workloads.
• Command-driven automated actions such as removing public exposure risks or triggering remediation tasks for missing updates or misconfigurations.

Implementation Approach

Phase 1: Assessment & Standards Alignment
Inventory workloads, map monitoring requirements to regulatory obligations, and finalize deployment scope.

Phase 2: Baseline Security Configuration
Classify assets based on criticality and implement differentiated security monitoring and policy controls.

Phase 3: Workload Protection Enablement
Activate relevant Defender plans and validate telemetry coverage across environments.

Phase 4: Automation & Integration Setup
Configure SOAR workflows, response rules, and integrations with existing SIEM, ticketing, or ITSM platforms.

Phase 5: Operational Transition & Enablement
Provide documentation, SOC runbooks, knowledge transfer sessions, and a future security maturity roadmap.

Engagement Model & Pricing

Final engagement pricing depends on factors such as workload volume, environment complexity, compliance scope, and required integrations. To know more, reach us at enterprisesales@celebaltech.com