Security Monitoring and Managed Detection for UK SMEs

Making sense of what you already own

Most small businesses already generate more security data than they realise. Microsoft 365 records every sign-in, every mailbox rule, every file share. Endpoint protection records every blocked file and every suspicious process. Your firewall logs every connection. Almost none of it is ever looked at.

We start there rather than by selling you a new platform. In the majority of cases the licences you already pay for contain the signals needed to catch a business email compromise or an early ransomware stage — they simply need configuring, tuning and, crucially, watching.

• ✓Microsoft 365 and Entra ID sign-in, audit and mailbox-rule telemetry
• ✓Endpoint detection and response alerts from your existing agent
• ✓Firewall, VPN and remote access logs
• ✓Cloud platform audit logs from Azure, AWS or Google Workspace

The attacks we are actually watching for

The threat model for a 30-person UK business is not a nation-state. It is business email compromise, credential theft through phishing, and commodity ransomware delivered through an unpatched remote access service. Our detection rules are built around those, because that is what turns into a real incident.

The highest-value detections are unglamorous: a mailbox forwarding rule silently created to divert invoices, a sign-in that succeeds from an impossible location, a sudden mass file rename on a file server, a new global administrator appearing at two in the morning.

• ✓Business email compromise — malicious inbox rules, invoice redirection, impersonation
• ✓Credential abuse — impossible-travel sign-ins, MFA fatigue attacks, token theft
• ✓Ransomware precursors — mass encryption behaviour, shadow copy deletion, tooling drops
• ✓Privilege abuse — new admin accounts, unexpected role assignments
• ✓Data exfiltration — abnormal download volumes and unusual external sharing

Honest coverage, honestly described

We are an eight-person firm in Leicester and we describe our service accordingly. Monitoring and analyst review run during UK business hours, with an out-of-hours escalation path for critical alerts and a documented response time we commit to in the service agreement.

If you need a genuine follow-the-sun 24/7 security operations centre with contractual minute-level response, we will tell you so and help you select one — we would rather refer that work than oversell it. For most SMEs, tuned detection with real human review during the day and a clear escalation route at night is both sufficient and affordable.