Empower Your Security With VisionX Managed Detection & Response

Give your organisation 24/7 monitoring, real-time threat intelligence, precision detection engineering, proactive threat hunting, and full incident response in one integrated service built to stop attacks fast.

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Why Most Organisations Struggle with Managed Detection and Response

Most organisations face the same core challenges when it comes to MDR: too many threats to keep up with, gaps in specialist expertise, and slow or uncertain response when incidents occur.

Overwhelming Threat Volume

Security teams can’t keep up with constant alerts, false positives, new attack vectors, and evolving threats.

Gaps In Expertise & Coverage

Even well-resourced teams struggle to recruit and retain specialists in detection engineering, threat hunting, deep investigation, and incident response.

Slow Incident Response

When something suspicious happens, most organisations lack clear playbooks, rapid investigation capability, and the forensic depth needed to act decisively.

Lack of 24/7 Coverage

Most teams can’t maintain round-the-clock vigilance. Limited coverage creates blind spots overnight, allowing threats to go undetected when response time matters most.

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How Smarttech247 Delivers Managed Detection and Response

Collect & enrich

Telemetry from SIEM, EDR, identity, network, cloud, SaaS, and OT is aggregated and enriched with multiple threat intelligence feeds.

Detect & prioritise

Detection engineering turns raw data into high-fidelity rules and use cases; 24/7 analysts focus on offences that actually matter.

Investigate & respond

L1–L3 analysts correlate activity across systems, contain threats (where authorised), and coordinate remediation.

Learn & harden

Findings feed into threat hunting, new detections, and remediation & forensics so the same path can’t be used twice.


Tech Agnostic

You Bring the tech.
We do the hard work.

Connect your tools, connect your teams. We link to SIEMs you use, and integrate them with VisionX. We will always be tech agnostic.
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Everything You Need for a Stronger
Managed Detection and Response Program

A strong MDR programme works only when every part supports your team and strengthens your security. These connected capabilities come together to give you clearer visibility and faster action when it matters.

Managed Detection & Response

VisionX gives Level 1 and Level 2 teams a unified view of incidents, risk, coverage and automation so they can triage faster, investigate deeper and act with clarity.

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Offensive Security

Intelligence that anticipates attacker behaviour and enriches every alert. It gives analysts context, reduces noise and helps you stay ahead of emerging threats.

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Information Security

Continuous tuning of detections to reduce false positives and sharpen accuracy. Your ruleset improves over time instead of degrading as the environment changes.

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VisionX Platform

 Root-cause analysis and clear recovery steps after an incident. You get stronger controls, safer systems and lessons that prevent repeat events.

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MDR for Identity

Proactive monitoring for leaked data, credentials and early signs of compromise. It alerts you to risk before attackers attempt to use it.

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MDR for Cloud

Fast containment, coordinated action and forensic support when incidents strike. The team moves quickly to limit impact and guide recovery.

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MDR for OT

Named analysts watch over your environment day and night. You get real human decision-making, rapid escalation and decisive action at any hour.

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Expertise by Vertical

Targeted hunts that uncover stealthy threats your tools may miss. This reduces dwell time and strengthens your visibility across the environment.

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VisionX for Managed Detection and Response

VisionX is your transparent hub for MDR — tech-agnostic and built to work with Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, QRadar, leading EDRs, and major cloud/SaaS platforms.

Real-time incidents & SLAs

See live timelines, owners, next actions, and SLA status so nothing stalls.

Log-source coverage

Know exactly which data sources are connected, healthy, or missing, with prioritised fixes.

Risk Hub

Link incidents and exposure to business risk, track resilience metrics, and assign owners and due dates.

NIST assessments and CISO Hub

Run NIST CSF 2.0 baselines, map to ISO 27001, and use executive dashboards with exportable, audit-ready reports.

AI Assistant

Ask plain English questions about incidents, risks, or coverage and get contextual answers from your own data.

Automation (SOAR)

Execute preapproved playbooks to isolate endpoints, block domains and IPs, reset credentials, and enrich cases automatically.

How We Support Organisations Like Yours

Our clients rely on us for consistent, responsive support and clear communication when it matters most.
Their feedback reflects the confidence and stability they gain from working with our team.

"Smarttech247 gave us confidence fast. We were live on VisionX within weeks and the partnership has only strengthened since."

CTO

FBD Insurance

"Smarttech247 gives us more than a security operations centre. They’ve become a true partner: Responsive, proactive, and focused on the details that matter."

CISO

Autonation

"What makes Smarttech247 different is their people. Skills can be taught, but genuine commitment can’t: they’re proactive, they listen, and they understand what matters to us."

Information Security Manager

Clunetech

What You Gain That Traditional
Managed Detection and Response Can’t Deliver

Traditional MDR often struggles with limited visibility, slow investigations, and rigid processes that can’t
keep up with modern threats. We close those gaps with faster response, clearer context, and capabilities
that adapt to your organisation’s needs.
Feature / Capability
Smarttech247 MDR
Traditional MDR Providers
Effective Threat Detection
Expert Detection Engineering Customised to your Environment
Basic generic detection & alerting
Incident Response
Understand and Deliver against your Imperatives.
You get an alert
Managed Data Security and Phishing
Holistic and Multi-layer
Focus on endpoints and networks.
Visibility into your security operations
Powered by VisionX you have Complete Transparency
Services are opaque and reactive
Customer Service
Dedicated, White Glove
Standardised and vanilla – not tailored
Integration and Flexibility
Risk Aware! We Maximise Monitoring Coverage!
Limited, custom costs
Partnership Approach
People Led, We put your outcomes first!
Reactive, Faceless
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Everything You Need to Know Before You Decide

Here you’ll find clear answers to the most common questions we hear from security and IT teams. If you need anything more specific, we’re always here to help.
What makes VisionX different from other MDR vendors?
VisionX is designed with a proactive, intelligence-led approach that goes beyond traditional alert triage. We combine advanced threat detection, automated response, and human-led analysis — all backed by 24/7 SOC operations. What truly sets us apart is our ability to integrate deeply into your existing tech stack, provide real-time visibility, and deliver tailored threat intelligence aligned to your business context.
Can we keep our current SIEM or EDR?
Yes — VisionX is built to be technology-agnostic and flexible. We integrate seamlessly with your existing SIEM, EDR, or XDR platforms, enabling faster onboarding and maximising your current investments. There’s no need to rip and replace unless you want to.
How fast can we go live?
We can typically have customers live in as little as 5 to 10 business days, depending on the complexity of your environment and existing integrations. Our onboarding process is streamlined, guided by dedicated deployment specialists to ensure a smooth and rapid transition.
Do you offer support outside working hours?
Absolutely. Our Security Operations Centre (SOC) is staffed 24/7/365, providing continuous monitoring, threat detection, and incident response - even on weekends and holidays. Threats don’t work 9–5, and neither do we.
What does your reporting include?
VisionX provides comprehensive, easy-to-understand reporting that includes: Detected threats and their severity, response actions taken, dwell time and resolution metrics, threat trends and recurring attack patterns, executive-level summaries and technical deep dives. We also offer customisable reporting tailored to your industry, regulatory requirements, or board-level needs.

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24/7 SOC Monitoring

Always-on monitoring, triage, response.

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Incident Response

Rapid containment & recovery.

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Detection Engineering

Early warnings on leaked credentials.

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Threat Intelligence

Sharper detections, fewer false positives.

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Threat Hunting

Hypothesis-led hunts, rapid response.

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Remediation & Forensics

Evidence-led recovery, hardening that lasts.

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Managed Detection and Response with Complete Visibility

Peer Review

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5-star rating
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Proven Trust

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Pure-play managed detection and response from a specialist team. Sub-15-minute incident response, and complete visibility without replacing your existing tools.

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MANAGED DETECTION AND RESPONSE

Key Cybersecurity Statistics

Insights from the Mandiant M-Trends 2026 Report, based on frontline incident response investigations conducted by Google Cloud's Mandiant team.

14 days

Global median attacker dwell time

22 secs

Medien threat actor hand-off

32%

Attacks began with exploits
By now, most organisations have already
suffered significant business impact.
Without Smarttech247

14 days

Median attacker dwell time
With Smarttech247

<15 min

Incident response
Without Smarttech247

No playbook

Every incident starts from scratch
With Smarttech247

319% ROI

Measured by Forrester
PURE-PLAY MDR IN PRACTISE

This is What a Specialist Team Actually Does

Most MDR providers alert. We act. Detection engineers tuning your rules, analysts hunting threats your tools never flagged, and a response team that contains incidents in minutes. Every discipline feeds the next.

The first 15 minutes decide everything

Detection without structured response is just expensive alerting. Every P1 follows a pre-defined path. Validated analyst, bridge call, pre-approved containment and post-incident report.
3:45pm
Ransomware execution detected
Alert fires
Unusual network traffic triggers alerts across Sentinel and EDR. CrowdStrike flags suspicious process execution on SRV-PROD-04.
Alert fires
Alert fires
Alert fires
3:49pm
L1 validates · L2 escalation triggered
4 min
P1 assigned. Customer notified by phone. Bridge call created. L2 and L3 join within 60 seconds.
Phone notification
Bridge call open
L2 and L3 assigned
3:54pm
Containment actions executed
9 min
SRV-PROD-04 isolated via pre-approved CrowdStrike playbook. Malicious IPs blocked. Compromised session revoked.
Endpoint isolated
IP blocked
Session revoked
3:58pm
Ransomware controlled · blast radius: one server
15 min
No lateral movement. Forensic image taken. Root cause analysis begun. Post-incident report queued.
Lateral movement blocked
Forensic image taken
Report drafted
Incident contained — 15 minutes
Blast radius limited to one server. Forensic analysis and post-incident report now in progress.
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Incident Response
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Your SIEM ships ready. Just not ready for you

Out-of-the-box rules are built for every organisation, which means they are right for none of them. We replace generic coverage with custom use cases built for your environment.
Out of the box
Thousands of generic rules. Built for no one in particular
Default SIEM rulesets fire on normal behaviour in most environments. Analysts spend more time disproving alerts than investigating real threats. High volume. Low signal. No improvement over time.
With Smarttech247
Custom use cases built for your specific environment
Every detection rule is tuned to your stack, your users, and your known-good baselines. Redundant and noisy rules are retired. Fewer alerts. Sharper signal. Every one worth investigating.
Built for your environment
Use cases designed around your specific data sources, threat profile, and risk priorities.
MITRE ATT&CK aligned
Every new detection rule is mapped to a real attacker technique. You know what you detect and what you do not.
False positives by design
Some false positives are healthy. They mean your rules are wide enough to catch edge cases. We manage them so they never break business.
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Detection Engineering
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Alerts show detections. Hunting finds the rest

Every hunt starts with a question. Our analysts form a hypothesis, follow the evidence across your environment, and either surface a hidden threat or close the hypothesis, creating a new detection rule either way.
Hypothesis
Is anyone using valid credentials in ways that don't match their normal behaviour?
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Form the hypothesis
Intel flags credential-stuffing campaign targeting finance orgs in Western Europe.
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Anomaly surfaced
Finance admin shows sign-ins from two countries 40 minutes apart. Global Admin rights. No alert triggered.
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Pull and correlate
72h Entra ID sign-in logs filtered for anomalous geography, impossible travel, privileged accounts.
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Contain and convert
Session revoked. Incident opened. New detection rule for impossible travel on privileged accounts deployed.
Threat confirmed.
Compromised admin credential: contained before any lateral movement.
Hypothesis
Is any attacker using built-in Windows tools to move through the environment undetected?
1
Form the hypothesis
LOLBin techniques increasingly common in ransomware pre-staging. Query: is anything behaving like a tool, not a user?
3
No indicators found
All activity maps to known admin scripts, scheduled tasks, and Microsoft CDN endpoints.
2
Pull and correlate
72h process creation events filtered for encoded PowerShell, certutil outbound connections, WMI spawning children.
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Coverage strengthened
Detection threshold for encoded PowerShell lowered. Edge cases identified during hunt now trigger alerts.
No active threat.
Detection coverage improved as a result of the hunt.
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Threat
Hunting
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Every discipline below is part of the same core managed detection and response service. Explore the ones most relevant to your environment.

24/7 SOC monitoring

Always-on triage, investigation, and escalation across your full environment.
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Threat intelligence

Every alert enriched with context before an analyst touches it.
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Remediation and forensics

Evidence-led recovery and hardening after every incident.
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MDR for identity

Continuous monitoring for compromised identity anomalies.
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MDR for cloud

Detection and response across AWS, Azure, GCP, and SaaS platforms.
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MDR for OT/IoT

Purpose-built monitoring for operational technology and industrial control systems.
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NoPhish

Analyst-led triage and response for phishing campaigns targeting your organisation.
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Extended MDR

Lightweight AI-enabled MDR layered on top of your existing EDR and identity stack.
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CLIENT OUTCOMES

What Our Clients Say About Us

"Working with IBM and the Smarttech247 team was a very positive experience. From the first discussions about implementation and setup, everything was clear, what was needed from us, what Smarttech247 would deliver, and when. The project stayed on schedule, and within three months we had actionable results."
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"What makes Smarttech247 different is their people. Skills can be taught, but genuine commitment can’t: they’re proactive, they listen, and they understand what matters to us"
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Information Security Manager

Clunetech

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"Operational resilience is a major focus for us. Having recently strengthened our approach to business continuity and disaster recovery, we are now focusing on DORA and digital operational resilience. Smarttech247’s ability to scale with us, particularly across critical cybersecurity capabilities, is extremely important as we continue this journey.”
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"Our first conversation with Smarttech247 followed a four-week technology review to assess what we needed. The proof of concept ran for eight weeks end to end, and within twelve weeks we had a signed contract, purchase order, software deployed, and the service fully live. It was fast, seamless, and well-supported: an easy three months from start to finish."
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Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

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ONBOARDING PROCESS

Kick-off Meeting and Technical Workshop

Kick-off meeting and technical workshop

Days 1 - 2
Smarttech247 owns
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Align on scope, timelines, and communication cadence
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Walk through architecture and data source inventory
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Define notification workflow and escalation paths
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Introduce your named project manager and SOC lead
You own
Confirm stakeholders and technical contacts
Provide architecture diagrams and access credentials
Sign off on SOW and communication preferences
Low customer effort

SIEM setup, log feeds, and integrations

Days 3 – 7
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Deploy event processors and SIEM installation (if new)
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Connect standard log feeds: servers, firewalls, EDR, VPN, email
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Integrate ticketing system (Jira, ServiceNow, or other)
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Configure notification and escalation workflows
You own
Provide Azure / cloud permissions for SIEM deployment
Review and approve data connector configurations
Complete custom log feed requirements if applicable
Medium customer effort — technical inputs needed

SOC quality checks, use case review, and fine-tuning

Days 8 - 10
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Run SOC quality checks against ingested log feeds
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Review existing use cases and detection rules
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Perform initial fine-tuning to reduce false positive rate
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Validate all data sources are healthy and complete
You own
Review tuning output with S247 SOC engineer
Flag any environment-specific context or known benign patterns
Guided — configurations under S247 guidance

Final sign-off and 24/7 monitoring begins

Day 11
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Complete final validation and readiness checks
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Confirm all SLAs, escalation paths, and playbooks are active
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24/7 SOC monitoring goes live
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First weekly operational meeting scheduled
You own
Sign off on full live service
Confirm communication preferences for P1/P2 incidents
Low customer effort
24/7 SOC monitoring live — from signed SOW to full coverage in 11 business days

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Business days
onboarding

< 15 Min

Incident
response

24/7

Coverage from
day 1

Governance, reporting, and continuous improvement

Ongoing
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Weekly operational meetings: open tickets, use case updates, change management
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Monthly service assessment reports: incidents, detection changes, log status
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Quarterly business reviews: SLA review, threat landscape, strategic planning
You own
Attendence to weekly and monthly meetings
Review and action recommendations from VisionX Risk Hub
Participate in QBR and maturity review sessions
Low customer effort

Weekly

Operational
meetings

Monthly

Service
reports

Quarterly

Business
reviews
WHY SMARTTECH247

What MDR Looks Like in Practice

Most MDR providers do the same things. These four are the reasons our clients stay and why they came to us in the first place.
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You see everything happening in your environment in real time
Most MDR operates like a black box. You outsource your security operations and the visibility goes with them. VisionX was built specifically to prevent that. Every client has live access to their incidents, SLA performance, log source health, and risk posture. Not a monthly summary, not a report on request. The moment something changes, you see it.
✪ Gartner Recignised
★ 4.8/5 Client Satisfaction
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We work with your existing tools. No rip and replace
Switching MDR providers should not mean rebuilding your security stack. We support Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, QRadar, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Google SecOps, and LogRhythm; including full deployment and ongoing management. If you built it, we can monitor it. If you want to change it, we can help with that too.
Microsoft Sentinel
Splunk
CrowdStrike
QRadar
SentinelOne
59 technology partners
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We run your security programme. Not just your alerts
Detection and response is one function. Smarttech247 covers all six NIST functions: govern, identify, protect, detect, respond, recover. Delivered as a managed service from a single partner. Every hunt, every incident, every tuning cycle feeds directly into recommendations that improve your programme over time. You get a roadmap, not just a report.
⛊ Govern
👁 Identity
🔒︎ Protect
🔍︎ Detect
⚡︎ Respond
✚ Recover
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Named people, not a faceless service desk
You are assigned named analysts across L1, L2, and L3 from day one. A dedicated project manager runs your onboarding and stays through every QBR. Your analysts learn your environment,the legitimate admin who works odd hours, the maintenance windows, the known-good traffic patterns. When a real threat fires, that context is already there.
11 business days go-live
Named PM from day one
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If an attacker is in your environment right now, would you know?

Most organisations would not. Managed detection and response exists to close that gap. Talk to a specialist and find out what full coverage actually looks like.
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BEFORE YOU DECIDE

Questions We Hear Before Every Engagement

Can we keep our existing SIEM and security tools?

Yes. Smarttech247 is tech-agnostic by design and works with the tools you already own. We support Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, QRadar, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Google SecOps, and LogRhythm, including full deployment and ongoing management. There is no rip-and-replace requirement. If you want to migrate to a different platform at any point, we can manage that too.

What happens when a P1 incident fires at 3am?

P1 incidents at Smarttech247 are acknowledged and commenced within 15 minutes, contractually, at any hour. A SOC analyst validates the alert, escalates to L2, and notifies the customer by phone. A bridge call is created and L2 and L3 analysts join within 60 seconds. Where pre-approved playbooks are in place, containment actions including endpoint isolation, IP blocking, and session revocation execute immediately without waiting for manual approval.

How is managed detection and response different from running our own SIEM?

A SIEM ingests and stores data but does not investigate, triage, hunt, respond, or improve over time without dedicated expertise behind it. Managed detection and response adds the detection engineering, L1 through L3 analyst coverage, threat hunting, incident response, and continuous tuning that turns a SIEM investment into a functioning security programme. Most organisations running their own SIEM generate hundreds of alerts daily with no analyst capacity to action them. Smarttech247 delivers all of this through VisionX, a purpose-built MDR platform, with 24/7 coverage from a specialist team.