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The Cyber Warfare Operations Center.

A state of the art threat monitoring and response facility which operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Our security analysts monitor your network and workstations for internal and external threats.

Always on

Coverage every hour of every day of the year, including holidays and the small hours when most intrusions begin.

Network and workstations

Monitoring across the network and the endpoints on it, so an internal movement is as visible as an external one.

Response, not just alerts

Analysts hold pre-agreed authority to contain, so the response does not wait for a phone call to be returned.

Research-backed detections

Detection logic comes from our own reverse engineering of real samples, not only from vendor feeds.

Internal and external

Most breaches are not a stranger at the gate.

External threats get the attention, but the damage is usually done after an initial foothold — using credentials, moving laterally, and looking like normal work. Monitoring that only watches the perimeter sees the door open and nothing after it.

The Operations Center watches both directions: traffic and authentication from outside, and behaviour on the network and workstations inside, where an intruder with valid credentials has to operate.

  • Authentication anomalies and impossible-travel patterns
  • Unusual process execution and persistence mechanisms on workstations
  • Lateral movement and privilege escalation attempts
  • Command-and-control beaconing and unusual egress
  • Data staging and exfiltration behaviour

Escalation

What happens when something fires.

Detect

An alert fires against a detection built for a behaviour, not a filename.

Triage

An analyst validates it against context — asset criticality, user, history — and dismisses the noise.

Contain

The Emergency Response Team isolates and mitigates in under 30 minutes, using authority agreed in advance.

Investigate

A full-scale cyber-forensic investigation establishes who, what, when, why and how. Malware goes to R&D.

Before you sign

What we agree with you up front.

ItemWhy it is agreed in advance
Containment authorityWhether we may isolate a host, disable an account or block egress without waiting for approval — and who we call when we do.
Escalation pathNamed contacts, out of hours numbers, and the order they are called in.
Monitoring scopeWhich networks, workstations, identities and cloud environments are in scope, and which are explicitly excluded.
Data handlingWhat we can see, where it is stored, how long it is kept, and what is redacted.
Reporting cadenceReal-time for critical, scheduled for everything else, with a written review on a fixed cycle.
Under active attack? Our Emergency Response Team contains threats in under 30 minutes. 24/7/365 incident line, staffed by the same analysts who monitor the Operations Center. Emergency response

Ask what your monitoring is missing.

Send us your current coverage — tools, log sources, hours staffed. We will tell you plainly where the gaps are, including the ones we would not be paid to fill.