Managed Detection & Response
Threat-Informed Defence Operations powered by Microsoft’s Unified Security Operations Platform.
Our Cyber Defence Operations Centre maintains 24x7x365 managed security service operations: analysing signals, hunting for indicators of compromise, removing threats, and responding to incidents. Built on Microsoft’s Unified Security Operations Platform, the service can be co-managed and provides comprehensive protection by correlating security telemetry from across your network, cloud, endpoints, identities, and applications.
Our defensive security experts maintain deep understanding of your organisation’s operating context, and a threat-informed defence methodology that systematically analyses adversary tradecraft to improve your defences. This intelligent approach provides confidence in our ability to detect and respond to threats, while maximising the value of your investment in Microsoft cloud security solutions.
Partnering with Layer 9 for Defence Operations gives you peace of mind that we are relentlessly focused on preventing and detecting threats in your environment, and working to continuously improve your security capabilities so that your organisation can be more resilient.
Always-on Protection
Our 24x7x365 Cyber Defence Operations Centre is relentlessly focused on preventing, detecting, and responding to threats in your environment.
Enhanced Monitoring
By continuously deploying threat-informed detection logic and connecting optimised telemetry, we ensure your defences adapt to sophisticated and emerging adversaries, delivering a level of protection that maintains pace with a dynamic threat environment.
Advanced Incident Response
When a threat is identified, we immediately implement approved containment protocols and notify you. Our experts integrate seamlessly with your escalation, incident management, and crisis response processes. We help you navigate the incident and complete key response activities, enabling you to recover quickly, learn, and restore confidence.
Entity Behaviour Analytics
Driven by advanced machine learning, behaviour analytics continuously models activities across identities, endpoints, and applications to establish a baseline of normal behaviour. This enables us to alert on highly sophisticated threats such as insider adversaries, compromised service accounts, and lateral movement long before they trigger traditional detection rules.
Response Automation
We implement automated response workflows powered by Microsoft Sentinel playbooks (Azure Logic Apps) to contain high-confidence security alerts and streamline incident response.
Threat Hunting
We perform advanced log analysis to proactively hunt for suspicious activity and adversary behaviours that may have managed to evade detection.
Adversary Emulation
We emulate real-world threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) within a controlled environment to actively test and validate the effectiveness of our detection logic, preventative controls, and incident response processes.
Cyber Threat Intelligence
We curate strategic and operational threat intelligence to understand adversary behaviours and stream tactical feeds directly into your environment to rapidly disrupt emerging threats.
Microsoft Cloud Security Solutions
Powered by Microsoft’s Unified Security Operations Platform for modern enterprise environments and managed security service providers.
Co-Managed or Fully Managed
Built on Microsoft cloud security solutions that can be co-managed in your Microsoft tenant. This approach means the technology is deployed on your foundations, and everything we develop inside it belongs to you.
Unified Security Operations
Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender XDR are integrated in a single platform built for modern enterprise environments, correlating security telemetry from across your network, cloud, endpoints, identities, and applications.
Threat-Informed Defence
Underpinned by a threat-informed defence methodology that systematically maintains a deep understanding of adversary tradecraft to improve your organisation's defences.
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Threat Assessment
We continuously assess the threat environment working to understand adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures that are relevant to your organisation.
Threat assessments directly inform how we can improve our ability to prevent, detect, and respond to cyber threats.
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Detection Engineering
High-value signals are optimised to balance log ingestion cost and security value. New detection logic is regularly deployed and response playbooks are maintained.
Our 24x7x365 Cyber Defence Operations Centre observes high confidence alarms and is able to respond to actionable threats that matter.
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Improve Defences
We work together with your overall security programme, translating threat intelligence, alerts, and security incidents into actionable insights that strengthen your defences against adversary behaviours.
You can be more adaptive and resilient to the threats you face.
Partnership
We operate with strategic alignment as an embedded extension of your security operations, designed to complement and strengthen your existing security capabilities. Together, we combine your internal business context with our battle-tested knowledge base and experienced experts, creating a unified team that force multiplies your organisation's detection and response.
Continuous Improvement
Our relentless focus on continuous improvement, underpinned by a threat-informed defence methodology, builds long-term operational resilience and organisational knowledge that systematically strengthens your overall security posture.
Intelligent
In cyber security, a static defence is a failing defence. True intelligence in security operations means building a resilient and adaptive practice where detection and response capabilities evolve to combat emerging threats targeting the organisation.
Proven
Proven across government and enterprise. We protect some of New Zealand's most important organisations, who partner with us to continuously improve their security capabilities.