Detection & Monitoring
Perfect prevention doesn't exist. Detection ensures you find threats quickly, before they become disasters.
Why Detection Matters
No protection layer is perfect. Attackers adapt, employees make mistakes, and new vulnerabilities emerge. The question isn't if something will bypass your defenses—it's when, and how quickly you'll notice.
Effective detection means:
- • Continuous monitoring of systems, networks, and user activity
- • Anomaly detection to spot unusual behavior
- • Log collection and analysis
- • Alerting on security events
- • Performance measurement of security controls
- • AI system trustworthiness monitoring
Early detection dramatically reduces incident impact. The average breach goes undetected for 200+ days. We aim for hours.
Core Detection Capabilities
Continuous Monitoring
Always-on observation of your environment to catch threats and anomalies in real-time.
- • Network traffic monitoring
- • Endpoint detection and response (EDR)
- • Log aggregation and analysis (SIEM)
- • Cloud security monitoring
- • User behavior analytics (UBA)
- • Vulnerability scanning
- • File integrity monitoring
Threat Detection & Analysis
Identifying, analyzing, and understanding security events to separate real threats from noise.
- • Threat intelligence integration
- • Indicator of compromise (IOC) detection
- • Behavioral analysis
- • Alert triage and investigation
- • Event correlation
- • Malware detection and analysis
- • False positive reduction
Security Performance Metrics
Measuring whether your security controls are working as intended.
- • Mean time to detect (MTTD)
- • Mean time to respond (MTTR)
- • Patch compliance rates
- • MFA adoption metrics
- • Phishing simulation results
- • Security control effectiveness
- • Compliance posture tracking
AI System Measurement
Monitoring AI systems for accuracy, bias, security, and trustworthiness.
- • AI output accuracy monitoring
- • Bias and fairness evaluation
- • Performance degradation detection
- • Data quality monitoring
- • Privacy risk assessment
- • User feedback collection
- • Safety and security validation
What Should You Be Monitoring?
Network Activity
- • Unusual outbound connections
- • Large data transfers
- • Failed connection attempts
- • Geographic anomalies
- • Protocol violations
User Behavior
- • Failed login attempts
- • After-hours access
- • Privilege escalation
- • Access to unusual resources
- • Simultaneous logins from different locations
System Health
- • Resource consumption spikes
- • Unauthorized configuration changes
- • Disabled security controls
- • Missing patches
- • Service disruptions
Data Access
- • Sensitive file access
- • Mass file downloads
- • Unauthorized database queries
- • File encryption events
- • Data exfiltration patterns
Email & Communication
- • Phishing attempts
- • Suspicious attachments
- • Compromised accounts
- • Email forwarding rules
- • BEC indicators
AI Systems
- • Output quality degradation
- • Unexpected results
- • Data input anomalies
- • Access pattern changes
- • Model drift
Detection Requirements for Compliance
PCI DSS Requirements
Payment card security requires specific monitoring:
- • File integrity monitoring on critical systems
- • Log collection from all systems in scope
- • Daily log review
- • Intrusion detection systems (IDS)
HIPAA Requirements
Healthcare data protection mandates:
- • Audit logging of ePHI access
- • Monitoring of information system activity
- • Regular review of audit logs
- • Alerting on security incidents
NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500
NY financial services monitoring:
- • Cybersecurity event monitoring
- • Annual penetration testing
- • Continuous vulnerability assessment
- • Audit trail maintenance
See What You're Missing
Most small businesses have blind spots. Let's discuss what monitoring makes sense for your environment and budget.
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