Security

Security as an ongoing programme, not a once-a-year event.SimplyRem runs managed security operations, threat detection and response, identity and zero-trust, and compliance programmes for organisations that need their security to be a living capability — monitored every day, not tested once a year and filed away. Every engagement is led by a senior security engineer with both defensive and offensive depth, so the controls we build are the ones real attackers actually run into. No alert-forwarding "SOC" that pages you at 3 AM with someone else's false positive. No compliance theatre that passes the audit and protects nothing.Looking for point-in-time penetration testing or a security audit instead? That is our cybersecurity & audits practice — and the two work together: we test offensively, then defend what we found.What we deliver

• Managed detection & response (MDR) — 24/7 monitoring, triage, and active response across your endpoints, cloud, identity, and network, run by senior analysts — not a tier-one queue offshore.
• Security operations centre (SOC-as-a-service) — a fully-managed SOC without the headcount: SIEM tuning, detection engineering, threat hunting, and incident response on a retainer.
• SIEM & detection engineering — Microsoft Sentinel, Elastic Security, Wazuh, or Splunk — deployed, tuned to your environment, and continuously improved so the alerts that fire are the ones that matter.
• Identity & access management — Okta, Entra ID, and JumpCloud done properly: SSO, MFA, conditional access, least-privilege, joiner-mover-leaver automation, and privileged access management.
• Zero-trust architecture — replacing implicit-trust networks with identity-aware access, micro-segmentation, and device posture checks on Cloudflare Zero Trust, Zscaler, or Tailscale.
• Endpoint & cloud security — EDR/XDR rollout (CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Defender), cloud security posture management (CSPM), and hardening across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Compliance & GRC programmes — SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and GDPR — built as a continuous programme with Vanta, Drata, or Secureframe, not a last-minute scramble.
• Virtual CISO (vCISO) — senior security leadership on a fraction of a full-time hire: strategy, board reporting, risk management, vendor reviews, and a roadmap your investors and enterprise customers will respect.
• Incident response & recovery — retained IR with pre-negotiated SLAs, plus forensics, containment, and the morning-after rebuild when something gets through.

Why teams choose our managed security services

• Senior-only delivery. Real security engineers run your programme — not a tier-one alert queue forwarding noise. The person tuning your detections has also written the exploits they detect.
• Defence informed by offence. Our team tests offensively in our audits practice, so the controls we build are the ones attackers actually hit — not a generic best-practice checklist.
• Signal, not noise. We tune your SIEM and EDR so alerts mean something. A managed security service that pages you constantly is one you will learn to ignore — and that is how breaches happen.
• Compliance as a by-product, not the goal. Build real security and the SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certificate falls out of it. We never confuse passing an audit with being secure.
• Identity-first. Most modern breaches are identity breaches. We start with IAM and zero-trust because that is where the leverage is.
• Documented & transparent. You get dashboards you can actually read, monthly reporting your board will understand, and a runbook for every response action we take on your behalf.
• Built to scale with you. Whether you are securing your first ten employees or your first enterprise contract, the programme grows with the business — no rip-and-replace at every stage.

Build an in-house SOC, outsource to an MSSP, or run MDR — what should you choose?We are agnostic, and we will tell you honestly. An in-house SOC is the right call when you are large enough to staff 24/7 coverage (realistically 8+ dedicated analysts) and security is core to your product. A traditional MSSP can make sense for commodity log monitoring at the lowest price point — but most are alert factories that forward noise and own none of the outcome. MDR (managed detection and response) is what we recommend for almost everyone in between: senior-run detection and active response, without the cost and hiring burden of a full in-house team, and with someone who actually owns containing the threat rather than just flagging it. We will tell you honestly when you are big enough to bring it in-house.Our security engagement process1. Assessment & baseline (1–2 weeks)We map your attack surface, identity posture, current tooling, and compliance obligations. You receive a written security baseline — risk register, gap analysis against your target framework, quick wins, and a prioritised roadmap — even if you choose not to hire us to run it.2. Architecture & tooling (2–4 weeks)We design the target state — SIEM, EDR/XDR, identity, zero-trust, and compliance tooling — selected by fit, not by vendor kickback, with a cost model and a phased rollout plan reviewed with your team.3. Implementation & onboardingTooling deployed and tuned, detections engineered to your environment, identity and access hardened, and your team onboarded to the dashboards and escalation paths. We start monitoring in a tuning window so you are not buried in false positives on day one.4. Ongoing operations24/7 monitoring, triage, and response. Continuous detection engineering and threat hunting. Monthly reporting, quarterly reviews, and tabletop exercises so your team knows what to do when it counts. Compliance evidence collected continuously, not scrambled before the audit.5. Continuous improvementSecurity is never finished. We expand coverage as new failure modes surface, fold in lessons from our offensive practice, run purple-team exercises, and steadily raise the bar — measured by mean-time-to-detect and mean-time-to-respond, not by how many alerts we generated.The security stack we operate

• SIEM & detection: Microsoft Sentinel, Elastic Security, Wazuh, Splunk, Panther; Sigma-based detection-as-code.
• Endpoint & XDR: CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.
• Identity & access: Okta, Entra ID, JumpCloud, CyberArk and HashiCorp Vault for privileged access and secrets.
• Zero-trust & network: Cloudflare Zero Trust, Zscaler, Tailscale, Twingate.
• Cloud security: Wiz, Prowler, AWS GuardDuty / Security Hub, GCP Security Command Center, Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
• Vulnerability management: Tenable, Qualys, Snyk, Trivy, integrated into a managed remediation workflow.
• GRC & compliance: Vanta, Drata, Secureframe for continuous SOC 2 / ISO 27001 evidence.

Who we work withOur managed security clients are typically Series A–D startups facing their first enterprise security review or compliance deadline, scale-ups that have outgrown "the senior engineer who also does security", fintechs and healthtechs with real regulatory pressure, and companies that have just had a scare and want a grown-up programme in place before the next one. We do our best work when the brief is concrete — a compliance deadline, an enterprise security questionnaire, a specific risk that keeps a founder up at night — and the team on the other side is ready to actually run a security programme.Engagement models & pricing

• Security assessment & roadmap — $15k–$50k, two to four weeks. Risk baseline, gap analysis, tooling recommendations, and a prioritised roadmap.
• Managed detection & response (MDR) — monthly retainer, from $8k. 24/7 monitoring, triage, active response, and detection engineering, priced by environment size.
• Compliance programme — $30k–$120k plus retainer. SOC 2 or ISO 27001 readiness and continuous evidence, built to pass and stay passed.
• Virtual CISO (vCISO) — monthly retainer, from $6k. Fractional senior security leadership, board reporting, and programme ownership.
• Incident response retainer — annual, from $25k base. Pre-negotiated rates, named on-call responders, and SLA-backed coverage.

We are booking new security engagements one quarter at a time. Tell us what you need to protect — we respond to every brief within one business day, with NDA enclosed.