Microsoft Sentinel Strategy
Sentinel delivers the most value when Defender is already generating tuned signals. This engagement is designed to follow a Defender deployment — or to run alongside a mature Defender environment. The outcome is a centralised monitoring architecture that scales with your operations without generating noise your team can't act on.
Sentinel as a system, not a feature
Microsoft Sentinel is a powerful platform that's easy to connect and expensive to run poorly. Without a log ingestion architecture that controls cost, analytics rules aligned to your actual threat model, and automation playbooks handling the high-volume low-complexity events, Sentinel generates noise at scale rather than insight at scale. This engagement designs it as a system from the start.
What this engagement covers
What you receive
Connectors activated, analytics rules deployed, dashboards built, and playbooks configured — in your environment, not a design document.
How your team works the queue, escalation criteria, playbook trigger conditions, and maintenance procedures for analytics rules over time.
Current ingestion volumes by source, projected cost at scale, and optimisation opportunities documented — so your cost doesn't grow faster than your coverage.
Build a Sentinel environment
your team can actually work.
Start with a 30-minute conversation about your current monitoring setup and what you're trying to achieve.