SOC as a Service

A co-managed SOC: we design and operate the monitoring stack, engineer the detections, triage the alerts, and wire escalation into your incident response.
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Definition

What is SOC as a service?

SOC as a service is a security operations center delivered by an outside team: the monitoring stack, the detection content, and the analysts who triage what it finds. BD Emerson runs it as a co-managed model. We design and operate the SIEM and EDR stack you own, write and tune the detections, triage the alerts, and hand confirmed incidents to your incident response process with context attached. You keep the tooling, the data, and the institutional knowledge, and we supply the detection engineering and the operating discipline. Our network security monitoring and real-time security monitoring pages cover the telemetry itself; this page covers the operating model that runs it.

Services

What does SOC as a service include?

Stack design and operation
Detection engineering
Alert triage
IR integration
Co-managed model
Reporting and tuning

Monitoring stack design and operation

We design the monitoring stack around what you already run: Microsoft Sentinel or a comparable SIEM, EDR such as CrowdStrike or Microsoft Defender, identity logs, and cloud telemetry. We own log source onboarding, parsing, retention economics, and the health checks that catch a silent feed before it costs you a detection. The stack lives in your tenant under your contracts, so the data and licenses stay yours.

Detection engineering

Detections are written for the threats that apply to your environment, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, tested against sample data, and version-controlled like code. Every rule ships with a triage runbook covering what the alert means, what to check first, and when to escalate. We retire noisy rules on the same cadence we ship new ones, because a queue analysts distrust is a queue they ignore.

Alert triage and escalation

We take first-pass triage on the alert queue: validate the signal, enrich it with identity and asset context, close false positives with a documented reason, and escalate confirmed incidents down the path we agreed. Every disposition is recorded with a timestamp, so tuning decisions have evidence behind them and auditors have a trail.

Wired into your incident response

Escalations arrive in your incident response process with severity, scope, and supporting evidence attached. During onboarding we set the thresholds, the handoff format, and the named contacts, then exercise the path before the first real incident. Clients who hold our incident response retainer run escalation and response on the same terms and the same contacts.

A co-managed operating model

Your team keeps the decisions and the business context. We carry the detection engineering and the queue discipline. Coverage windows, escalation authority, and division of labor go into a responsibility matrix during onboarding, because co-managed operations fail at the seams first. Scope varies by client: some hand us the full queue, others keep business-hours triage and use us for engineering depth.

Reporting and continuous tuning

A monthly operating review covers alert volume, true and false positive rates, time to triage, detections added and retired, and coverage gaps with a remediation plan. The same records serve as monitoring-control evidence for SOC 2 and ISO 27001, so the SOC produces audit material as a byproduct of operating.

Our approach

Our approach

01

Baseline the telemetry

We inventory log sources, EDR coverage, and identity signals against what detection actually requires. Gaps get priced and sequenced before anyone writes a rule.

02

Stand up the stack

We configure the SIEM, onboard log sources, and set parsing and retention to budget. Detections deploy in waves, each with a runbook and a tested escalation path.

03

Operate and tune

We run triage on the agreed coverage window, tune detections weekly, and retire the rules that only make noise. Dispositions and time to triage get reviewed with you monthly.

04

Escalate into your IR

Confirmed incidents move to your incident response process with evidence attached. We rehearse the handoff in tabletop exercises, so the first escalation is not the first test.

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Our Advantage

Why BD Emerson for SOC operations

Engineers answer the queue

The team that triages your alerts is the team that wrote the detections, so every false positive becomes a tuning ticket instead of a recurring cost.

Co-managed by design

We operate inside your tenant and your process. The stack, the data, and the detection content stay yours, so an audit or an exit never depends on another firm's platform.

Evidence auditors accept

Triage records, tuning logs, and monthly reviews double as SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA monitoring evidence, in the format assessors ask for.

Reviews

What our customers say

Great consulting firms for scaling security, compliance, and appsec.

Outstanding partner in Technical and Cyber Due Diligence

Appsec maturity and application hardening.

BD Emerson helped us simplfiy our compliance management.

BD Emerson did such a phenomenal job. What started as privacy support quickly became a full partnership across compliance, engineering, and even business operations. They’re embedded with our team. They understand our product. They move fast. They’re simply invaluable.

Adam Ben Jacobs

CTO @ OneStep GPS

Great consulting firms for scaling security, compliance, and appsec.

Outstanding partner in Technical and Cyber Due Diligence

Appsec maturity and application hardening.

BD Emerson helped us simplfiy our compliance management.

BD Emerson did such a phenomenal job. What started as privacy support quickly became a full partnership across compliance, engineering, and even business operations. They’re embedded with our team. They understand our product. They move fast. They’re simply invaluable.

Adam Ben Jacobs

CTO @ OneStep GPS

We had a hard time finding the right company to partner with in support of our compliance journey. Some vendors sell the idea that they do the work, but then you end up doing everything. The ambiguity is what killed our last project. BD Emerson’s team has such great technical knowledge and understands the standard so well that they made us comfortable with moving fast. This has led to us closing major enterprise customers that were previously out of reach because of security and compliance.

Tom Watkins

CEO @ AMI AssetTrack

Lead an enterprise initiative to overhaul the organization's technology stack from ecommerce, corporate tech, and corporate security.

Supported ISO 42001 exercise and served as internal auditor.

Rubrik's privacy and compliance team began with the backbone of BD Emerson. BD Emerson supported building out the privacy program, GRC (ISO 27001, SOC 2, CMMC, FedRAMP), and the appsec function.

We needed a partner who could move quickly, without sacrificing precision. BD Emerson brought the expertise, structure, and speed we were looking for. Their team became an extension of ours, embedding themselves across the organization, guiding us step by step, and giving us confidence in areas we hadn’t tackled before. The internal audit they conducted was so detailed that even the external auditors called it out. Achieving ISO 27001 with zero nonconformities says everything you need to know about the quality of the partnership.

Walid Souilem

CTO @ FGI Worldwide

We had a hard time finding the right company to partner with in support of our compliance journey. Some vendors sell the idea that they do the work, but then you end up doing everything. The ambiguity is what killed our last project. BD Emerson’s team has such great technical knowledge and understands the standard so well that they made us comfortable with moving fast. This has led to us closing major enterprise customers that were previously out of reach because of security and compliance.

Tom Watkins

CEO @ AMI AssetTrack

Lead an enterprise initiative to overhaul the organization's technology stack from ecommerce, corporate tech, and corporate security.

Supported ISO 42001 exercise and served as internal auditor.

Rubrik's privacy and compliance team began with the backbone of BD Emerson. BD Emerson supported building out the privacy program, GRC (ISO 27001, SOC 2, CMMC, FedRAMP), and the appsec function.

We needed a partner who could move quickly, without sacrificing precision. BD Emerson brought the expertise, structure, and speed we were looking for. Their team became an extension of ours, embedding themselves across the organization, guiding us step by step, and giving us confidence in areas we hadn’t tackled before. The internal audit they conducted was so detailed that even the external auditors called it out. Achieving ISO 27001 with zero nonconformities says everything you need to know about the quality of the partnership.

Walid Souilem

CTO @ FGI Worldwide

BD Emerson didn’t just help us meet our compliance goals; they integrated security and privacy into the core of our operations. I highly recommend BD Emerson to anyone seeking SOC 2 or GDPR compliance, or simply looking to enhance their security team and boost customer trust in their product and services. Their dedication and expertise have been invaluable to our success.

Padraig Reilly

CEO, Boxcore

BD Emerson understood our business requirements and worked side-by-side with us. The policies and controls we developed together not only meet compliance standards but improve how we operate day to day.

Matt Meierdierks

IT Manager, Lincoln Industries

From day one, BD Emerson brought urgency, clarity, and a sharp understanding of what truly matters to our business — earning and keeping customer trust. They went beyond helping us meet compliance requirements; they helped build a foundation for secure, scalable growth. That kind of partnership is rare.

Jason Marker

CEO @ LifeLenz

BD Emerson didn’t just help us pass an audit—they helped us build a sustainable culture of security.

Alexey Indeev

CTO Spare

BD Emerson was essential in helping our company navigate the daunting process of leveling up our security infrastructure. BD Emerson’s impressive expertise and confidence throughout the process helped our team exceed HIPAA and SOC 2 Type 1 standards quickly, distilling what can be an overwhelming process into a streamlined, organized effort. From day one they began adding value and getting us on course. With their help we delivered on a massive security overhaul with both extreme efficiency and thorough attention to details. Because of BD Emerson’s support, we’ve increased our clients’ trust in Titan Intake and the life-changing work it accomplishes for those seeking specialist referrals.

Patrick Bruce

CEO, Titan Intake

BD Emerson didn’t just help us meet our compliance goals; they integrated security and privacy into the core of our operations. I highly recommend BD Emerson to anyone seeking SOC 2 or GDPR compliance, or simply looking to enhance their security team and boost customer trust in their product and services. Their dedication and expertise have been invaluable to our success.

Padraig Reilly

CEO, Boxcore

BD Emerson understood our business requirements and worked side-by-side with us. The policies and controls we developed together not only meet compliance standards but improve how we operate day to day.

Matt Meierdierks

IT Manager, Lincoln Industries

From day one, BD Emerson brought urgency, clarity, and a sharp understanding of what truly matters to our business — earning and keeping customer trust. They went beyond helping us meet compliance requirements; they helped build a foundation for secure, scalable growth. That kind of partnership is rare.

Jason Marker

CEO @ LifeLenz

BD Emerson didn’t just help us pass an audit—they helped us build a sustainable culture of security.

Alexey Indeev

CTO Spare

BD Emerson was essential in helping our company navigate the daunting process of leveling up our security infrastructure. BD Emerson’s impressive expertise and confidence throughout the process helped our team exceed HIPAA and SOC 2 Type 1 standards quickly, distilling what can be an overwhelming process into a streamlined, organized effort. From day one they began adding value and getting us on course. With their help we delivered on a massive security overhaul with both extreme efficiency and thorough attention to details. Because of BD Emerson’s support, we’ve increased our clients’ trust in Titan Intake and the life-changing work it accomplishes for those seeking specialist referrals.

Patrick Bruce

CEO, Titan Intake

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