SOC-as-a-Service — enterprise security operations for Tennessee businesses.
Building an internal SOC costs $500,000+ annually in fully-loaded costs. SignalPoint delivers every SOC function — 24/7 monitoring, threat hunting, incident response, and detection engineering — as a managed service, staffed by senior certified analysts.
A full security operations center without the cost of building one.
A Security Operations Center (SOC) is the team and capability that monitors, detects, investigates, and responds to cybersecurity threats across an organization's environment — around the clock, every day of the year. Enterprise organizations build internal SOCs with dozens of analysts across multiple shifts. For SMBs, that model is financially inaccessible. SOC-as-a-Service delivers every SOC function as a managed service.
SignalPoint's SOC-as-a-Service is not a monitoring platform with an alert feed. It's a team of senior certified analysts — GREM, GCFA, CISSP, and OSCP — who operate as your dedicated security operations function. We review every alert, investigate confirmed threats, hunt proactively for undetected adversaries, and respond immediately when action is required. You get a direct line to the analyst working your environment, not a ticketing queue.
SOC-as-a-Service functions
- 24/7 monitoring of endpoint, network, identity, and cloud telemetry with human analyst review of every alert
- Alert triage and investigation: separating real threats from false positives, with full investigation of confirmed events
- Proactive threat hunting: monthly intelligence-driven hunts across your environment targeting current adversary TTPs
- Detection engineering: continuously improving detection rules based on your specific environment and current threat landscape
- Incident response: active containment and eradication when a threat is confirmed — not just notification
- Threat intelligence: applying current adversary intelligence to your detection program
- Reporting: weekly threat briefings, monthly posture reviews, and post-incident root cause reports
- Compliance support: audit-ready logs, evidence documentation, and regulatory notification guidance
Who SOC-as-a-Service is for
SOC-as-a-Service is designed for organizations that need enterprise-level security operations but cannot justify the cost and complexity of building internally. This includes: businesses in regulated industries (healthcare, financial services, legal) with compliance-driven security requirements; businesses that have experienced a breach and need to significantly uplift their security program; and businesses that have deployed security tooling (EDR, SIEM) but lack the analyst capacity to operate it effectively.
Common questions.
SOC-as-a-Service and MDR are closely related — MDR is the service model, SOCaaS is a description of what it delivers. SignalPoint's MDR service provides all core SOC functions, which is why it's also referred to as SOC-as-a-Service. The key differentiator from basic MDR offerings is our analyst seniority — GREM, GCFA, CISSP, and OSCP certified professionals, not tier-1 help desk staff.
In many cases, yes. We can integrate with existing EDR platforms, SIEM systems, and identity providers depending on your current tooling. Contact us for an assessment of your existing environment — we'll determine whether we can monitor your current stack or whether migration to supported platforms would provide better coverage.
SignalPoint provides weekly threat intelligence briefings, monthly security posture reviews, and post-incident root cause reports after any confirmed incident. All reporting is in plain language — designed for business leaders, not just security professionals.