Managed Threat Detection | 24/7 Security Monitoring
Stop threats from becoming disasters
You are a small or medium-sized business with big dreams but a small, focused team. You need a partner to help you detect security attacks and risks, allowing you to address them quickly while keeping your team focused on key deliverables.
Have your business monitored 24/7 to get alerts on malicious activities and attacks, risks and vulnerabilities. The sooner you address and contain a cyber incident, the lower the impact on your business.
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What Is Monitoring?
Cybersecurity monitoring is a threat detection strategy that continuously scans your IT ecosystem for control weaknesses, sending alerts to a security incident and event management (SIEM) system. This enables the organization to mitigate potential information security risks before they escalate to security incidents.
Why Managed Threat Detection Matters
- 24/7 Security Monitoring – Continuous surveillance to detect anomalies, suspicious activity, and cyber threats.
- Rapid Threat Response & Incident Handling – Reduce response time and contain attacks before they cause damage.
- AI-Powered Threat Detection – Advanced machine learning and behavioral analytics identify known and unknown threats.
- Reduce Cyber Risk & Business Downtime – Proactively defend against ransomware, phishing, insider threats, and more.
Common Cyber Threats Businesses Face
- Ransomware & Malware Attacks – Cybercriminals encrypt files and demand ransom for data recovery.
- Phishing & Social Engineering – Attackers trick employees into revealing sensitive credentials.
- Insider Threats – Malicious or negligent insiders cause data breaches or unauthorized access.
- Zero-Day Vulnerabilities – Hackers exploit unknown software flaws before patches are available.
- Cloud & Endpoint Attacks – Unsecured endpoints and misconfigured cloud environments increase risk exposure.
Why You Need 24/7 Monitoring?
In today’s fast-paced, always-connected world, the need for round-the-clock monitoring has become an absolute necessity for businesses. The sooner you spot a cybersecurity threat, the faster you can respond and recover.
How Monitoring Improves Your Security Posture And Scales Your Business
- Cybersecurity Never Sleeps: Cyber threats don't adhere to a 9-to-5 schedule. They strike when you least expect it. 24/7 monitoring ensures that any unusual activity is promptly detected, allowing for an immediate response to protect your data and systems.
- Downtime Equals Loss: Downtime can be incredibly costly. Whether it's a technical glitch, server failure, or network issue, the longer it persists, the more revenue and customer trust you stand to lose. 24/7 monitoring minimizes downtime by identifying problems before they escalate.
- Global Operations: In our globalized world, businesses often operate in different time zones and serve customers around the clock. Monitoring ensures that your services and systems are always available, regardless of where your customers are.
- Preventive Maintenance: Monitoring helps in identifying performance issues and system degradation early on. This allows for proactive maintenance, reducing the chances of major breakdowns and costly repairs.
- Compliance and Regulations: Many industries have strict regulatory requirements for data security and operational continuity. 24/7 monitoring is often a prerequisite for meeting these compliance standards.
- Customer Trust: Your customers expect seamless service. 24/7 monitoring is a way to meet those expectations and maintain trust. When customers know they can rely on your business at any hour, they're more likely to remain loyal.
- Competitive Advantage: In a competitive market, being able to provide 24/7 services sets you apart. It can be a significant selling point, attracting customers who prioritize availability and reliability.
- Cybersecurity Never Sleeps: Cyber threats don't adhere to a 9-to-5 schedule. They strike when you least expect it. 24/7 monitoring ensures that any unusual activity is promptly detected, allowing for an immediate response to protect your data and systems.
- Downtime Equals Loss: Downtime can be incredibly costly. Whether it's a technical glitch, server failure, or network issue, the longer it persists, the more revenue and customer trust you stand to lose. 24/7 monitoring minimizes downtime by identifying problems before they escalate.
- Global Operations: In our globalized world, businesses often operate in different time zones and serve customers around the clock. Monitoring ensures that your services and systems are always available, regardless of where your customers are.
- Preventive Maintenance: Monitoring helps in identifying performance issues and system degradation early on. This allows for proactive maintenance, reducing the chances of major breakdowns and costly repairs.
- Compliance and Regulations: Many industries have strict regulatory requirements for data security and operational continuity. 24/7 monitoring is often a prerequisite for meeting these compliance standards.
- Customer Trust: Your customers expect seamless service. 24/7 monitoring is a way to meet those expectations and maintain trust. When customers know they can rely on your business at any hour, they're more likely to remain loyal.
- Competitive Advantage: In a competitive market, being able to provide 24/7 services sets you apart. It can be a significant selling point, attracting customers who prioritize availability and reliability.
Common Risks Detected
850+ detection rules support our detection and investigation, covering things like:
- Modifying IAM policies
- Modifying accounts
- Accessing or deleting keys
- Excessive access denied errors
- Root account login
- Removal of network access controls
- Disabling/deletion of monitoring
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA) underuse
- WAF changes
- Kubernetes container modifications
- Image/instance changes
- Distributed Denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks
- Anomalous geographic access
- Web vulnerabilities
- Look-a-like domains
- Secure Socket Layer (SSL) / Transport Layer Security (TLS) exploits (handshake attacks)
- Brute force attacks
- Phishing
- Malware activity
- Malicious DNS queries
Stop Threats Before They Escalate With 24/7 Security Monitoring
"Kobalt.io performs several services for us. We trust them to run security education for our employees, test for vulnerabilities and provide overwatch with 24/7 threat detection across our infrastructure. They’re a great partner and have become an important part of our business as we continue to level up our operations."
What Kinds Of Data Do We Look At?
Security Sources
Firewalls
Checkpoint, Fortigate, Palo Alto, Sonicwall, WAF, etc.
Endpoint Protection
MalwareBytes, MS Defender, Sophos Central, Trend, etc.
Other
1Password, Fail2Ban, Lacework, etc.
Identity Sources
Identity systems
Active Directory, Azure AD, Okta *
Other
Duo, Keycloak, Okta *
SaaS / Infrastructure
SaaS
Directory services, AWS, Azure, Dropbox, GCP, Github, GitLab, GSuite, O365
Infrastructure
Apache, IIS, Linux, nginx, Windows
How Does Managed Threat Detection Work?
Logging and alerting
The Kobalt.io team sets up systems to collect logs from your organization’s infrastructure, collect relevant data and find events that are out of the norm.
Triage
Review alerts 24/7, keeping the bulk of the noise away from your team while surfacing real threats. Analyze activities for malware, attackers and other suspicious activities.
Report
Aggregate lower level risks into weekly reports that allow you to see trends, address minor threats before they become serious compromises.
Investigate
Investigate the suspicious activity sources and scope in a fast and effective manner.
Recommend
Kobalt.io provides case-to-case advisory services based on analyzed and investigated results to strengthen clients’ security systems and defense from future potential malicious activities.
Live Review
Your assigned SOC lead will review reports with your team, respond to questions and offer suggestions based on the findings.
Kobalt.io leverages Sumo Logic to deliver comprehensive solutions to better secure our customer’s critical assets and satisfy our customers’ security and compliance needs.
About Sumo Logic
Sumo Logic empowers the people who power modern, digital business through its Continuous Intelligence Platform™ to help practitioners and developers deliver reliable and secure cloud-native applications.
Monitoring For Compliance
Security Frameworks That Require Or Recommend Threat Detection
- ISO 27001 - requires organizations to monitor systems for unusual activity to detect information security events, making threat detection a key expectation
- SOC 2 - requires companies to implement controls to detect and respond to anomalies and known or new threats — SIEMs, IDS, and behavior analytics are common tools used.
- NIST CSF / NIST 800-53 - organizations are required to implement continuous threat detection across assets, networks, and users
- HIPAA - requires covered entities to conduct ongoing risk assessments and detect threats to ePHI. Threat detection systems help meet this requirement
- PCI DSS - mandates log monitoring, file integrity monitoring, and intrusion detection systems to identify and alert on suspicious activity
- CMMC - recommends practice involve threat detection tools
Why Monitor With Kobalt.io?
We Utilize The MITRE ATT&CK Framework
Enjoy The Benefits Of A 24/7 SOC Team Without Building One Yourself
- We have a full, two-tier, 24/7 team
- We manage the staffing, the 24/7 schedule, the training
- We make sure we are looking at the right data
- We maintain and grow the library of investigation procedures
- We manage the tool
- We track the health of the log sources
- We tune the rules
- We look after the upgrades
- Your business does not need to buy or adopt new technologies to be monitored. We cover the technologies you need.
- Significantly reduce your team’s efforts and operational overhead. Without the need to spend time and resources to hire a security operations team, the Kobalt.io team works with your team as an extended member, minimizing your effort, handling the vast majority of alerts without a need to involve your team.
- You will work with a team of experts, instead of a computer. We tailor approaches based on the needs and goals of your business and explain workflows using plain language for easy understanding.
- Experience - our breadth of clientele allows our SOC team to see a wide range of attacks and threats, incorporate learnings and improve detection to rapidly advance your detection capabilities.
- Integrated threat intelligence and advanced analytics - our team has done the hard work of integrating 3rd party threat intelligence feeds, establishing advanced security analytics leveraging big data toolsets, and optimizing alerts and dashboards to surface real risks to your business.
- Cost - Kobalt.io shares the cost of our team and technology across a wide customer base, enabling you to benefit from our scale of operations and gain improved security threat detection capabilities at a small fraction of the cost of building the same capabilities internally.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Antivirus software only detects known threats, whereas Managed Threat Detection uses AI-driven analysis, behavioral detection, and expert threat intelligence to detect and neutralize advanced attacks.
Yes! Small businesses are often prime targets for cybercriminals. Managed Threat Detection helps SMBs proactively defend against security threats without needing an in-house security team.
Yes! Many compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR) require continuous security monitoring, log management, and incident response capabilities.
Industries handling sensitive data—SaaS, fintech, healthcare, retail, and cloud-based businesses—greatly benefit from proactive security monitoring.