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Managed Detection and Response

ThreatDefence provides 24×7 monitoring, threat detection and incident response across your entire technology stack, including networks, endpoints, cloud, identity, and operational technology.

Attack Complexity

Modern attackers move faster, stay quieter, and use legitimate tools, stolen identities, and multi-stage techniques to avoid detection.

Fragmented Visibility

Security tools often operate in silos, making it difficult to connect events and understand what is actually happening.

Resource Constraints

Running effective 24×7 detection and response in-house requires specialist skills, coverage, and operational maturity that are hard to maintain.

Alert Fatigue

Large alert volumes create noise and slow teams down, making it easier for genuine threats to go unnoticed.

Response Expectations

Data breach reporting obligations and increased executive scrutiny leave little room for slow or uncertain response.

Compliance Pressure

Organisations are increasingly expected to show evidence of ongoing monitoring, investigation, and structured response.

How ThreatDefence MDR Works

ThreatDefence MDR is built on five operating phases — Collect, Detect, Investigate, Respond, and Assure — delivered continuously by the ThreatDefence SecOps and our 24/7 Security Operations Centre.

Collect: Deep, Broad Visibility

You can’t detect what you can’t see. ThreatDefence begins by integrating with your existing technology stack to ingest security telemetry from every layer of your environment.

  • Endpoints — EDR agents, Windows Event Logs, system and user telemetry
  • Network —flow data, DNS logs, full packet captures
  • Cloud — AWS, Azure, GCP, SaaS platforms and more
  • Identity  – Entra ID, Okta, privileged access management systems
  • Email — Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft 365 Defender, email security products
  • OT/ICS — passive monitoring for operational technology and industrial control system networks
  • Dark Web — credential exposure monitoring across criminal forums and paste sites.
  • Attack Surface – discovery of external exposures and vulnerabilities.

Detect: High-Confidence, Low-Noise Detections

Raw telemetry is processed by the ThreatDefence SecOps Platform — combining rule-based detection, machine learning, behavioural analytics, and threat intelligence enrichment to surface high-confidence threats.

  • MITRE ATT&CK Detections — threat detection coverage mapped to the industry-standard ATT&CK framework
  • User & Entity Behaviour Analytics (UEBA) — baseline normal behaviour and alert when users or systems deviate
  • Threat Intelligence — every event is automatically enriched with threat feed integrations
  • Cross-Source Correlation — detections that span endpoint, network, cloud, and identity simultaneously, catching multi-stage attacks that single-tool solutions miss
  • AI and Automation —  Embedded AI to reduce noise, enrich investigations, and accelerate analyst response.

 

Investigate: Every Alert Gets Human Eyes

Every high-confidence detection is reviewed by a ThreatDefence SOC analyst — not just forwarded to your inbox for you to figure out.

  • Incident Timeline — reconstruct the full attack using correlated evidence across all data sources
  • Compromise Scope — determine which systems, accounts, and data were affected
  • Business Impact — assess severity and operational impact in the context of your environment
  • Threat Validation — separate genuine threats from benign anomalies
  • Evidence-based Reporting — produce a structured incident report with evidence, timeline, affected assets, and recommended actions.

 

Respond: Contain and Neutralize

When a threat is confirmed, ThreatDefence acts — in coordination with your team, or autonomously based on pre-agreed playbooks.

  • Endpoint iIsolation — quarantine compromised hosts to disrupt lateral movement and further attacker activity
  • Account Containment — disable accounts, revoke active sessions, and force credential resets for compromised identities
  • Cloud Remediation — isolate exposed workloads, restrict risky permissions, and secure misconfigured or abused cloud resources
  • Network Containment — disrupt command-and-control traffic, malicious communications, and unauthorised connections across the environment
  • Playbook-driven Escalation — structured escalation paths for ransomware, data exfiltration, insider misuse, and more.

 

Assure: Improve, Report, Harden

ThreatDefence also helps turn operational security activity into clear assurance outcomes, practical improvement actions, and stronger long-term resilience.

  • Executive Reporting — clear reporting on incidents, trends, and response activity
  • Compliance Metrics — support reporting and evidence needs across relevant frameworks and obligations
  • Risk-based Remediation — prioritise vulnerabilities and exposures by real risk
  • Configuration Assurance — identify misconfigurations and control gaps early
  • Security Reviews — regular reviews of posture, threats, and improvement priorities

 

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ThreatDefence Value Proposition

Our Managed Detection and Response is a fully managed security service that combines advanced threat detection technology with expert human analysis to identify, investigate, and respond to cyber threats in real time — without requiring you to build or staff a Security Operations Centre (SOC) internally.

MDR goes beyond traditional SIEM/SOC services that simply forward alerts and leave the investigation to you. With ThreatDefence, a dedicated team of security analysts actively hunts threats in your environment, triages every alert, investigates suspicious behaviour, contains threats and works with your team towards complete remediation.

MDR vs. SIEM/SOC vs. In-House SOC

Competitive comparison table
Capability Traditional SIEM/SOC Internal SOC ThreatDefence MDR
24×7 monitoring
Alert triage & investigation Partial
Active threat hunting
Incident response
DFIR capability
NDR & network evidence Partial
Deception technology
Cloud security posture Partial
OT/ICS visibility
Single-license SecOps stack
Australian data sovereignty Varies Varies

What is Included in Our Service

ThreatDefence MDR provides a complete operational capability to help your organisation identify, investigate, contain, and learn from cyber threats more effectively. It brings together the people, processes, and platform needed to improve visibility, reduce response friction, and strengthen security outcomes over time.

Security Advisor

Service oversight, security advisory, customer advocate.

Customer Success Manager

Operational service management, metrics, reporting, compliance.

24/7 Security Operations

Australian-based managed SIEM, SOC, IR, VM, TI, EDR Management, Automation.

DFIR Retainer Service

Major incident guidance, DFIR Retainer supported by SLA.

Australian Service

AU Threat Intel, Data sovereignty, local team.

Value Adds

Holistic end-to-end SecOps with NDR, ASM, Brand Protection, Automation and more.

Simulations and Tabletop

Testing of IR procedures, technical containment and coordinated response. 

The ThreatDefence SecOps Platform

Next-Generation SIEM

The backbone of the platform. Ingest logs and security events from across your environment, correlate them in real time, and retain structured evidence for investigation, reporting, and long-term analysis. Built for fast search, clear timelines, and evidence-led response.

Network Detection & Response (NDR)

Network visibility for detecting lateral movement, command-and-control traffic, suspicious communications, and data exfiltration. Particularly valuable in environments where endpoint agents cannot be deployed, including OT, IoT, unmanaged assets, and BYOD.

Deception Technology

Deploy honeypots, honey credentials, honey files, and honeytokens across the environment to detect attacker activity early. Interactions with deception assets are high-confidence signals with near-zero false positives, making deception a powerful early warning layer.

Cloud Security & CSPM

Continuous monitoring of AWS, Azure, and GCP for misconfigurations, exposed assets, excessive permissions, and cloud-native attack paths. Integrated with the broader platform for unified visibility across hybrid environments.

Digital Risk Monitoring (DW)

Monitor the external threat surface for signs of exposure, impersonation, leaked credentials, brand abuse, executive targeting, and data appearing in criminal or underground sources. Helps identify risk outside the perimeter before it becomes an internal incident.

External Attack Surface Management (EASM)

Continuously discover and monitor internet-facing assets, exposed services, forgotten infrastructure, shadow IT, and misconfigurations that increase attack exposure. Gives security teams a clearer view of what is externally visible and potentially exploitable.

Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR)

When a serious incident occurs, ThreatDefence’s DFIR capability provides deep forensic investigation, breach scoping, evidence preservation, and structured reporting. This helps organisations understand what happened, what was affected, and what needs to happen next.

Threat Intelligence

Integrated threat intelligence enriches detections with context from commercial feeds, public advisories, ATT&CK mapping, and ThreatDefence research. This helps analysts understand not just what was detected, but why it matters.

Bring Your Own EDR

Already invested in endpoint security? ThreatDefence MDR can work with your existing EDR tools. We integrate with leading endpoint platforms to ingest alerts, enrich investigations, correlate endpoint activity with identity, cloud, and network telemetry, and support faster, more coordinated response.

This means you do not need to replace your current EDR to benefit from ThreatDefence MDR. You keep the endpoint controls you already trust, while ThreatDefence adds 24×7 monitoring, deeper investigation, cross-source correlation, and structured incident response around them.

  • Protect existing investments — keep your current EDR platform in place
  • Broader visibility — combine endpoint telemetry with cloud, identity, email, and network data
  • Stronger investigations — validate endpoint alerts with wider context across the environment
  • Faster response — coordinate containment and escalation through a single MDR workflow
  • Flexible integration — support for a wide range of enterprise EDR and XDR platforms.

Rich Integrations

ThreatDefence is designed to integrate with the tools you already use. Rather than forcing another isolated security product into your environment, the platform connects across endpoint, identity, cloud, network, email, vulnerability management, and IT operations to create a more complete and actionable security picture.

This allows ThreatDefence MDR to ingest telemetry, enrich detections, validate threats, automate response actions, and coordinate investigations across multiple control points. The result is better visibility, faster response, and stronger value from your existing security investments.

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The ThreatDefence Australian SOC

Our Security Operations Centre is staffed by experienced Australian analysts — operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Your environment is monitored by people who understand:

  • Australian regulatory frameworks
  • Australian threat actor activity and industry-specific targeting patterns
  • Data sovereignty requirements

What our SOC delivers:

  • Alert Triage: Every alert reviewed, classified, and actioned within defined SLAs
  • Threat Investigation: Deep-dive analysis of confirmed threats, full timeline reconstruction, scope determination
  • Threat Hunting: Proactive hypothesis-driven hunting for threats that haven’t triggered alerts yet — looking for the attacker who got in quietly
  • Incident Response: Rapid escalation and hands-on response for confirmed high-severity incidents, including ransomware, BEC, and data breach scenarios
  • DFIR: Full forensic investigation capability for compliance-driven breach assessments and legal proceedings

Frequently Asked Questions

A traditional MSSP monitors your environment and forwards alerts to your team. An MDR provider investigates those alerts, determines whether they represent real threats, and actively responds. MDR replaces alert fatigue with curated, actionable intelligence and hands-on response — so your team focuses on outcomes, not triage queues.

No. ThreatDefence integrates with your existing technology stack — firewalls, endpoint platforms, cloud providers, identity systems — and adds coverage on top. We’re an open platform that connects to any log source or security tool.

Most deployments are operational within days. Our deployment team handles sensor installation, log source configuration, and initial tuning. We prioritise getting your most critical data sources integrated first, then expand coverage iteratively.

Your dedicated SOC analyst initiates your pre-agreed ransomware response playbook immediately — isolating affected endpoints, locking compromised credentials, blocking C2 infrastructure, and escalating to your incident response contact. Response actions are taken within minutes of detection, not hours. DFIR capability is available immediately for forensic investigation and recovery support.

Yes. ThreatDefence NDR provides passive network monitoring for operational technology environments — capturing and analysing OT/ICS traffic without deploying agents on production systems or disrupting operations. This is particularly relevant for critical infrastructure operators with SOCI Act obligations.

Yes. ThreatDefence is an Australian company with Australian data residency. Your security data does not leave Australia.

ThreatDefence provides continuous monitoring aligned to Essential Eight controls — detecting control failures in real time and providing quarterly maturity benchmarking reports. We map our detections and hardening recommendations directly to Essential Eight categories so you can demonstrate compliance with evidence, not assertions.

ThreatDefence MDR includes defined SLAs for alert triage time, investigation turnaround for high-severity incidents, and incident response escalation. SLAs are agreed during onboarding and reflected in your service agreement.

Ready to Get Started?

Reach out to schedule an introductory call with one of our team members and learn more about ThreatDefence solutions.