Managed Threat Detection
Stop threats from becoming disasters
Monitor you business 24/7
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.

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 you need 24/7 threat detection?
As businesses are increasingly entrenched in technology, and cyber attacks are on the rise, organizations should develop defensive capabilities to prevent the next attack
How monitoring can improve your security posture and scale your business
Gain visibility into your digital footprint
Identify gaps in coverage
Have a common language to communicate risks, and then prioritize risks
Understand endpoint security
Measure the right thing
Measure the right thing
Identify gaps in coverage
Improve operational and security efficiency
Provide trending data to measure success
Implement continuous monitoring - tech/ people/ process to triage and investigate risks
"We view Kobalt.io as a valuable extension to our team. They help us fill in gaps and ensure our security. They keep their managed threat detection service simple, and allow us to stay ahead of the game and focus on what is important for us."
What kinds of data do we look at?

Security Sources
Firewalls
Checkpoint, Fortigate, Palo Alto, Sonicwall, WAF, etc.
Endpoint Protection
Crowdstrike, 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 7x24x365, 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.
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
- Image/instance changes
Enjoy the benefits of a 24/7 SOC team without building one yourself

Why monitor with Kobalt.io?

- 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.

IT security management shouldn't be scary. Let us help!
Focus on closing business, your next product release, the innovation that makes you tick. Kobalt.io will focus on your security.