← Playbooks

The Approach

Most security programs chase AI magic.
The ones that work fix the plumbing.

Configure the tools you already own, wire them together, and build systems that compound without constant intervention. Technology is cool — operational discipline is what prevents breaches.

Where time gets spent

80% Plumbing
20% AI
The 80%permissions, log retention, patch hygiene, tested restores, drift monitoring.
The 20%Alert investigation and threat hunting. AI that works because the plumbing is solid.

The blind spot

M365 alone has fifteen unused controls.
The tools exist. The configuration doesn't.

Mid-market organizations already own the stack. Entra, Defender, firewalls, backups, DNS, identity — everything a security program needs. Most of it was never configured beyond defaults.

The industry default

Shiny AI demos that need an enterprise team to maintain. Vendor lock-in that replaces your stack. Sixty-page strategic docs nobody references during an incident. Enterprise frameworks scaled down — poorly — for mid-market.

The alternative

Configure what you already own. Layer on top — keep your stack, make it coherent. Ten-page tactical playbooks with action cards any team can execute at 2 AM. Built for mid-market from the ground up.

99%
of vulnerabilities AI finds are still unpatched at the time of exploitation. The bottleneck is not detection — it's the mundane, unglamorous work of making the tools you already have actually do their job.

One layer, not a replacement

Add the layer that makes your existing stack coherent.

Nobody has the appetite for another rip-and-replace. The thing that delivers single-pane-of-glass is not another pane — it's the operational glue that makes the panes you already paid for actually work together.

Single pane of glass

Unified visibility. Alerts investigated 24/7. Threats hunted proactively. Posture monitored continuously. The thing every vendor promises — actually delivered.

People + process + automation

Playbook-driven configuration. Capability transfer, not dependency. Detection engineering and investigation automation. Flywheels that compound — each cycle makes the next one cheaper.

Your existing tools

M365 Business Premium. Entra ID. Defender. Your MSP. Your firewall and backup solution. The tools exist. Most were never configured beyond defaults.

How it works

Flywheels, not fire stations.

Five stages, run on repeat. Every cycle finds less, catches earlier, and makes the next cycle cheaper. The team owns it — no ongoing dependency on any single person or vendor.

01

Assess

PHOSI, self-assessment, control coverage, gap analysis. A 0–100 posture score against mid-market reality — not an enterprise standard that was never going to fit.

Output: a prioritized control list driven by actual financial exposure.

02

Configure

Turn on what's already there. Thirteen free BEC controls in one afternoon. SPF, DMARC, MFA exceptions, legacy auth, stale admins, log sizing. The boring work that prevents breaches.

Output: the stack you already own, finally doing its job.

03

Monitor

Continuous drift detection. Alerts where defaults slip back. Exception management with expiry dates — not a permanent "temporary" allow list.

Output: posture that stays posture, not a point-in-time audit.

04

Detect

Detection engineering and investigation automation. The 20% where AI earns its keep. Alerts triaged, enriched, and escalated by a pipeline that runs 24/7.

Output: an agent that never sleeps, tuned to your stack.

05

Improve

Every cycle makes the next one cheaper. Every assessment finds less. Every scan catches earlier. Every incident feeds back in: how they got in, what detection missed, and where visibility was thin become the next cycle's work. An analyst curates anything that becomes intelligence. The playbook runs on its own — the team owns it.

Output: systems that compound without constant intervention.

What you get

Sixteen playbooks. Eighty free tools referenced.

No enterprise budget needed. No sales call. Run it yourself — or bring us in to run it with you.

Trust

Built for mid-market. From the ground up.

Not an enterprise framework filed down. The assumptions are different — the budget is different — the answer has to be different.

Eighty+ free tools referenced

Open source, free-tier SaaS, and already-paid-for capabilities. The stack costs less than one enterprise SIEM renewal.

Layer on top — never rip

Keep your stack. Keep your MSP. Keep your insurance policy. The layer makes what you own coherent instead of replacing it.

Flywheels, not fire stations

Systems that compound. No dependency on any single person. Every cycle gets cheaper. The team owns it when we leave.

Start here

No sales call. No email gate.

Run the assessment, see the gaps, decide what to do about them. The worst case is a posture score you can use yourself. The best case is a program you run on your own flywheel.