Managed SOC
24/7 Security Operations Without the Seven-Figure Cost of Building One Yourself.
A Security Operations Center is the difference between knowing you have a security problem and finding out you had one — after the breach, after the ransom demand, after the regulatory notification, after the client call. The organizations that detect and contain security incidents before they become material events share one characteristic that organizations that don’t detect them until it’s too late consistently lack: continuous, human-led monitoring of their environment by analysts who know what to look for, have the tools to find it, and are authorized to act on it immediately.
Building that capability internally requires dedicated security analysts working in shifts around the clock, a SIEM platform to aggregate and correlate security events, endpoint detection and response tooling across every device, threat intelligence feeds that stay current against an evolving attacker landscape, documented playbooks for every incident type, and the management overhead to keep all of it functioning. The fully loaded cost of a genuine in-house SOC for a mid-market organization runs to $1.5 million or more annually before tooling costs. Most organizations that need a SOC can’t justify building one. Most organizations that don’t have one are operating with a fundamental gap in their security program that their cyber insurer, their regulators, and eventually their attackers all know about.
Lionhive’s Managed SOC gives you the detection, analysis, and response capability of a fully staffed Security Operations Center — built on enterprise-grade tooling, delivered as a managed service at a fraction of the cost of building it internally.
Most security incidents aren’t discovered by the organization being attacked. They’re discovered by the attacker’s infrastructure, the victim’s bank, a federal agency, or a journalist. The average attacker spends 200+ days inside a network before being detected. A Managed SOC changes that equation — not by making attacks impossible, but by making them impossible to hide.
What Lionhive’s Managed SOC Delivers
24/7 Continuous Monitoring
Lionhive’s SOC analysts monitor your environment continuously — every hour of every day, including nights, weekends, and holidays. Attackers don’t observe business hours. The majority of ransomware deployments occur between Friday evening and Monday morning specifically because most organizations have reduced monitoring coverage during those windows. Lionhive’s monitoring coverage doesn’t change based on the day of the week or the time of day. When an anomaly is detected at 2am on a Saturday, an analyst sees it, evaluates it, and acts on it — not at 9am Monday.
Monitoring spans the full attack surface — endpoints, email, network traffic, cloud environments across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, identity systems via Microsoft Entra ID and Okta, SaaS applications including Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, and on-premises infrastructure. A threat actor who compromises a single endpoint, a single identity, or a single cloud resource generates signals across multiple systems simultaneously — correlation across the full environment is what turns individual alerts into actionable intelligence.
SIEM — Security Information & Event Management
The foundation of effective SOC operations is a Security Information and Event Management platform that aggregates log data from across the environment, correlates events that individually look benign but together indicate an attack pattern, and provides the analytical infrastructure that turns raw event data into actionable threat intelligence. Lionhive deploys and manages enterprise-grade SIEM infrastructure — collecting logs from endpoints, network devices, cloud platforms, identity systems, and applications and applying detection rules, behavioral analytics, and threat intelligence to surface genuine threats from the noise of normal operations.
Most mid-market organizations generate millions of security events daily. The vast majority are normal. The handful that aren’t — the lateral movement attempt that looks like normal network traffic, the credential stuffing attack that mimics legitimate login behavior, the data exfiltration that patterns like an authorized file sync — require human analysts with the experience and context to distinguish signal from noise. Lionhive’s analysts do this continuously, escalating genuine threats immediately and suppressing false positives so your team isn’t drowning in alerts that don’t require action.
Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR)
Endpoints — laptops, desktops, servers, and cloud workloads — are where most attacks begin and where they do the most damage. Lionhive deploys and manages enterprise-grade endpoint detection and response through CrowdStrike Falcon and SentinelOne — platforms that provide behavioral detection, threat hunting, and automated response capabilities that go significantly beyond what traditional antivirus and endpoint protection products detect. EDR platforms monitor endpoint behavior continuously, detecting malicious activity based on what software is doing rather than matching against known malware signatures — which is why they catch the novel attacks that signature-based products consistently miss.
When EDR detects suspicious endpoint behavior, Lionhive’s SOC analysts receive an alert, assess the context, and respond — isolating affected endpoints, terminating malicious processes, removing persistence mechanisms, and containing the threat before it can move laterally across the network. For organizations subject to HIPAA, SOC 2, NIST CSF 2.0, or SEC cybersecurity requirements, EDR deployment and continuous monitoring satisfies the technical safeguard, continuous monitoring, and incident detection obligations these frameworks and regulations require.
Threat Intelligence Integration
Threat intelligence — the curated, current knowledge of how attackers operate, what tools they use, which vulnerabilities they’re actively exploiting, and which industries and geographies they’re targeting — is what separates reactive security monitoring from proactive threat detection. Lionhive’s SOC integrates threat intelligence feeds from leading providers including Recorded Future and industry-specific information sharing communities including the Financial Services ISAC (FS-ISAC) and Health-ISAC — continuously updating detection rules and monitoring priorities based on current attacker behavior rather than historical attack patterns.
For organizations in financial services, healthcare, and critical infrastructure, industry-specific threat intelligence is particularly valuable — attacks targeting your sector use techniques, tools, and approaches that differ from generic attacks, and intelligence from organizations facing the same threat actors provides the most relevant detection context. Lionhive’s threat intelligence integration ensures that monitoring stays current against the specific threats targeting your industry, not just the general threat landscape.
Incident Response Integration
Detection without response is expensive logging. When Lionhive’s SOC identifies a confirmed security incident, the response capability is already in place — documented playbooks for every incident type, defined escalation paths, pre-authorized containment actions, and the communication protocols that govern notification to leadership, legal counsel, regulators, and affected parties as required. Lionhive’s Incident Response practice is integrated directly with the Managed SOC — the same team that detects incidents manages the response, eliminating the coordination delays and knowledge transfer gaps that occur when detection and response are handled by different organizations.
For organizations subject to breach notification requirements under HIPAA Breach Notification Rule, the SEC’s four-day material incident disclosure requirement, state breach notification laws including the Illinois PIPA, or the GDPR’s 72-hour notification requirement for organizations handling EU personal data — the integrated detection and response capability ensures that incident timelines, containment actions, and notification triggers are documented from the moment of detection rather than reconstructed after the fact.
Security Reporting & Executive Communication
A SOC that only reports to the IT team is leaving value on the table. Lionhive’s Managed SOC delivers reporting at two levels — operational reporting for IT and security teams covering alert volumes, incident trends, detection metrics, and control effectiveness, and executive reporting that translates SOC activity into the business-language risk intelligence that boards, audit committees, and senior leadership can act on. Monthly executive briefings cover the threat landscape relevant to your industry, the incidents detected and resolved, the controls that performed as expected, and the gaps that require investment to close — in language that doesn’t require a security background to understand.
For organizations subject to SEC cybersecurity disclosure rules requiring annual reporting on cybersecurity risk management, strategy, and governance, Lionhive’s SOC reporting provides the documented evidence of continuous monitoring, incident detection, and management oversight that makes annual disclosure accurate and defensible.
Who Needs a Managed SOC
The organizations that most need a Managed SOC are typically the ones most convinced they can get by without one — mid-market organizations that have grown to a scale where the data they hold, the clients they serve, and the regulatory environment they operate in all demand security monitoring, but whose size doesn’t justify the cost of building a SOC internally.
Specific triggers that indicate a Managed SOC is the right answer:
Cyber insurance renewal — Underwriters are increasingly requiring evidence of continuous monitoring and incident detection capability before issuing or renewing coverage. An organization that can demonstrate Managed SOC coverage satisfies this requirement definitively — with documentation of 24/7 monitoring, SIEM deployment, and defined incident response procedures.
Regulatory examination preparation — Financial services organizations facing FINRA examinations, healthcare organizations subject to HHS OCR audit, and defense contractors pursuing CMMC certification all face examiner scrutiny of their monitoring and detection capabilities. Lionhive’s Managed SOC produces the evidence portfolio — monitoring logs, incident records, response documentation — that satisfies examiner requirements.
SOC 2 Type II certification — The CC7 Common Criteria in SOC 2 require continuous system monitoring, anomaly detection, and documented incident response procedures. Lionhive’s Managed SOC satisfies these criteria and provides the audit evidence that supports SOC 2 Type II certification for technology and professional services companies selling to enterprise clients.
Post-incident remediation — Organizations that have experienced a security incident and are rebuilding their security program typically make Managed SOC the first priority — because the most expensive lesson from a breach is understanding what continuous monitoring would have cost compared to what the breach actually cost.
🌐 Why Organizations Choose Lionhive for Managed SOC
- 24/7/365 human-led monitoring — analysts working every hour, not just business hours
- Enterprise-grade EDR via CrowdStrike and SentinelOne — behavioral detection that catches what signature-based tools miss
- SIEM correlation across endpoints, identity, cloud, email, network, and SaaS environments
- Threat intelligence from Recorded Future and industry-specific ISACs — FS-ISAC for financial services, Health-ISAC for healthcare
- Integrated incident response — the team that detects manages the response, no handoff delays
- Regulatory documentation for HIPAA, SOC 2, NIST CSF, FINRA, SEC, and CMMC requirements
- Executive reporting in business language — not just technical alerts, but risk intelligence leadership can act on
📞 Ready to Close the Gap Between Hoping You’re Secure and Knowing You Are?
Most organizations don’t know what’s in their environment until something goes wrong. Lionhive’s Managed SOC changes that — providing the continuous visibility, expert analysis, and rapid response that turns security monitoring from a checkbox into a genuine operational capability. If you’d like to understand what continuous monitoring of your environment would actually look like, let’s talk.
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Part of Lionhive’s Cybersecurity & Compliance practice — see also NIST CSF, Zero Trust Architecture, Incident Response, Vulnerability Management, and Dark Web Monitoring.