Security Operations as a Platform (SOaaP): Advisory, Implementation, and Managed Services

Kyndryl’s Security Operations as a platform is a dedicated and secure infrastructure hosted on the Azure cloud and built on best-of-breed technology that customers can use for Security Operations. It provides expertise and support services to help customers build, deploy, manage, and secure enterprise systems.

Customers are facing multiple challenges:

• How to build ongoing content updates (rules, threat scenarios, playbooks, integrations)?
• How to deploy and integrate multiple 3rd party solutions?
• Organizations often lack the required skills and expertise to maintain a Security platform.
• Threats, risk landscapes, and improving the response time: how can clients adapt to the continuously changing threatening environment?
• How to get ROI across people, processes, and technology?
• How to do Capacity and Configuration Management?

Kyndryl advises, designs, and builds the security architectural building blocks and connectors so you can improve their security posture and focus on managing your Security Operations. With managed services options, Kyndryl removes the burden of managing your platform, which includes various security technologies. Our cyber resilience experts manage the infrastructure and monitor the environment for any security events, allowing you to concentrate on the things that matter most – the security of your environment. Kyndryl Security Operations as a platform covers SIEM (Microsoft Sentinel), EDR (Microsoft Defender), SOAR, and Vulnerability Management. This entire Security operation platform is built on Microsoft Azure.

Benefits

• Easily deployable, easily integrable platform with the promise of keeping your IP even if you decide to move away.
• Kyndryl integrates state-of-the-art technology products into a consumable Service and helps bring your security operations to a different level, regardless of your environment's complexity.
• Kyndryl power this with pre-configured, state-of-the-art rules, threat scenarios, playbooks, integrations, dashboards, and reports, continuously updated and refined for you. So that; you are always up to date to detect the newest threats and automate your response.

Kyndryl’s Security Operation as a platform:

• Well Defined High-Value content
• Retain the platform and content even if you decide to move away.
• Standard Operating Procedures optimized for Kyndryl SOC
• SOP and Security Operation placement aligned with regional data privacy requirements.
• Overall Integrated Governance and Compliance
• Pre-configured rules and threat scenarios
• SOAR Content Packs
• Kyndryl SOaap platform includes SIEM (Sentinel), EDR (Defender), SOAR, and Vulnerability Management
• Security Operation Center Procedure Blueprints
• Freedom to select other vendor products to integrate with the SOaap platform and services.
• Service Capability Module as per your requirement

Kyndryl’s Value Add Services Kyndryl provides ongoing content updates (rules, threat scenarios, playbooks, integrations). The SOaap provides the retention of your content and gives flexibility to quickly lift and shift MSSPs using a fully built SOC platform ready for monitoring. It allows the monitoring and Management of different SOC models. It is a highly integrable platform. It allows you to move from bare metal hypervisor-based systems to more scalable, elastic platforms for operations (pay-as-you-go). SOaap enables clients to continue to focus on cybersecurity and not the overhead of managing operational and administrative tasks associated with SOC infrastructure and tools.

SOaap Delivery Services:

• Integrated threat detection and response with the combined capabilities of SIEM (Microsoft Sentinel), SOAR, Vulnerability Management, EDR (Microsoft Defender)
• Centralized security management with a unified view of your organization's security posture
• Scalable and flexible security response
• Cloud-native-enabled deployment
• Ongoing content updates (rules, threat scenarios, playbooks, integrations)
• A platform that will provide the retention of your content
• Provide the ability for clients to Co-Create SOaap (add capability modules, rules, playbooks)
• A shared service platform by design - in favor of partnering with industry visionaries and disruptors, flexible enough to adapt to customers’ varying tech landscapes.

Terms, conditions, duration, and pricing are custom to each engagement. Please contact us to discuss a solution to meet your business needs. Offer availability may be limited in some countries.

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