SOC-as-a-Service in Cypress
Attacks do not wait for business hours. SOC-as-a-Service gives your company a staffed security operations center watching identity, endpoints, and network traffic every hour of the week, escalating to a human when something real happens. You get continuous coverage without hiring analysts, buying a platform, or building a rotation.
The Problem
The dangerous hours for a Cypress business are the ones nobody is working. A framing contractor off the Grand Parkway shuts down Friday afternoon and comes back Monday to encrypted job files. A dental practice near Fry Road discovers on Tuesday that a login from another country happened over the weekend. Even companies that bought good security tools are only watching them when someone happens to look, which in a twenty person firm means whenever the office manager has a quiet hour. Building real coverage internally means at least five trained people, shift scheduling, and a platform license, which is not a rational purchase at this size.
The Solution
We plug your existing environment into a monitored security operations capability instead of asking you to build one. Telemetry from Microsoft 365 sign-ins, endpoint agents, servers, and the firewall flows into correlation and detection rules, and analysts triage what fires so you are not paged over a printer. Escalation follows a runbook you approve in advance, including who gets called at midnight and what we are authorized to do without waiting for you. This service runs remotely, which is the only way continuous coverage works, and because Cypress is inside our on-site service area we can be at your building the same week when an incident needs someone physically at the rack.
Core Responsibilities
Continuous Coverage
Detection Engineering
Evidence and Accountability
Engagement Process
Map the Telemetry
We find out what your environment can already tell us. Microsoft 365 audit logs, endpoint agents, firewall syslog, and any servers still on premises are identified, and we note where visibility is missing entirely.
Connect and Baseline
Sources are connected to monitoring and we watch quietly for a period to learn what normal looks like at your company: when your crews log in, which vendors your team emails, which locations are expected.
Agree the Runbook
Before we go live you approve the response rules. Which actions we take immediately, such as disabling an account or isolating a laptop, who we phone after hours, and when a suspected event becomes a declared incident.
Run and Improve
Monitoring goes continuous. Every month we review what fired, retire rules that only generate noise, add detections for new risks, and report to you in plain language.
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Common Questions
Is this the same thing as antivirus software with a dashboard?
No. Endpoint software makes a decision about a single machine in a single moment. A security operations service watches many sources together over time, so it can see that a password was sprayed on Saturday, succeeded on Sunday, and started forwarding mail on Monday. That pattern is invisible to any one product.
We are a fifteen person office in Cypress. Are we big enough for this?
Size is not what attackers select for; reachable and unwatched is. Small professional firms along 290 are attractive precisely because they move money, hold client data, and have nobody looking after hours. The service is scaled to your user and device count rather than sold in enterprise blocks.
Will you call me in the middle of the night for every alert?
No. Analysts triage first, and the runbook you approve decides what deserves a call. Most events are handled and documented for the morning report. You get woken up for confirmed compromise, active ransomware behavior, or a decision only you can make.
Can you contain a problem without waiting on us to answer the phone?
Yes, within the authority you grant during setup. Most clients authorize us to disable a compromised account, isolate an affected device, and block a malicious sender immediately, because minutes matter and those actions are reversible. Anything with business consequences, such as taking a line-of-business server offline, waits for you.
Does our cyber insurance care about this?
Carriers increasingly ask about continuous monitoring, log retention, and documented incident response on renewal applications. Being able to answer those honestly affects both eligibility and terms. We give you the documentation to attach rather than a verbal assurance.
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Cypress runs on schedules that leave long unwatched gaps. Trade contractors working the Bridgeland and Towne Lake build-out start before dawn and shut their offices early, retail and food operators around Houston Premium Outlets work nights and weekends when no back office staff are present, and medical practices along US-290 close Friday afternoon and reopen Monday. Attackers know these rhythms, and encryption events are routinely timed for the hours when the fewest people are looking at a screen. This is also a community of owner-operated firms rather than corporate branch offices, so there is no parent company security team quietly watching in the background. A title company, a specialty subcontractor, and a pediatric dental group in the same strip center off Fry Road each have real exposure and each have exactly zero people assigned to overnight monitoring. Cy-Fair ISD households make up most of the local workforce, which means personal devices, home networks, and shared family computers touch business email constantly, widening what needs to be watched. Continuous monitoring is the control that fits this profile. It does not require you to hire, it does not depend on somebody noticing an email at 11 p.m., and when an incident does need hands on equipment we are close enough in the Houston metro to send someone rather than talk you through it over the phone.
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