The business cannot substantiate what its security tooling actually watches, or who would review an alert if one fired.
Make Microsoft 365 security events visible, routed, and owned.
Defender XDR Visibility Deployment
In-scope data sources, alert policies, licensing, retention, and response ownership are configured, tested with expected events, and handed to the named owner with a runbook.
Price
Fixed price confirmed before work begins
Delivery window
The fixed proposal contains the delivery calendar and the completion date.
The price is agreed in writing before any work begins and before any access is granted. Nothing is billed for the scoping conversation that sets it. What moves the number:
- · Workloads and data sources in scope
- · Licensing tier available for the connectors required
- · Number of alert policies and routing rules
- · Retention requirements beyond the defaults
Done when expected test events are visible and routed, and the named owner accepts the runbook.
No tenant access, credentials, or sensitive files are requested through this website.
What happened
Security tooling accumulated portal by portal: some Defender products licensed, some configured, alerts going somewhere or nowhere. An insurer, an auditor, a client questionnaire, or an internal review has now asked what is actually watched, and the honest answer is that nobody has checked end to end.
Defender licensing is paid for, some portals show some alerts, and nobody can say which data sources are connected, which alert policies exist, how long events are retained, or whose job it is to look. "We are monitored" is asserted in questionnaires without a configuration that supports it.
The observable symptoms
Checkable in your own environment today, before any conversation.
- Nobody can list which workloads feed the security portals
- Alerts route to a mailbox nobody reads, or to nobody
- Retention has never been set deliberately
- The last questionnaire asserted monitoring nobody could evidence
What happens if it is left as it is
- An alert that fires with no named reviewer produces a signal without a response: the event is recorded, and the follow-up waits on someone happening to look.
- The portals show what is connected, not what is missing, so the first evidence that a workload was left unconnected tends to arrive during the incident that needed it.
- Retention defaults decide how far back an investigation can look, and the decision is made silently years before anyone needs the history.
- A questionnaire answered with an unsupported monitoring claim becomes a representation the business has to stand behind later.
What changes in production
Not findings. These are the things that are different afterwards.
- 1The connected data sources are enumerated against the workloads the business actually runs, and the gaps are named.
- 2Alert policies are configured for the agreed scenarios, with routing to a named reviewer rather than an unread mailbox.
- 3Retention is set deliberately against the agreed requirement instead of left on defaults.
- 4Expected test events are generated and traced end to end: raised, visible, routed, and acknowledged.
- 5The named owner takes over a runbook that says what is watched, where alerts land, and what to do with them.
Definition of done
The engagement ends when all of these are true and demonstrable.
- Every in-scope data source is connected and verified, or its gap is documented with a licensing or scoping reason
- Expected test events are visible and routed to the named reviewer
- Retention matches the agreed requirement
- The response owner accepts the runbook
What you provide
Named up front, because these are the things that stall an engagement when nobody owns them.
- Name the alert reviewer and response owner
- Provide licensing for the connectors in scope
- Approve the alert scenarios and change windows
What moves the price
The figure comes from what is actually in the environment. Headcount is one input among several, and rarely the one that matters most.
- Workloads and data sources in scope
- Licensing tier available for the connectors required
- Number of alert policies and routing rules
- Retention requirements beyond the defaults
Not included
Stated so the scope means the same thing to both parties on the last day as it did on the first.
- Ongoing monitoring and alert response, which stay with the client or an MSP/SOC
- Emergency or same-day incident response
- Forensics or live breach containment
- SIEM migration or Sentinel build-out unless separately scoped
How change is staged and reversed
Production work carries risk. This is the method, not a reassurance.
- Configuration changes are staged in agreed windows; nothing is switched off while a replacement is unproven.
- Test events are generated against agreed test scenarios, never by weakening production controls.
- Rollback is the prior configuration state, captured before the first change.
Evidence and handover
Yours to keep whatever happens next, including handing it to your own team or another provider. The documents are what prove the work happened; they are not the thing being bought.
- The data-source coverage register, connected and gaps alike
- The alert policy set and routing configuration, documented
- The test-event trace: raised, seen, routed, acknowledged
- The response runbook, accepted by its owner
Is this another report, with the real work quoted afterwards?
It may sound like a consultant will inspect the environment, hand over a document, and then quote a second project. That is not the default here. Where the outcome can be scoped safely from a short working call, the implementation is sold directly, as this page does. Separate paid planning is used only where genuine complexity prevents a responsible fixed price, and where it is used the page says so plainly.
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