Managed Security Operations
Security operations built around your maturity, not your alerts
Talanos delivers outsourced security operations across three service levels, so you get the depth of detection, response and assurance your organisation needs now and in the future.
ALERTS TRIAGED WITHIN 15 MINUTES · INCIDENTS CONTAINED WITHIN 60
What we hear most often
Solving common security operations challenges
You don’t know what’s happening out of hours
You’re only as secure as your quietest hours. Nights, weekends and holidays are when your team isn’t watching and attackers are. If something happens outside working hours, you may not know until it has already escalated.
When something goes wrong, you’re firefighting in real time
An incident isn’t routine work. Without deep experience every decision takes longer, every action carries risk, and the clock is against you.
Your tools aren’t working as well as you think
You’ve invested in security tools, but they’re not fully integrated, configured or optimised. Gaps between systems mean threats slip through and weaknesses stay hidden until someone exploits them.
You can’t prove you’re secure
You’ve implemented controls but you can’t assess how well they are working. That makes it harder to prioritise risk, justify spend, or reassure leadership when it matters.
You’re not seeing the full picture
Security data lives in different tools, owned by different teams, telling different stories. Without a unified view, real threats get lost in the noise or missed entirely.
Security is slowing you down
Your team is spending time managing security instead of moving the business forward. It’s necessary work, but it isn’t what they were hired to do.
Choose your level
Three tiers. One provider. Your level of control.
Reactive
- 24/7 monitoring and alert triage
- Severity-based notifications
- 15-minute triage guarantee
- Basic incident runbooks
- Essential log normalisation
- Monthly service reports
Your team contains and remediates
Proactive
- Everything in Reactive, plus:
- Detection and tuning
- Coordinated response
- Investigation and root cause analysis
- Integration and workflow
- Improvement and governance
Joint investigations, strategy owned by you
Adaptive
- Everything in Proactive, plus:
- Threat hunting and CTI
- Automated response and orchestration
- Attack simulation and validation
- Resilience and risk reporting
- Executive and board assurance
Governance only
We meet you where you are, not where a vendor wants to sell to you.
Why our clients choose us
Trusted by regulated and midsize organisations.
They know our environment inside out and deliver insights that mean something, backed by real data. Having that level of visibility, and knowing we are protected around the clock, has honestly made my life so much easier.
Chief Information Security Officer
Global financial services firm, London
I am so glad we engaged Talanos a year ago. The team are all fantastic and we have taken great comfort knowing you are there supporting us.
Head of IT
Prominent literary institution, London
We view this engagement as a strategic step toward building a scalable and sustainable security operations capability. It supports our growth trajectory while ensuring we continue to meet and exceed customer and compliance expectations.
Principal Manager, Information Security
Insurance and claims processing SaaS platform, India
Pricing
No published price, but no mystery either.
The cost of a Managed SOC is determined by two things: the level of service you need, and the size and shape of the estate it has to cover. Users, devices, data volume and compliance scope all move the number, and data volume is the one most people underestimate.
We give you an indicative figure on the first call, before you have committed to anything.
If you want the full breakdown of how providers structure pricing, what it costs to build the same capability in-house, and what to check before you compare quotes, we have written it up in detail.
Managed Security Operations Outcomes
Security that moves your business forward.
Prove control to regulators, auditors and the board
Move from thinking you are secure to demonstrable, repeatable security operations, with clear ownership, tested playbooks and evidence you can stand behind under scrutiny.
Scale securely, without the complexity
Replace fragmented tools and manual processes with a joined-up SOC capability that simplifies operations, reduces admin overhead and supports growth without introducing new risk.
Reduce the real-world impact of cyber incidents
Contain threats faster and more effectively, minimising disruption, financial loss and recovery effort when incidents occur rather than only detecting them.
Strengthen financial resilience and stakeholder confidence
Meet insurer and investor expectations, unlock better cyber insurance outcomes, and give leadership confidence that the business can withstand and recover from attacks.
Shared visibility
You see what we see.
Most providers report to you. Enigma is our own platform for automation, evidence enrichment and executive reporting, and it gives you and our analysts the same view of your security operations centre at the same time.
Automated evidence enrichment packages the detail behind every incident, so an investigation does not start with someone assembling screenshots.
Board-ready reporting presents the same data in the language your stakeholders use, without a translation step.
Alert suppression and response orchestration is available on the Adaptive tier.
It means the monthly report contains nothing you are seeing for the first time.
Two services, one question
The difference is not how fast we respond, it is what happens before and after.
These two services overlap more than most providers admit, so here is the honest version. The response times are identical.
Managed Detection & Response
Find threats and stop them.
- 24/7 monitoring and alert triage
- Investigation and containment within agreed rules
- SIEM, endpoint, cloud and identity telemetry
- Monthly reporting and service review
- 15-minute triage, 1-hour containment
Managed SOC
That, and reduce how often it happens.
- Everything in MDR
- Deeper investigation: artifact analysis and forensics
- Threat intelligence, contextualised to your sector
- Continuous threat exposure management and control validation
- 15-minute triage, 1-hour containment
Start with MDR if you need coverage and containment now. Move to a Managed SOC when the question changes from whether you’re being attacked to whether you’re getting better.
Questions we are asked
What buyers ask before they commit.
What is SOC as a service?
A security operations center run for you by a third party, rather than built and staffed in-house. You get the monitoring, the analysts and the tooling as a service, and you choose how much of the response you keep control of.
Is your SOC accredited?
Yes. Talanos holds CREST Security Operations accreditation, which covers the security operations centre itself. We are also ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certified, hold Cyber Essentials Plus, and are FSQS registered.
Do we need our own SIEM?
No. Some clients bring their own SIEM licence and we operate it. Others come onto ours. We will tell you which makes more sense for your data volume, because that is usually the largest and least predictable part of the cost.
What happens during an incident?
That depends on the tier. On Reactive we triage and notify, and your team contains. On Proactive we investigate and respond alongside you. On Adaptive we contain and orchestrate the response, and you keep governance.
The escalation paths and the categorisation matrix are agreed with you during onboarding.
How is this different from MDR?
MDR detects threats and stops them. A Managed SOC does that and adds the work that reduces how often it needs to happen: deeper investigation, threat intelligence, control validation and board-level assurance. The response times are the same for both.
Can we move up a tier later?
Yes, and it is a service-level adjustment rather than a fresh procurement. Most clients start at the level their current maturity calls for and move up as their programme develops.
Ready to talk
Ready to find the right tier for your organisation?
Indicative pricing shared upfront. No lock-in until you’re ready. A 30-minute discovery call is all it takes.