Managed Security Operations

Continuous monitoring that stops threats before they become incidents.

AIM CyberOps runs security operations for growing organizations: 24/7 monitoring, threat hunting, detection engineering, and fast containment across identity, endpoints, email, and cloud. Prefer to run it yourself? We'll build your security operations capability from the ground up, or sharpen the one you already have.

SC-200 and CISSP certified analysts · Teams across Canada and India · Built on Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, and AWS security services

How We Help

We run it, share it, build it, or sharpen it.

Every organization is at a different stage. Choose the model that fits today, and change it as you grow.

Managed SOC

We run your security operations end to end, with 24/7 monitoring, investigation, and containment, plus monthly reporting.

Best for: Organizations without a dedicated security team.

How it works

Co-Managed SOC

Your team and ours share the work. We cover nights, weekends, and overflow, and add detection engineering and threat hunting to back up your analysts.

Best for: Organizations with a small security or IT team.

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SecOps Build

We design and build your in-house security operations capability, from platform and detections to processes and training, then hand it over.

Best for: Organizations ready to own security operations internally.

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Detection Engineering

We build, test, and maintain custom detections in your existing SIEM and XDR, so your team catches the threats that matter and stops chasing noise.

Best for: Organizations with a SOC or SIEM that need better detection coverage.

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By the Numbers

Why continuous monitoring matters

22 seconds

median time for attackers to hand off initial access to a ransomware affiliate in 2025.

Source: Mandiant M-Trends 2026

205 days

average time for Canadian organizations to detect and contain a breach.

Source: IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2026

CA$7.11M

average cost of a data breach in Canada.

Source: IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2026

What We Monitor

Your security operations center, without the cost of building one.

Hiring, training, and retaining a 24/7 security team is out of reach for most growing organizations. Our managed SOC gives you continuous monitoring, expert investigation, and fast containment for a predictable monthly cost.

Identity

Risky sign-ins, impossible travel, MFA fatigue attacks, privilege escalation, and suspicious admin activity in Microsoft Entra ID.

Endpoints

Malware, ransomware behavior, and hands-on-keyboard attacker activity detected by your endpoint protection and investigated by our analysts.

Email

Phishing, business email compromise, malicious inbox rules, and account takeover in Microsoft 365.

Cloud

Threats and risky changes across AWS and Azure, from leaked access keys to disabled logging.

Network & Firewall

Suspicious connections, blocked attacks, and unusual traffic from your firewalls and network devices.

Business Applications

Suspicious activity in critical SaaS and line-of-business applications connected to your SIEM.

How the Managed SOC Works

From onboarding to continuous protection.

01

Onboard

We connect your data sources, review your existing alerts and configurations, tune detections to your environment, and agree on escalation contacts and pre-approved containment actions. Onboarding timelines and SLAs are scoped with you up front based on your environment.

02

Monitor

Our analysts watch your environment around the clock, triaging alerts and filtering out the noise so you only hear about what matters.

03

Contain

When a threat is confirmed, we act immediately using your pre-approved actions, such as isolating a device, disabling a compromised account, or blocking a malicious sender, to stop the attack before it spreads. Then we notify your team with clear next steps.

04

Report & Improve

Monthly reports show what we detected, what we stopped, and how your security posture is improving. Quarterly reviews keep coverage aligned as your business changes.

What's Included

Everything your team needs, nothing you don't.

A managed SOC isn't just alert monitoring. Every engagement includes the people, process, and reporting that turn signals into outcomes.

24/7/365 Monitoring

Around-the-clock coverage from analysts who watch your environment, not a rotating ticket queue.

Alert Triage & Noise Reduction

We investigate and filter out the false positives so your team only hears about what actually matters.

Rapid Incident Response

Pre-approved containment actions, clear escalation paths, and analyst support until an incident is closed.

Continuous Detection Tuning

Detections are refined over time against your environment, closing gaps and cutting noise as your business changes.

Monthly & Quarterly Reporting

Clear reporting on what we detected, what we stopped, and how your posture is improving, with priorities for what's next.

Named Analysts & Contacts

You work with people who know your environment, not an anonymous support desk, including defined escalation contacts.

Proactive Protection

Stop incidents before they start.

Monitoring catches threats. Proactive work removes the openings attackers rely on in the first place.

Threat Hunting

Regular, hypothesis-driven hunts aligned with MITRE ATT&CK to find stealthy activity your tools didn't flag.

Threat Intelligence

Current intelligence on the attackers and techniques targeting your industry, applied directly to your monitoring and hunting.

Exposure Management

Continuous visibility into vulnerabilities, internet-facing assets, and misconfigurations, prioritized by real-world exploitability.

Identity Threat Protection

Monitoring and hardening of risky sign-ins, privileged accounts, and MFA gaps, one of the most common ways attackers get in.

Ransomware Prevention

Early-warning detections for the activity that comes before ransomware, plus regular checks on backup protection and attack surface reduction rules.

Security Posture Reviews

Ongoing recommendations from Microsoft Secure Score and AWS Security Hub findings, with a clear priority list every quarter.

Detection Engineering

Detections built for your environment.

Sharpen the detections you already have, or start fresh. We engineer, test, and tune every rule so your coverage maps to the threats you actually face.

Coverage Mapping

Every rule is mapped to MITRE ATT&CK so you can see exactly where you're covered and where the gaps are.

Tested & Tuned Rules

We validate detections with simulated activity before they go live, keeping false positives low and confidence high.

Continuous Improvement

Detections evolve with new attacker techniques and your changing attack surface, reviewed on a regular cadence.

Detections that earn their keep.

More rules don't mean better security. We focus on high-signal detections that catch real threats without drowning your analysts in noise.

  • Custom rules for your stack and industry
  • Tuning of existing, noisy detections
  • Documented logic your team can maintain
SecOps Build

Build your security operations from the ground up.

For organizations ready to own their security operations, we design, build, and hand over a working SOC capability, with the platform, detections, processes, and people all in place.

01

Assess & Design

We assess your current maturity using recognized models such as SOC-CMM, map your detection coverage to MITRE ATT&CK, and design an operating model that fits your team size and budget.

02

Deploy the Platform

We deploy and configure Microsoft Sentinel and Defender XDR, integrate AWS security services, and onboard the log sources that matter, with retention and ingestion costs planned up front.

03

Engineer Detections

We build a detection library tailored to your environment and risks, tested and tuned to keep false positives low.

04

Automate & Document

We create investigation runbooks, escalation paths, and automated response playbooks, plus the metrics that show how your SOC is performing.

05

Train & Hand Over

We train your analysts, run the SOC alongside them, and step back when they're ready, with co-managed support available afterwards.

What you'll own at the end

  • SOC operating model, roles, and escalation matrix
  • Configured SIEM and XDR platform with documented log sources
  • Detection library mapped to MITRE ATT&CK
  • Investigation runbooks and automated response playbooks
  • Dashboards and KPIs, such as mean time to detect and respond
  • Trained analysts and complete technical documentation
Built on What You Own

No rip-and-replace. Your data stays yours.

Use the tools you already pay for

We build on Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Sentinel, and AWS GuardDuty and Security Hub, so you get more value from existing licenses instead of buying another platform. If there are gaps, we'll recommend the most cost-effective option for your size.

Your data stays in your environment

We work inside your own Microsoft and AWS environments using delegated, audited access, so your logs stay in your tenant, and in Canadian regions when required.

Cost-aware log management

We prioritize the log sources that matter most for detection, helping keep SIEM ingestion costs predictable.

FAQ

Common questions

What's the difference between an MSSP, MDR, and a managed SOC?

Do you provide incident response or digital forensics?

Can you help us build our own SOC instead?

Can we start with a managed SOC and bring it in-house later?

Do we need to buy new security tools?

Is monitoring really 24/7?

Where is our data stored, and who can access it?

What actions will you take without asking us first?

How long does onboarding take?

We already have an IT provider or MSP. Can you work with them?

Can a managed SOC help with cyber insurance?

Let's Talk

Security operations that never switch off.

Whether you want us to run it, share it with your team, build it for you, or sharpen the detections you already have, let's talk about what your organization needs.