Managed SOC

A managed Security Operations Center (SOC) is a team of certified security analysts who monitor your IT environment 24/7/365 for cyber threats. Instead of building and staffing your own SOC — which can cost upwards of $1 million annually — you outsource continuous threat monitoring, detection, and incident response to our expert team. We use advanced SIEM technology and threat intelligence to analyze millions of events daily, investigate alerts, and respond to confirmed threats before they impact your operations. For Dallas-Fort Worth businesses, this means enterprise-grade security without the overhead of a full in-house security team.

When our analysts detect a confirmed threat, we follow a structured incident response process. Critical threats trigger immediate notification to your designated contacts within 15 minutes, along with containment recommendations. Our team investigates the scope of the incident, identifies affected systems, and works with your IT team to contain and remediate the threat. You receive detailed incident reports through the CyberOne platform with root cause analysis, timeline of events, and recommendations to prevent recurrence. For high-severity incidents, we provide hands-on support throughout the remediation process.

Managed Detection and Response (MDR) typically focuses on endpoint-level threat detection and response using EDR tools, while a managed SOC provides broader security monitoring across your entire IT environment — including network traffic, cloud services, SaaS applications, and endpoints. Our managed SOC encompasses MDR capabilities but extends them with log correlation, threat intelligence integration, compliance monitoring, and dark web surveillance. Think of MDR as one component of a full SOC offering. Innovation Network Design delivers comprehensive SOC services that cover every attack surface in your organization.

Our SOC monitors a wide range of data sources including firewalls, intrusion detection systems, endpoint detection and response (EDR) agents, cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud), Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, VPN concentrators, Active Directory, DNS logs, and SaaS application alerts. We integrate with your existing security tools through our CyberOne platform and can onboard new log sources as your environment evolves. The more visibility we have into your environment, the more effectively we can detect threats and correlate events across multiple systems.

Building an in-house SOC requires hiring and retaining a minimum of 8-12 security analysts for true 24/7 coverage, investing in expensive SIEM and threat intelligence tools, and continuously training staff on evolving threats. The total cost easily exceeds $1 million per year for most organizations. By outsourcing to Innovation Network Design, you get immediate access to a team of certified analysts, enterprise-grade tooling, and over 25 years of combined IT and cybersecurity expertise at a fraction of the cost. Our managed SOC is particularly valuable for mid-sized businesses in McKinney, Dallas, and the DFW metroplex who need enterprise-level security without enterprise-level budgets.

Yes, and the difference decides whether a 2 a.m. breach is contained or runs until morning. "Automated 24/7 monitoring" means software watches your network around the clock and fires an alert when something looks wrong — but if no one is on shift to read that alert, investigate it, and act, the attacker keeps working while the notification sits in a queue. A staffed 24/7 SOC means certified human analysts are on duty every hour of every day, triaging alerts in real time, separating false alarms from real intrusions, and starting containment within minutes instead of at the start of the next business day. Our SOC pairs automated detection with live analysts on every shift, so a confirmed critical alert gets human eyes and a 15-minute triage at 2 a.m. on a Sunday, not just a logged event waiting for someone to notice. For your business, that gap is the difference between an incident stopped at one machine and a ransomware outbreak that spreads across the weekend.