The Modern Cybersecurity Playbook
Defend. Detect. Outmaneuver.
A field guide for the people who refuse to be tomorrow's breach headline. Thirteen disciplines. One integrated stack. One U.S.-based team that picks up at 3 a.m.
$4.88M
Avg. cost of a U.S. breach (IBM, 2024)
43%
Of attacks now target small & mid-market
277 d
Avg. days to find & contain
81%
Of breaches start with a credential
Your Managed Cybersecurity Services Provider
Daniel Ramos
Founder · Intelligent Automation MCSP
Daniel Ramos
Founder · Principal vCISO
From the desk of the CISO
The threat landscape changed. So did we.
If you opened this booklet expecting another fear-pitch about ransomware statistics, close it. You already know the threats are real. What you need is a partner who can actually do something about them — and explain it in language your board, your auditors, and your legal team will understand on the first read.
I've spent twenty years on both sides of this desk. As a hands-on operator. As the fractional CISO walking executives through the worst day of their year. The pattern is always the same. Companies don't fall to zero-days. They fall to the apps nobody approved, the credentials nobody rotated, the cloud setting nobody checked, and the alert nobody read.
Every one of those is a fixable problem — if you have the right team, the right tools, and a U.S.-based phone number that picks up at 3 a.m. That's what we built. This booklet is how it works. Read it cover to cover. Highlight what's missing in your current program. Then call us, or don't. Either way, you'll be sharper for it.
The Thesis
"Cybersecurity stopped being a tools problem years ago. It's a how-the-work-gets-done problem — and how the work gets done can be bought, governed, and audited like any other business function."
Daniel Ramos
Founder & Principal vCISO
Intelligent Automation · MCSP
Contents
Thirteen disciplines. One unified defense.
Foundations
01
From the Desk of the CISO The thesis
02
02
The 2026 Threat Landscape What you're up against
04
03
The MCSP Framework Govern · Prevent · Detect · Respond
05
Practice Areas
04
Shadow IT Protection The apps nobody told you about
06
05
AI & Automation Speed met with speed
07
06
Governance, Risk & Compliance Risk you can read
08
07
Identity & Access Management The new front door
09
08
Compliance & Virtual CISO An executive on retainer
10
09
SaaS Security Monitoring Every app, watched
11
Practice Areas (cont.)
10
SASE — Secure Network Access One network, one rulebook
12
11
Penetration Testing Find it before they do
13
12
Agentic MDR Detection that takes action
14
13
Agentic Threat Hunting Looking for who's already inside
15
14
U.S.-Based Security Operations Eyes on glass, stateside
16
15
Private Cloud & Datacenter Your data, at home
17
16
Microsoft Solutions Provider Turn on what you already pay for
18
Engagement
17
How We Engage From contract to command in 30 days
19
18
Get Started A 30-minute conversation
20
Section One · The Threat Landscape
What you're actually up against.
Cybercrime is the world's third-largest economy by GDP. AI made phishing flawless. Identity is the perimeter now. The average mid-market firm runs 340+ apps it doesn't fully control.
$10.5T
Annual cost of cybercrime by 2026
68%
Of breaches involve a human element
3.5 ×
Increase in AI-generated phishing YoY
What changed in the last 24 months
AI rewrote the attacker's playbook. The phishing email is grammatically perfect. The voice on the phone sounds like your CFO. New malware shows up faster than your antivirus can learn what to block.
Identity replaced the firewall. Eight in ten breaches now start with a stolen password — sprayed, phished, or lifted from a session cookie. The "block at the perimeter" model retired the day everyone went remote.
Shadow IT became the new perimeter. Every department buys its own software. The CFO sees the receipts. The CISO never sees the bill. Each unsanctioned app is an unmonitored door.
Regulators caught up — with teeth. SEC disclosure rules. State privacy laws. CMMC 2.0. NIST CSF 2.0. A breach today is a public event in days.
Five attack vectors driving 90% of incidents
- 01
AI-generated phishing
Perfect lures across email, voice, and text — personalized at scale.
- 02
Stolen credentials & session tokens
One cookie can become full access. MFA fatigue is now an attacker tactic.
- 03
Cloud & SaaS misconfiguration
Public buckets, over-permissioned roles, exposed APIs.
- 04
Ransomware-as-a-service
Affiliate networks. Double and triple extortion. Pre-built playbooks.
- 05
Vendor & supply-chain compromise
Breached through your suppliers, or through software you didn't write.
Section Two · How we defend
Four pillars. One accountable team.
Every discipline in this booklet maps to one of four operating pillars. The integration is the product. You don't buy thirteen tools — you buy one program that happens to do thirteen things well.
01 · Govern
Strategy
Roadmaps, policies, board reports, audit evidence. A senior security executive — vCISO — owns the program and answers to your C-suite.
02 · Prevent
Hard Controls
Identity hardening. Network access. SaaS lockdown. Patching. Training. We close the front door before it ever opens.
03 · Detect
Eyes On Glass
24/7/365 U.S. SOC. AI agents triaging at machine speed. Real humans reviewing the work that matters. No alert dies in a queue.
04 · Respond
Containment
Minutes, not days. Auto-isolation. Token revocation. Incident command. Forensic chain-of-custody. Insurance-grade evidence.
The Stack Blueprint
Prevent
Identity (Entra · Zero Trust · MFA) · SASE (SD-WAN · ZTNA · CASB) · SaaS Posture · Microsoft Defender · Shadow IT discovery · Pen testing
Detect
Agentic MDR · Agentic threat hunting · U.S.-staffed SOC (Tier 1/2/3) · Behavioral baselines · Cross-domain correlation
Respond
Auto-containment playbooks · Incident response retainer · Forensics · Breach counsel coordination · Recovery
Discipline 01 · Shadow IT Protection
01Unsanctioned
The apps nobody told you about.
You can't protect what you can't see. On average, three to four out of every ten dollars you spend on software is invisible to IT.
340 +
Average SaaS apps in use per mid-market firm
38%
Bought outside of IT's knowledge
$135K
Avg. duplicate-app spend reclaimed in year one
The Problem
Every department buys its own software with a credit card now. Marketing has 40 apps. Sales has 60. Engineering ships 80 more. Finance signs the receipts. Each app holds your data, asks for your passwords, and connects to your other systems. None of them showed up on the IT inventory. The CFO sees the bill. The CISO sees nothing. That gap is where modern breaches start — through the side door nobody knew was open.
What We Do
- Continuously discover every app in use — across email, browser, network, expenses
- Risk-rate every app: posture, breach history, where the data lives
- One-click sanction or block through your network and identity provider
- Quarterly executive readout on rogue spend, duplicates, and consolidation savings
- Automated offboarding: when a person leaves, their apps go with them
Shadow IT Discovery Flow
EMPLOYEES+ DEPTSDISCOVERYCASBNETWORKIDENTITYEXPENSESSANCTIONMIGRATEBLOCKRisk · Residency · Breach History · ComplianceEvery app gets a score. Every score drives an action.YOUR EXECUTIVE READOUTRogue spend · Duplicates · Risk delta · Quarterly
Free 7-Day Audit
See every app your people are actually using.
No commitment. We deliver a full risk-rated report in seven days. You decide what happens next.
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Discipline 02 · AI & Automation
02Velocity
The attackers automated. So did we.
They use AI to write the phishing emails. Our AI writes the response — and pulls the bad host off your network before a human even sees the alert.
94%
Reduction in alert review time
8 min
Median time to containment
100%
Of automated actions logged & reversible
The Problem
Generative AI handed every attacker on earth a tireless apprentice. Convincing phishing in any language. Voice clones of your CFO that fool the wire-transfer team. Brand-new malware variants every hour. The defense cannot be a tired analyst reading alerts off a monitor at 2 a.m. The defense has to move at the same speed the attack does — with a human in the loop on the actions that matter, and trustworthy automation everywhere else.
What We Do
- AI sorts and ranks every alert before a human ever sees it
- Thirty-plus pre-built containment plays: isolate the host, kill the session, lock the account
- AI-generated phishing simulations tailored to each employee's actual job
- A human approves anything that can't be undone — full audit trail on every step
- Weekly tuning loop: false positives go away, real signals stay
The AI-Assisted Pipeline
SIGNAL → ENRICH → TRIAGE → DECIDE → ACTSIGNALEDR/CLOUD/IDPENRICH+ CONTEXTTRIAGELLM + RULESDECIDEHUMAN-IN-LOOPACTAUTO + LOGML MODELS · LLM REASONING · PLAYBOOKSTuned weekly · Versioned · ReversibleOUTCOMES, NOT ALERTSHost isolated · Session revoked · Account locked · Brief sentMedian time from signal to outcome: 8 minutes
"
The defenders who win in 2026 won't be the ones with more tools. They'll be the ones with more orchestration.
— Daniel Ramos · Founder, Intelligent Automation MCSP
See It Live
A 30-minute demo, run against a sample of your environment.
No slideware. We hand you AI-enriched alerts on real telemetry — and walk you through every action the platform took.
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Discipline 03 · Governance, Risk & Compliance
03Risk
Risk you can actually read.
A risk register isn't a binder on a shelf. It's the document that decides where every dollar of your security spend goes.
12 +
Frameworks supported & cross-walked
90 days
From kickoff to audit-ready
1
Single dashboard for risk + control evidence
The Problem
Your board doesn't ask "are we secure?" anymore. They ask "are we within tolerance — and prove it." Most companies cannot answer either question. The risk register is a spreadsheet from two years ago. The controls map is a PDF nobody updates. Audit prep is a fire drill twice a year. We translate cyber risk into dollars, into a heat map your CFO can defend, and into a roadmap that ships actual fixes — not another framework crosswalk.
What We Do
- Living risk register, scored and ranked, mapped to NIST CSF 2.0 and CIS v8.1
- Policy library aligned to SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI, CMMC 2.0, and ISO 27001
- Vendor risk reviews — continuous, not annual checkbox
- Board-ready reports: trend lines, dollar exposure, what changed this quarter
- Evidence collected automatically from your existing systems
Risk Heatmap · Likelihood × Impact
5×5 RISK HEATMAP12345IMPACT →LIKELIHOOD →REGISTER1 · Ransomware2 · Insider misuse3 · Vendor breach4 · Cloud config5 · AI phishingFRAMEWORKSSOC 2 · HIPAANIST CSF · CISPCI · CMMC 2.0ISO 27001
Free Gap Assessment
Pick a framework. We deliver a 90-day fix plan.
SOC 2, HIPAA, NIST CSF, CMMC, ISO 27001 — your choice. Real evidence, real gaps, real timeline.
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Discipline 04 · Identity & Access Management
04Identity
Identity is the front door.
Eight in ten breaches start with a stolen password. That makes identity the single most important security investment you'll make.
81%
Of breaches involve a stolen credential
99.2%
Of attacks blocked by hardware-key MFA
<48 hr
From kickoff to first Zero Trust policy live
The Problem
The old castle-and-moat is dead. Your network has no edge anymore. What you have is a list of people, a fleet of devices, and a set of rules about which ones can reach which data. Get those rules right and most attacks die at the door. Get them wrong — stale accounts, weak MFA, admins with God-mode access — and one phishing email becomes a full breach. This is the work that pays back the fastest.
What We Do
- Roll out unphishable MFA: hardware keys, passkeys, certificates
- Conditional Access policies that check user, device, location, and risk on every login
- Privileged access locked down: just-in-time, just-enough, vaulted, recorded
- Identity hygiene: stale account, dormant token, and over-privilege cleanup
- Identity threat detection wired straight into the SOC
Zero Trust · Decision Engine
NEVER TRUST · ALWAYS VERIFYUSERDEVICELOCATIONRISK SIGNALMFA · PASSKEYPOLICYENGINECONTINUOUSALLOWSTEP-UP MFADENYJIT · JEA · SESSION RECORDEDPrivileged access vaulted & auditable
Free 14-Day Identity Posture Review
A complete read-out of your Entra, Okta, or Google environment.
Stale accounts. Weak MFA. Over-privileged admins. Risky third-party app grants. We find them all and hand you the fix list.
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Discipline 05 · Compliance & Virtual CISO
05vCISO
A senior security exec. On retainer.
Not every business needs a full-time CISO. Every business needs the judgment of one — for a fraction of the cost.
⅛ th
The cost of a full-time CISO
12 mo
Avg. roadmap to first attestation
4 ×
Faster audit turnaround vs. self-managed
The Problem
A full-time CISO costs north of $400,000 a year — once you find one, which takes nine months. Most mid-market companies need the judgment, not the salary. Our vCISOs hold deep credentials and decades of operating experience. They've sat through a hundred audits, run a dozen breach response calls, briefed boards, defended insurance claims, and walked plenty of CEOs through the call they were dreading. You get all of that — for a fraction of one full-time hire.
What We Do
- Quarterly board reports written for non-technical readers
- Compliance program ownership: SOC 2, HIPAA, CMMC, PCI, ISO 27001
- Tabletop exercises and breach simulations with real legal & PR coordination
- Cyber insurance liaison — renewals, attestations, claims defense
- M&A diligence on the buy-side and the sell-side
12-Month vCISO Roadmap
DISCOVER → PRIORITIZE → EXECUTE → ASSESS → CERTIFYM1M3M6M9M12DISCOVERRisk & GapPRIORITIZERoadmapEXECUTEControlsASSESSAudit-ReadyCERTIFYSOC 2 / ISOBOARD-READY KPIs · POLICY · TRAINING · TABLETOPSQuarterly readouts · Insurance liaison · Incident commandYOU GET A NAMED EXECUTIVE · NOT A TICKET QUEUE
Executive Consultation
A 60-minute strategy session with a senior vCISO.
No obligation. We work through your top three security questions and you walk away with a real opinion you can act on.
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Discipline 06 · SaaS Security Monitoring
06SaaS
Every app. Watched.
Microsoft 365. Salesforce. Slack. GitHub. Zoom. One bad setting away from your next breach.
60 +
Business-critical SaaS apps continuously monitored
98%
Of misconfigs caught within 24 hours
42%
Of accounts found unused or over-permissioned
The Problem
Every business-critical app has hundreds of settings. Most admins never touch them after day one. Then someone grants a third-party tool access to the calendar. Someone makes a folder public to "just share with one person." Someone leaves an executive's account up after they leave. Each is a door an attacker can walk through. The platform admins aren't lazy — there are simply too many doors per app, and the apps keep adding more every release.
What We Do
- Continuous scanning of 60+ apps for misconfigurations and drift
- Review every third-party app grant — revoke the risky ones
- Detect public links, anonymous shares, and external guests with sensitive data
- Pipe identity-to-app activity into the SOC for cross-system detection
- Quarterly cleanup of unused accounts & over-permissioned roles
SaaS Posture Snapshot
APPUSERSFINDINGSRISKMicrosoft 3654123 critical · 8 highHIGHSalesforce821 critical · 2 highHIGHSlack2562 critical · 4 highHIGHGitHub380 critical · 3 mediumMEDZoom4120 issuesOKCONTINUOUS · ALERTING · TICKETED IN YOUR SOCDrift detection · OAuth review · Public-share alerts · Off-boarding sweep
Free 7-Day Posture Snapshot
Pick your top three SaaS apps. We'll show you what's wrong.
Full report included. Misconfigurations, OAuth risk, exposed data, dormant accounts. No obligation.
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Discipline 07 · Secure Access Service Edge
07SASE
One network. One rulebook.
A single cloud-delivered service replaces the VPN, the proxy, the firewall, and the SD-WAN box. For everyone. Everywhere.
62%
Avg. WAN cost reduction post-SASE
5 +
Legacy tools consolidated into one fabric
99.999%
Edge availability SLA
The Problem
Your remote workers go through the VPN. Your branch offices go through the SD-WAN. Your road warriors go through whatever Wi-Fi they found. Each path has different rules, different speeds, and different blind spots. SASE collapses all of it into a single cloud-delivered network with one set of policies — applied whether your user is in the office, at home, or on hotel Wi-Fi in São Paulo. Less hardware. Less complexity. Same rules everywhere.
What We Do
- Single-vendor rollout — no agent sprawl, one console
- Replace the VPN entirely for contractors, third parties, and OT/IoT
- Real-time data loss prevention on email, web, and SaaS
- Carrier-grade SLA: 99.999% uptime, sub-30ms latency in tier-1 metros
- Co-managed: we run the policies, you keep the visibility
SASE · Cloud-Delivered Fabric
EDGE → FABRIC → DESTINATIONSREMOTE USERBRANCHHQIOT / OTCONTRACTORCLOUD FABRICSD-WAN · SWGCASB · ZTNAFWaaS · DLPONE POLICYSAASPUBLIC CLOUDPRIVATE DCINTERNETREPLACES VPN · PROXY · FIREWALL · SD-WAN BOX62% lower WAN cost · 99.999% uptime · same rules in every location
Half-Day Design Workshop
Current state. Future state. Real ROI.
We map your existing network, sketch the SASE design, and hand you a model that shows the dollar savings before you sign anything.
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Discipline 08 · Penetration Testing
08Red Team
Find it before they do.
A vulnerability scan tells you what you forgot to patch. A real pen test tells you whether the patch actually mattered.
100%
U.S.-cleared, badged operators
14 d
Standard report turnaround
$0
For your first remediation retest
The Problem
There is no substitute for a credentialed adversary trying to break in. Most "pen tests" sold today are an automated scan with a PDF wrapper. That's not a pen test — that's a checkbox. Real testing means experienced operators following the same playbook real attackers use, scoped, ethical, reportable. And then retested after you fix what they found. We don't bill twice. The retest is included.
What We Do
- External and internal network testing using current attacker techniques
- Web and API testing aligned to OWASP Top 10 and ASVS
- Cloud configuration testing for Azure, AWS, GCP, and Microsoft 365
- Social engineering, phishing, badge cloning — on request
- Free remediation retest within 90 days of report delivery
Pen Test Methodology
SCOPE → RECON → EXPLOIT → PIVOT → REPORTSCOPERECONEXPLOITPIVOTREPORTATTACK SURFACES TESTEDEXTERNALINTERNALWEB · APICLOUDWIRELESSSOCIAL ENG · PHYSICAL · BADGE CLONINGFREE 90-DAY REMEDIATION RETESTFix what we found. We'll come back and verify it. No second invoice.OPERATORS · OSCP · OSWE · CRTO · U.S. CLEARED
"
If your last pen test was an automated scan with a PDF wrapper, you didn't get a pen test. You got a checkbox.
— Offensive Practice Lead, Intelligent Automation MCSP
30-Minute Scoping Call
Fixed-fee proposal in 48 hours. No surprise charges.
We scope by what you actually need tested — not by what we want to bill. The retest is already included.
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Discipline 09 · Agentic MDR
09Detect + Act
Detection that takes action.
Old-school MDR ships you alerts. Ours ships you outcomes — with the bad host already off your network.
<5 min
Mean time to detect
<15 min
Mean time to contain
93%
Of incidents closed without escalating to your team
The Problem
Most managed detection services dump alerts in your queue and call it a day. You get the ticket. You get the headache. You still have to figure out what's real and what to do about it. That model breaks at scale and breaks worse at speed. Our AI agents triage, correlate, and act in seconds. Our humans review every consequential decision. By the time you read the brief, the threat is already contained — host isolated, token revoked, account locked.
What We Do
- 24/7/365 monitoring by U.S.-based analysts working alongside AI agents
- Auto-containment: isolate the host, kill the session, disable the account, block the IP
- Cross-system correlation — endpoint, cloud, identity, email, network
- Bring your own EDR (CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Defender) or use ours
- Full chain-of-custody for forensics and insurance
Agentic Detection & Response
TELEMETRY · AGENTS · OUTCOMESEDRCLOUDIDENTITYEMAILNETWORKAGENT MESHDETECTCORRELATEREASONACT+ HUMANISOLATE HOSTREVOKE TOKENBRIEF + TICKETHUMAN-IN-THE-LOOP · FULL CHAIN-OF-CUSTODYEvery action logged · Every action reversibleCROWDSTRIKE · SENTINELONE · DEFENDER · YOUR PICK
Free 30-Day Pilot
Run agentic MDR on a single business unit. Full report at the end.
No platform swap. We layer in alongside your existing tools. You see what we catch — and how fast we close it.
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Discipline 10 · Agentic Threat Hunting
10Hunt
Look for who's already inside.
The average breach goes undetected for months. Hunting compresses that to days — sometimes hours.
277 d
Industry dwell time vs. days for our clients
+47
New detections shipped per quarter
100%
Of hunts mapped to known attacker techniques
The Problem
Detection rules catch what attackers already did in places like yours. Threat hunting catches what they're doing right now in the gaps the rules don't cover. Our hunters work from a hypothesis: an attacker who got in last week would be staging here, looking like that, talking to those servers. AI agents query at machine speed across every log and signal. Every hunt produces something — either a clean bill of health, or a new detection rule that catches the next attempt automatically.
What We Do
- Hunts built around techniques most likely used against your industry
- Behavioral baselines per user, per device, per service account
- AI-augmented querying across logs, endpoints, identity, cloud control planes
- Every hunt produces a new detection — your defense gets sharper every quarter
- Quarterly executive briefing on threats specific to your sector
Hypothesis-Driven Hunt Loop
HYPOTHESIS · QUERY · ANALYZE · RESOLVEHYPOTHESIS"They'd be here"QUERYEDR · CLOUD · AUTHANALYZE+ AGENT + LLMCLEAR — NO FINDINGSHealth confirmed. Baseline updated.FIND — ESCALATEContainment + new detection shipsFEEDBACK LOOP · NEW DETECTIONS SHIP TO YOUR SOCEach hunt sharpens the next. Your defense compounds.
One Free 14-Day Hunt
Across your highest-risk segment. We tell you what we found.
If we find something, we contain it. If we don't, you get the new detection rules anyway.
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Discipline 11 · U.S.-Based Security Operations
1124/7/365
Eyes on glass. Stateside.
When the call comes at 3 a.m., the voice on the line should know your environment, your industry, and your time zone.
24/7
U.S.-staffed coverage — every shift, no exceptions
5 min
First-touch SLA, in writing
SENIOR
Tier 3 lead — credentialed practitioners only
The Problem
A lot of the alerts you're paying to have monitored are read by someone halfway around the world who has never heard of your company. We don't operate that way. Every analyst, every shift, U.S.-based. Cleared. Trained on your environment. Tier 1 closes 75% of incidents at the source. Tier 2 investigates and evicts what gets through. Tier 3 hunts, builds new detections, and runs purple-team exercises. When you call, you reach a person — not a chatbot, not a queue, not a country code.
What We Do
- U.S.-based staffing — every analyst, every shift, no exceptions
- Five-minute first response, fifteen-minute containment, in writing
- Per-client runbooks and escalation paths — your context, not a generic playbook
- Multi-tenant isolation: your data, your detections, your boundaries
- Direct line to vCISO command for executive escalation
Tiered Triage Funnel
100% OF ALERTS · TRIAGED IN MINUTESTIER 1 · MONITOR + TRIAGE75% RESOLVED HERE · 24/7/365 · 5-MIN SLAL1 + AI agent · auto-containment firedTIER 2 · INVESTIGATE + EVICT22% RESOLVED · DEEP IR · MALWAREForensic chain-of-custody preservedTIER 3~3% HUNT + ENGINEERvCISO COMMAND · BOARD · LEGAL · COMMS
"
When the call comes at 3 a.m., the voice on the line should already know your business.
— Daniel Ramos · Founder, Intelligent Automation MCSP
Tour the SOC
Live virtual walkthrough. Meet the analysts who'd own your alerts.
No marketing video. The real floor. The real people. The same humans who'd answer at 3 a.m.
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Discipline 12 · Private Cloud & Datacenter
12Sovereign
Your data. At home.
Some workloads belong in the public cloud. Some need a U.S. address, a SOC 2 attestation, and a building you can drive to.
99.99%
Facility uptime SLA
<4 hr
Documented disaster recovery time
SOC 2
Type II attested annually
The Problem
Hyperscalers are great until you need data residency, regulated workloads, or air-gapped backups. Then they're a tax. We run a Tier III+ U.S. datacenter — biometric entry, mantraps, 24/7 physical security — and a private cloud built on dedicated hardware with immutable backups. Your workloads stay where you can prove they are. We also run your hyperscaler footprint alongside it, on one bill, one console, one accountable team. Hybrid done right means you stop choosing.
What We Do
- Tier III+ U.S. facility: biometric entry, mantraps, 24/7 physical security
- SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, PCI, CMMC-ready attestations on file
- Hybrid management: M365, Azure, AWS, GCP — one console, one bill
- Disaster recovery as a service: 4-hour recovery, 15-minute data loss
- Air-gapped, immutable backups with ransomware-aware integrity testing
Hybrid Architecture
SINGLE PANE OF GLASS · ONE TEAM · ONE BILLU.S. PRIVATECLOUDSOC 2 · HIPAACMMC-READYTIER III+ · 99.99%HYPERSCALERM365 · AZUREAWS · GCPCO-MANAGEDON-PREMLEGACY APPSREGULATED DATASECURE PEERINGDR · BACKUP · IMMUTABLE · AIR-GAPPEDRTO < 4 hr · RPO < 15 min · ransomware-tested quarterlyPHYSICAL SECURITY · MANTRAP · 24/7 GUARDEDA building you can drive to. A door you can prove is locked.
Free Workload Placement Review
We'll tell you what should move — and what shouldn't.
No sales pressure. We map every workload to cost, risk, and compliance fit. You walk away with a real plan.
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Discipline 13 · Microsoft Solutions Provider
13M365 · XDR
Turn on what you already pay for.
Most companies use a third of what their Microsoft license includes. We turn on the other two-thirds.
3 ×
Avg. capability uplift from existing licenses
22%
Avg. license cost reclaimed via right-sizing
1
Console end-to-end (Defender XDR)
The Problem
You're already paying for E5, or E3+EMS, or M365 Business Premium. That license includes a full security stack — Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Identity, Defender for Cloud, Sentinel SIEM, Purview, Entra ID, Conditional Access, Copilot for Security. Most of it sits dormant because nobody had the time to deploy and tune it. As a Microsoft Solutions Partner across Modern Work, Security, and Infrastructure, we turn on what you already own — and run it for you from the same SOC.
What We Do
- Defender XDR rolled out across endpoint, identity, email, and cloud
- Sentinel SIEM tuned, not just deployed — alerts that mean something
- Entra ID hardened: Conditional Access, Privileged Identity, Identity Protection
- Purview data protection & insider risk with sensitivity labels
- Copilot for Security wired in with a custom playbook & agent guardrails
- License right-sizing — stop paying for what you don't use
Defender XDR · End-to-End
MICROSOFT SENTINEL · CLOUD-NATIVE SIEM + SOARAll telemetry · all detections · one workspaceDEFENDERENDPOINTDEFENDERO365DEFENDERIDENTITYDEFENDERCLOUDPURVIEW · DLP · INSIDER RISK · LABELSData classified · Data protected · AuditableENTRA ID · CONDITIONAL ACCESS · PIM · COPILOTIdentity hardened · Privileged access locked · AI in the SOCMANAGED · TUNED · MONITORED BY MCSP
Free License & Security Audit
See what you already own. See what you're not using.
Most companies are paying for a security platform that's sitting half-on. We give you the gap report — and the savings opportunity — in writing.
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Section Four · How We Engage
From contract to command in 30 days.
A repeatable, low-friction onboarding designed by people who've done it a hundred times. No surprise discoveries. No scope creep. No bait-and-switch staffing. The team you meet on day one is the team that runs your program.
01 · Days 1–7
Discover
Baseline
Asset inventory. Identity audit. SaaS discovery. Cloud baseline. We start with what you have, not what we want to sell.
02 · Days 8–14
Design
Strategy
Risk-prioritized roadmap. Controls mapped to your frameworks. vCISO-led briefing with a 12-month plan and a 90-day quick-win sprint.
03 · Days 15–30
Deploy
Execution
Identity hardening. MDR onboarding. SASE rollout where it makes sense. SOC integration. Every change documented, reversible, tested in a small group first.
04 · Day 31+
Defend
Steady State
24/7 SOC live. Weekly tuning. Monthly metrics. Quarterly board readouts. Named vCISO. Named SOC manager. Slack channel that stays open forever.
05 · Quarterly
Differentiate
Excellence
Threat hunts. Purple-team drills. Tabletop exercises. Red-team validation. M&A diligence. The work that turns a compliant program into an excellent one.
Day Zero
A 30-minute call to start. No NDA gauntlet. No pitch deck.
Just a working session with a senior security practitioner who's done this a hundred times.
(888) 711-4521 · intelamation.com
Let's Begin
Let's build the program your business deserves.
A 30-minute conversation tells both of us whether we're the right fit. No pitch deck. No NDA gauntlet. Just a working session with a senior security practitioner who has been in the room when it went wrong — and built a program to keep it from going wrong again.
Phone
(888) 711-4521
Web
intelamation.com
/cybersecurity.html
— from the desk of Daniel Ramos
YOUR MANAGED CYBERSECURITY SERVICES PROVIDER
Vol 02 · 2026 Executive Edition
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