Almost every MSSP disappointment is a scope mismatch, not a capability failure: buyers think they bought detection and response and they bought alert forwarding. The evaluation framework, from containment authority and monitored scope to SLAs with real remedies, the first ninety days, the shared-responsibility gaps that breach people, and exit terms.
How to Choose a SIEM Without Regretting It in 18 Months
Almost every SIEM regret traces to three things decided before the product was chosen: the ingest volume nobody forecast, the tuning nobody funded, and buying a platform when you needed a managed service. The pricing models and how they behave as you grow, log source prioritisation, the 24/7 staffing arithmetic, and the questions to put to a vendor.
You Can’t Hire Your Way to a 24/7 SOC. So Stop Trying.
SOC-as-a-Service: 24/7 monitoring, MDR/XDR, threat hunting and compliance – co-managed or fully outsourced. Enterprise SOC coverage without the headcount.