Specific solution · Cybersecurity + Assurance
Threat Detection + Response
Turn security signals into controlled action.
EINO connects relevant telemetry to threat-informed detections, investigation paths, and rehearsed response. Analysts see why activity matters, who can act, and how containment and recovery protect the operation.
Evidence framework
Define proof before production.
Baselines and targets are agreed for each engagement. These dimensions shape what the team evaluates; they are not promised historical results.
Coverage + quality
Can the team detect what matters?
Map priority threats to observable behavior, required telemetry, detection logic, and known blind spots before measuring alert volume.
- Threat-behavior coverage
- True + false positive rate
- Telemetry completeness
- Detection latency
Investigation + control
Can evidence support a safe decision?
Test whether analysts can establish scope, preserve evidence, escalate to the right owner, and contain activity within approved authority.
- Time to triage
- Time to contain
- Case evidence quality
- Approval + rollback readiness
Operability + recovery
Can the organization sustain the capability?
Exercise staffing, handoffs, recovery validation, tuning, and service ownership under realistic load and operating conditions.
- Analyst workload
- Recovery objectives
- Use-case health
- Exercise findings closed
Solution portfolio
Four parts of a connected detection and response capability.
Detection engineering, incident response, security operations, and threat intelligence work as one system: evidence enters once, decisions remain traceable, and each incident improves future coverage.
Detection Engineering + Threat Hunting
Detect adversary behavior with evidence the team can explain.Translate priority threats into testable use cases across identity, endpoint, cloud, network, application, and operational telemetry. Hunting examines hypotheses and blind spots; validated findings become maintained detections with owners and quality measures.
Technical capability
- Threat modeling + behavior mapping
- Telemetry requirement + coverage analysis
- Detection-as-code engineering
- Behavioral analytics + correlation
- Hypothesis-led threat hunting
- Validation, tuning + lifecycle ownership
Business application
- Credential misuse + account takeover
- Lateral movement + privilege escalation
- Cloud control-plane abuse
- Endpoint persistence + execution
- Data staging + exfiltration
- Operational technology boundary monitoring
Published results + market benchmarks
External research and case-study benchmarks. Results vary by use case.
global median dwell time
Mandiant investigations completed during 2025of activity first found internally
Detection source across Mandiant 2025 investigationsmedian dwell in two stealth-focused categories
Cyber espionage and DPRK IT worker investigationsof intrusions began with exploits
Most common initial infection vector in the same studyIncident Response + Orchestration
Move from a confirmed threat to authorized containment and recovery.Connect triage, investigation, decision authority, communications, containment, eradication, and recovery in rehearsed workflows. Automation prepares evidence and performs bounded actions where approval and reversibility are clear.
Technical capability
- Incident classification + case management
- Evidence acquisition + forensic coordination
- Playbook + decision-rights engineering
- Security orchestration + approved automation
- Containment, eradication + recovery workflows
- Exercise, communications + post-incident review
Business application
- Ransomware + destructive intrusion response
- Compromised identity containment
- Cloud account + token compromise
- Business email compromise
- Third-party + supply-chain incidents
- Critical service recovery coordination
Published results + market benchmarks
External research and case-study benchmarks. Results vary by use case.
median criminal access hand-off
Initial-access to secondary-group hand-off observed in 2025fastest access-to-exfiltration case
Frontline investigations summarized by Unit 42average eCrime breakout time
CrowdStrike observations across 2025fastest observed breakout
Fastest lateral-movement observation in the same reportSecurity Operations + Observability
Make coverage, case flow, service health, and ownership visible.Design the security operations model around priority services and response decisions. Normalize evidence, connect investigation surfaces, monitor use-case health, and expose queues, gaps, handoffs, and recovery status without turning the SOC into a wall of dashboards.
Technical capability
- Telemetry pipeline + schema engineering
- SIEM, EDR, NDR + cloud integration
- Alert enrichment + case correlation
- Queue, escalation + service-level design
- Detection health + coverage observability
- Operating metrics + analyst feedback loops
Business application
- Enterprise + co-managed SOC operations
- Identity, endpoint + cloud investigation
- Critical service security monitoring
- Third-party event coordination
- On-call escalation + major incident handoff
- Coverage and control reporting
Published results + market benchmarks
External research and case-study benchmarks. Results vary by use case.
of incidents needed multiple evidence sources
Unit 42 investigations reviewed for its 2026 IR reportevidence sources used per investigation
At least two in most cases; up to 10 in complex casesof initial access used identity techniques
Unit 42 frontline incident-response findingsof breaches involved a third party
Verizon analysis of the 2026 DBIR datasetThreat Intelligence + Adversary Validation
Use intelligence to change coverage, priorities, and readiness.Connect strategic, operational, and technical intelligence to the organization’s assets and threat model. Purple-team exercises and controlled adversary emulation test whether telemetry, detections, decisions, and recovery paths work against relevant behavior.
Technical capability
- Threat landscape + priority intelligence requirements
- Indicator, behavior + campaign enrichment
- Threat-informed coverage mapping
- Purple teaming + adversary emulation
- Detection control validation
- Intelligence feedback + briefing workflows
Business application
- Sector + geopolitical threat monitoring
- Critical infrastructure readiness
- Campaign exposure + compromise assessment
- Control and detection validation
- Executive + operational threat briefings
- Incident scoping + proactive hunting
Published results + market benchmarks
External research and case-study benchmarks. Results vary by use case.
increase in zero-days exploited pre-disclosure
CrowdStrike threat-intelligence observations for 2025rise in state-linked cloud intrusions
Cloud-conscious activity attributed to state-nexus actorsUK critical-infrastructure incidents
Incidents managed by the NCSC in the year to May 2026linked to hostile states
NCSC assessment of those critical-infrastructure incidentsView research sources (5)
These are external benchmarks, estimates, and published case-study results—not guaranteed EINO outcomes. Results depend on scope, system conditions, implementation, and operating context.
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M-Trends 2026 Report: Executive Edition
Findings from more than 500,000 hours of Mandiant frontline investigations in 2025, covering dwell time, detection source, initial infection vectors, and criminal access hand-offs.
- 02Read source
Inside the Modern SOC: The 72-Minute Race
Analysis drawing on Unit 42 customer environments, SOC assessments, hunting engagements, and its 2026 Global Incident Response Report.
- 03Read source
2026 CrowdStrike Global Threat Report
Threat-hunting and intelligence observations from 2025, including eCrime breakout time, zero-day exploitation, and state-nexus cloud activity.
- 04Read source
2026 Data Breach Investigations Report
Global incident and breach analysis covering third-party involvement, ransomware, vulnerability exploitation, and remediation patterns.
- 05Read source
Hostile states linked to three-quarters of cyber attacks affecting UK critical systems
NCSC briefing on incidents affecting UK critical national infrastructure and its supporting ecosystem in the year to May 2026.
Operating contexts
The constraints shape the system.
Information sensitivity, decision authority, service expectations, and review obligations change what a responsible implementation requires.
Government + critical infrastructure
Nationally significant services, operational technology, classified or sensitive networks, and cross-agency authority require segmented telemetry, tested escalation, and recovery paths that respect safety and mission continuity.
- IT + OT visibility
- State-linked activity
- Cross-agency response
Healthcare + life sciences
Clinical availability, patient information, connected devices, research environments, and third parties change which response actions are safe and who must approve service isolation.
- Clinical continuity
- Identity + device signals
- Ransomware readiness
Financial services
High-volume transactions, fraud and cyber overlap, privileged access, regulatory notification, evidence retention, and recovery obligations demand fast investigation with controlled decision rights.
- Identity + transaction context
- Case evidence
- Containment authority
Enterprise architecture
Connect telemetry to recovery—and learning back to detection.
A production capability links collection, correlation, investigation, authorized containment, recovery evidence, and tuning. Identity, security, evidence, and ownership cross every stage.
Collect + normalize telemetry
Identity, endpoint, network, cloud, application, data, and OT signals enter through owned pipelines with schema, quality, retention, and time-synchronization controls.
Detect + correlate behavior
Threat-informed logic, baselines, enrichment, and correlation connect related activity while preserving the evidence behind each alert.
Investigate + manage the case
Analysts establish scope, confidence, affected services, evidence, severity, and the people authorized to decide the next action.
Contain + recover safely
Approved playbooks isolate accounts, devices, workloads, or pathways, then coordinate eradication, restoration, rollback, communications, and recovery validation.
Learn + tune coverage
Incident findings, exercises, false positives, missed behavior, and service changes feed detection content, playbooks, telemetry priorities, and ownership backlogs.
Controls that cross the system
- Identity + access
- Security + privacy
- Evidence + chain of custody
- Authority + ownership
- Resilience + recovery
Operating patterns
- Enterprise SOC
- Co-managed SOC
- Sector CSIRT
- Hybrid IT + OT
Selected around coverage, evidence latency, response authority, service criticality, and accountable ownership.
Technology strategy
Choose tools by coverage, evidence quality, and operating fit.
The objective is not a larger toolset. Retain, integrate, consolidate, or replace data sources and response tools according to coverage, signal quality, latency, response authority, cost, and the team’s capacity to own them.
Automation supports accountable response
Automation can enrich evidence, open cases, and execute approved actions. It does not default to autonomous containment; authority, failure impact, reversibility, and human approval determine the response boundary.
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Preserve
Retain useful telemetry + controls
Keep a source or tool when it provides dependable coverage, sufficient evidence, timely data, clear ownership, and response value that exceeds its operating cost.
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Connect
Integrate across investigation boundaries
Link systems when analysts need shared identity, asset, threat, case, or recovery context but separate products and owners still serve a valid purpose.
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Simplify
Consolidate overlapping capability
Reduce duplicate collection, rules, queues, and licenses where consolidation improves signal quality and supportability without creating a material coverage or resilience gap.
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Change
Replace what the team cannot operate
Replace a source or tool when persistent gaps in coverage, quality, latency, response authority, cost, or owner capacity outweigh migration risk and retained value.
Delivery path
Engineer the use case, rehearse the response, then widen coverage.
Five stages establish a measurable baseline, prove detections against representative behavior, exercise safe containment, and transfer tuning and response ownership.
- 01BaselineCoverage baseline + priorities
What must the team see and protect?
Map critical services, priority threats, current telemetry, detections, incident paths, recovery dependencies, measures, owners, and explicit exclusions.
- 02EngineerUse-case content + evidence plan
Which use cases close a material gap?
Design normalized evidence, correlation, detection logic, case enrichment, quality tests, response decisions, and health measures for a bounded set of threats.
- 03RehearseExercise evidence + safe playbooks
Can the response act safely?
Run representative scenarios and adversary behavior through triage, investigation, approval, containment, rollback, recovery, and communications before production authority expands.
- 04Roll outControlled release + rollback path
How will coverage widen without losing control?
Release by service or threat boundary, observe signal quality and analyst load, keep rollback paths active, and accept each increment against agreed evidence.
- 05OperateOperating model + tuning backlog
Who keeps the capability current?
Transfer ownership, monitor use-case health, run recurring exercises, tune detections and playbooks, close findings, and prioritize new coverage as threats and systems change.
A practical place to begin
Start with a Detection + Response Capability Assessment.
The assessment maps current coverage and operating constraints into prioritized use cases, a connected target architecture, an evidence plan, and a first delivery recommendation.
Assessment outputs
- Current telemetry + detection coverage findings
- Priority threats, use cases + operating measures
- Connected target architecture + tool decisions
- Evidence, containment + recovery control plan
- Rollout, rollback + exercise path
- First delivery recommendation + ownership model