What is Managed SIEM & How Does It Improve Threat Detection?

Key Takeaways:

  • Managed SIEM improves threat detection by layering expert monitoring and automation over traditional SIEM tools to reduce false positives and increase visibility.

  • The three main delivery models include off-site, cloud-based, and on-premises.

  • Huntress Managed SIEM delivers consistent, cost-effective performance, especially when paired with EDR or ITDR for maximum protection and rapid containment.

If you run a business or organization of any size, you probably already know that a good firewall and antivirus suite don’t cut it anymore. If you’re to keep even modest digital assets secure these days, you'll need a way to proactively and comprehensively monitor your entire digital presence. With the data that provides, you'll next need to respond instantly to any threats or intrusions you uncover. For many of these businesses, managed SIEM is the answer.

Traditional SIEMs have often overwhelmed teams with raw logs and false positives. Managed SIEM layers expert monitoring, alert triage, contextual enrichment, and real-time detection on top of your analytics to give you a more powerful, accurate, and cost-effective approach to security. 


What is Managed SIEM & How Does It Improve Threat Detection?

Key Takeaways:

  • Managed SIEM improves threat detection by layering expert monitoring and automation over traditional SIEM tools to reduce false positives and increase visibility.

  • The three main delivery models include off-site, cloud-based, and on-premises.

  • Huntress Managed SIEM delivers consistent, cost-effective performance, especially when paired with EDR or ITDR for maximum protection and rapid containment.

If you run a business or organization of any size, you probably already know that a good firewall and antivirus suite don’t cut it anymore. If you’re to keep even modest digital assets secure these days, you'll need a way to proactively and comprehensively monitor your entire digital presence. With the data that provides, you'll next need to respond instantly to any threats or intrusions you uncover. For many of these businesses, managed SIEM is the answer.

Traditional SIEMs have often overwhelmed teams with raw logs and false positives. Managed SIEM layers expert monitoring, alert triage, contextual enrichment, and real-time detection on top of your analytics to give you a more powerful, accurate, and cost-effective approach to security. 


Key benefits of managed SIEM

 The primary benefits include end-to-end visibility, expert-led threat detection, and faster, decisive response. By partnering with a team, you get:

  • The ability to detect threats in real time.

  • Data collection and centralized aggregation.

  • Support with regulatory compliance, such as CMMC, CIS, PCI DSS, and HIPAA requirements.

  • Customization and tailoring of the SIEM solution and toolset to suit your security needs and architecture.

  • Automation of defensive measures and smoother incident response.

  • Reduced admin overhead and predictable OpEx.

  • Rapid scalability backed by 24/7 human-led AI-assisted security.


What is a managed SIEM service?

It’s inherently a security service. Products and solutions are part of the package most of the time, but the real heart of it all is the expertise and teamwork your outsourced analysts and other specialists bring to the operation. 

 Huntress’ managed SIEM gives consistent performance, rapid deployment, and contextualized alerts that reduce noise, increase visibility, and free your team to do what matters most. 

Not Fun Fact:
51% of SIEM users consider their SIEM not to be fully effective

37% of SIEM users described SIEM as having too many false positives

50% of SIEM users are not happy with their current SIEM vendor

30% of SIEM users described SIEM as too complex

The solution? Get rid of the data lake mentality, rely on 24/7, look for sustainable pricing models, and challenge traditional models with the Huntress Managed SIEM platform.

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SIEM Best Practices: How to maximize the value of managed SIEM services

Here, the key is to integrate the team efficiently into your operations. This can be achieved by:


  • Defining provision requirements clearly.

  • Carefully integrate the SIEM provision with your existing security policies and procedures.

  • Pairing SIEM with EDR or ITDR for advanced containment and faster mean-time-to-response (MTTR).

Huntress provides expert monitoring and alerting, and consistent performance for less. We're tuned into the cyber threats of today and eager to apply our best-in-field solutions to the unique challenges your company faces. We can give you the reliable, predictable level of performance and compliance monitoring you need to meet SLAs, keep your costs down, and still avoid the worst bad actors in today's cybersphere.




What are the three delivery models of managed SIEM?

There are a few ways this can be delivered:

1. Off-site 

This is the traditional model.. A remote team with its own offices and infrastructure manages your needs from a distance.

2. Cloud-managed 

Here, the SIEM runs in a vendor’s cloud environment and is actively managed there. This approach is fast to deploy and very scalable, while being overseen by security experts. 

3. On-premises 

Here, your outsourced team is deployed to your offices to do their work. Some organizations and contracts requiring data to stay on-site need this hands-on approach.



What’s the difference between managed SIEM and SOC?

A security operations center (SOC) is a team of trained IT security specialists and analysts who monitor cybersecurity for your entire organization. They look for and respond to any “security events” as they happen, 24/7. 

On the other hand, managed SIEM is like a smaller, much more highly focused SOC whose only responsibility is tending to your SIEM tools. By keeping those tools tuned and optimized, it equips your SOC with deeper visibility and faster insights, helping analysts stay one step ahead of attackers. It alsot ends to be a great deal less expensive than running a full SOC.




Huntress managed SIEM: The power of real-time detection backed by human hunters

The Huntress platform gives you the power of real‑time detection, expert alerting, and human-led response, without the cost or complexity of hiring a full SOC.  

Yesterday's SIEM solutions are cumbersome, costly, and unreliable today. They aren’t designed to detect or counter modern cybersecurity threats, and many are challenging for new users. We created a new, more flexible, and much easier-to-use SIEM solution, which makes use of our remote 24/7, human-led SOC.

Paired with one of our EDR or ITDR solutions, we can deploy, tune, and monitor your entire system, giving you all the benefits without any of the hassle. 

We put top-of-the-line cybersecurity into the hands of any business. Better still, you get it all for one flat, transparent rate. 

Want to see what we can do for your security setup? Schedule a free demo today. 




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