Simplicity IT Professional Service | Four-week assessment

Security Operations Optimization: 4-Week Assessment

Security leaders reviewing detection gaps and operating costs: assess existing Microsoft environments before funding remediation.

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Service estimate

Estimated service fee: USD 25,000. Final scope and fees are confirmed in the statement of work before delivery. Microsoft licenses and consumption are separate.

What this assessment gives you

  • A documented security operations baseline.
  • A prioritized maturity and risk register.
  • A target operating model for the agreed Microsoft security workloads.
  • A remediation roadmap and owner handoff.

Scope and boundaries

Four weeks of read-only Sentinel and Defender assessment covering detection coverage, data costs, SOC processes and Security Copilot readiness.

Production connector changes, analytics deployment, portal cutover, playbook implementation and managed SOC operations are separate. Later work reuses the accepted coverage and cost baseline.

  • No production configuration changes are included in an assessment.
  • No license purchase, legal opinion, penetration test, custom software build, or product subscription is included.
  • Follow-on implementation and managed operations require a separate approved scope.
  • Findings depend on the access, inventory, and evidence made available during the engagement.

Your approval before production changes

The assessment does not make production changes. A named customer owner reviews the findings, priorities, dependencies, and proposed next step before any follow-on work is scoped or performed.

How the engagement runs

  1. Week 1: Baseline

    Review the agreed monitoring, detection, investigation, and response workflows.

  2. Weeks 2 and 3: Assess

    Identify control, workflow, evidence, and cost-management gaps.

  3. Week 4: Decide

    Deliver the operating model, remediation sequence, and executive readout.

Sample assessment artifacts

These illustrative examples show the deliverables you can expect. They use synthetic data and do not depict customer environments.

Synthetic security operations readiness scorecard.
Security operations readiness scorecard
Synthetic MITRE ATT&CK coverage map.
MITRE ATT&CK coverage map
Synthetic Microsoft Defender portal readiness map.
Microsoft Defender portal readiness
Synthetic security data architecture and cost model.
Security data cost model
Synthetic security operations 90-day roadmap.
90-day security operations roadmap

Evidence to decision flow

Context received

The agreed workload boundary, approved inventory exports, and read-only administrative evidence.

Evidence reviewed

Simplicity IT analyzes the in-scope evidence against the documented service questions. Production activity remains read-only.

Your decision

A named customer owner reviews findings, priorities, dependencies, and any proposed next step before production work is scoped.

Evidence retained

The agreed report, decision log, and handoff record are retained according to the customer agreement. Customer content is not reused for marketing.

Microsoft technologies in scope

  • Microsoft Sentinel
  • Microsoft Defender XDR
  • Microsoft Security Copilot
  • Microsoft Purview

Discuss a customer-specific offer

To buy this professional service through Microsoft Marketplace, request a customer-specific private offer. We will confirm scope, terms and availability before sharing it. Microsoft licenses and consumption are separate.

Bring the relevant inventory, owners and priorities to a scoping conversation. Request the applicable service terms before committing; support scope is fixed in the accepted agreement.

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