Managed threat detection and response
Continuous monitoring, hypothesis-led threat hunting, and real response, run by operators who also do the offensive work. Detection content is mapped to MITRE ATT&CK technique by technique, so a coverage gap has a name.
Bought under NAICS 541512 and 541519.
What this service does
Most organizations cannot staff a security operations center, and the ones that try usually end up with one tired analyst and a queue nobody clears. We run the monitoring, the hunting, and the response, and we tell you what we concluded rather than handing you a list of alerts to work through.
What makes this different from a commodity alert feed is where the detection content comes from. The people writing it are the same people who run our red team engagements, so detections are built against the tradecraft currently in use rather than against last year's indicators.
Swif7Edge states a 24/7 security operations capability and a response target under 15 minutes. Those figures are company-stated commitments, and the specific service levels that apply to you are written into your agreement.
What we assess and protect
- Endpoints, servers, and virtual desktop estates
- Identity providers: Entra ID, Okta, and on-premises Active Directory
- Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, including mail flow and sharing
- Cloud control planes and the audit logs most teams never read
- Network telemetry, firewall, and VPN authentication records
- SaaS applications holding regulated or contract-controlled data
How the work runs
Select any stage in the diagram to see what happens there. The same model drives the engagement plan you receive.
Select any stage to see what happens there and who does it.
Onboarding and authority
We agree what we may do without asking: isolate a host, revoke a session, disable an account, block a destination. Settling this during onboarding is what makes a fifteen-minute response possible, because nobody is negotiating permission during an incident.
Telemetry and tuning
Collection is sized to the detections it supports. We would rather collect less and detect more than ingest everything and pay twice for noise. The first weeks are spent tuning out what is normal for your environment.
Detection
Content written against MITRE ATT&CK techniques, reviewed with you quarterly against the techniques relevant to your sector. When we report a gap, we can name the technique it sits under.
Threat hunting
Scheduled hypothesis-driven hunts for activity no rule fired on, informed by current offensive tradecraft. Anything a hunt finds becomes new detection content.
Triage and response
A human analyst validates, scopes, and acts. You receive the reasoning behind every closure, not just a status change.
Reporting and review
Monthly reporting mapped to your control set, and a quarterly review covering detection coverage, incidents, and what changed in your environment.
What you receive
- Documented service levels for detection, triage, and response
- Analyst-validated incidents with scope, timeline, and reasoning
- Monthly reporting mapped to your compliance control set
- Quarterly detection-coverage review against MITRE ATT&CK
- An incident response runbook written for your environment
- Retained access to your own telemetry, where the architecture allows
Three tiers, and how to choose
Shield is essential coverage: collection, triage, and round-the-clock monitoring. It suits organizations whose first requirement is that someone is watching.
Fortress adds proactive threat hunting, an incident response retainer, and quarterly purple-team exercises. Most organizations with a compliance obligation land here.
Apex adds scheduled red team engagements, fractional CISO advisory, and board-level risk reporting, for organizations whose security program needs a named owner.
Who performs the work
Swif7Edge is small on purpose. The people who scope your engagement are the people who run it.
Our practice was founded by U.S. Army veterans. The security side is led by a combat veteran and former NSA contractor with 26 years in security engineering, who has built and led teams of more than 130 engineers, stood up global security operations centers, and directed offensive security work for the Defense Intelligence Agency, the FBI, and the U.S. Marine Corps.
That background is company-stated. Specific engagements are covered by non-disclosure terms and in most cases by the sensitivity of the work itself, so we do not detail them publicly. We will substantiate it directly during a procurement, with references and whatever contract detail can be released.
The strategy side brings more than 20 years across the Intelligence Community, the Department of Defense, and Fortune 500 operations, managing portfolios above $150 million and cross-functional teams of up to 2,500 personnel.
Credentials held on the team
- Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
- GIAC Penetration Tester (GPEN)
- GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
- GIAC Assessing and Auditing Wireless Networks (GAWN)
We do not publish client names, logos, or case studies. The work is mostly covered by non-disclosure terms, and a small firm that lists logos it cannot substantiate is making a claim it cannot stand behind. The certifications and registrations above are independently checkable, and the methodologies on each service page are named rather than described. Everything we say about our own history is company-stated and we label it that way.
Scope it before you budget it
Tell us the environment and the obligation. We will come back with the approach, the duration, and what drives the price — before anyone asks you for a number.
Common questions
If what you need is not here, ask us directly rather than filling in a form.
Yes, and we recommend you insist on it with any provider. Where the architecture allows, telemetry lands in a platform you own and retain, so changing providers does not mean losing your detection history. Vendor lock-in through log custody is a real risk and it is avoidable.
An analyst validates the alert, establishes scope, and acts within the authority agreed during onboarding. That typically includes isolating a host, revoking sessions and tokens, and blocking command-and-control. You get a call for anything requiring a decision outside that authority, and a written summary either way.
Yes. Continuous monitoring, audit logging, and incident response are explicit requirements in NIST SP 800-171 and in the HIPAA Security Rule. Our monthly reporting maps service activity to your control set, so the evidence is generated continuously rather than reconstructed before an assessment.
An alert feed hands you the work. We do the triage and tell you what we concluded and why. If we close something, you see the reasoning. Our detection content is written against MITRE ATT&CK techniques by the same people who run our red team engagements.