Managed SOC services for UK businesses.
A fully staffed, 24/7 Security Operations Centre is out of reach for most UK businesses. Ours is not. IP Four delivers enterprise-grade SOC capabilities as a managed service, at a fraction of the cost of building in-house.
A complete SOC. Delivered as a service.
Our SOC service covers every function of a traditional in-house security operations centre, delivered by experienced analysts and backed by enterprise-grade tooling.
Continuous Security Monitoring
Our analysts monitor your environment 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Every alert investigated, every genuine threat escalated immediately.
SIEM Management
We deploy, tune, and manage your SIEM platform. Log ingestion, correlation rules, and dashboards configured to your environment and compliance requirements.
Threat Intelligence
Live threat intelligence feeds integrated into your monitoring stack. Indicators of compromise from global sources applied to your environment in real time.
Incident Response
When a genuine threat is confirmed, our analysts lead the response. Containment, investigation, eradication, and recovery, with you informed at every step.
Proactive Threat Hunting
We do not wait for alerts. Our threat hunters proactively search your environment for indicators of compromise that automated tools might miss.
Compliance and Reporting
Regular security reports aligned to your compliance framework. ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, GDPR, and PCI DSS reporting available as standard.
What each part of the service actually involves.
Continuous security monitoring
Analysts watching your environment every hour of every day, not a dashboard nobody reads.
24/7/365 Analyst Coverage
Human analysts monitoring your environment around the clock, every day of the year. No gaps, no holidays, no shift handover blind spots.
Real-Time Alert Triage
Every security alert is reviewed and triaged by an analyst. False positives are filtered out. Genuine threats are escalated immediately with full context.
Multi-Source Log Ingestion
We ingest logs from firewalls, endpoints, servers, cloud platforms, and applications. A unified view of your entire environment in a single monitoring platform.
Behavioural Anomaly Detection
Machine learning and analyst expertise combined to detect unusual behaviour patterns that signature-based tools miss, including insider threats and lateral movement.
Asset and Network Visibility
Continuous discovery and monitoring of your assets, network traffic, and user activity. Know exactly what is on your network and what it is doing.
Shift Handover and Continuity
Structured shift handover processes ensure no context is lost between analyst teams. Every active investigation is documented and passed on with full detail.
Managed SIEM
Deployed, tuned and maintained by the people who have to answer its alerts.
Managed SIEM UK - SIEM Deployment, Tuning and Management
Fully managed SIEM for UK businesses. Deployed, tuned, and managed by our SOC team.
SIEM Platform Deployment
We deploy and configure your SIEM platform from scratch, including log source integration, data normalisation, and initial correlation rule setup.
Correlation Rule Development
Custom correlation rules built for your environment, industry, and threat profile. Rules are continuously refined to reduce false positives and improve detection accuracy.
Log Source Management
Onboarding and management of all log sources including firewalls, endpoints, servers, cloud platforms, and applications. We handle parsers and normalisation.
Dashboard and Reporting
Custom dashboards giving you real-time visibility into your security posture. Scheduled reports aligned to your compliance framework and management requirements.
Ongoing Tuning and Optimisation
Regular tuning sessions to refine detection rules, update threat intelligence, and adapt to changes in your environment. Your SIEM improves over time.
Threat intelligence
Knowing which attacks are actually aimed at your sector, and acting before they land.
Live Threat Intelligence Feeds
Curated threat intelligence from commercial, open-source, and government sources. Indicators of compromise applied to your monitoring stack in real time.
Sector-Specific Intelligence
Threat intelligence tailored to your industry. Financial services, healthcare, legal, and public sector threat actors and campaigns tracked and applied.
Threat Actor Profiling
Tracking of threat actor groups known to target UK businesses in your sector. Tactics, techniques, and procedures mapped to your detection rules.
Dark Web Monitoring
Monitoring of dark web forums, marketplaces, and paste sites for mentions of your organisation, credentials, or data. Early warning of targeted attacks.
Intelligence Sharing and Collaboration
Participation in UK and sector-specific threat intelligence sharing communities. Your environment benefits from collective intelligence across our customer base.
Threat Intelligence Reporting
Regular threat intelligence briefings covering the current threat landscape, relevant campaigns, and recommended defensive actions for your environment.
Incident response
When something is real, our analysts run the response rather than emailing you about it.
Rapid Containment
Immediate containment actions to stop the spread of an active incident. Network isolation, account suspension, and endpoint quarantine executed within minutes of confirmation.
Forensic Investigation
In-depth forensic analysis to determine the root cause, attack vector, timeline, and full scope of the incident. Evidence preserved for legal and regulatory purposes.
Eradication and Remediation
Complete removal of the threat from your environment. Malware eradication, backdoor removal, and vulnerability patching to prevent reinfection.
Recovery and Restoration
Structured recovery to restore normal operations safely. System rebuilds, data restoration, and validation testing before returning systems to production.
Regulatory Notification Support
Support with ICO notification obligations under GDPR. Incident documentation, breach assessment, and notification drafting to meet the 72-hour reporting window.
Post-Incident Review
Structured post-incident review to identify lessons learned, improve detection capabilities, and strengthen defences against future attacks.
Proactive threat hunting
Looking for what the alerts missed, on the assumption something already got in.
Hypothesis-Driven Hunting
Structured threat hunts based on intelligence-driven hypotheses. We ask the question "what if an attacker is already in your environment?" and go looking for the answer.
Lateral Movement Detection
Hunting for signs of lateral movement, credential abuse, and privilege escalation that automated tools often miss during the dwell time before an attack activates.
Living-off-the-Land Detection
Detection of attackers using legitimate system tools to avoid detection. PowerShell abuse, WMI persistence, and LOLBin usage identified through behavioural analysis.
Insider Threat Hunting
Proactive hunting for indicators of malicious or negligent insider activity, including data exfiltration, policy violations, and unusual access patterns.
Cloud Environment Hunting
Threat hunting across cloud environments including Azure, AWS, and Microsoft 365. Misconfiguration exploitation, identity abuse, and cloud-native attack techniques.
Hunt Findings and Reporting
Every hunt produces a findings report. Confirmed threats are escalated immediately. Negative hunts provide assurance evidence for compliance and audit purposes.
Compliance and reporting
The evidence your auditor asks for, produced as a by-product of the monitoring.
Monthly Security Reports
Comprehensive monthly security reports covering alert volumes, threat trends, investigation summaries, and your overall security posture. Board-ready and technical versions available.
ISO 27001 Aligned Reporting
Security monitoring evidence aligned to ISO 27001 Annex A controls. Audit-ready documentation for your ISMS and certification body.
GDPR and ICO Compliance
Security monitoring evidence supporting your GDPR obligations. Incident logs, access records, and breach detection evidence for your DPO and ICO reporting.
PCI DSS Reporting
Log monitoring and security event reporting aligned to PCI DSS requirements. Evidence packages for your QSA and annual assessment.
Cyber Essentials Evidence
Security monitoring evidence supporting your Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus certification. Firewall logs, access control evidence, and malware detection records.
Executive and Board Reporting
Clear, non-technical security reporting for your board and senior leadership. Risk posture, threat trends, and security investment effectiveness communicated in business language.
SOC coverage that scales with your business.
Whether you are a 20-person business or a 500-person organisation, we have a SOC tier that fits your needs and your budget.
SOC Essentials
For businesses needing core monitoring and alerting without the complexity of a full SOC deployment.
- 24/7 log monitoring
- Alert triage and escalation
- Monthly security report
- Email and phone support
- Up to 500 events per second
SOC Professional
For businesses requiring full SOC coverage with active threat hunting and incident response.
- Everything in Essentials
- Active threat hunting
- Incident response included
- Quarterly security review
- Dedicated account analyst
- Up to 2,000 events per second
SOC Enterprise
For organisations with complex environments, regulatory requirements, or high-value data assets.
- Everything in Professional
- Custom SIEM rules and playbooks
- Forensic investigation capability
- Board-level reporting
- SLA-backed response times
- Unlimited event ingestion
How our SOC has protected UK businesses.
Financial Services
A UK investment firm needed FCA-compliant security monitoring but could not justify the cost of a 10-person in-house SOC team.
Full SOC coverage deployed in 2 weeks. FCA audit passed. Annual cost 70% lower than building in-house.
NHS Supply Chain
A medical device supplier needed to demonstrate SOC-level monitoring to maintain their NHS Digital Data Security and Protection Toolkit compliance.
DSPT compliance achieved. Ongoing monitoring in place with quarterly compliance reports.
Technology Company
A UK SaaS business handling sensitive customer data needed enterprise-grade security operations to satisfy enterprise client due diligence.
SOC deployed and documented. Three enterprise contracts won directly citing security posture as a differentiator.
Enterprise security operations. Built for your budget.
Tell us about your environment and compliance requirements. We will come back with a tailored SOC proposal, a clear scope, and transparent pricing. No obligation.