The crisis: why traditional SOCs are breaking
The proliferation of digital assets and the sophistication of advanced persistent threats have rendered traditional SIEM and human-centric Security Operations Centers inadequate. The crisis comes down to three failures:
- Alert fatigue. Analysts drown in notifications, with false-positive rates reported as high as 95%. The noise buries real threats and burns out teams, leading to missed breaches.
- Unacceptable response times. Manual triage means a Mean Time To Respond measured in hours or days — long enough for an attacker to pivot, establish persistence and reach their objective.
- Skyrocketing cost. Staffing a 24/7 SOC and licensing legacy tooling drives operating costs through the roof.
SOAR PLUS: from correlation to autonomy
SDefender moves beyond mere event correlation (legacy SIEM) and scripted automation (traditional SOAR). It introduces a SOAR PLUS architecture that unifies SIEM and SOAR in a single platform and prioritizes instant, automated mitigation over alerting. Log correlation does more than raise an alert: it directly triggers an automated defense.
Smart Automatic AI & the Penalty Score
At the core is SDefender's Smart Automatic AI. Instead of relying on manually written playbooks for known patterns, the engine performs real-time threat scoring based on observed agent behavior — internal and external — and context across the entire network.
It dynamically assigns a Penalty Score to suspicious activity. As repeated triggers raise the score past a configured threshold, the platform autonomously executes high-speed defenses — blocking, quarantining or throttling — before human confirmation is required.
Detection that doesn't depend on signatures
- SmokeScreen deception. Proprietary decoy environments lure attackers away from critical assets and gather intelligence on their tactics.
- Entropy-based detection. Statistical models analyze entropy patterns and behavioral deviations to identify anomalies and zero-day threats.
Stopping attacks across the kill chain
SDefender intervenes across the observable stages of the cyber kill chain: detecting scanning and probing before compromise, blocking malicious payloads at delivery and exploitation, and preventing persistence, command-and-control and damage at installation and actions-on-objective.
Built to fit any stack
The platform supports both on-premises and cloud environments. Universal log collection is built on the open-source Vector Remap Language (VRL), so SDefender ingests and normalizes any log format from any agent — NXLog, Filebeat, Fluentd — or direct sources, future-proofing the investment. Role-based access control governs operations, vendor feeds and lists keep defenses current, and alerts reach administrators over email, Microsoft Teams and Telegram.
Value in weeks, not years
Where legacy SIEM/SOAR deployments take 6–12 months, SDefender uses a phased model: onboarding in one day with core defense rules, 2–4 weeks of tuning the AI to your environment, then full autonomous operation.
Measurable results
- 99.98% of attacks blocked automatically
- 0.56s average automated response time
- < 3 false positives per month
- Up to 85% lower total cost of ownership
A product line, not a point tool
Available now: Agentic SOC, Exposure Management, firewall-focused Security Posture Management, and AWS-focused Cloud Security Posture Management. Endpoint Security (EDR) and SDefender Desk will be available soon; Security Awareness Training is planned.