Cybersecurity
Turn security intelligence into action.
Aevis combines security consulting, continuous monitoring, threat response and compliance expertise to help enterprises reduce risk, strengthen resilience and stay audit-ready.
- 24×7 monitored operations
- Framework-mapped detection coverage
- Evidence produced as work proceeds
24×7
security operations coverage
10
capability areas under one contract
< 15m
target triage on critical signals
The challenge
What usually brings a security conversation to us.
Rarely a breach. Far more often, the slow realisation that nobody can answer a simple question — are we actually watching, and would we know?
Alerts nobody owns
Detection tooling is deployed and licensed, but its output lands in a queue that is reviewed when someone has time. Volume has trained the team to ignore it.
Unknown coverage
No one can say which attack techniques are monitored and which are not, so security investment is argued from vendor claims rather than from a mapped gap.
Business-hours security, always-on exposure
The estate runs continuously; the people watching it do not. Incidents that begin on a Friday evening are discovered on a Monday morning.
An estate that outgrew its perimeter
Remote endpoints, SaaS platforms and multiple cloud tenancies now hold the data, while the controls were designed around a network boundary that no longer contains anything.
Vulnerability lists nobody can act on
Scanners produce thousands of findings with no exploitability context or ownership, so remediation stalls and the same critical items reappear each quarter.
No rehearsed response
An incident plan exists as a document. It has never been exercised, contact details are stale, and the first real test will be the real incident.
Audits answered by archaeology
Every client security questionnaire, insurance renewal and internal audit becomes a two-week scramble to reconstruct evidence that was never captured as it happened.
Security knowledge held by one person
Capability is concentrated in an individual rather than a documented process, and it leaves the building with them.
The service
A security function you contract for, rather than assemble.
Aevis operates cybersecurity as a managed capability. We take on continuous monitoring of the estate, the triage and investigation of what that monitoring produces, the vulnerability and hardening work that reduces what reaches monitoring in the first place, and the governance record that makes all of it demonstrable to a third party.
We begin from what you already own. Most engagements start with an assessment of existing controls, telemetry sources and coverage gaps — because the fastest improvement is usually not a new product but the correct configuration, tuning and operation of the products already licensed. Where genuine gaps exist, we say so, and we scope them honestly.
The service is deliberately built to sit alongside our managed services and service-management practices rather than beside them as a separate vendor. A security finding that requires a patch, a firewall change or an endpoint rebuild becomes a change record in the same platform, actioned by the same accountable team, tracked to closure under the same governance. Security work that stops at the recommendation stage is the failure mode we are structured to avoid.
- Engagement type
- Managed service, co-managed, or assessment-only
- Coverage
- Endpoint, network, cloud, identity, data
- Operating hours
- Business hours through 24×7, by agreement
- Governance
- Documented service reviews and audit-ready reporting
Capabilities
Core capabilities.
Ten capability areas, contracted together or individually. Each one is an operating responsibility with a named owner, not a product we resell.
Continuous security monitoring
Telemetry from endpoint, network, cloud, identity and application sources collected into one monitored view, watched against defined detection content on an agreed coverage window.
- Log source onboarding, normalisation and health checking
- SIEM or XDR platform operation and tuning
- Detection content maintained against a published framework
- Coverage reporting that names what is and is not watched
Threat detection and prevention
Signals triaged by analysts against documented playbooks, so that what reaches your team is an assessed finding with context and a recommended action rather than a raw alert.
- Analyst triage with severity, confidence and business context
- Investigation to root cause, not to alert closure
- Preventive control tuning informed by what actually fires
- False-positive reduction tracked as a service metric
Endpoint security
Protection, detection and response across servers, workstations and mobile devices — including the unglamorous baseline work of agent coverage, policy consistency and build hardening.
- EDR deployment, policy design and coverage assurance
- Build and configuration hardening against a defined baseline
- Device isolation and containment procedures
- Coverage gap reporting across the managed estate
Network security
Segmentation, control operation and traffic visibility for the network paths that still carry the traffic that matters, including the remote-access routes that expanded fastest.
- Firewall, IDS/IPS and secure gateway operation
- Segmentation design and rule-base rationalisation
- Remote-access and VPN control review
- East-west traffic visibility where it is available
Cloud security
Posture management across cloud tenancies — configuration drift, entitlement sprawl and the identity model that has quietly become the real perimeter.
- Cloud security posture management and drift detection
- Identity and entitlement review across tenancies
- Workload protection for compute, container and serverless estates
- Landing-zone and guardrail review against provider baselines
Data security
Knowing where sensitive data lives, who can reach it, and what happens when it moves — applied to the platforms your business actually stores data in.
- Data discovery and classification support
- Access review and least-privilege remediation
- Data-loss prevention policy design and operation
- Encryption and key-handling practice review
Vulnerability management
Findings turned into a prioritised, owned and tracked remediation programme — ranked by exploitability and business exposure rather than by raw scanner severity.
- Scheduled scanning across infrastructure, cloud and applications
- Risk-based prioritisation with asset and exposure context
- Remediation routed as change records with named owners
- Recurrence tracking, so the same finding is not re-reported quarterly
Incident-response enablement
The plan, the playbooks, the rehearsal and the standing support that determine whether a real incident is a contained event or an improvised one.
- Response plan and playbook development for your estate
- Tabletop exercises and readiness assessment
- Containment, eradication and recovery support during incidents
- Post-incident review with tracked corrective actions
Compliance and governance
Control frameworks mapped to what is genuinely operating, with the evidence captured as work happens rather than reconstructed before an audit.
- Control mapping against recognised frameworks
- Policy and standard development and review
- Continuous evidence capture and audit-pack preparation
- Third-party and supplier security risk review
Security operations enablement
Building the capability inside your organisation where you want to hold it — tooling, process, runbooks and the handover that makes the team self-sufficient.
- Target operating model design for an in-house or hybrid SOC
- Runbook, process and metric definition
- Automation of repetitive triage and enrichment work
- Analyst enablement and structured knowledge transfer
AI-assisted security operations
Enrichment and prioritisation — not autonomous response.
The tooling was rarely the gap. Turning what it produces into a decision was. AI is applied to enrichment, investigation and business-risk prioritisation, and the response itself stays analyst-approved.
Alert enrichment
Attach asset, identity, exposure and recent-change context to a signal before an analyst opens it.
Investigation summaries
Draft the timeline and the evidence trail for review, so the write-up is not what delays the containment.
Risk-based prioritisation
Rank by business impact and exploitability rather than by raw severity score.
Attack-path context
Show what an identity or host could reach next, so containment is scoped to the path rather than the alert.
Analyst-approved response
Prepare the containment action and hold it for an analyst to authorise, with the full action logged.
What stays human
Containment, isolation, credential revocation, escalation to the client and any statement of breach remain human decisions. No automated action is taken against production identity or endpoints without an authorised analyst and a recorded approval.
How value is measured
- Enrichment coverage on triaged alerts
- False-positive reduction against baseline
- Time to triage and time to contain
- Analyst acceptance of recommended priority
- Human override frequency
- Evidence completeness at case closure
Entitlement
Capability depends on the client’s existing security tooling, log coverage, licensing and data-residency requirements. Aevis claims no product ownership and no certified partnership.
Outcomes
What changes for the business.
Stated as operational change rather than as a promise. Security outcomes depend on the estate, the scope contracted and the client-side decisions taken on our recommendations.
Coverage you can state precisely
A named, mapped answer to "what are we monitoring" — including the honest gaps — replacing an assumption drawn from a product datasheet.
Fewer alerts, more findings
Tuning and triage are operated as continuous work, so what reaches your team is assessed, contextualised and actionable rather than raw volume.
Time-to-decision, not time-to-alert
The measured interval becomes the one that matters: from signal to an assessed finding with a recommended action, on an agreed target.
Remediation that closes
Findings become change records with owners and dates in the same service-management platform, so security work is tracked to completion rather than to recommendation.
Audits answered from a record
Client questionnaires, insurance renewals and internal audits are answered from evidence captured as the work occurred, compressing a scramble into a retrieval.
Senior capacity returned
Routine triage, enrichment and reporting stop consuming the few people who hold deep estate knowledge, releasing them to engineering work.
Capability that outlasts individuals
Documented process, maintained runbooks and a standing team mean the function survives a resignation rather than leaving with one.
A posture trend, not a snapshot
Coverage, vulnerability recurrence and response performance reported on a cycle, so the direction of travel is visible to the board.
Delivery model
How a security engagement runs.
The same sequence whether the scope is a posture assessment or full managed security operations. Each stage produces something reviewable before the next begins.
Discovery
Estate, telemetry sources, existing security products, licences already held, current process and who presently does what.
OutputDocumented current state and asset inventory
Assessment
Control and detection coverage measured against a recognised framework; gaps ranked by exposure rather than by product category.
OutputCoverage map and prioritised gap register
Design
Target monitoring architecture, detection content, response playbooks, service levels and the split of responsibility between your team and ours.
OutputTarget operating model and responsibility matrix
Implementation
Log sources onboarded, detection content built and tuned, controls hardened, playbooks written and integrations into service management completed.
OutputOperational monitoring and documented runbooks
Transition
A defined handover into managed operation with parallel running, escalation testing and an agreed acceptance point — not a date on which we simply begin.
OutputSigned transition acceptance and escalation matrix
Managed operations
Continuous monitoring, analyst triage, investigation, vulnerability cycles and remediation tracking against the agreed service levels.
OutputOperational service against agreed SLAs
Governance
Service reviews on a fixed cycle, change control, coverage and posture reporting, and the evidence pack maintained continuously.
OutputPeriodic service review and audit-ready evidence
Continuous improvement
Detection content revised against emerging technique, recurring findings removed at the cause, and automation applied to whatever triage has become routine.
OutputTracked improvement backlog and posture trend
Engagement models
The same sequence, contracted three ways. The split of responsibility is written down before the service starts.
Fully managed
Aevis operates the security function against agreed service levels. Suited to organisations without a standing internal security team.
Co-managed
Your team retains ownership and decision rights; Aevis provides out-of-hours coverage, surge capacity and specialist depth against a defined split.
Assessment and enablement
A bounded engagement to establish coverage, design the operating model and enable your team to run it, with no ongoing operational commitment.
Platforms
Platforms and technologies.
We operate the security stack you already own wherever it is fit for purpose. These are the categories and representative products we work across.
SIEM and analytics
- Microsoft Sentinel
- Splunk
- Elastic Security
- IBM QRadar
Endpoint detection and response
- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
- CrowdStrike Falcon
- SentinelOne
- Trend Vision One
Cloud security posture
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- AWS Security Hub
- Wiz
- Prisma Cloud
Network and perimeter
- Palo Alto Networks
- Fortinet
- Cisco Secure
- Zscaler
Identity and access
- Microsoft Entra ID
- Okta
- CyberArk
- SailPoint
Vulnerability management
- Qualys
- Tenable
- Rapid7 InsightVM
- Nessus
Automation and orchestration
- ServiceNow Security Operations
- Microsoft Sentinel Automation
- Torq
- Cortex XSOAR
Data protection
- Microsoft Purview
- Varonis
- Netskope
- Forcepoint
Industries
Where this work lands.
The same capability, weighted differently. What a regulated bank needs first is not what a manufacturer needs first.
Banking and Financial Services
Continuous monitoring with regulator-facing evidence, third-party risk review across fintech integrations, and access recertification that survives audit scrutiny.
Insurance
Data classification and access control across policyholder records, with DLP tuned to the brokerage and claims workflows that legitimately move data outward.
Healthcare and Life Sciences
Endpoint and identity control across clinical devices and shared workstations, where the constraint is patient-facing uptime rather than the control itself.
Manufacturing and Automotive
Segmentation between plant and corporate networks, and monitoring designed around production systems that cannot be patched on a corporate cycle.
Hi-Tech and Semiconductor
Intellectual-property protection across engineering environments, with cloud posture management for fast-moving multi-tenancy development estates.
Consumer Goods and Retail
Payment-environment scope control, distributed store-estate endpoint coverage, and seasonal-peak readiness exercises before the trading window opens.
Energy and Utilities
Operational-technology visibility alongside IT monitoring, and incident playbooks that account for safety-critical process constraints.
IT, BPO and Professional Services
Client security questionnaires answered from a maintained evidence pack, and per-client segregation demonstrated rather than asserted.
Why Aevis
Why Aevis for security.
Service-specific differentiation. These are the reasons this practice is structured the way it is, not general company claims.
We already run the estate
Aevis operates infrastructure, cloud and service management for clients. Security findings become changes executed by a team that knows the environment, rather than recommendations handed across a vendor boundary.
Findings routed to closure
Every finding enters the same service-management platform as the rest of your IT work, with an owner, a due date and an audit trail. Remediation is tracked as work, not as advice.
Coverage stated honestly
We map detection coverage to a published framework and report the gaps as plainly as the strengths. A coverage claim you cannot audit is not a coverage claim.
Your existing licences first
The first assessment output is usually a list of capability you already pay for and do not operate. We would rather configure that than sell you a replacement.
Automation before headcount
Repetitive enrichment and triage are automated as a matter of course, so analyst time is spent on the investigations that need judgement.
Evidence produced as work happens
Governance artefacts are a by-product of the operating process rather than a project undertaken before each audit.
Shaped to your team
Fully managed, co-managed or enablement-only, with the responsibility split written down. We do not require you to give up ownership to get coverage.
Global delivery, named accountability
Distributed analyst capacity for continuous coverage, with a named service manager who holds the account and the history.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
Answers are written to the same discipline as the rest of the page: they describe what the service does and, where the honest answer is "no provider can", they say that instead.
Do we have to replace our existing security tooling?
Usually not. The assessment stage begins with what you already own and licence, because the most common finding is capability that is deployed but not operated, tuned or monitored. Where a genuine gap exists we will say so and scope it separately, but replacing a working product is not our default recommendation.
Can you work alongside our internal security team?
Yes — that is the co-managed model. Your team keeps ownership and decision rights, and we provide an agreed portion of the work: typically out-of-hours coverage, surge capacity during incidents, or specialist depth in a particular domain. The split of responsibility is documented before the service starts.
What does 24×7 coverage actually mean in practice?
It means analyst triage of monitored signals is available continuously against agreed response targets, not that an engineer is watching a screen with your name on it. What is covered, at what severity, within what target interval, and how escalation reaches your team is defined in the service agreement rather than implied.
How quickly can monitoring be operational?
It depends on the number of telemetry sources, their accessibility and the state of the existing platform. A focused scope covering endpoint and identity typically reaches useful monitoring materially sooner than a full estate onboarding. We give an indicative sequence at the end of discovery, before implementation is committed.
Will this make us compliant with ISO 27001, SOC 2 or DPDP?
No provider can make you compliant — certification is awarded to your organisation by an accredited assessor against your own controls and evidence. What we do is map your operating controls to the framework, run the security operations that produce the evidence, and maintain that evidence continuously so an assessment is a review rather than a reconstruction.
Do you perform penetration testing?
Formal penetration testing and red-team exercises are separately scoped engagements and are not included in managed security operations. Vulnerability management, configuration hardening and remediation tracking are included, and we routinely work alongside a client's chosen independent testing provider.
What happens when there is an actual incident?
The response follows the playbook written for your estate during implementation: containment actions we are pre-authorised to take, the escalation path to your named contacts, and the decision points that remain yours. After closure we run a documented review, and corrective actions are tracked to completion like any other finding.
How is the service reported and governed?
On a fixed cycle agreed at contract: coverage against framework, detection and response performance against target, vulnerability position and recurrence, incidents and their corrective actions, and the improvement backlog. It is written to be read by both a security lead and a board audit committee.
Can you take over from an incumbent security provider?
Yes. Transition includes discovery of the current configuration and detection content, a parallel-running period, escalation testing and a defined acceptance point before the incumbent stands down. We do not treat a contract start date as a transition.
Can this be scoped as a one-off assessment?
Yes. The assessment and enablement model is a bounded engagement that establishes coverage, designs the target operating model and hands it to your team, with no ongoing operational commitment.
Cybersecurity enquiry
Start with what you already have.
The most useful first conversation is not a proposal. It is establishing what is currently monitored, what is not, and which of the two you can presently prove.
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