SOC Advisory
Cogswell Award-winning SOC leadership. Boutique consulting for organizations building, maturing, or transforming their security operations.
What We Do
Whether you are standing up a SOC from scratch or trying to get more value from an existing one that is struggling to detect and respond to real threats, we can help. Our founder has built security operations centers from the ground up multiple times and continues to provide boutique consulting for major organizations and government agencies.
We believe the foundation of effective security operations is people, processes, and procedures, not technology and blinky boxes. We focus on what actually matters: the analysts doing the work, the processes that guide them, and the detection programs that surface real threats so your team gets the maximum value from its security monitoring investment.
We are completely technology agnostic. We sit in on vendor sales calls and technical evaluations, help develop requirements and use cases before major purchases, and provide objective guidance so you invest in the right tools for your mission, not the loudest pitch.
Our experience spans the full spectrum of security operations, from SOCs managing millions of endpoints at petabyte scale to MSSPs and MDR providers serving small and midsize organizations across aerospace, defense, and beyond.
Engagement Model
Assessment
Evaluate your security operations maturity, threat landscape, and organizational requirements. You receive a detailed findings report with prioritized, actionable recommendations tailored to your environment.
Architecture Review
Review your SOC architecture to find optimizations that reduce cost, extract more value from existing tooling, improve detection coverage, and lower response times. We ensure configurations are tuned for peak performance and help develop requirements and use cases for evaluating new tools when needed.
Implementation
Build out SOC infrastructure, deploy tooling, develop playbooks, and establish operational workflows designed to be repeatable and self-sustaining so your team can continue to execute, improve, and scale on its own.
Maturation
Ongoing optimization, metrics-driven improvement, team training, and capability expansion.
What's Included
SOC Architecture Design
Technology selection, data flow architecture, and operational model design tailored to your organization's threat profile and budget.
Playbook & Runbook Development
Standardized response procedures, escalation workflows, and investigation guides for your most critical alert types.
Evaluation & Requirements Development
Assess current tool configurations for gaps and develop the requirements, use cases, and evaluation criteria needed to make informed decisions when new capabilities are required.
Team Training & Mentorship
Hands-on analyst training, detection engineering mentorship, and career development programs for SOC staff.
Ready to Build or Mature Your SOC?
Let's discuss how we can help your organization build effective security operations.