Managed Security Operations
Alerts don't sleep. Neither do we.
Managed Security Operations is Ascent's SOC watching your Microsoft environment day and night. Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) is how that SOC decides what to watch, what matters most, and when to act. One is the team; the other is the method.
What CTEM Actually Is
A continuous cycle of exposure reduction.
Unlike annual audits that quickly become outdated, CTEM operates as an ongoing six-stage framework that continually discovers, validates, prioritizes, and remediates security exposures. As your environment evolves, the cycle evolves with it.
Discover
Continuously map the full attack surface: on-prem systems, cloud, IoT, and third-party integrations, not just what's easy to scan.
Detect
Find the exposures across that surface using threat intelligence, vulnerability scanning, and behavioral analytics: misconfigurations, unpatched systems, exposed data.
Prioritize
Rank what's found by exploitability, business impact, and threat actor activity, not just a severity label.
Validate
Confirm what's actually exploitable through penetration testing and breach-and-attack simulation, before an attacker does.
Enroll
Bring security teams, IT, and leadership into the remediation process, with automation and orchestration instead of manual handoffs.
Test
Regular penetration testing, red teaming, and continuous monitoring measure whether defenses actually hold up. Then the cycle runs again as your environment changes.
What's actually running once this starts.
Managed SOC on Sentinel & Defender XDR
24/7 monitoring, detection, and response inside your own Microsoft tenant.
CTI on every alert
Continuous Threat Intelligence correlated against your environment, not a generic feed.
Named TAM & CSM
A dedicated Technical Account Manager and Customer Success Manager, not a rotating queue.
Weekly ops reviews
Structured meetings keeping your team informed and aligned, not a black box.
Board-ready reporting
Findings, tuning, and roadmap translated for people outside the SOC.
One accountable owner
The same team that scoped your priorities runs the SOC watching for them.
How people usually get here.
Almost nobody starts with Managed Security Operations directly. Most engagements begin with one of these, then arrive here once the case is clear.
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Start by quantifying the gap.
30-Day SOC Trial
Start by seeing it run.
Zero Trust Roadmap
Start with a maturity roadmap, part of Advisory.
Managed SOC, powered by CTEM
Where this page picks up.
Frequently asked questions.
Is CTEM a separate product we'd need to buy?
How is this different from a one-time vulnerability scan or security assessment?
Do we need Sentinel and Defender already deployed?
What if we start with a Cost-Benefit Analysis or the SOC Trial instead of here?
See CTEM running inside a real SOC.
The 30-day trial is the fastest way to see the method and the practice at once. No contract, no cost.