White Aegis Cyber Defence Operations provides continuous, managed security across your organisation. Security assessments give you a point-in-time picture; this service runs after the report is filed, detecting and responding to threats around the clock. Capabilities include SOC-as-a-Service, AI-augmented monitoring, Managed Detection and Response (MDR), threat intelligence, incident response, and dark web monitoring for enterprises, banks, and regulated organisations across India, the United Kingdom, the Middle East, Singapore, and North America.
Most organisations have perimeter controls, endpoint protection, and a SIEM generating alerts. Many run annual audits. The gap is not in the tools; it is in who watches them, and what happens when something triggers.
Ransomware operators typically spend weeks in a network before activating encryption. Nation-state actors move laterally for months before they are noticed. Business email compromise bypasses technical controls by targeting people rather than systems. The dwell time between initial access and detection is where the damage accumulates.
Cyber Defence Operations is the ongoing function that reduces that window. It is human-led monitoring, detection, and response that runs continuously, not just around assessment cycles.
A Security Operations Centre is only as effective as the analysts running it. Our SOC-as-a-Service provides round-the-clock monitoring of your environment, correlating events across network, endpoints, cloud infrastructure, and applications to detect what automated tools alone would miss. Every alert is triaged by an analyst, not just logged. Mean time to detect and mean time to respond are the metrics we track. For organisations subject to RBI Cybersecurity Directions 2026, this directly satisfies the CSOC requirement under Para 221.
Most organisations already have some security monitoring in place, whether an 8x5 internal team reviewing alerts during business hours or a 24x7 SOC operation. AI SOC does not replace either. It handles the volume and speed of threat detection that human teams cannot sustain at scale, regardless of shift coverage.
White Aegis deploys AI SOC as a layer on top of your current security operations, integrating directly with your existing SIEM and log sources. If a SIEM is not already in place, we deploy and configure one before onboarding.
Whether you run an 8x5 internal team or a 24x7 managed SOC, AI SOC ensures no alert window goes unwatched.
MDR combines technology with human expertise to detect and respond to threats across your environment, without requiring you to build an internal security operations team. Unlike a traditional MSSP that monitors and passes alerts to the client, MDR includes active response: containing threats at the endpoint and network level, isolating affected systems, and stopping an attack in progress. MDR suits organisations that need enterprise-grade defence without the cost of a dedicated in-house SOC.
Threat hunting is proactive. Analysts actively search for indicators of compromise that automated detection has not flagged: unusual process behaviour, unexpected outbound connections, abnormal authentication patterns, and subtle configuration changes. It is a manual, intelligence-driven activity that runs alongside automated monitoring. Threat hunting finds what rule-based tools miss.
Understanding what attackers are doing gives defenders an asymmetric advantage. We integrate curated threat intelligence feeds, monitor dark web sources for mentions of your organisation and credentials, and translate raw intelligence into actionable defensive measures. When a new attack campaign is identified in your sector, you know about it before it reaches you. RBI Cybersecurity Directions 2026 require threat intelligence participation through IB-CART; our capability is built to meet that requirement.
When a breach occurs, the first hours determine how far it spreads. Our incident response capability covers detection, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident review, with defined playbooks for attack scenarios most relevant to your industry and regulatory environment. Digital forensics runs alongside response: preserving evidence in a forensically sound manner, establishing the full timeline of compromise, and producing documentation suitable for regulatory notification and, where required, legal proceedings. For RBI-regulated entities, our forensic capability is maintained on standby as required under Para 211.
A penetration test gives you a snapshot of vulnerabilities at a point in time. Continuous vulnerability management provides an ongoing view, scanning your environment regularly to identify new vulnerabilities as they emerge, tracking remediation progress, and ensuring the attack surface does not expand silently between assessments. This is a programmatic, always-on function that feeds into patching and configuration management, not a periodic audit.
Stolen credentials, compromised data, and advance intelligence about planned attacks surface on dark web forums before attacks occur. We monitor dark web sources for mentions of your organisation, your domains, and credential data associated with your users, giving you time to respond before stolen data is weaponised or published.
A cyber crisis involves executive decisions, regulatory notification obligations, legal considerations, customer communication, and often media attention, all simultaneously and under pressure. We help organisations build and test Cyber Crisis Management Plans covering not just the technical response but the organisational one: who does what, who communicates with whom, and what gets reported to regulators within mandatory timeframes.
Phishing sites, rogue mobile applications, and look-alike domains targeting your customers and employees are a persistent threat that most security tools do not address. We monitor for fraudulent infrastructure impersonating your organisation and initiate takedown procedures, removing the threat before it reaches your users.
The cost of a breach scales with the time attackers spend in your environment. Every hour between initial compromise and containment is an hour in which data is exfiltrated and remediation scope grows.
For regulated organisations, Cyber Defence Operations is not only good practice, it is a compliance obligation.
Security Assessment and Audit is point-in-time: a penetration test, red team exercise, or audit gives you a snapshot of your security posture at a specific moment. Cyber Defence Operations is ongoing: continuous monitoring, active threat detection, and rapid response that operates every day after the assessment report has been filed. Both are necessary. Assessments identify where you are exposed; operations ensure someone is watching and responding around the clock.
No. AI SOC is designed to complement your existing security monitoring, not replace it. Whether you have an 8x5 internal team or a 24x7 SOC operation, AI SOC integrates with your current SIEM and log sources to handle alert triage, behavioural analysis, and initial investigation automatically. Your analysts focus on confirmed threats and response decisions. For organisations without a SIEM, we deploy and configure one first, on-premises or cloud, before the AI layer is onboarded.
A Security Operations Centre (SOC) is a team and capability dedicated to continuously monitoring an organisation's environment for threats and responding to security incidents. For banks, financial institutions, and organisations under RBI, MAS TRM, or similar frameworks, a SOC is a regulatory requirement. For other organisations: if a breach would cause significant financial, operational, or reputational damage, the cost of monitoring is less than the cost of discovering a breach weeks after it began.
A traditional MSSP typically monitors alerts and passes them to the client to act on. Managed Detection and Response (MDR) goes further: the MDR provider actively responds, containing threats at the endpoint, isolating systems, and stopping an attack in progress. MDR combines technology (EDR, NDR, SIEM) with human analysts and defined response playbooks, so the client does not need a dedicated in-house SOC team to achieve enterprise-grade detection and response.
Regular monitoring is reactive. It detects threats based on known signatures and defined alert rules. Threat hunting is proactive. Analysts actively search for signs of compromise that automated detection has not flagged, based on knowledge of attacker techniques and behaviour patterns. Threat hunting catches the sophisticated attacker who has deliberately evaded detection rules. It is a manual, intelligence-driven activity that complements automated monitoring.
Contain before you investigate. Isolate affected systems from the network to stop further spread before attempting to understand what happened. Do not shut systems down immediately as this can destroy forensic evidence. Preserve logs and evidence. Notify your incident response team immediately. For regulated organisations: note the time of discovery. RBI mandates reporting within 6 hours on the DAKSH platform; CERT-In notification is also required. If you do not have an incident response plan in place, this is the single most important gap to close before an incident occurs.
Response time depends on the nature of the incident and the monitoring arrangement in place. For organisations with active SOC or MDR coverage, suspicious activity is detected and triaged in near real time. For incident response engagements where White Aegis is engaged after a breach has been discovered externally, we work to establish initial containment rapidly, typically within hours of engagement.
A breach detected in hours costs a fraction of one that goes undetected for weeks. Contact White Aegis to discuss your SOC, MDR, threat intelligence, or incident response requirements. We will assess your current detection and response capability and identify where the gaps are.
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