For organizations with an in-house SOC or security operations team that operate Microsoft Defender XDR themselves and want to continuously improve their detection quality, automation, and response capabilities.
The service is designed for organizations that already manage day-to-day operations internally but want to further develop their platform in a targeted way. The focus is on continuous optimization of detection rules, reducing false positives, and building efficient, scalable processes to sustainably enhance the performance of their SOC.
Enhance Microsoft Defender XDR. Reduce False Alerts. Stay Focused on What Matters.
Microsoft Defender XDR is a powerful platform. Without continuous improvement of detection rules and automation, workflows quickly become inefficient. SOC analysts face alert fatigue and overload putting real incidents at risk of being missed in the noise.
Compass Managed Security Content helps you get more out of Microsoft Defender XDR: more efficient SOC processes, continuously updated detection logic, and fewer false positives.
Typical Challenges
Many organizations use Microsoft Defender XDR, but often lack:
- Detection engineering expertise
- Automation across workflows
- Consistent and structure processes
The result:
- Alert overload caused by false positives
- Misconfigurations that reduce detection quality
- Increased manual effort to compensate
With the Managed Security Content framework for Microsoft Defender XDR from Compass Security, you address these gaps in a targeted manner and evolve your XDR platform into a high-performing security operations solution.
Detection logic built from real-world operations
Compass develops and maintains detection rules for Microsoft Defender XDR.
Content includes:
- Microsoft-native detection rules
- Community enhancements
- Proprietary Compass detection logic based on MDR and incident response experience
- Continuous regression testing
Your benefits:
- Higher signal quality
- Fewer false positives
- Faster detection of critical threats
- Continuous rule optimization
- Rapid adaptation of merging attack patterns
Predefined workflows reduce manual effort and accelerate incident handling.
Examples:
- Automated enrichment and prioritization
- Isolation of hosts and identities
- KPI tracking
Result: Your team works faster, more efficiently, and focuses on real incidents.
Before deployment, we assess your environment and ensure:
- Proper service account configuration
- Controlled configuration management
- Clean integration of all relevant log sources
Result: Stable, reliable operations from day one.
You receive structured, practical content based on real-world security operations:
- Detection logic and attack classification
- Response playbooks for typical scenarios
- Extensible content (e.g., custom playbooks)
- Catalog of relevant response actions in Microsoft Defender XDR
All content is based on real MDR operations, incident response, and cross-industry attack patterns.
Typical Use Cases
The framework is particularly suited for:
- Organizations without internal detection engineering or automation resources
- SOC teams aiming to increase efficiency through automation
- Teams looking to derive security controls recurring incidents
- Organizations standardizing detection and response across regions
Why Compass
Compass Security combines:
- Proven Managed Detection & Response (MDR) experience
- Incident response and digital forensics expertise
- Cross-industry insights into real attack patterns
- Hands-on offensive security expertise (red teaming and penetration testing) since 1999
- Swiss-based expertise with international experience
Our detection logic is built on real-word operations, not on theory.
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