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Existing stack
SIEM/XDR rules
Microsoft-first assessment for regulated financial teams
Prove your detections fire.
Noisy rules and generic use cases create the worst kind of security risk: teams believe coverage exists until a real incident exposes the gap. Vigilant Council starts with a 30-day Detection Quality Assessment for Microsoft-heavy financial environments, then maps what is trusted, blocked, stale, noisy, or missing evidence.
Microsoft-first source inventory
Regulated fintech and banking workflows
Sample evidence; customer validation requires approval
Sample evidence workspace
Detection Quality OS
Sample evidence, not live customer telemetry
02
Telemetry
Identity + cloud logs
03
Detection debt
Generic or stale content
Quality scoreScore
78
/100
Evidence weighted score
Mapped rules
25
Ready for validation
Telemetry gaps
DNS
Blocked until telemetry lands
Evidence
Replay
Attached to reviewer context
Evidence
Replay packet
Reviewer linked
Release gates
Human approval
Rollback context
Reports
Monthly review
Executive artifact
Review workflow
VC-DNS-014 flags DNS telemetry as the blocker before validation.
Input signals are scored against telemetry, evidence, ownership, and release context.
Telemetry gaps block false confidence until evidence and reviewer context exist.
Monthly review turns the work into an executive artifact.
Why buyers care
See what is real, weak, and generic before it becomes incident risk.
Vigilant Council gives executives a defensible quality story and gives operators a concrete path from noisy detection debt to governed validation work.
Security leader
Know which controls deserve confidence and which ones need budget, ownership, or remediation.
Detection engineering
Move from generic content to owned, tuned, validated detections with release evidence.
Partner/MSSP
Apply the same evidence model across multiple tenants or clients when portfolio work matters.
Vigilant Council in action
One operating layer for detection quality.
Quality score, inventory, telemetry gaps, evidence, release governance, reports, and portfolio views connect in one evidence-led workflow.
01
Score
Evidence-weighted signal across validation, ownership, telemetry, release, and reporting.
02
Inventory
Know which detections are owned, stale, duplicated, noisy, or generic.
03
Gaps
Map missing telemetry and schema gaps to the detections they block.
04
Evidence
Attach methods, reviewer history, outcomes, and validation artifacts.
05
Release
Keep risky detection changes behind approval and rollback context.
06
Reports
Turn engineering work into executive readouts and recurring reviews.
Assessment
Start with a focused Detection Quality Assessment.
The 30-day Detection Quality Assessment turns inherited detection content into a clear map of what is trusted, blocked, noisy, duplicated, stale, or missing evidence across identity, M365, Defender, Sentinel, and the financial workflows your team approves for review.
Deliverables
Inventory quality mapCoverage and gap scoreEvidence reviewRecommendations backlogRelease governance reviewExecutive monthly review90-day remediation plan
Common triggers
Audit or board review
SIEM/XDR or MDR renewal
Failed tabletop or purple-team finding
Detection backlog and alert noise
Compliance evidence gap
MSSP portfolio reporting
Proof path
What is proven now, and what waits for approval.
Source inventory
Map Entra, M365 audit, Defender XDR, Sentinel, and current SIEM/XDR sources before proposing stronger claims.
Synthetic sample path
Use sample identity-to-payment scenarios to show the workflow without customer data or live connector claims.
Customer-approved validation
Move to masked or non-production Microsoft tenant evidence only after human approval and scoped access.
Scope
Integrations around the stack you already own.
Vigilant Council works from the tools your team already uses. Available integration paths focus on detection content, telemetry fields, validation evidence, and reporting outputs. When a client's technology is not covered by an existing integration path, we evaluate data access, field mapping, and validation route during assessment and onboarding.
Vendor scope is assessment-led and proof-state gated. Public vendor lists do not mean live customer connector activation or equal maturity across every platform.
Microsoft Sentinel / Defender XDR
Splunk Enterprise Security / Splunk Cloud
CrowdStrike Falcon / LogScale
Elastic Security
Wazuh
Fortinet
Identity and Microsoft 365 audit sources
Cloud and SaaS audit sources
Additional SIEM, XDR, endpoint, and reporting sources evaluated during assessment
Partners
For direct teams and MSSPs.
Vigilant Council can serve internal security teams and MSSPs with the same Detection Quality OS workflow: assessment, evidence, governed releases, and clear reporting when multiple environments or clients matter.
FAQ
What prospects ask before the first assessment.
Does Vigilant Council replace our SOC or provider?
No. Vigilant Council is a Detection Quality OS around the stack and teams you already have.
Do we need Microsoft Sentinel?
No. The assessment starts from your current stack and confirms the right integration path for your use case.
What does the workspace show?
A connected path from quality score to telemetry gap, evidence review, recommendation, release gate, and monthly executive artifact.
What happens after the form?
We review fit and scope, then follow up with the right Detection Quality evaluation and a personalized quote.
Make detection quality something your team can defend.
Start with a human-reviewed assessment request or open the gated Vigilant Council sample demo.