Overview
Wizard Cyber engaged with a prominent industrial engineering company to deliver a Modern Security Operations Envisioning Workshop. The goal was to assess their current cybersecurity defenses, and demonstrate how Microsoft’s Unified Security Operations Platform can reinforce their detection, response, and visibility—especially across physical infrastructure, operational technology, and hybrid digital environments.
By utilizing Microsoft Sentinel, Defender XDR, and Entra ID, the workshop illustrated how to strengthen threat visibility, streamline alert handling, and reduce risk in industrial settings while maintaining regulatory and safety compliance.
Customer Goals
The company sought to:
- Achieve comprehensive visibility over threats affecting endpoints, identities, IoT/industrial control systems, and cloud assets
- Employ Microsoft’s unified security tools to centralize alerting and incident response workflows
- Introduce automation to reduce manual intervention, especially for frequently recurring threats
- Understand the cost implications, licensing options, and data ingestion and storage strategies for Microsoft Sentinel
Wizard Cyber’s Approach
Wizard Cyber delivered the engagement according to Microsoft’s proven methodology, tailoring it to industrial and engineering priorities and environments.Key Activities Included:
Discovery & Risk Prioritization
We worked with leadership and security teams to identify the most critical risk vectors—ranging from supply chain vulnerabilities to endpoint exposures—and aligned the workshop scope to those priorities.
Core Security Modules Delivered
All mandatory modules in the Modern SecOps framework were covered:
- Unified SecOps with Microsoft Defender XDR
Showed how integrated incident correlation across identity, cloud, and endpoints provides a unified view of threats. - Identity Threat Detection
Demonstrated detection of compromised credentials, unauthorized access, and identity anomalies using Entra ID and Defender for Identity. - Communication & Collaboration Threat Detection
Examined threats within internal and external collaboration platforms, email systems, and enterprise communication tools. - Azure Threat Detection
Presented analytics and insights from cloud-hosted services, infrastructure, and workloads in their Azure environment. - Threat Intelligence
Illustrated how Microsoft’s built‑in threat intelligence can provide context to events, elevate visibility, and assist decision‑making.
Optional Module: SOC Automation
We explored automation capabilities, showing how Microsoft Sentinel playbooks can standardize responses and free up analysts to focus on higher‑priority incidents.
Practical Demonstrations
Using the company’s own Microsoft licensing and test environments, we created simulated attack scenarios to show detection, investigation, and response across their hybrid infrastructure and industrial controls.
Key Outcomes
- Holistic Visibility: The organisation obtained clearer insights into its entire threat surface—including endpoints, cloud services, and identity systems.
- Improved Operational Efficiency: Automation and unified workflows reduced response times and minimized manual effort.
- Confidence in Platform Suitability: The customer confirmed that Microsoft’s security stack is a strong fit for industrial engineering environments, balancing performance and compliance.
- Clear Strategic Roadmap: Wizard Cyber delivered tailored recommendations for deploying Sentinel, optimizing licensing, and scaling detection and response capabilities.
Next Steps Provided
Wizard Cyber’s final deliverables included:
- A deployment plan for Microsoft Sentinel adapted to the industrial engineering context
- Recommendations on what logs and telemetry to ingest, and how long to retain them, accounting for both regulatory needs and cost control
- Guidance on licensing models and estimates
- Proposed phases for integrating automation, third‑party tools, and enhancing correlation between different security signals
Conclusion
This engagement highlighted how Microsoft’s Unified Security Operations Platform can support industrial organisations in strengthening their cybersecurity posture—delivering improved visibility, more efficient incident response, and a consolidated security strategy across operations. Wizard Cyber’s expertise helped map a clear path toward modernization and resiliency in a demanding engineering environment.