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Eliminate The Need For Multiple Platforms To Manage Alerts

Manage all your alerts generated by various security tools and platforms in a single interface. Difenda Managed SIEM provides a centralized view of all alerts and their associated information, allowing you to quickly assess the severity of the alert and take appropriate action.

Plus, with the help of artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms, you can prioritize alerts based on their relevance and severity, ensuring you respond to the most critical threats first.

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A Proactive Approach To Cybersecurity Monitoring

Help analysts save time and reduce the need for increased internal resources by augmenting many of the repetitive tasks required to detect and respond to cyber threats.

Difenda Managed SIEM leverages advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies to detect and analyze potential threats in real-time, allowing our team of cybersecurity experts to focus on analyzing and responding to the most critical alerts. This significantly reduces the time and effort required by analysts to manually review and investigate security events, allowing them to focus on more critical roles.

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Common Challenges

incidents are reviewed by the average analyst every day.

of security leaders believe there aren’t enough qualified analysts to handle the current volume of threats.​

of security leaders feel overwhelmed by the security landscape.

Don't Spend Weeks Without Knowing An Attack Is In Progress

Leverage your investment in Microsoft Sentinel and telemetry from your other security solutions to power the most advanced security operations capabilities commercially available today. This Microsoft-centric model allows Difenda’s C3 team to easily monitor cloud services, endpoints, and non-Microsoft assets.

Benefits of Microsoft Sentinel & Difenda Managed SIEM

  • Aggregate and normalize your security data to increase visibility and improve compliance.
  • Increased visibility by collecting security event data from everywhere in the network.
  • Almost 50% of your security alerts are just “noise”. Machine learning technology can reduce the amount of time your team is spending on false positives, by only highlighting legitimate threats.
  • With Difenda Managed SIEM as a service, your account is assigned a dedicated account team to ensure your valued outcomes are always in focus.
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What's Included in Difenda Managed SIEM?

Threat Profiling

Gain critical insight into your organization’s attack surface and real business risk with Difenda CMDB.

Difenda Managed SIEM offers a thorough understanding of your organization’s attack surface, critical infrastructure, sensitive data, and operational processes, laying the foundation for a robust defence strategy.

Threat Defense

Utilize artificial intelligence to detect threats, including zero-day attacks, eliminating the need for ineffective signature-based antivirus solutions.

Difenda Managed SIEM leverages industry-leading technology to prevent, contain, and remediate attacks from all threat vectors before, during, and after execution.

Threat Hunting

Leverage a Purple Team approach to identify hidden threats, build detection use cases, and deploy updates to your platforms.

Difenda Managed SIEM combines manual and automated threat-hunting techniques to draw real-time data from threat intelligence feeds to recognize suspicious behavior and simulate attacks within your organization’s critical infrastructure.

A Trusted Microsoft Solutions Partner For Security

Difenda specializes in protecting businesses from cyber threats. We are recognized globally as the authority in Microsoft Sentinel deployment and implementation because we helped design it. Difenda is a design partner and Microsoft’s top global implementation partner for Sentinel. Our experts work to integrate, mitigate and manage your security program with unique processes that leverage next-gen cloud technology to seamlessly reconcile, enhance, and manage assets in the Difenda Shield Portal.

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Eliminate Operational Challenges With Managed SIEM

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Easily Meet Compliance Requirements with SIEM

Avoid costly fines and penalties by meeting compliance requirements, including GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS, right out of the box. With Difenda Managed SIEM, compliance requirements related to cybersecurity, data security, and breach reporting can be much easier for organizations to meet.

ISO 27001 is the international gold standard for information security management. Difenda M-SIEM can help you comply with:

  • A.12.4.1 – Protect, keep, and review event logs recording user activities.
  • A.12.4.2 – Protect log facilities and information from tampering and unauthorized access.
  • A.12.4.3 – Protect, keep, and review system administrator and system operator activities.
  • A.12.4.4 – Establish a single reference time source for the security domain.

SOC 2 is a voluntary compliance metric identifying if a business’s system complies with the relevant trust principles and what the operational efficiency of these systems is.

  • CC7.2 – POF – Ensure systems and processes used to process data are accurate, complete, timely, and authorized.

NIST 800-53 is a technical standard that details U.S. government procedures, policies, and guidelines on information systems and cybersecurity. Difenda M-SIEM can help you comply with:

  • AU-1, AU-2, AU-3, AU-4, AU-5, AU-8, AU-11, AU-12, AU-9 – Organizations must develop, document, and disseminate a formal access control policy to personnel, which includes roles, responsibilities, management commitment, and compliance. Businesses must also review and update the access control policy periodically.
  • AU-6, AU-7, AU-9, PE-6, PE-8, SC-7, SI-4 – Protection of specified audit information and access control for sensitive information.
  • AU-12 – Generate audit records for events as defined in your audit policy and procedures.

PCI DSS is a regulatory requirement designed to protect against payment card fraud and data breaches. Difenda M-SIEM can help you comply with:

  • 10.2, 10.1, 10.2.1, 10.2.2, 10.2.3, 10.2.4, 10.2.5, 10.2.6, 10.2.7, 10.3, 10.3.1, 10.3.2, 10.3.3, 10.3.4, 10.3.5, 10.3.6 – Implement automated audit trails for all system components to reconstruct events and secure them so they cannot be altered. Record the user identification, type of event, date and time, success or failure indication, and origin of the event for all system components for each event. Retain and review logs for all system components at least daily.
  • 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.2, 10.5.3, 10.5.4 – Secure audit trail files to prevent unauthorized access and modifications. Back up audit trail files to a centralized log server.
  • 10.4, 10.4.1, 10.4.2, 10.4.3 – Synchronize all critical system clocks and times to a reliable time source and implement controls to prevent unauthorized modification of these clocks.

CIS Top 18 are a prioritized set of actions developed by the Center for Internet Security (CIS) that organizations can take to improve their cybersecurity posture. Difenda M-SIEM can help you comply with:

  • 6 – Maintenance, Monitoring, and Analysis of Audit Logs
  • 16 – Account Monitoring and Control
  • 19 – Incident Response and Management
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24/7/365 Advanced Security Operations and Support

The Difenda Shield Portal is a powerful web-based platform where you can interact with various aspects of threats, make changes to requests, and gain enhanced visibility into your cybersecurity solutions. Our Difenda Shield Dashboards Allow You To:

  • Collect daily trend data
  • Provide a summary of key information to improve decision making
  • Enable end-user dashboard parameter selection
  • CMBD for threat profiling and sharing
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Megan Miller

Megan Miller’s energy and passion for learning flow into all aspects of her work. As the Growth Manager, North America, she brings a background in sciences which she has transitioned to the tech sector in her role at Difenda.

With a Bachelors of Science in Geology, Megan is a lifelong learner who is voracious about learning anything she can get her hands on about cybersecurity. Her positive energy has built a sales strategy with a focus on expanding in the United States while nurturing the Canadian presence. She is responsible for recruiting and training the sales team. Together with the company’s leadership, she creates the sales process and the company’s product strategy in order to better serve the customer base. This ensures that our customers have a highly trained and highly motivated team to help them every step of the way, Megan has completed Microsoft SC-900 training and working towards mastering Microsoft.

Whether at work or play, Megan is fully committed. She took her love of hockey all the way to the semi-professional level as a competitive hockey player. Megan loves all things sports including water skiing, scuba diving, cycling, and snowboarding. She also enjoys time with family and reading about alternative energy, innovation, and cybersecurity.

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Natasha Phanor

As the Microsoft Partner Manager at Difenda, Natasha Phanor is responsible for driving growth within our Microsoft Partnership. With six years in the industry, she offers a fresh, energetic approach, and the ability to focus on our customer’s needs throughout the entire process. Natasha has the innate ability to foresee customer needs and solve problems before they arise, which creates a smooth road for each customer she encounters.

As the recipient of the Outstanding Services Partner of the Year Award in 2018, it is clear that Natasha responds quickly to customer needs, creates a platform for understanding a customer’s business requirements, and walks them through the process to ensure their complete satisfaction.

In her spare time, Natasha is as energetic and passionate as she is on the job. A self-proclaimed foodie-extraordinaire, she enjoys dinner parties, traveling, downhill skiing, hiking, biking, and reading. Natasha has a Bachelor of Fine Arts, specializing in Dance, from Ryerson University.

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Lisa Templeton

Lisa Templeton is the perfect combination of human empathy and technological prowess. In her role as People Services Manager, she takes care of our team members to support them in their daily work, as well as on their personal life paths. Happy employees make for happy customers, and Lisa excels in giving our employees the tools they need for success in order to become the best possible versions of themselves. Along with employee formation, she shines in the service delivery support domain to continuously improve the process. Her 24 years of experience in IT Operations and Service Management help her create quality and efficiency at Difenda.

Having attended the Information Systems Management certificate program at Ryerson University, and with various other certifications to her credit, Lisa is perceptive and innovative when it comes to information technology, but also sensitive to the needs of her human constituents. Responsible for achieving the first privately owned company HDI Support Center certification in Canada, she has also designed and implemented Service Management excellence programs and 24×7 IT Operations departments for multiple IT organizations, and has created corporate rewards and recognition programs to keep her employees engaged and motivated.

On the personal side, Lisa passionately supports the cause of breast cancer research, having lost her mother to the disease. She reads voraciously in her spare time, and enjoys the art of home renovation. The summer months also bring time on her boat and exploring new hiking trails.

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Miranda McCurdy

Miranda McCurdy uses her myriad super powers in all aspects of her job and personal life. As the Marketing Director at Difenda, Miranda McCurdy brings over a decade of experience to the table, which includes expertise in all facets of operations, brand management, and content marketing, as well as a multitude of successful strategies for the ever-expanding digital world. She is an expert at simplifying the message the company is trying to send, filling in gaps in the information, and strengthening the content in order to create compelling narratives that strengthen the brand and developing programs that bring teams together.

With several Addy Awards issued by the American Advertising Federation Cleveland to her credit, and her never say die attitude, Miranda understands both the broader picture and the minute details that are needed to successfully market a product. With her abilities to harness both the talent needed to spread the message, as well as to create the message itself, she is an integral cog in the company’s ability to communicate with customers and other stakeholders.

When she is not building a brand, she shares her ability to fill the gaps in her community by volunteering with Habitat for Humanity, the Special Olympics, and the Charleston Food Bank. In her spare time, Miranda spends time with her family, enjoys fitness and health, paddle boarding, reading, and arts and crafts.

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Juliana Zaremba

Connections are the name of the game for Juliana Zaremba. As Strategic Partnerships Director, she is responsible for Difenda’s channel partnerships and the development and ownership of the channel partner program. She is also responsible for the global Microsoft Partnership, including the creation of strategic plans with MSFT contacts that will facilitate the continued growth of the business and establish certification and training protocols in all security technologies. Her role is multifaceted, as she acquires partners, manages relationships with them, and develops strategies that will provide cutting edge security solutions to our customer base. Another integral aspect of her job is to facilitate growth.

With a Bachelor’s in Math from the University of Waterloo and 14 years of experience from her previous roles at Herjavec Group and CDW, her cutting edge focus and ability to develop long-lasting relationships and strategies provides world class security solutions to our customer base.

Juliana thrives on connections outside of work as well. She is a philanthropist and contributor with Women4Change based in Hamilton. This group of local women is passionate about supporting local causes, and she focuses her efforts around Women in STEM. She is also a member of Club Italia in Niagara Falls and supports their youth events throughout the year.

When not managing the Microsoft Global partnership, Juliana enjoys reading, often reading several books at once. Juliana enjoys exploring the Niagara Escarpment with her family, as well as sharing meals and experiences with her extended family. Juliana’s competitive nature has her always trying new things, like Whoop band challenges and Peloton.

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