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Last reviewed: 3 Oct 2026
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SOC provider guides

Understand the service models and decide what your team needs to hand over.

  • What is a SOC provider?

    What providers handle after an alert and what stays with your team.

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  • Who can contain a threat when your team is offline?

    Before buying a SOC service, agree which actions it can take, which need approval and who responds when your first contact is unavailable.

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  • Verify SOC delivery in Germany, the UK and France

    Check the exact service, incident language, analyst locations and data flows before treating a provider as a regional fit.

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  • MSSP vs MDR vs SOCaaS

    How the three service models divide monitoring, investigation and response.

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  • Managed SOC vs MDR

    Running the SOC compared with handling detection and response.

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  • MSSP vs managed SOC

    Managed security services compared with operating the SOC.

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  • SIEM vs managed SIEM vs MDR

    A logging platform, a service to operate it or a team to handle threats.

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Last reviewed: 3 Oct 2026

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