Microsoft Sentinel
Cloud SIEM; it correlates signals and is the engine behind our SOC.
Managed service · Microsoft security
Managed Microsoft security in Ecuador, Colombia, and Bolivia
Lynxsource deploys and runs your Microsoft security end to end — SIEM, EDR, identity, devices, and data — from its own Security Operations Center, 24/7. We do not hand you the consoles for your team to run: we run them ourselves, as an MSSP with ISO 27001:2022 and in-house teams in five countries.
The value is not in owning the licenses, but in who tunes the rules, reviews what Microsoft flags, and responds when an incident happens. We do that for you from our Security Operations Center, on your own tenant, without you having to build an in-house security team.
- Model
- MSSP
- Monitoring
- In-house SOC 24/7
- Certification
- ISO 27001:2022 (EMA)
- Engine
- Microsoft Sentinel
- Triage / response
- < 1 min / 4 min
- In-house team
- 5 countries
The definition
What is managed Microsoft security?
It means a specialist provider configures, runs, and monitors your Microsoft security stack for you, instead of handing you the consoles.
Microsoft sells security capability, not operation. Buying the licenses gets you a set of consoles — one for the SIEM, one for the endpoint, one for identity — with factory rules and no judgment about which ones matter in your case. The tool is switched on; nobody is watching it.
Managed security changes what you are buying. Instead of the console, you hire whoever runs it: the people who tune the rules to your operation, review every signal the system raises, decide which is an attack and which a false positive, and respond when something happens. The licenses stay yours and so does the tenant; what changes is who is on watch.
The distinction matters because the usual failure is not a missing tool. It is a correct alert nobody read at three in the morning, or a generic rule that blocked a real customer and got switched off wholesale to get past it.
The scope
Which Microsoft products does Lynxsource operate?
Microsoft's five security pillars: Sentinel (SIEM), Defender (EDR/XDR), Entra ID (identity), Intune (devices), and Purview (data).
These are not five separate services but one case seen from five angles. A phishing email someone opens touches Defender on the endpoint, Entra ID in the session the attacker tries to reuse, Intune on the device it comes from, and Purview on the document they want to take. Sentinel is where those four signals meet and stop being four alerts and become one incident.
That is why we operate them together. Watching only the endpoint leaves out access; watching only identity leaves out the data. Full coverage is what lets you reconstruct what happened, rather than just knowing something fired.
Microsoft Defender (EDR/XDR)
Detection and response across endpoints, identity, and email.
Microsoft Entra ID
Identity and access: MFA, conditional access, identity governance.
Microsoft Intune
Device management and compliance.
Microsoft Purview
Data classification, governance, and protection.
The decision
Why run it with an MSSP instead of in-house?
Because the difference is not the license, which is the same either way, but who tunes the rules and who watches around the clock; an MSSP brings the second without you having to staff a shift of your own.
Running it in-house makes sense when the team already exists. You need people who understand what each rule does, who can tell an anomaly from a false positive, and who are available at dawn, on holidays, and during vacations. That is not one person: it is a shift, and a shift is several.
When that team does not exist, what is left is a switched-on console piling up unread alerts. The license was bought correctly and detection worked; what was missing was the second step, which is exactly the expensive one to be missing.
An MSSP solves that part. It brings the shift, the judgment built from seeing the same kind of attack across many organizations, and the responsibility to respond. Your IT team stays on its own work, which is keeping the business running, not chasing alerts.
The operation
How does Lynxsource monitor your Microsoft environment?
From our in-house SOC, on Microsoft Sentinel, with triage in under a minute and a human response in four.
Signals from Defender, Entra ID, Intune, and Purview flow into Microsoft Sentinel, where they are correlated: four loose alerts about the same user, the same hour, and the same device become one case, with its timeline already assembled.
From there the shift takes over. Triage happens in under a minute and prioritizes what deserves attention; an analyst picks up the case in four minutes on average, contains it, and afterwards explains what happened, what was done, and what is worth adjusting. This is how our SOC operates, with certified analysts on shift and the same figures for any managed service, not just this one.
None of this requires moving your tenant or changing clouds. We work on yours, with the least privilege the service needs, and you keep ownership of the licenses and the data.
The coverage
Which countries does Lynxsource operate in?
With in-house teams in Ecuador, Colombia, and Bolivia, and also in the United States and Canada.
In-house means the analysts, the automation, and the operations center belong to Lynxsource. In a reseller model your provider opens a ticket with another provider and passes the answer along when it arrives; here whoever answers is whoever decides.
The service is the same in all five countries, with the same SOC behind it and the same triage and response figures. What changes is who you have nearby, not the quality of the monitoring.
Questions about this service
Frequently asked questions
What is managed Microsoft security?
It means a specialist provider configures, runs, and monitors your Microsoft security stack for you, instead of handing you the consoles.
Which Microsoft products does Lynxsource operate?
Microsoft's five security pillars: Sentinel (SIEM), Defender (EDR/XDR), Entra ID (identity), Intune (devices), and Purview (data).
Why run it with an MSSP instead of in-house?
Because the difference is not the license, which is the same either way, but who tunes the rules and who watches around the clock; an MSSP brings the second without you having to staff a shift of your own.
How does Lynxsource monitor your Microsoft environment?
From our in-house SOC, on Microsoft Sentinel, with triage in under a minute and a human response in four.
Which countries does Lynxsource operate in?
With in-house teams in Ecuador, Colombia, and Bolivia, and also in the United States and Canada.
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