Managed security services in India — your threat landscape never sleeps. Your security operations shouldn't either.
24/7 threat detection, response, and legal advisory, integrated into a single managed service. SIRI Security provides 24/7 SOC monitoring, SIEM management, threat detection and response, vulnerability management, and CERT-In and DPDPA compliance support — backed by the only managed security service in India that operates under attorney-client privilege.
Getting the detection-time figure right, and current
India's average breach dwell time isn't "287 days" this year. It's worse without automation, and offensive testing is the biggest lever to fix it.
Some managed security content cites a flat "287 days" average time to identify and contain a breach in India. That figure is close to a real historical number, but it isn't this year's, and using a single flat figure obscures the more useful finding underneath it. IBM's 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report, released 3 August 2026, is the current authoritative source, and it splits the number in a way that's actually more actionable: organisations in India without AI-powered security and automation took an average of 236 days to identify a breach and a further 75 days to contain it. Organisations with extensive automation cut identification to 175 days — but containment barely moved, at 81 days, because containment speed depends on incident response process maturity as much as detection speed.
That's the real argument for a managed service, made more precisely than a single flat statistic ever could: detection tooling alone doesn't close the gap, because the 175-vs-236 day split shows automation helps you notice faster, but a mature, tested incident response process is what actually determines how quickly you contain what you've found. The same report puts India's average breach cost at a record ₹25.5 crore, up 15.9% year-on-year, with Financial Services (₹40.9 Cr), Technology (₹35.7 Cr), and Communications (₹34.5 Cr) as the highest-cost sectors.
Phishing, including voice and SMS phishing, remains the most common single initial attack vector in India at 19%, followed by drive-by compromise and supply chain compromise — a reminder that continuous monitoring has to cover the human and vendor layers, not just network telemetry, to actually close the detection gap these figures describe.
Where managed security actually pays for itself
The gap between when an attacker enters your environment and when your team detects them is where all the damage happens
These are the recurring reasons organisations move from ad hoc monitoring to a managed service.
In-house SOC is expensive to build and retain
A 24/7 security operations centre requires minimum 8 analysts for shift coverage, senior threat hunters, SIEM infrastructure, and threat intelligence subscriptions — a fully-loaded annual cost that runs well into crores, and staff turnover in Indian cybersecurity is acute.
CERT-In mandatory reporting requires 6-hour detection-to-notification
CERT-In's mandatory 6-hour breach notification window assumes your team can detect, triage, and report an incident within hours of compromise. Without 24/7 monitoring, breaches discovered Monday morning have already missed the regulatory window.
Alert fatigue in overworked security teams
Security teams receiving hundreds of alerts daily develop alert fatigue, missing high-fidelity signals in the noise. Without expert triage and threat hunting, the alerts that matter are buried in the ones that don't.
DPDPA breach notification obligations layer on CERT-In requirements
DPDPA 2023 creates parallel breach notification obligations to the Data Protection Board. Managing both simultaneously during an active incident requires technical and legal capability at the same time, not in sequence.
What we deliver
Managed security services across the full detection and response lifecycle
From 24/7 SOC monitoring and SIEM management through incident response, vulnerability management, and CERT-In compliance.
24/7 SOC Monitoring
Continuous monitoring of your network, endpoints, cloud environments, and applications, with threat detection tuned to your specific environment by analysts who understand your sector's threat landscape.
SIEM Management & Threat Hunting
SIEM deployment, tuning, and management, with active threat hunting to find the threats that alert-based detection misses. Our analysts proactively hunt for indicators of compromise that evade automated detection.
Incident Detection & Response
When an incident is detected, SIRI's response team activates immediately, containing the threat, preserving forensic evidence under privilege, initiating CERT-In notification where required, and coordinating the full incident response process.
Vulnerability Management
Continuous vulnerability scanning, prioritised remediation guidance, patch management advisory, and attack surface monitoring, ensuring your environment is assessed against current threats, not last month's CVE list.
CERT-In Compliance Management
Mandatory 6-hour breach notification filing, CERT-In investigation response management, and ongoing CERT-In Direction compliance, ensuring your mandatory reporting obligations are met even when incidents occur at 2 AM.
Threat Intelligence & Reporting
Monthly threat intelligence briefings specific to your sector, board-level security reporting, regulatory compliance reporting, and KPI dashboards, providing the visibility your leadership needs to make informed security investment decisions.
AI-powered threat detection
AI-augmented security operations
Our SOC uses AI-augmented detection capabilities — ML-based anomaly detection, AI-assisted threat hunting, and automated alert correlation — to reduce false positives and surface genuine threats faster than rule-based systems alone. We also monitor for AI-specific threats — adversarial attacks on your AI systems, model API abuse, and prompt injection attempts — as organisations increasingly depend on AI systems that traditional security monitoring was never built to cover, in line with the OWASP LLM Top 10 2026 and Agentic Top 10 frameworks.
Evidence, not guesswork
What India's 2026 breach data actually shows
A single flat number obscures the story. Here's what the current IBM report's figures actually say.
| Metric | Without extensive automation | With extensive automation |
|---|---|---|
| Time to identify a breach | 236 days | 175 days |
| Time to contain a breach | 75 days | 81 days |
| Average breach cost | ₹31.6 Cr | ₹21.3 Cr |
| Largest single cost-reducing factor | Offensive security testing — ₹2.47 Cr average savings, regardless of automation level | |
Source: IBM 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report, conducted by the Ponemon Institute, released 3 August 2026 — based on 602 organisations studied globally between March 2025 and February 2026. Figures are India-specific averages; confirm current-year figures before citing in a board or regulatory submission, as the report is updated annually.
Client outcomes
Measurable results
From detecting ransomware staging activity to alerting the client — see the case study below.
Affected systems contained before encryption could execute in the same engagement.
Detected and contained within 4 hours of initial access via mailbox activity anomaly monitoring.
An attacker resident in a client's network with zero automated alerts triggered — found by human-led hunting.
How we onboard
Four phases from assessment to active monitoring
From initial environment assessment through SIEM deployment, go-live, and continuous improvement.
Environment assessment
Current state security assessment — SIEM architecture review, log source coverage mapping, detection coverage analysis, and threat model construction. Identifying gaps in visibility before monitoring begins.
Weeks 1–2SIEM deployment & tuning
SIEM deployment or integration with existing infrastructure, log source onboarding, detection rule tuning to your environment, alert threshold calibration, and playbook development for your specific incident scenarios.
Weeks 2–4Go-live & handover
24/7 monitoring activation, escalation procedure testing, CERT-In compliance integration, client communication protocol establishment, and first-week review to validate detection coverage and alert quality.
Week 4Continuous improvement
Monthly threat hunting exercises, quarterly detection coverage review, rule tuning based on observed threats, board reporting, annual red team validation, and continuous CERT-In/DPDPA compliance management.
OngoingCase study · Ransomware detection
SOC team detects ransomware staging activity 6 hours before planned encryption, preventing ₹8 Cr disruption
SIRI's 24/7 SOC detected anomalous lateral movement and large-scale internal file staging activity in a manufacturing client's environment at 2:47 AM, consistent with pre-ransomware staging. The client was notified within 8 minutes, affected systems isolated within 22 minutes, and the threat actor expelled before encryption executed.
Post-incident forensics identified the initial access vector — a phishing email — and the dwell time of 11 days. CERT-In notification was filed within the mandatory 6-hour window, closing out the regulatory obligation alongside the technical containment rather than as a separate afterthought.
Representative matters
Typical engagements
All matters described generically to protect client confidentiality.
BEC contained in 4 hours
Provided full managed security coverage for a 300-employee technology company, detecting and containing a business email compromise within 4 hours of initial access through real-time monitoring of mailbox activity anomalies.
Full breach response, privileged throughout
Managed the full incident response for a fintech company following a data breach, achieving CERT-In notification within the 6-hour window, coordinating forensic investigation under legal privilege, and managing regulatory communications through complete resolution.
47-day silent dwell time discovered
During proactive threat hunting, identified an attacker who had been resident in a manufacturing company's network for 47 days without triggering any automated alerts, demonstrating the value of human-led hunting alongside automated monitoring.
80,000-query model extraction blocked
Deployed AI-specific monitoring for a SaaS provider's LLM API, detecting and blocking a model extraction attempt that involved 80,000 targeted inference queries across a 72-hour period.
Investment
How managed security is priced
Pricing is based on the scope of monitoring coverage, number of log sources, environment complexity, and SLA requirements. Enterprise environments are scoped individually.
Entry-level managed security for SME environments. All managed security clients are eligible for the SIRI Shield legal advisory retainer at combined rates — bringing 24/7 monitoring and privileged legal response under one engagement.
Why SIRI
Managed security with legal authority built into the service
SIRI is the only managed security provider in India where your SOC team and your incident response legal counsel work in the same organisation, activating simultaneously when a breach is detected.
Legal privilege on all incident findings
Every incident investigation conducted by SIRI's managed security team is documented under attorney-client privilege, protecting forensic findings from subpoena in CERT-In investigations, DPDPA Board proceedings, and civil litigation.
2-hour incident response SLA
SIRI Shield clients receive a 2-hour incident response SLA — legal counsel, technical forensics, and regulatory notification support activated simultaneously from a single call, not three separate engagements.
CERT-In + DPDPA simultaneous compliance
When a breach occurs, SIRI manages both the CERT-In 6-hour mandatory notification and the DPDPA Board notification simultaneously, with the legal and technical expertise to manage both regulatory processes correctly under pressure.
Sector-specific threat intelligence
Our threat intelligence is calibrated to your specific sector — banking, healthcare, manufacturing, or technology — replicating the TTPs used by threat actors known to target organisations like yours.
The comparison
Without SIRI versus with SIRI
| Capability | In-house team or standard MSSP | SIRI Managed Security |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage hours | Limited to business hours — attacks don't follow office schedules | 24/7/365 monitoring with no shift-handover gaps |
| Alert handling | Alert fatigue produces missed detections in the noise | Expert threat hunters actively find what alerts miss |
| Finding protection | Not protected by attorney-client privilege — discoverable in investigations | All incident findings under legal privilege from detection onward |
| Regulatory notification | CERT-In and DPDPA managed separately — coordination failures miss windows | Both notification streams managed simultaneously by the same team |
Frequently asked
Managed security services, answered directly
What is included in SIRI's managed security service?
Our managed security service includes 24/7 SOC monitoring of your network, endpoints, and cloud environments; SIEM deployment and continuous tuning; active threat hunting; incident detection and response; vulnerability management and patch advisory; CERT-In compliance and mandatory notification support; monthly threat intelligence briefings; and quarterly board-level security reports.
How long does it actually take Indian organisations to detect a breach, and does that justify managed security?
According to IBM's 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report, released 3 August 2026, organisations in India without AI-powered security and automation took an average of 236 days to identify a breach and a further 75 days to contain it. Organisations with extensive automation identified breaches in 175 days and contained them in 81 days — faster identification, but the report notes containment time doesn't fall as sharply, since containment depends on incident response process maturity as much as detection speed. The same report found that offensive security testing, such as red teaming and penetration testing, was the single largest cost-reducing factor for Indian organisations, saving an average of ₹2.47 crore per breach — a specific, current data point for why continuous detection plus adversarial testing together, not either alone, is the stronger position.
What is your incident response SLA?
SIRI Shield retainer clients receive a 2-hour incident response SLA — from the moment a breach is detected, legal counsel, technical forensics, and regulatory notification teams are activated simultaneously. This SLA is contractually guaranteed and reported on monthly.
How does SIRI handle the CERT-In 6-hour breach notification requirement?
CERT-In mandatory reporting is integrated into our incident response playbook from the moment of detection. Our legal team assesses the reporting obligation, prepares the notification, and files within the 6-hour window, with the SOC team providing the technical detail and the legal team managing the regulatory interface.
What SIEM platforms do you support?
SIRI's managed security service supports major SIEM platforms including Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM QRadar, Elastic SIEM, and AlienVault OSSIM. Our preference is always to work within your existing investment rather than require a platform change, though we will advise if your current platform has significant limitations.
How is managed security priced?
Pricing is based on the scope of monitoring coverage, number of log sources, environment complexity, and SLA requirements. Entry-level managed security starts at ₹50,000 per month for SME environments. Enterprise environments are scoped individually. All managed security clients are eligible for the SIRI Shield legal advisory retainer at combined rates.
Ready when you are
Threats don't follow your working hours. Your security operations shouldn't either.
Book a confidential managed security assessment with SIRI Security. We will assess your current detection and response capability, identify coverage gaps, and design a managed service programme calibrated to your environment.
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Red teaming & adversary simulation
The offensive testing IBM's data identifies as the largest breach-cost reducer.
Ransomware & crisis legal response
24/7 legal-led response when SOC monitoring detects an active incident.
Data privacy & cybersecurity law
DPDPA compliance and breach notification protocol design.
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