MDR

October 08, 2026 | 13 min

Security Operations Center (SOC): What It Does and SOC-as-a-Service Cost in Asia (2026)

An explainer on the security operations center (SOC): what the function does day to day, how SIEM, EDR, MDR and XDR fit around it, the staffing arithmetic behind 24/7 coverage, how SOC-as-a-service is priced in Hong Kong, Singapore and Asia, eight questions to ask a provider, and what a regulated firm's board report should show.

September 11, 2026 | 15 min

The 2 AM Alert Nobody Was Awake to See: MDR for a Singapore Logistics Company

A composite scenario from Singapore: a freight forwarder's endpoint agent flags credential dumping at 02:14 and the alert is read at 10:20 the next morning. Why detection, monitoring and response are three different things, why the analyst's timezone matters, and where MDR sits relative to the endpoint protection already in a managed IT plan.