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Automate Microsoft Sentinel alert triage with OwlSOC

OwlSOC connects to Microsoft Sentinel read-only over OAuth, then triages and investigates every incident it raises. For each one it pulls the relevant logs, correlates across your sources, resolves the affected entities, maps the activity to MITRE ATT&CK, and returns a hedged verdict with a recommended action, typically in under two minutes. A human on your team approves any containment before it runs.

How OwlSOC connects to Microsoft Sentinel

Read-only, over OAuth, with nothing to install. You grant OwlSOC delegated read access to the Sentinel workspace and the Log Analytics tables behind it. There are no agents, no collectors, and nothing in your traffic path. OwlSOC reads the incidents Sentinel already raises and the logs it already holds.

Access is scoped to the security signal needed to investigate an alert, and it is auditable from your side. Most environments are live within roughly 48 hours of the OAuth grant being approved, which is usually the slowest part on your end.

  • OAuth delegated read access, no service accounts to manage
  • No agents, sensors, or log forwarding to deploy
  • Read-only by default; write access is a separate, explicit grant
  • UK / EU data residency, encrypted in transit and at rest

What OwlSOC does with each Sentinel incident

Every incident gets two layers of work. First, standard deterministic triage runs on every alert and scores it, with no calibrated confidence. Then the AI investigation, included in the paid tiers, does the work an analyst would: it pulls the relevant logs from Sentinel and your other connected sources, correlates the signals, and resolves the user, device, and network entities involved.

The output reads like an analyst's write-up, not a raw alert. You get a chronological, evidence-linked timeline, MITRE ATT&CK technique mapping, the resolved affected entities, and a plain-language verdict with a recommended next action. The verdict is hedged on purpose: likely true positive, likely false positive, or uncertain and flagged for review. The AI investigation also carries a calibrated confidence figure and a root-cause narrative.

  • Pulls and correlates the logs behind the incident, across sources
  • Resolves affected users, devices, and network entities
  • Maps observed activity to MITRE ATT&CK techniques
  • Hedged verdict plus a recommended action, typically under two minutes
  • Runs 24/7, including the 3am alert nobody is awake for

Every claim links back to the Sentinel console

The timeline is evidence-linked. Each line cites the source log or pivot ID it came from, and those IDs trace back to the original record in the Sentinel console. Your analyst can click through from any claim in the verdict to the exact log line that supports it, then disagree with it if the evidence does not hold up.

That matters because an investigation you cannot check is just another alert. OwlSOC shows its working so your team keeps full ownership of the decision.

How containment works

OwlSOC investigates and recommends. A human approves. It does not take containment actions on its own. When an investigation suggests a response, the recommended action sits in the client portal until someone on your team approves or rejects it.

Execution is write-grant gated. Approved actions run through a write connector only on the specific scopes you have granted, and only after that human approval. Everything is logged. Reversible actions can be undone; the few that cannot be reversed are flagged before you approve.

For a team drowning in Sentinel alerts

A mid-sized estate can fire hundreds of Sentinel incidents a day. Most are noise, a few are not, and a small team cannot fully investigate all of them, so alerts get a nine-second glance or a place in a queue. OwlSOC investigates every one to the same depth, so triage stops being a sampling exercise.

If you already have analysts, OwlSOC does the first-pass investigation and hands them a sourced write-up, so they spend their time on the cases that warrant a human rather than on clearing the queue. It sits on top of the Sentinel you already run, so there is no migration.

Try it on your own Sentinel alerts

OwlSOC starts with a £495, 30-day fully-refundable pilot on one monitored environment, so the proof sits on your own data rather than a slide. After that it is from £495 per month per monitored environment, billed monthly with no minimum term. Read-only by default, no agents to install, and live within roughly 48 hours of access.

Alongside Microsoft Sentinel, OwlSOC connects to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Office and to AWS Security Hub. If a source you depend on is not on that list, such as AWS GuardDuty or Entra ID, tell us and we will scope it.

Frequently asked

How does OwlSOC connect to Microsoft Sentinel?

Over OAuth with read-only delegated access to your Sentinel workspace and the underlying Log Analytics tables. There are no agents to install and nothing in your traffic path. Most environments are investigating live alerts within roughly 48 hours of the OAuth grant being approved.

Does OwlSOC investigate every Sentinel incident or just a sample?

Every incident. Standard deterministic triage scores every alert, and the AI investigation, included in the paid tiers, runs a full investigation on each one: pulling the relevant logs, correlating across sources, resolving entities, mapping MITRE ATT&CK, and returning a hedged verdict, typically in under two minutes, 24/7.

Can OwlSOC contain a threat in Sentinel automatically?

No. OwlSOC investigates and recommends; a human on your team approves any action before it runs. Approved actions execute through a write connector only on the write scopes you have explicitly granted, and everything is logged. Reversible actions can be undone, and the few that cannot are flagged before approval.

Can I trace an OwlSOC verdict back to the original Sentinel logs?

Yes. The investigation timeline is evidence-linked: every claim cites the source log line or pivot ID it came from, and those IDs trace back to the original record in the Sentinel console. Your analyst can verify any line of the verdict and disagree with it if the evidence does not support it.

See it on your alerts.

Start with a 30-day refundable pilot. £495, one environment, every alert investigated, a full report at week four. Read-only, live within 48 hours of access.