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SOC as a Service Australia

24/7 SOC as a Service for Australian Companies - MDR, SIEM, APRA & Essential Eight Aligned Monitoring

Praxis-Q delivers 24/7 SOC-as-a-Service for Australian organisations - managed detection and response, SIEM, threat hunting and incident response aligned to APRA CPS 234 continuous-monitoring expectations, the ACSC Essential Eight, and the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme's incident-reporting timelines.

At a Glance

Coverage

24/7/365

Stack

MDR + SIEM

Frameworks

APRA/Essential Eight

Market

Australia

Continuous security monitoring - centralised logging, real-time alerting, and 24/7 triage - is one of the most resource-intensive capabilities to build and staff in-house, which is why most Australian mid-market organisations outsource it rather than hire a round-the-clock internal team. Praxis-Q's SOC-as-a-Service covers log aggregation, threat detection, alert triage, and incident response support, built specifically to feed the detection and logging evidence that an Essential Eight maturity assessment or an ISO 27001 information security management system already needs, rather than running as a disconnected monitoring feed that produces its own separate reporting. For organisations pursuing Essential Eight Maturity Level Two or Three, detection capability is implicit across several of the eight strategies even though 'monitoring' isn't one of the eight named strategies itself - you can't demonstrate that application control or privileged access restrictions are actually holding without the logging and alerting to prove it. For organisations building toward ISO 27001, the SOC's incident detection and response records directly support the Annex A controls covering monitoring, logging, and incident management.
Who does the work: engagements are led by practitioners holding CISA (ISACA), CEH (EC-Council), eJPT (INE) and ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor credentials. The principal consultant's CISA is verifiable on Credly.

SOCaaS Australia

SOC as a Service Australia

24/7 SOC as a Service for Australian Companies - MDR, SIEM, APRA & Essential Eight Aligned Monitoring

The Problem

Threats run 24/7 and APRA CPS 234 expects continuous monitoring most Australian teams cannot staff in-house, especially outside business hours.

What We Do

  • Onboard
  • Detect
  • Triage
  • Respond
  • Report

What You Get

  • 24/7/365 monitoring and threat detection
  • Managed detection and response (MDR)
  • SIEM correlation and threat intelligence
  • APRA CPS 234 continuous-monitoring evidence
  • Essential Eight logging and detection alignment
  • Incident response mapped to Notifiable Data Breaches timelines

Why weeks, not months

AI-assisted evidence review, one client portal

Every SOCaaS Australia engagement runs on the Praxis-Q compliance platform. You upload evidence per control, AI scores it against the requirement, and your auditor reviews in the same workflow — from scoping through to the issued, publicly verifiable certificate.

AI evidence scoring

Every upload is scored against the control before an auditor sees it — gaps surface in minutes, not at the review meeting.

One client portal

Scoping, evidence, auditor queries and status live in one place. No email chains, no spreadsheet trackers.

Auditor sign-off

Praxis-Q auditors review inside the same workflow, so review rounds shrink and the certificate issues sooner.

24/7 monitoring and alert triage

Security events are aggregated from endpoints, network devices, cloud platforms and applications into a central detection pipeline, triaged around the clock so genuine incidents get escalated fast and noise doesn't bury the signal.

Detection mapped to Essential Eight controls

Monitoring is scoped specifically to surface evidence for the controls that require it implicitly - application control violations, privileged account activity, patch compliance drift, backup failures - so the SOC output doubles as maturity assessment evidence rather than a generic feed.

Incident response support

When an alert escalates to a genuine incident, our analysts support containment and remediation guidance in real time, working from a pre-agreed runbook rather than improvising during the incident itself.

Feeding ISO 27001 and audit evidence

Logging, alerting and incident records are structured and retained to satisfy ISO 27001 Annex A requirements around monitoring and incident management, so an ISMS built alongside the SOC doesn't need a second, parallel evidence-collection exercise.

Onboarding and tuning

Initial onboarding focuses on tuning detection rules to your actual environment to cut false-positive noise, since an under-tuned SOC either misses real incidents in the noise or burns out the team responding to false alarms.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is continuous monitoring required for APRA-regulated entities?
APRA CPS 234 expects regulated entities to detect and respond to information security incidents in a timely manner, which functionally requires 24/7 monitoring most teams cannot resource internally. SOCaaS delivers that coverage without an in-house build.
Does this help with Notifiable Data Breaches obligations?
Yes. Faster detection and structured incident response shorten the time to determine whether a breach is eligible for notification under the Privacy Act's Notifiable Data Breaches scheme.
Is SOC-as-a-Service required for Essential Eight compliance?
Monitoring isn't one of the eight named strategies, but several of them (application control, privileged access, patching) are difficult to demonstrate at Maturity Level Two or Three without the logging and detection capability a SOC provides as supporting evidence.
Do you replace our existing IT team or work alongside them?
We work alongside your existing IT or security team, handling 24/7 monitoring and initial triage while escalating confirmed incidents to your team (or ours, under an incident response retainer) for remediation - most mid-market organisations don't have the headcount for round-the-clock in-house coverage.
What's the difference between SOC-as-a-Service and a traditional MSSP?
The terms overlap significantly in practice. Our positioning is that the monitoring output is explicitly structured to feed your compliance evidence requirements (Essential Eight, ISO 27001) rather than being a generic alert feed you have to separately translate into audit evidence.
How quickly are incidents escalated?
Triage and initial escalation for high-severity alerts typically happens within minutes of detection, with the exact SLA defined in the service agreement based on severity tier.
Can the SOC monitor our cloud infrastructure, not just on-premises systems?
Yes - the monitoring pipeline covers AWS, Azure and GCP logging alongside on-premises and endpoint sources, which matters given how much Australian mid-market infrastructure is now cloud-hosted.
Do we need to sign a long-term contract?
Terms vary, but most engagements run on an initial contract period with the option to extend, giving you time to evaluate detection quality and response times before committing longer-term.

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