Fast-Track · Weeks, Not Months

SOC as a Service Singapore

24/7 SOC as a Service for Singapore Companies - MDR, SIEM, MAS TRM & PDPA Aligned Monitoring

Praxis-Q delivers 24/7 SOC-as-a-Service for Singapore organisations - managed detection and response, SIEM, threat hunting and incident response aligned to MAS Technology Risk Management Guidelines, Cyber Security Agency (CSA) expectations, and PDPA breach-notification timelines.

At a Glance

Coverage

24/7/365

Stack

MDR + SIEM

Frameworks

MAS TRM/PDPA

Market

Singapore

Singapore's PDPA requires notifying the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) within three calendar days of assessing that a data breach is likely to result in significant harm or is of a significant scale - a notification window that's short enough that detection speed directly determines whether an organisation can investigate, assess materiality, and report inside the deadline at all. Praxis-Q's SOC-as-a-Service gives Singapore organisations round-the-clock monitoring, alert triage and incident response support built specifically around that reporting clock, rather than treating detection and compliance reporting as separate workstreams that only connect after an incident has already happened. For financial institutions, the same monitoring infrastructure supports the incident detection and reporting expectations under MAS's Technology Risk Management Guidelines, and for organisations pursuing ISO 27001 certification, the SOC's logging and incident records feed directly into the Annex A controls covering monitoring 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 Singapore

SOC as a Service Singapore

24/7 SOC as a Service for Singapore Companies - MDR, SIEM, MAS TRM & PDPA Aligned Monitoring

The Problem

Threats run 24/7 and MAS TRM Guidelines expect continuous monitoring most Singapore 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
  • MAS TRM Guidelines continuous-monitoring evidence
  • CSA cybersecurity alignment
  • Incident response mapped to PDPA 3-day breach notification

Why weeks, not months

AI-assisted evidence review, one client portal

Every SOCaaS Singapore 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 built around the PDPC's 3-day clock

Detection and initial triage run continuously specifically because the PDPA's notification window starts running from the point a breach is assessed as notifiable, not from when it's convenient to check logs - the SOC is structured to compress the detection-to-assessment timeline as much as possible.

Alert triage and materiality assessment support

Not every alert is a notifiable breach, and treating every incident as PDPC-reportable would be both wrong and unsustainable. Our analysts support the initial materiality triage so your team can focus its formal breach-assessment process on the alerts that genuinely warrant it.

Incident response and containment support

Confirmed incidents get real-time containment and remediation guidance from our analysts, working from a pre-agreed runbook so the response doesn't stall while your team figures out the right move under pressure.

Supporting MAS TRM and ISO 27001 evidence

For regulated financial institutions, monitoring and incident records feed the detection and reporting expectations in MAS's Technology Risk Management Guidelines; for organisations pursuing ISO 27001, the same records satisfy Annex A's monitoring and incident management controls.

Onboarding and detection tuning

Initial onboarding tunes detection rules to your actual environment to reduce false-positive volume, since a SOC that generates too much noise either gets ignored or exhausts the team meant to be relying on it.

SIEM and SOC Are Not the Same Purchase

A SIEM is a platform that collects, correlates and retains security events. A SOC is the people and process who act on what it produces. Buying the first without the second is the most common failure in this market and it is visible to any assessor: the logging requirement is satisfied and the monitoring requirement is not. ISO/IEC 27001:2022 makes the split explicit by separating A.8.15 Logging from A.8.16 Monitoring activities. Where Singapore organisations ask for SIEM services, the question we ask back is who reviews the alerts tomorrow morning - because that answer decides the architecture.

Platform Choice and Data Residency

Praxis-Q runs Wazuh, Elastic/OpenSearch and Graylog/Security Onion in production, and platform selection follows the estate rather than a licence: endpoint-heavy environments point at Wazuh, high-volume firewall and appliance logging at Graylog, packet-level evidence at Security Onion, and existing Elastic deployments at Elastic or OpenSearch. Where contractual or sectoral obligations constrain where logs may be stored, self-hosting in a Singapore region keeps the data inside the jurisdiction - one practical reason organisations choose an owned stack over a subscription that ships telemetry to a region they do not control. The SIEM is yours under both delivery models: build-and-hand-over, where we train your team to run it, or managed, where our analysts do.

Retention Sizing

Retention multiplied by measured daily volume is what sizes the platform and the cost. Where PCI DSS applies alongside MAS expectations, v4.0.1 requirement 10.5.1 sets twelve months of audit log history with at least the most recent three months immediately available for analysis - a hot and warm tier, not twelve months of hot storage. We size from two weeks of sampled real collection rather than an estimate, because retention cannot be retrofitted and data you did not keep is gone.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is continuous monitoring required for MAS-regulated entities?
MAS TRM Guidelines expect regulated financial institutions to detect and respond to security incidents promptly, which functionally requires 24/7 monitoring most teams cannot resource internally. SOCaaS delivers that coverage without an in-house build.
Does this help with PDPA breach notification obligations?
Yes. Faster detection and structured incident response shorten the time to assess and notify the PDPC within Singapore's mandatory breach-notification window.
How does the SOC help us meet the PDPC's 3-day breach notification deadline?
The notification clock starts when a breach is assessed as likely to cause significant harm or affects a significant number of individuals - the SOC's job is to detect and escalate incidents fast enough that your team has time left in that three-calendar-day window to properly assess materiality and prepare the notification, rather than discovering the breach on day two.
Does 24/7 monitoring guarantee we'll meet the PDPA deadline?
No single control guarantees compliance - fast detection is necessary but the materiality assessment, internal escalation, and notification drafting still take time. What the SOC does is remove detection delay as the bottleneck, so the time budget is spent on assessment and response rather than discovery.
Do you handle the actual PDPC notification, or just detection?
We handle detection, triage and incident response support; the formal PDPC notification decision and submission remains your organisation's responsibility, typically made with your legal or compliance team, since it involves judgment calls about materiality and significant harm that sit outside a monitoring service's scope.
Is this relevant for MAS-regulated financial institutions specifically?
Yes - the same monitoring and incident response infrastructure supports MAS Technology Risk Management Guidelines' expectations around incident detection, escalation and reporting, in addition to PDPA breach notification.
Can the SOC integrate with our existing security tools?
Yes - the monitoring pipeline ingests logs from your existing endpoint, network, cloud and application security tools rather than requiring wholesale replacement, which keeps onboarding faster and avoids duplicating investment you've already made.
What's the typical onboarding timeline?
Most organisations are fully onboarded with tuned detection rules within 4-6 weeks, though this depends on the number and complexity of log sources being integrated.
Do you provide SIEM and SOC services together in Singapore?
Yes - as one engagement. We build the SIEM and either hand it over to your team with runbooks and training, or operate it continuously with our own analysts. Buying the platform without the people is the failure mode we see most often, so we scope both from the start.
Does the SIEM have to be hosted in Singapore?
Not by default under the PDPA, but sectoral obligations, customer contracts and internal policy frequently require it, and an owned self-hosted stack lets you choose the region outright. We deploy into a Singapore region where residency is a requirement.
Can you take over a SIEM we already run?
Usually, yes. If the platform is sound and the gap is tuning, coverage, review or evidence, we take over the existing deployment rather than replacing it. Where the existing stack cannot meet your retention or evidence requirement we will say so and name the requirement it fails.

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