SOC as a Service USA
24/7 SOC as a Service for US Companies - MDR, SIEM, SOC 2 & NYDFS Monitoring
Praxis-Q delivers 24/7 SOC-as-a-Service for US companies - managed detection and response, SIEM, threat hunting and incident response that satisfies SOC 2 continuous-monitoring and NYDFS requirements.
SOCaaS USA
SOC as a Service USA
24/7 SOC as a Service for US Companies - MDR, SIEM, SOC 2 & NYDFS Monitoring
The Problem
Threats arrive 24/7 but most US teams watch logs nine-to-five, if at all. By the time someone notices an alert, the attacker has had hours to move - and SOC 2/NYDFS expect continuous monitoring.
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
- SOC 2 continuous-monitoring evidence
- NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500 monitoring support
- Incident response and threat hunting
Why weeks, not months
AI-assisted evidence review, one client portal
Every SOCaaS USA 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.
SOC (Security Operations Center) vs SOC 2 - Not the Same Thing
It's worth stating plainly given how often the two get conflated: a Security Operations Center is a monitoring and detection function - people, process and tooling watching for and responding to security events around the clock. SOC 2 is an audit report issued by a CPA firm against the AICPA's Trust Services Criteria. A SOC-as-a-Service engagement can produce evidence that helps a SOC 2 audit succeed (continuous monitoring and logging is exactly the kind of control evidence a SOC 2 security criterion expects), but subscribing to SOC-as-a-Service doesn't itself constitute or replace a SOC 2 report, and vice versa.
Why Insurers and Auditors Care About Continuous Monitoring
Cyber insurance underwriters increasingly ask specifically about detection and response capability, not just preventive controls, because the data shows time-to-detect and time-to-respond are the biggest drivers of breach cost and severity. SOC 2 auditors look for evidence of ongoing security monitoring supporting the Security Trust Services criterion, not just point-in-time controls. CMMC's NIST SP 800-171 requirements include audit and accountability domain controls that expect logging and review to actually happen continuously, not just exist as a policy document. Praxis-Q's SOC-as-a-Service is built to generate the specific artefacts (alert logs, response timelines, escalation records) each of these actually checks for.
Build vs Buy: Why Mid-Market Skips the In-House SOC
Staffing a 24/7 in-house SOC requires enough analysts to cover shifts around the clock, the SIEM tooling to aggregate logs across the environment, and the tuning expertise to keep alert volume manageable rather than drowning the team in false positives - a cost structure that rarely makes sense below a certain company size. Praxis-Q's SOC-as-a-Service delivers the monitoring and triage function on a shared-service model, so mid-market clients get continuous coverage without carrying the fixed cost of a dedicated internal team, and can graduate to an in-house function later once scale genuinely justifies it.
Integrating With SOC 2 and CMMC Evidence Requirements
Praxis-Q scopes the monitoring and alerting configuration specifically to produce evidence that maps onto whichever compliance framework the client is also pursuing - if a client is mid-way through a SOC 2 Type II review period, the monitoring logs and incident response records get structured so they slot directly into that audit's evidence request list rather than requiring separate reformatting. The same applies for CMMC's audit and accountability domain requirements, so SOC-as-a-Service isn't a parallel, disconnected service but a component that actively feeds the client's broader compliance programme.
Engagement Model
Onboarding typically starts with a log source and asset inventory review, followed by SIEM/monitoring configuration against the client's actual environment - cloud infrastructure, endpoints, identity systems - over the first two to three weeks. Ongoing service includes 24/7 alert monitoring, triage to filter noise from genuine incidents, and escalation with response support when something requires action. Praxis-Q reviews monitoring coverage quarterly as the client's environment changes, rather than setting it once and leaving it static.