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Montance® LLC is a trusted independent Information Security partner providing cybersecurity assessment, and framework development services enabling clients to create a new SOC, or improve existing security operations. We are committed to enhancing your SOC capabilities to execute its mission: to provide optimum security protection for digital assets. Montance® LLC has provided services to organizations large and small in the financial, industrial, energy, medical, and defense industries. It is a one-person consulting firm providing a vehicle for direct and efficient engagement. The majority of the customers are medium to large companies with existing SecOps capabilities. In addition, managed service providers (MSPs) who aspire to be managed security service providers (MSSPs) are frequently customers. Typical customers are in financial, IT services, energy, and government sectors. To expedite contracting and provide a clear price for services provided, the majority of offerings are fixed price. For example, the SOC implementation timeline is a sliding-scale, very low cost (and very high value) offering. This is a complete summary of all of Christopher Crowley's thoughts on the design, build, and operation of a SOC. If you have something else in mind, please read the section on custom solutions. Excercise Creation & Execution Montance® LLC can recommend and execute an appropriate tabletop to assure organizational interaction with the SOC is where it needs to be. Or, plan and execute an assessment of SOC capability. Evaluation of best fit tabletop for the client and agreement of appropriate exercise development program. This can be one day executive table top, or extensive training and assessment of defensive staff, possibly including red/purple team. Montance® has extensive experience designing and delivering exercises for a multitude of audiences, including development of a single exercise spanning multiple technical levels. Fixed Price Programs Implementation Project Plan The Montance® timeline offering to guide SOC: design, build, and implementation. Fixed Price Program SOC Implementation Consultation Fixed priced, scheduled advisory program to develop a SOC, it is based upon the Gantt chart, adding access to SME guidance on a milestone driven basis. If the Gantt chart itself isn't enough to guide you through the effort of building a SOC, but a large consultation engagement is not desirable or affordable, this is the best option for you. Maturity Assessment Montance® LLC has developed a streamlined maturity assessment and recommendations method. If you think your SOC is good, but want to measure what good means, this is the option for you. Montance® LLC is the North American partner for the SOC-CMM. This solution is approximately four months in duration. It provides in depth assessment of the current status of your cybersecurity operations. The deliverables are detailed guidance for adjustment of metrics, operations, technology, staff, procedures, documentation, and anything else that is in scope for your SOC. Enable the capability you want to see in your SOC. Montance® LLC can deliver a solution that is exactly what you envision. This is intended to be the most flexible option, and will provide consulting time to provide mentoring, advising, presentations, internal training program development, interim leadership and/or operational project deliverables. Work will be performed on-site or remotely, as determined by the project objectives and sensitivity.See more