Our Security Intelligence Stack

At Kocho, our ability to deliver advanced security analytics, custom detections, and rapid incident response is powered by a robust and integrated Intelligence Stack. This curated collection of tools, platforms, and data feeds enables us to enrich security events, proactively hunt for threats, and provide deep contextual insights.

Core Components of Our Stack

We leverage a combination of industry-leading technologies and custom integrations to build a comprehensive view of the threat landscape:

• Microsoft Sentinel: Our central nervous system for security information and event management (SIEM) and security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR). Sentinel aggregates data from diverse sources and provides powerful analytics and hunting capabilities.
• Microsoft Defender XDR: Provides rich telemetry and threat detection across endpoints, identities, email, and cloud applications, forming a critical data source for our intelligence operations.
• Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIPs): We integrate with various open-source and commercial threat intelligence feeds (e.g., VirusTotal, AbuseIPDB, MISP, and specialized feeds) to correlate internal telemetry with known malicious indicators and attacker TTPs.
• Log Analytics: The scalable data platform underpinning Sentinel, allowing us to store, query, and analyze vast amounts of security data efficiently.
• Custom Scripting & APIs: Python, PowerShell, and API integrations are used to automate data collection from non-standard sources, enrich alerts, and orchestrate complex hunting queries.
• Open Source Intelligence (OSINT): We utilize OSINT tools and techniques to gather publicly available information that can provide context on emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and attacker infrastructure.

How We Utilize Our Intelligence Stack

This integrated stack empowers our security team to:

• Enrich Alerts: Automatically add context (e.g., IP reputation, malware family, associated TTPs) to raw security alerts, enabling faster and more accurate triage.
• Proactive Threat Hunting: Develop and execute hypotheses-driven hunting queries across our aggregated data to uncover hidden threats that may evade traditional detections.
• Manage Indicators of Compromise (IOCs): Ingest, normalize, and distribute IOCs across our detection and prevention tools.
• Understand Attacker Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs): Correlate observed activity with known TTPs (e.g., from MITRE ATT&CK®) to better understand attack campaigns and improve defenses.
• Continuously Improve Detection Logic: Use insights gained from threat intelligence and hunting to refine existing detection rules and develop new ones.

Benefits for You

Our sophisticated Intelligence Stack translates directly into enhanced security outcomes for our clients:

• Faster, More Informed Incident Response: Richer context leads to quicker understanding and more effective remediation.
• Proactive Threat Discovery: We find threats before they cause significant impact.
• Reduced Alert Fatigue: Better alert enrichment and correlation help filter out noise.
• Actionable Security Insights: We provide not just data, but intelligence you can act upon.

Kocho's Intelligence Stack is a key enabler of our commitment to providing cutting-edge, proactive security services.