Federal Customers Raise the Security Bar
DHS contracts and prime-contractor flowdowns can require safeguarding information, demonstrating security practices, and supporting customer reviews.
Contractors need security operations they can sustain and evidence when a customer or prime asks.
Lean Teams, Federal-Grade Expectations
Growing contractors may need continuous monitoring, investigation, vulnerability management, and incident readiness without a dedicated security department.
Those responsibilities are hard to sustain when the same team also manages infrastructure, users, and contract delivery.
Sensitive and Controlled Data Flows Through Your Systems
Applicable DHS contracts can involve Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and other sensitive federal information.
Protecting that information requires clear ownership across the systems, people, and partners that handle it.
The Civilian Compliance Picture Is Shifting
DHS already has contract-specific CUI safeguarding requirements. Governmentwide requirements are evolving as well.
A proposed Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) CUI rule would introduce a more standardized approach across civilian federal contracts. The rule remains proposed as of October 2026.
No practical 24/7 coverage
Lean IT and security teams cannot monitor and investigate threats around the clock while also delivering on DHS contract work.
Fragmented or incomplete telemetry
Logs spread across identities, endpoints, cloud, firewalls, and vendor tools hide collection gaps until an incident or audit.
Alert overload
High alert volumes bury real threats in noise, leaving teams without the context, prioritization, or clear ownership needed for fast triage.
Vulnerability backlogs
Vulnerability scans outpace teams’ ability to prioritize, remediate, and verify findings, leaving critical systems exposed.
Unclear response authority
During incident response, IT, leadership, primes, and MSPs may not know who can isolate, restore, report, or communicate.
Complex, shifting requirements
Teams struggle to know which federal cybersecurity requirements apply, what compliance evidence is expected, and who owns it.
Scattered evidence
Compliance records end up scattered across tickets, email, spreadsheets, and vendor portals, slowing audits and assessments.
Black-box providers
Managed security providers send alerts or reports without showing what was investigated, what remains open, or who owns closure.
Signals In
Supported endpoint, identity, network, and security telemetry.
Investigate
Expert investigation supported by AI-assisted workflows.
Respond and Coordinate
Supported response actions and coordinated handoffs.
Document the Outcome
Cases, remediation, ownership, and outcomes remain visible.
Log Management
Logs have to remain collected, searchable, retained, and available when an investigation or review begins. Missing data can limit both response and evidence.
Incident Response
Roles, authority, escalation paths, and reporting procedures need to be understood before an incident. For applicable DHS contracts, reporting windows can be as short as one hour.
24/7 Detection and Response
Suspicious activity does not wait for business hours. Teams need a way to investigate alerts quickly enough to support response and time-sensitive reporting obligations.
Risk-Based Vulnerability Management
Scanning is only the beginning. Teams still need to determine what matters most, coordinate remediation, and verify that reported fixes were completed.
Security Awareness
Employees need practical preparation for phishing, credential theft, social engineering, and Business Email Compromise without turning training into another administrative burden.
Continuous Evidence and Readiness
Security work needs to remain traceable. Cases, remediation records, exercises, logs, and other artifacts are more useful when captured as the work happens.
vSOC and Managed Detection and Response
Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provides 24/7 investigation, threat hunting, supported containment, and coordinated response.
RADICL's vSOC gives lean teams continuous coverage without staffing an internal SOC.
- Endpoints and Servers Protected
- Evasive & Embedded Threats Detected and Stopped
- 24/7 Security Operations Has Your Back
- Incidents Managed End-to-End
- Virtual CISO By Your Side
MDR: Endpoint
MDR: Endpoint is the foundation of our MDR offering. We deploy, optimize, and maintain leading EDR technologies (for example, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, and Microsoft Defender) across your laptops, workstations, and server infrastructure. We deploy custom detection analytics to spot threats out-of-the box EDR miss.
MDR: Identity
With MDR: Identity, we ingest and analyze data from Identity and user activity data sources like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. We monitor authentication activity, access to sensitive data and files, and email behavior to detect account takeover, inbox compromise, and data exfiltration.
MDR: Network
MDR: Network collects alarms and threat data from physical, wireless and cloud network infrastructure. We correlate this with endpoint and identity telemetry to fully investigate suspicious behavior and provide defense‑in‑depth coverage.
How RADICL Detects and Responds
Below is a closer look at our Managed Detection and Response (MDR) operations. This is how we turn signals into 24/7 investigations, containment, and tracked remediation.
Managed Log Analytics
Managed Log Analytics (MLA) centralizes collection, normalization, search, retention, and ingestion-health monitoring across supported log sources.
A one-year archive supports investigations and applicable customer or federal reviews.
- 14 or 90-Day Velocity Search + 1-Year Archive
- AI-Assisted Natural Language Search
- Hunt UX with vSOC Incident Escalation
- On-Demand Compliance Evidence Export
- vSOC-Managed Ingestion & Health Monitoring
Managed Attack Surface
Managed Attack Surface (MAS) identifies and prioritizes vulnerabilities, provides remediation guidance, and verifies reported closure.
- Endpoint and Server Vulnerabilities Detected and Prioritized
- Pragmatic and Manageable Remediation Pace
- Accelerated Critical Fix Response
- Expert Guidance and Collaboration With Your IT/MSP Partners
- Closed Loop “Fixed” Visibility
Managed Security Awareness
Managed Security Awareness (MSA) provides ongoing training and phishing simulations with visibility into participation and employee risk.
- Comprehensive Annual Training
- Ongoing “Bite Sized” Training
- Phishing Attack Simulations
- Ever Evolving Expert Content
- Security Awareness Posture Visibility
