Braintree security operations centre
Security · Managed Detection & Response

Defended in depth. Proven on paper.

Braintree is your security operations partner. We harden your Microsoft environment, watch it around the clock on Defender and Sentinel, and produce the compliance evidence your board and regulator ask for.

96%
Microsoft Secure Score, Efficient Group
24/7
Detection and response coverage
60+
Azure regions worldwide for data residency
2
Azure regions in South Africa
The wedge

We run your defence. We do not resell tools.

Most providers sell you a licence and a dashboard, then leave you to watch it. Braintree runs managed detection and response on the Microsoft Defender and Sentinel signals already in your tenant. We hold the posture, every day after, and we have the evidence to prove it.

Defence in depth

Five attack surfaces. One operations centre watching.

Attackers do not pick one door. Braintree's security operations centre watches all five, on the Microsoft signals already inside your tenant, and feeds every one into Microsoft Sentinel. Detection is tuned. Response has a clock.

Surface 01

Identity

Microsoft Entra ID

Conditional access, multi-factor enforcement and privileged identity management. The most attacked surface, closed first.

Access reviews

Scheduled reviews of admin roles and standing access. Stale privilege is removed before it is abused.

Surface 02

Endpoint

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Attack-surface reduction rules, device compliance through Intune, and behavioural detection on every managed device.

Ransomware recovery

Immutable backups and tested restores. A measured time to recover, not a hope.

Surface 03

Email and apps

Microsoft Defender for Office 365

Phishing, malware and malicious-link protection across Exchange, Teams and SharePoint.

Safe Links and Safe Attachments

Every link and file checked at the moment of click. The surface most breaches start on, closed.

Surface 04

Data

Microsoft Purview

Sensitivity labels, data loss prevention and retention policy. The controls a compliance evidence file is built from.

Compliance evidence file

Documented controls for POPIA, GDPR or whichever regulator applies. Audit-ready on demand, not reconstructed after a request lands.

Surface 05

Cloud

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Cloud security posture management across your Azure estate. Misconfiguration found before an attacker finds it.

Workload protection

Servers, containers and databases monitored for threats, on the Azure regions your data must live in.

The operations layer
Braintree Security Operations Centre

Every signal above flows into Microsoft Sentinel and into a security operations centre staffed around the clock. SA-based analysts, tuned detections, documented response playbooks, and a monthly posture report written for the board. Detection without an operations centre behind it is just a louder alarm.

How we hold the line

A posture, not a project. It runs in a loop.

Security is never finished. We cycle through four phases continuously, so your defence improves the longer we run it.

01

Assess

Baseline Secure Score, map the gaps, document the risk register you sign off.

02

Harden

Conditional access, MFA, sensitivity labels and retention enforced.

03

Monitor

24/7 detection on Defender and Sentinel signals across all five surfaces.

04

Respond

Contain, remediate, report. Then the findings feed straight back into Assess.

Braintree does not hand you a dashboard and call it defence. We hold the posture, every day after.

A Braintree consultant walking the server rows of a South African data centre
Inside the estate we defend. Posture is held on the floor, not on a slide.
Proof, not promises
96%
Microsoft Secure Score reached at Efficient Group, international best practice.
We are building platforms that will make us a pioneer, based on future proof infrastructure.
Heiko Weidhase, CEO of Efficient Group. A 500-staff financial services firm, secured and migrated to Azure with Braintree.
The honest comparison

A third-party MSSP, Braintree, and the practical winner.

What you get
Third-party MSSP
Braintree Managed Defender
The signals
Bolted-on tooling beside your tenant
Defender and Sentinel already in your tenant
Microsoft depth
Generalist across many vendors
Microsoft Solutions Partner, security specialised
Compliance evidence
You assemble it
Board-ready evidence produced for you
Data residency
Often offshore
On the two South African Azure regions
The relationship
One of many security vendors
One agreement across your whole Microsoft estate
Concierge breadth
A large MSSP can staff a wider after-hours bench
Focused on the Microsoft stack
5 to 1 in Braintree's favour. A big MSSP wins on raw concierge breadth. Honest.
One posture. The commercial case.

One Microsoft Partner. One Intelligent Agreement. One Unified, Secure Solution.

Security bolted on as a separate vendor means a separate contract, a separate SLA, and a gap at every handoff between your productivity partner, your cloud partner and your security tool. Braintree closes the gap. Productivity, cloud and security on one Microsoft Customer Agreement, one operations centre, one accountable team.

A separate security vendor, a separate contract, a gap at every handoff.

Before. Security bolted on.

  • A standalone security tool with its own agent and its own licence
  • A separate contract and a separate renewal cycle
  • Finger-pointing between IT partners when something fires
  • No single team accountable for the Secure Score
  • Compliance evidence scattered across vendors
One Braintree agreement. One operations centre. One posture.

After. One Intelligent Agreement.

  • One Microsoft Customer Agreement across Azure, Microsoft 365 and security
  • One operations centre watching productivity, cloud and posture
  • One team accountable for the Secure Score and the incident clock
  • One quarterly review across the whole Microsoft estate
  • One compliance evidence file. Current, and audit-ready.
Data sovereignty, by design

Your data stays where the law says it must.

Workloads run on the Azure regions you choose, including both South African regions. Data residency is the default, not an opt-in.

And when your board or your regulator asks, POPIA, GDPR or whichever framework applies, the audit trail, the retention policy and the posture report are already written.

60+Azure regions worldwide to anchor your data in
2Azure regions in South Africa
1Evidence file, current and audit-ready
A modern Azure data centre corridor
FAQ

What CISOs ask before they book.

Braintree owns the outcome of your security posture, not just the tooling. That covers Secure Score, conditional access, MFA, sensitivity labels and retention, plus round-the-clock detection on Defender and Sentinel and a defined response process when something fires. Your team keeps strategic control; we run the day to day.

We run on the Microsoft Defender and Sentinel signals already in your tenant. No second platform to buy or bolt on. If your licensing does not yet include the right Defender plan, we tell you exactly what to add and why, with no upsell padding.

We produce the evidence: the Secure Score posture report, the retention and audit configuration, the access review and the risk register, documented for your compliance records against POPIA, GDPR or whichever framework applies to you. When you are asked, the file already exists rather than being assembled in a panic.

The Respond phase: contain the threat, remediate the cause, and report what happened and what changed. Every incident feeds back into Assess so the same gap does not reopen. Response times are defined in your SLA, not left vague.

Wherever your law requires. Workloads run on the Azure region of your choice, and for South African organisations that means the two local Azure regions, POPIA-aligned since 2021. Data residency is the default, not an opt-in, and it is documented in the evidence pack.

Book the 30-minute posture review

Let's grow.

We will show you your Secure Score posture, the gaps an attacker would use first, and the compliance evidence you are missing. On one agreement, with one team accountable for the outcome.

Specialists in Business Applications, Modern Workplace and Azure.