Security Operations Centre and Managed Detection Response Services Procurement

The purpose of this RFP is to invite Prospective Suppliers to submit their Proposals for a Security Operations Centre (�SOC�) and Managed Detection and Response (�MDR�) Provider who will monitor, analyse logs to proactively report anomalies and detect security incidents and work on continual improvement of the log correlation and alerting capabilities of Christchurch City Council�s hybrid information technology (�IT�) environment.

The objective of this RFP is to select a security operations centre (�SOC�) and managed detection and response (�MDR�) provider that will be responsible for detecting intrusions, malware, and malicious activity in Christchurch City Council�s networks, including on-premises, cloud, and SaaS applications and platforms, while eliminating false positives and identifying real security threats, and assisting in rapid response to eliminate and mitigate those threats.