Avalon Technology Services | Security Operations & Incident Management

Avalon Technology Services | Security Operations & Incident Management | Endpoint Detection & Response

THE PROBLEM & THE APPROACH

You already own the tool. Avalon proves it actually works.

The Challenge

Our Approach

Endpoints remain the most common initial access point into federal networks, and an untuned or partially deployed EDR platform means the agency finds out about an intrusion from CISA, an IG, or the adversary's effects, not from its own console.
Avalon reconciles the agency's authoritative inventory against what the EDR console actually reports, audits agent health, and runs controlled ATT&CK-mapped emulation to prove, with evidence, what the platform would actually catch.
OMB M-22-01 requires FCEB agencies to operate EDR and give CISA telemetry access, the zero trust device pillar requires the same visibility and response capability, and RMF authorization packages need implemented, evidenced SI-4 and IR-4 controls.
Avalon delivers deployment, tuning, and validation aligned to NIST SP 800-61r3, OMB M-21-31, and CIS Benchmarks, and hands over an SSP-ready Control Evidence Package mapped directly to the SI/IR/AU/CM control families.
Default vendor policies in a federal environment generate alert volumes that overwhelm understaffed SOCs, alert fatigue is how real detections get missed inside tools that technically "saw" the attack.
Avalon runs a staged audit-to-blocking progression with measured soak periods, builds custom detections for agency-specific concerns, and reports false-positive rate and alert volume per analyst before and after tuning, a number, not an adjective.
Agencies pay for enterprise EDR licensing while a meaningful fraction of the fleet has no agent, a broken agent, or an agent stuck in audit-only mode, shelfware with a compliance narrative attached.
The EDR Coverage & Efficacy Assessment is a standalone, fast entry engagement that turns that unknown into a defensible coverage number and a costed, prioritized roadmap the agency can act on immediately.

Aligned To

NIST SP 800-53 (SI-3, SI-4, IR-4/5/6, AU-2/6/12, CM-8, CA-7)
OMB M-22-01
OMB M-21-31
CISA Zero Trust Maturity Model, Device Pillar
NIST SP 800-171 / CMMC 2.0 Level 2

FREQUENTLY ASKED

Questions, Answered.

Straight answers about coverage, deployment risk, and what this service will, and won't, get you.

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Federal Frameworks Addressed

NIST SP 800-53
OMB M-22-01
MITRE ATT&CK
CIS Benchmarks

Owning is not operating. Three questions tell you what you actually have: what's your coverage percentage against your authoritative inventory, when did you last test detection and what happened, and what's your false-positive rate? If any answer is "not sure," that's exactly what the assessment exists to answer with evidence.

CDM provided the tooling and dashboards, and CISA's telemetry access under M-22-01 is a real federal backstop, but it isn't your SOC, and CISA's proactive support capacity has contracted materially. Detection and response inside your agency remain your responsibility, and tuned, operated local response is not the same thing as an access arrangement.

An independent validation is something the incumbent should welcome. Avalon's scope is surgical, fixed-price, and doesn't touch the incumbent's contract, the retest either confirms their work, worth having in writing, or surfaces gaps the agency needs to know about either way.

No, and we won't blur that line in a proposal. This service implements and validates the detection capability and delivers SSP-ready implementation evidence for controls like SI-4 and IR-4. It doesn't complete the CISA telemetry-access relationship, grant an ATO, or certify CMMC, those rest with the agency, the Authorizing Official, and a C3PAO respectively.

That risk is exactly why the methodology exists: a pilot ring across every hardware and OS class, performance baselining before and after install, an audit-mode soak before any blocking, and engineered exclusions built with system owners at the table, with documented rollback for every wave.

The honest answer: fixed scope, named key personnel with verifiable platform certifications, a stated concurrency limit, and no dependency on hiring to deliver. Small firm, small blast radius, senior hands on the console.

A mid-size environment (2,500–15,000 endpoints) typically runs 12–20 weeks end to end. Small, single-enclave environments compress to 8–12 weeks; large, multi-enclave environments run 6–9 months, driven more by enclave count and change-board cadence than raw endpoint count.

Endpoint Detection & Response

You already own the tool. Avalon proves it actually works.

From coverage gap to proven, tuned detection.

Coverage & Efficacy Assessment

Deployment, Migration & Policy Hardening

Integration, Reporting & Operationalization

A mid-size deployment runs 12–20 weeks; the standalone assessment runs 3–6 weeks.

Kickoff & Access

Assess & Baseline

Design & Pilot

Phased Deployment / Migration

Tune, Integrate, Validate

Transfer & Closeout

Four measured numbers, not adjectives.

Inside Two Weeks to Start

The People Who Do the Work

Competitive Pricing, Small-Business Credit

One Team, Full Incident Lifecycle

Questions, Answered.

Ready to know if your EDR platform actually works?

Endpoint Detection & Response

Coverage & Efficacy Assessment

Deployment, Migration & Policy Hardening

Integration, Reporting & Operationalization

Kickoff & Access

Assess & Baseline

Design & Pilot

Phased Deployment / Migration

Tune, Integrate, Validate

Transfer & Closeout

Inside Two Weeks to Start

The People Who Do the Work

Competitive Pricing, Small-Business Credit

One Team, Full Incident Lifecycle

Often engaged alongside this service.

Questions, Answered.

We already have EDR, why do we need this?

Doesn't CDM or CISA already cover this?

Our SOC support incumbent already handles endpoints, won't this step on their contract?

Will deploying or tuning EDR make us M-22-01 or CMMC compliant?

Will agents break our mission systems?

How do we know Avalon can deliver reliably at this scope?

How long does a deployment or migration take?

Ready to know if your EDR platform actually works?