At a glance: Quzara Cybertorch is a managed SOC-as-a-Service that operates Microsoft Sentinel and Defender XDR inside GCC High and Azure Government. U.S. citizen analysts run 24/7 detection and response. The service is FedRAMP Certified Class D (High), package FR2214150164, so DIB and federal-bound teams can inherit operations controls instead of standing up a sovereign SOC alone.
24/7 U.S. citizen detection and response on Microsoft Sentinel and Defender XDR, inside the GCC High and Azure Government boundary your CUI and defense contracts already require.
Cybertorch is the operator. Microsoft remains the platform, and you keep your tenant and data plane.
Commercial Microsoft 365 SOCs do not automatically become GCC High SOCs.
A SOC that monitors a GCC High tenant processes telemetry that can include CUI context, identity signals, and forensic artifacts. That changes personnel rules, data residency, tooling, and cross-boundary integrations.
Sentinel in Government, Defender for Endpoint Government endpoints, Entra ID Government, and automation playbooks sit in a different authorization and connectivity model than their commercial counterparts.
Cross-cloud connectors and global follow-the-sun analyst pools create boundary and citizenship problems that auditors and contracting officers will notice.
If you moved to GCC High for CUI or ITAR-adjacent work, the SOC has to live inside those rules, not around them.
SIEM and SOAR core. Ingest from M365, Azure Government workloads, Defender products, and network and identity sources. Analytics rules, workbooks, incident timelines, and automation stay inside the government boundary design you approve.
Endpoint, identity, email, and cloud app signals unified for investigation. Operators know which automated investigation and response actions exist in Government tenants versus commercial feature lag, and build playbooks accordingly.
Entra ID Government conditional access and identity protection signals, privileged access patterns, and Purview labels or DLP where in scope. Identity abuse is a primary DIB breach pattern, and the SOC treats it as first-class telemetry.
Cybertorch is the operator. Microsoft remains the platform. You keep your tenant and data plane, and we supply 24/7 detection engineering, triage, hunting, and response under agreed containment authority.
Buyers often confuse three different things:
Security tools that run on a FedRAMP Certified cloud.
A managed SOC service that is itself FedRAMP Certified as a cloud offering.
Your own system boundary and SSP package.
The FedRAMP Marketplace lists Quzara Cybertorch (SOC-as-a-Service) as FedRAMP Certified, package ID FR2214150164. That certification covers the managed service. It does not make a customer system certified, and your boundary and package remain yours.
For CSPs and high-rigor environments, inheritance and shared-responsibility clarity matter in the SSP and ConMon narrative. For DIB contractors, the practical outcome is a U.S. citizen SOC path designed for government-cloud operations rather than a commercial multi-tenant MDR bolted on after the fact.
Defense contractors handling Covered Defense Information live under DFARS 252.204-7012 incident reporting expectations, including timely reporting through DoD channels and preservation duties. A managed SOC that does not understand reportable cyber incidents, evidence retention, and handoff into your contracts process creates residual risk even if alerts fire.
The SOC has to recognize what is reportable, not only what alerted.
Preservation duties apply, so evidence handling is part of the runbook.
Detection has to reach your reporting authority fast enough for it to act.
Cybertorch incident response is staffed for U.S. citizen operations, with documented procedures and evidence your ISSM, counsel, and assessors can use. We align monitoring and response to the control families your CMMC and NIST SP 800-171 program already tracks (see next section). We do not replace your contractual reporting authority. We make the operational layer fast enough to meet it.
CMMC Level 2 builds on NIST SP 800-171. A managed SOC in GCC High does the daily work behind three families.
Continuous collection, retention, correlation, and reviewed findings in Sentinel as a system of record for audit events.
24/7 monitoring, malicious content and anomaly detection, hunting, and response to integrity events.
Time-bound detection-to-action, containment under agreed authority, and post-incident artifacts for SSP and POA&M updates.
| Factor | Build in-house | Cybertorch managed SOC |
|---|---|---|
| Staffing | Hire and vet U.S. citizen analysts for 24/7 coverage | U.S. citizen SOC included |
| Tooling | License and engineer Sentinel and Defender yourself | Operated on your Microsoft Government stack |
| Certification | You own the full set of operations controls in your package | Service is FedRAMP Certified Class D, package FR2214150164. Your boundary is still yours. |
| Time to 24/7 | Months of hiring and process | Faster path to continuous coverage |
| Best when | Large SOC budget and long runway | A DIB or CSP team needs operations now without the compromises of a multi-tenant commercial MDR |
Cybertorch owns 24/7 triage, investigation, hunting, and response playbooks inside agreed scope.
Your team keeps daytime ownership. Cybertorch covers surge, nights, weekends, or specialized detection engineering on Sentinel.
Cloud (GCC High, Azure Government, or commercial), data classes (CUI), Microsoft stack inventory, and IR authority.
Sentinel workspace design, Defender integration, identity sources, and retention.
Including DIB reporting handoffs where in scope.
A ConMon-style evidence cadence for customers who need recurring artifacts.
Cloud, security and contracting partners behind Quzara's monitoring and assurance programs.
Quzara Cybertorch provides 24/7 U.S. citizen SOC operations on Microsoft Sentinel and Defender XDR in GCC High and Azure Government.
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