XcellSecure|Security Stack Consolidation
Fewer tools, one console, one incident queue — and a renewal bill you can explain.
Streamline & integrate your security tools. We map what you own, switch on what you have already paid for, and retire the overlap at renewal.
16 tools, 9 consoles
Tool sprawl isn't only a cost line. Attacks hide in the seams.
Each tool sees one slice. When the slices sit in five consoles, a single intrusion looks like five unrelated, low-priority alerts. Switch the view to see the same attack correlated.
Five alerts, five queues, all marked low or medium. Nobody joins them up for days.
| Step (sample attack) | MITRE ATT&CK | Who sees it | Severity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phishing email clickedLink to a fake sign-in page | T1566 Phishing | Email gateway console | Low |
| Sign-in from a new countrySame user, valid password | T1078 Valid Accounts | Identity provider logs | Medium |
| Security agent switched offOn that user's laptop | T1562.001 Impair Defenses | EDR console | Medium |
| Remote desktop to a file serverFrom the laptop, after hours | T1021.001 Remote Desktop Protocol | Firewall logs | Low |
| Large upload to cloud storageArchive of finance folders | T1567.002 Exfiltration to Cloud Storage | Web proxy / CASB | Low |
Blind seams
No single tool sees the chain, so correlation depends on an analyst noticing. Attackers count on it.
Alert fatigue
The same event fires in three products. Analysts learn to ignore the noise — and the real one with it.
Half-deployed tools
Features bought but never switched on; agents that conflict on the same laptop; policies set three different ways.
Paying twice
Separate renewals for capabilities your Microsoft licence may already include.
Technique IDs from MITRE ATT&CK (attack.mitre.org), checked November 2026. The attack is a sample used to show visibility, not a recipe.
Most organisations run too many tools. Platforms detect and contain faster.
Published findings only, with dates. None of these figures are ours.
The average juggled by organisations surveyed — 1,000 executives across 18 countries, July–September 2024.
IBM Institute for Business Value with Palo Alto Networks*, “Capturing the cybersecurity dividend”, 28 Jan 2025The IBM IBV study was published in partnership with a security vendor that sells platforms; read its percentages as directional. We use it because it is the largest recent survey on the question.
Eight signs your stack has outgrown your team.
Two or more is a good reason to review the stack.
One platform for four jobs: prevent, detect, respond, recover.
Our default target is Microsoft's security stack, with specialist tools kept where Microsoft 365 doesn't reach. Hover a layer to see what it replaces.
What does your sprawl cost — and what would consolidation save?
Enter your own numbers. Licence uplift prices come from our Microsoft pages; everything else is yours. Nothing leaves your browser.
Basis: tools × users × average licence × 12, plus tools × admin hours × hourly cost × 12. Uplift uses Microsoft 365 E5 ₹4,920 less E3 ₹3,000 or Business Premium ₹1,830, as listed on our Microsoft pages. Excludes migration effort and contract exit terms.
Tell us what you run. See gaps, overlaps and what E5 already covers.
For each capability, pick how many tools you use today. We flag gaps (none), overlaps (two or more) and where Microsoft 365 E5 includes the capability.
Ninety days, timed to your renewals.
Nothing is switched off until its replacement is proven. Retirements land on renewal dates, so you never pay twice for long.
Inventory & map
- Every tool: owner, licence, renewal date, agent, log destination
- Map each to capabilities and ATT&CK tactics
- Pull alert volumes and real usage
- Find licensed-but-unused features
- Agree the target platform and keep-list
Pilot & migrate
- Switch on what E5 already includes
- Pilot on 10% of devices, old and new side by side
- Move detections into Sentinel and Defender XDR
- Route everything to one incident queue
- Centralise logs, 180 days in India
Retire & prove
- Remove redundant agents and consoles
- Let renewals lapse or renegotiate
- Measure detect and respond times, alert volume
- Compare spend before and after
- Board report and next-year roadmap
Licences, deployment and operations from one Indian partner.
Buy the platform through us in INR, have us deploy it, and let our SOC run it. Items marked * are partner products we resell and operate.
Regulators ask for evidence. One platform produces it once.
General information, not legal advice. Your regulator's latest text prevails.
CERT-In directions, 28 April 2022
Report specified incidents within 6 hours; keep ICT logs for 180 days within India. With one SIEM, retention is one setting instead of one per tool.
DPDP Act, 2023 & Rules, 2025
Breach intimation to the Board and affected persons without delay, detailed report within 72 hours; core duties from 13 May 2027. One incident timeline makes that report faster. DPDP platform →
RBI & SEBI CSCRF
RBI's cyber security framework expects continuous SOC monitoring for banks; SEBI's CSCRF (20 August 2024) requires SOC coverage for regulated entities. Fewer tools mean fewer feeds to keep healthy.
Data residency
Sentinel workspaces in Azure India regions by default; XcellHost operates from Mumbai.
Assess, consolidate, or have us run the result.
Per-user bundles are the sum of prices already published on our pages. Indicative, excl. 18% GST.
Stack Consolidation Assessment
- Tool inventory with renewal calendar
- Overlap and gap map against ATT&CK
- Licensed-but-unused features list
- Business case in INR, retire-by dates
E5 platform, monitored
- Microsoft 365 E5 licence₹4,920
- Security Operations Essential₹199
- Baseline & onboarding₹49,999 once
Run 24×7, posture kept right
- Microsoft 365 E5 licence₹4,920
- Security Operations Professional₹449
- Posture management · per tenant, by sizefrom ₹19,999/mo
Prices as on Microsoft 365 E5 (indicative list, annual commitment paid monthly), Security Operations and Security Posture Management (indicative) — excl. 18% GST. Already on E5? Pick “Keep my licences” in the builder. The assessment price is a new placeholder.
Build your consolidation. See the first invoice.
First invoice = one-time items plus the first month.
XcellSecure Consolidation
Prices as on the linked XcellHost pages; the assessment is an indicative placeholder. Microsoft licence prices are indicative and confirmed on your CSP quote. All excl. 18% GST above.
Consolidation, answered.
Reducing the number of separate security products and consoles you run, so that identity, endpoint, email, data and log signals land on one platform with one incident queue. It is not "buy one vendor for everything": specialist tools stay where they are genuinely better or where the platform doesn't reach.
It concentrates dependency, so we manage that: break-glass admin accounts, tamper protection, independent immutable backups and, where your risk calls for it, a second layer from another vendor (for example email or backup). The bigger risk in most stacks we review is the seams between tools, not the vendor count.
Entra ID P2 (Conditional Access, Identity Protection, PIM), Defender for Endpoint P2, Defender for Office 365 P2, Defender for Identity, Defender for Cloud Apps, Purview information protection and DLP, and the Defender XDR portal that correlates them. Microsoft also includes a Security Copilot allocation with E5. Sentinel is billed separately on Azure, with an E5 data grant of up to 5 MB per user per day for eligible Microsoft 365 data.
Network firewalls and SD-WAN, backup and disaster recovery, OT security, external vulnerability scanning and sometimes a specialist email or web gateway. The coverage map marks these as "Not in E5".
Tools × users × your average licence price × 12, plus tools × admin hours × your hourly cost × 12, before and after retiring the tools you choose, minus the E5 uplift per user (E5 ₹4,920 less E3 ₹3,000 or Business Premium ₹1,830, from our Microsoft pages). It is illustrative and can show a net cost — that is a valid answer.
Not if the migration is run properly. We run old and new side by side on a pilot group, compare what each detects against the ATT&CK techniques that matter to you, and only retire a tool after the replacement matches it. Custom rules move into Sentinel as code.
Yes. Day one is an inventory and a renewal calendar. Retirements are scheduled for renewal dates, so you rarely pay early-exit fees, and you can switch on features you already own straight away.
Consolidate (₹5,119) is Microsoft 365 E5 at ₹4,920 plus Security Operations Essential at ₹199 per endpoint; Managed (₹5,369) uses Security Operations Professional at ₹449, plus posture management per tenant (₹19,999, ₹39,999 or ₹79,999 a month by user count). All are prices published on our pages, indicative and excl. 18% GST. The ₹59,999 assessment is a placeholder until confirmed.
Microsoft is our default because XcellHost is a Microsoft Gold Partner and many customers already own part of the stack. If you are standardised on another platform, the same inventory, overlap map and 30-60-90 method applies, and our SOC can operate partner tools.