# Onboarding A comprehensive SIEM/SOC onboarding directly translates to tangible business benefits by mitigating cyber risk. Ensuring broad data source coverage, from endpoints to cloud platforms, eliminates visibility gaps where threats can hide, directly reducing the likelihood of a successful breach. This proactive visibility enables faster threat detection and response, minimising potential operational downtime, financial loss and reputational damage. The initial Discovery Meeting aligns stakeholders on service scope, priorities and technical requirements. The Technical Onboarding phase follows, deploying agents and configuring all necessary log sources and integrations. This ensures validated data ingestion and functional alert pipelines. Subsequently, the Operational Onboarding stage commences with the SOC assuming 24/7 monitoring responsibilities. It includes joint simulation exercises to validate incident response workflows. Customers are then introduced to dashboards, scorecards and regular governance reviews. The phase involves tuning detection rules and transitioning to steady-state operations backed by SLAs. By the end of the process, customers are fully operational with secure telemetry and clear escalation paths. This establishes a firm foundation for ongoing improvements to the security posture. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.threatdefence.com/getting-started/guided-onboarding.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.