Agentic SOC · AI-Native MDR
Enterprise-grade AI-driven security operations, sized and priced for a business, not a Fortune 500.
Autonomous, always-on alert triage and investigation — personally supervised by a named security engineer, not a faceless platform. Built for manufacturing & distribution, legal, and financial services firms that need real coverage without an enterprise budget or an enterprise sales process.
The Approach
What "agentic SOC" actually means here
An AI system does the first pass — reading every alert, pulling context, ruling out noise, and flagging what actually matters, continuously, not on a business-hours schedule. A named security engineer supervises every consequential action it takes and is personally accountable for the outcome, the same way a senior analyst is accountable for a junior analyst's work.
Always-on triage
Every alert gets reviewed the moment it fires — not queued for a Monday-morning look, and not buried under the noise a part-time IT person can't keep up with.
Human-supervised, disclosed
You always know when AI-assisted tooling is doing the work. Every client is told in writing, and every consequential action is reviewed by the person whose name is on the engagement.
Built, not licensed
This isn't a white-labeled platform. The detection and response pipeline is custom-built and personally operated — you're working with the person who built it, not a support queue.
Most AI-driven security platforms today are built and priced for organizations with dedicated security budgets in the millions. Hein Tradecraft brings the same underlying approach down to a scale and price that a 50–300 person business can actually use.
Industries
Built for three specific kinds of exposure
Manufacturing & Distribution
Most-targeted sector globally, five years running. Average ransom demand more than doubled to over $1.1M last year — most attacks get in through an exposed public-facing application, not an exotic exploit.
Direct hands-on background in AS400/EDI/WMS-TMS environments — the exact systems distributors run their operations on.
Legal Services
Now the most-targeted professional-services sector, with breach costs averaging over $5M — while firms are carrying less cyber insurance and fewer tested response plans than two years ago.
Client confidentiality obligations make this a bar-ethics question as much as an IT one.
Financial Services & Accounting
Lower attack volume, but the highest ransom demands of any sector measured — a median of $3M when it happens. The FTC Safeguards Rule also requires a written information security program, not just best-effort.
Built for firms this rule actually applies to, not just large institutions.
A Note on Claims
No security program can make a business immune to attack, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. What real security work can do is measurably reduce the likelihood of compromise, contain what gets through faster, and get you back up sooner. That's the standard this work is held to — resilience and readiness, not guarantees.
About
Tradecraft, not theater
Hein Tradecraft was founded by Ray Hein, a hands-on security engineer with a background running enterprise-scale detection and response operations — including autonomous, AI-driven alert triage in a live production environment. "Tradecraft" is the real term for the discipline and technique behind operational security work, not a marketing word: it's the actual skill of knowing how an intrusion unfolds, because you've done the work of finding and stopping one.
That's the whole premise of this practice: bring that operational discipline to businesses that need it and can't get it from an enterprise vendor built for a much bigger client.
Get Started
Start with a real look, not a sales pitch
A ransomware readiness assessment is a straightforward first step — a real look at what's actually exposed, with no cost and no obligation. If it's a fit, we talk about ongoing coverage. If it's not, you still walk away with a clear picture of your gaps.
Email Ray directly — ray@heintradecraft.com