Littlefish Group Partners with ContraForce to Help Organisations Stay Ahead of AI-Driven Cyber Threats
Reviewed by ContraForce Security Operations Team · Updated 2026-09-02
Littlefish Group today announced a strategic partnership with ContraForce, strengthening its Managed Security Operations Centre (SOC) with AI-powered threat investigation and response capabilities designed to help organisations embrace the opportunities of AI securely and confidently.
As organisations accelerate their adoption of AI, cyber security has become a critical business enabler. While AI is creating new opportunities for innovation, productivity and growth, it is also enabling attackers to operate faster, at greater scale and with increasing sophistication. Security leaders are faced with a dual challenge: harnessing the potential of AI while ensuring their organisations remain resilient against evolving threats.
Littlefish Group believes AI delivers its greatest value when combined with human expertise. The organisations that will gain the greatest advantage from AI will not simply be those that adopt it fastest. They will be those that build the secure, resilient foundations needed to use it responsibly and effectively.
Through this partnership with ContraForce, an Agentic Security Delivery Platform, Littlefish is enhancing the way security incidents are investigated, assessed, prioritised and mitigated. ContraForce Security Delivery Agents accelerate the triage, context and classification of incidents, enabling potential risks to be identified in seconds to minutes, regardless of severity, rather than up to hours. This allows cyber specialists to focus their expertise where it delivers the greatest value: interpreting that initial triage, making informed decisions, executing additional response actions and then leveraging the time saved by helping organisations reduce risk. The partnership extends Littlefish’s Microsoft based security operations, with ContraForce running as the delivery layer above them.
Rather than replacing human analysts, the technology acts as a force multiplier, providing teams with better intelligence, greater visibility and faster access to the information they need to respond effectively. Experienced cyber professionals remain firmly at the centre of every decision, ensuring organisations maintain the governance, control and accountability required to protect critical systems and data. Ultimately leading to augmentation for our security professionals, not replacement.
The result is a more intelligent and responsive security operation. One that not only detects and responds to threats faster but also enables Littlefish specialists to spend more time proactively helping clients strengthen their wider cyber resilience, reduce risk exposure and support long-term business objectives.
AI is changing the cyber security landscape on both sides of the equation. Organisations are exploring how it can help them move faster and deliver more value, while attackers are using the same technology to become more sophisticated and harder to detect.
We believe the answer isn’t to replace people with AI. The real power comes from combining intelligent AI context and workflows with human expertise. AI can process information at incredible speed, but context, judgement and accountability remain essential when the stakes are high.
This partnership allows us to give our analysts better intelligence, faster, helping them focus on protecting our customers and enabling them to adopt new technologies with greater confidence.
Running a SOC is one of the most critical services delivered to businesses today, and one of the hardest to run well. At scale it gets harder still, because every client a provider adds brings its own environment, its own alert volume and its own expectations, and the standard has to hold across all of them.
This partnership lets Littlefish’s SOC put Security Delivery Agents alongside their analysts rather than in place of them, cutting the time it takes to separate real threats from noise and act on them. The result is faster and broader coverage for every client Littlefish protects, enabling their analysts to meet AI-driven threats.
Littlefish’s specialists have always been world class defenders. What changes now is reach. Their expertise arrives at every incident, for every client, at machine speed.
The partnership reflects Littlefish Group’s broader commitment to helping organisations navigate technology change with confidence. Across cyber security, managed services, cloud, data and business technology consulting, Littlefish works alongside customers to turn emerging technologies into meaningful business outcomes, helping them innovate securely, operate more effectively and build resilience for the future.
About Littlefish Group
Littlefish Group is a multi-award-winning collective of specialists delivering integrated, people-first, end-to-end solutions across IT, cyber security, digital transformation, and Microsoft business solutions. Operating from offices in the UK and Ireland, Littlefish Group supports over 1 million users globally, empowering organisations in both the public and private sectors to solve real-world business challenges. Its capabilities span four pillars: Digital Solutions, Cyber Services, Managed Services, and Data & AI. This breadth of expertise means Littlefish Group is equipped to address not only IT and technical requirements, but also to drive strategic business outcomes and measurable value. Learn more at littlefish.co.uk.
About ContraForce
ContraForce is an Agentic Security Delivery Platform for providers and security teams running Microsoft security. Security Delivery Agents carry each incident through triage, investigation, response, tuning, ticketing and the customer report, governed by procedures the provider defines. ContraForce is Microsoft Security ISV of the Year 2024. Learn more at contraforce.com.