A well-managed security operations center (SOC) serves as the brains of an effective cybersecurity programme. SOCs act as a center of company-wide detection and response capabilities for those entrusted with preventing cyber threats within their firm.
While the SOC’s day-to-day responsibilities differ every business, the underlying objective that drives the average SOC is threefold:
- Consolidate and correlate log data from across the organization’s networks, clouds, and devices.
2. Coordination of warnings and information analysis from that data
3. Organize the incident response that is prompted by alerts.
5 objectives of every contemporary SOC
1. Shorten reaction time
One of the primary purposes of a contemporary SOC is to increase the speed with which security analysts can notice symptoms of an attack, evaluate the related behaviour, and begin remediation to eliminate the danger. The less time cyber attackers have to snoop about unrestrained on organisational networks, the less chance they have of breaking into high-value assets and stealing sensitive data.
2. Reduce the effect of the breach
Everything a SOC performs is geared toward reducing the effect of breaches and other risks on the enterprise. The SOC’s efforts to reduce attack dwell time (the period between detection and detection) serve to reduce the effect of a breach. Effective prioritising of SOC operations is also important, depending on variables such as the severity of vulnerabilities in an asset, threat data concerning attack trends, and the asset’s business criticality. Effective SOCs can be the difference between a minor security issue and a big breach.
3. Boost security visibility
SOC operators recognize that the more information they have about their systems, the simpler it will be to detect assaults on them. SOCs strive to increase security visibility and incident response coverage by conducting a complete inventory of their organization’s IT assets and using near-real-time security monitoring to be alerted when threats hit.
4. Keep one step ahead of the attackers.
SOCs try to develop their operations beyond reactive incident response to include proactive threat hunting. The most cunning attackers work hard to escape detection, which is why expert SOC analysts trawl through digital signs to identify early indications of assaults that may or may not activate alarms but are still worth investigating.
5. Keep the business informed of potential risks.
The SOC’s ultimate purpose is to maintain reporting and communication with the company to keep everyone aware about risk. The trend data derived by SOC monitoring and response operations may be used to build future security roadmaps, expedite compliance reporting, and help businesses better evaluate financial risk from cyber attacks.
The advantages of SOC as a Service
According to the SANS Institute, the two most commonly stated hurdles to SOC excellence are a lack of experienced personnel and a lack of efficient orchestration and automation of threat detection and response. Organizations that opt to supplement their security programme with SOC-as-a-service may swiftly access into a competent pool of security analysts while benefiting from the flexibility of a subscription service model.
SOC-as-a-Service assists enterprises in achieving the following goals:
1.best-in-class incident response without lengthy deployment durations
2. quicker threat detection and cleanup
3. increased security visibility and reporting by monitoring 24 hours a day, seven days a week
4. Cost predictability using a capital expenditure investment model
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