Security Operation Center [SOC2]

A Security Operation Center (SOC) is a centralized function within an organization employing people, processes, and technology to continuously monitor and improve an organization's security posture while preventing, detecting, analyzing, and responding to cybersecurity incidents.

A SOC acts like the hub or central command post, taking in telemetry from across an organization's IT infrastructure, including its networks, devices, appliances, and information stores, wherever those assets reside. The proliferation of advanced threats places a premium on collecting context from diverse sources. Essentially, the SOC is the correlation point for every event logged within the organization that is being monitored. For each of these events, the SOC must decide how they will be managed and acted upon.

Has your IT team considered building a security operations center (SOC) to proactively bolster your cybersecurity protection? A fully functioning SOC allows you to monitor, detect, investigate, and respond to cyber threats 24/7.

There are many drawbacks: the cost of hardware and software is expensive; even more expensive is the challenge of attracting, training, and retaining skilled security experts in a world of high demand and low talent supply.