CyberEd #7 Types of Security Operation Centers (SOC)

What is a Security Operation Center?

A Security Operation Center (SOC) is a centrally managed support function that uses people, processes, and technology to continuously monitor and improve the organization's security posture. The main objectives of a Security Operation Center is to prevent, identify, analyze, and react to cybersecurity incidents. A SOC serves as a centralized control post, receiving input from devices across an organization’s IT infrastructure, including networks, devices, appliances, and any digital asset. Essentially, the SOC serves as a point of convergence for all events logged within the organization that are being monitored. Apart from this, additional tasks like Reporting, Research & Development, Threat Intelligence Projects also fall under the purview of a security operations center. The SOC must decide how each of these events will be managed and dealt with.

When it comes to implementing a Security Operations Center, organizations tend to look at multiple factors such as Budget, Security Requirements, Scope, Compliance, Regulations, Workforce required etc. Taking all these factors into consideration, the C-suite or the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) takes a call on what type of a SOC would best benefit the organization. There are 4 main types of Security Operations…