SECURITY OPERATIONS CENTER — SOC

Hey Everyone, recently I was researching about the security operations center and its importance in cybersecurity. Here are a few basic concepts you should know about SOC.

What is Security Operation Center (SOC) ?

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.

Elements of a SOC

Defending against today’s threats requires a formalized, structured, and disciplined approach. Organizations typically use the services of professionals in a Security Operations Center (SOC). SOCs provide a broad range of services, from monitoring and management, to comprehensive threat solutions and hosted security that can be customized to meet customer needs. SOCs can be wholly in-house, owned and operated by a business, or elements of…