Necessity of Security Operations Center

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Necessity of Security Operations Center

• Nothing guarantees foolproof cyber security as
  hackers keep on coming with new ideas to breach
  the barriers meant for cyber security.That is
  why protectors of cyber realm need to up their
  game and keep updating and upgrading their
  security tools and applications to protect all
  firewalls (and all data protected by them), along
  with ensuring a foolproof network security
  monitoring.Hence, Intelligence Driven Security
  Operation Center (SOC) serves as the answer to
  all problems.

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Introduction to SOC

• A SOC is an organized and highly skilled team
  that is supposed to continuously monitor and
  improve the security system and cyber
  infrastructure of an organization. The purpose of
  Security Operations Center staff is to prevent,
  detect, analyze and respond to cyber security
  incidents with the aid of both technology and
  well-defined processes and procedures.
• In short, SOC hosts an information security team
  that is responsible for network security
  monitoring (and other kinds of cyber monitoring).
  It analyzes an organizations security posture on
  continuous basis.Environment necessary for
  efficient SOC
• The establishment of a SOC requires careful
  planning. Its physical security needs to be taken
  into consideration. The layout of the operations
  center must be carefully designed to be both
  comfortable and functional.Hence, users cannot
  afford to overlook lighting and acoustics issues.
  A SOC is expected to contain several areas such
  an operational room, a war room and the
  supervisors offices. Comfort, visibility, the
  efficiency, control are and other areas need to
  be designed accordingly.

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Capabilities of SOC

• SOC Team saves the time of organization as far as
  developing security strategy, designing security
  architecture, or implementing protective measures
  is concerned. The SOC team is responsible for the
  ongoing, operational component of enterprise
  information security.Additional capabilities of
  some Security Operations Center include advanced
  forensic analysis, cryptanalysis, and malware
  reverse engineering to analyze incidents.

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Technology of SOC

• After the mission and the scope of the SOC have
  been defined, its underpinning infrastructure is
  supposed to be designed. Necessary components are
  built for a complete technological environment.
  This environment includes (but is not limited to)
  firewalls, IPSs/IDSs, breach detection solutions,
  network security monitoring solutions, probes and
  obviously a Security Information and Event
  Management (SIEM) system.Effective and efficient
  data collection is important for successful SOC.
  Data flows, packet captures, telemetry, system
  log and several types of events are collected,
  correlated and analyzed from a security
  perspective.SOC Benefits Security Operations
  Center improves security incident detection
  through continuous monitoring and analysis of
  data activity.
• By analyzing data activity while network
  security monitoring observing endpoints, servers,
  and databases around the clock, SOC teams are
  critical to ensure timely detection and response
  of security incidents.
• Round-the-clock monitoring provided by a SOC
  gives organizations an advantage to defend
  against cyber attacks and intrusions, regardless
  of source, time of day, or attack type.
• The gap between attackers time to compromise
  and enterprises time to detection is well
  documented in Data Breach Investigations Report.
  SOC helps organizations to close that gap.To
  know more about the Security Operations Center,
  contact us enquiry_at_leosys.net or call us at
  407-965-5509.