A security operations center (#SOC), is an in-house, Hybrid or outsourced team of IT security professionals that monitors an organization’s entire IT infrastructure to detect cybersecurity events in real-time and address them as quickly and effectively as possible. They focus on providing situational threat awareness and managing the business’ overall Cybersecurity posture.
SOC serves as a correlation point, taking in data from an organization’s IT assets, including infrastructure, networks, cloud services, and devices. Using the collected data, SOC analysts/Teams focus on managing, monitoring, analyzing, preventing, and responding to existing and potential threats and ensuring the business is protected from threats and attacks.
We at Mc2SP help maintain the organization’s #cybersecurity technologies and continually analyzes threat data to find ways to improve the organization's security posture.
Most common SOC Challenges
SOC teams must constantly stay one step ahead of attackers. In recent years, this has become more and more difficult. Based on a survey by Dimensional Research, 53% of SOCs are having difficulties hiring skilled personnel. This means that many SOC teams are understaffed and lack the advanced skills necessary to identify and respond to threats in a timely and effective manner.
With security teams today already inundated with work, the overwhelming number of threat alerts can cause threat fatigue. In addition, many of these alerts do not provide sufficient intelligence, or context to investigate, or are false positives. False positives not only drain time and resources but can also distract teams from real incidents.
The (ISC)² Workforce Study estimated that the cybersecurity workforce needs to grow by 145% to close the skills gap and better defend organizations worldwide.
Benefits of Working with a SOC-as-a-service (SOCaaS) Provider
Mc2SP SOC is designed to address SOC challenges, we enable security teams to expose, investigate, and shut down attacks faster, and with 99.9% precision. Easily deployed as a unified cloud-based platform, it increases security operations efficiency and ROI.
Finding malicious activity inside the network is like finding a needle in a haystack. They are often forced to piece together information from multiple monitoring solutions and navigate through tens of thousands of daily alerts. The results: critical attacks are missed until it’s too late.
Outsourcing your SOC activities to a managed security service provider (MSSP) offers unique and cost-effective benefits over attempting to manage a SOC in-house.
· Easier oversight of increased security alert volumes
· Management and maintenance of security tool
· Staff Augmentation by reducing Your IT Staff for Revenue-Generating Initiatives
· Cut Security Costs While Improving Performance
· Enable Advanced Analysis with Emerging Technologies
· Manage Threat Response Gaps In Your Infrastructure
· Improve Event Response and Remediation
Mc2SP approach Model: Our approach provides our esteemed clients with a strategic roadmap with prioritized recommendations for our customer’s SOC transformation.
· Initiation
· Information gathering
· Current-State Assessment
· Future State Reporting
· Strategic Roadmap
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