SoC in simple terms

In an organisation, Security operation center (SOC for short),is a command center facility with a team of information security professionals in charge of defending against cyber attacks. The three main responsibilities of SOC’s defense strategy are Protection, Prevention, and Detection.

Protection includes threat hunting, system monitoring, backup, and recovery. monitoring the organization’s devices for security incidents is the primary responsibility in order to protect databases, desktops, and servers.

Most organisation keep running the SOC 24/7, with employees working in shifts, so the systems are never left unprotected. if any incident is detected, the security operation center takes necessary measures to remove the threat, mitigate the damage and protect the systems from similar incidents in the future.

Additionally, the SOC’s detection responsibility includes asset discovery and management, continuous systems behavioral monitoring, activity log maintenance, and compliance auditing.

SOC also works on incident prevention tactics before vulnerabilities are detected. This is done through ongoing threat intelligence efforts, research, system development and update maintenance, along with regular staff’s security training.

A SOC is a part of an organisation’s incident response strategy which can be tailor-made to fit the company.

One way to tailor the SOC to business goals is to select team members with different technical backgrounds. For example. Each SOC typically has a manager overseeing all the team members, but the team itself can include a variety of incident responders, forensic investigators, compliance auditors, security analysts, engineers, and threat hunters.

Another way to tailor the SOC is to choose the specific organisational structure that best fits a company’s needs. The six organizational models include dedicated, cloud, distributed, command, fusion, and multifunctional soc’s.

When determining which model to use, the company factor in size, budget, need for on-premise or remote resources, and the combination of other capabilities like networking etc

SOC is ideal for the organisations with highly sensitive information that may result in expensive damage or cost if data is breached, which can provide any organization with benefits such as uninterrupted monitoring for suspicious activity, improved incident detection and response time, higher customer satisfaction with security?