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Why having a SOC is paramount
A well-run security operations center (SOC) stands as the central nervous system of an effective cybersecurity program. SOCs serve as a hub of organization-wide detection and response capabilities for the people tasked with stopping cyber threats within their organization.
While the everyday duties of the SOC vary by organization, the overarching mission driving the typical SOC tends to be three-fold:
Consolidate and correlate log data from networks, clouds, and devices across the organization
Coordinate the analysis of alerts and information from that data
Orchestrate the incident response that’s triggered by alerts
Organizations need effective and efficient coordination from the SOC because the threats attacking their environments are relentless. By some estimates:
Cyberattacks triggered over 7,000 breaches in 2019, exposing 15.1 billion records
The average cost of data breach is now $3.92M
It takes an average of 279 days…
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Posted by: Ericka Chickowski |
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June 19, 2020 at 09:09PM
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