Security Operations Center (SOC)
As you will be familiar, IT operations within an organization are very standard and mature operations. The IT operations function is core to the ongoing success of IT systems, users, and applications to ensure efficiency and availability for your business operations. If there is an outage or an issue, the operations teams typically follow very strict Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) to return the service back to normal operations. The same concept applies in the cybersecurity world today. The concept of cybersecurity operations and the SOC has grown exponentially and is becoming a requirement for organizations to maintain normal business operations.
As briefly touched up in the An Overview of Cybersecurity Operations section, the primary responsibility of cybersecurity operations is to run the day-to-day operations of your cybersecurity program and to protect the organization from threat actors trying to compromise the organization. This includes...