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"Key Elements Enterprises Need to Include in Modern SecOps"

Security teams are overhwlemed in the operations center. As the enterprise's first line of defense against an active attack, the security operatoins center sifts through theat intelligence, events data, logs, and activity reports from throughout the enterprise and key partners. How can CISOs give the SOC the necessary tools to effectively manage the systems and data? What will it take to unlock effective threat detection and master data collection and response for modern defense?

Today’s enterprise security operations centers are both massively distributed and highly localized. An enterprise often has more than a dozen authorized global cloud providers — on top of an untold number of shadow IT cloud deployments. Some of these clouds are designed to work with others, but many are not. The SOC is the brain of all security operations, with a team that sifts through threat intelligence, events data, logs, and activity reports from throughout the enterprise and key partners around the world. However, SOC staff members typically work with antiquated tools, wrangle outdated data, and grapple with system blockages.

Enterprises have to make incident data available to the SOC and invest in quality threat intelligence (such as a threat feed that gives a list of bad IPs, along with the exact observed activity — as in “Dridex C2 communication on port 8043” — and the time the activity was observed).

In this report, consider these tips on how to make the modern security operations effective for your organization: 

• Simplify the SOC. Reduce that attack surface by streamlining vendors.
• More tools is not better. Is there an alternative, such as a tool already built into the existing platform, or one that can be integrated into the current environment?
• Look for ways to embed automation throughout security operations.
• Demonstrate to the leaders in charge of non-security lines of business how the SOC can help maintain or increase revenue. If you can do this, the CEO and CFO will be much more likely to invest more into security.

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