How To Optimize a (SOC) Security Operations Model

Although incident management monopolizes much of the SOC's resources, the RSSI (Director of Information Security) is responsible for the overall risk and compliance overview. To connect operational and data silos between these functions, an effective strategy requires an adaptive security architecture that enables organizations to implement enhanced security operations. This approach increases efficiency through integration, automation, and orchestration and reduces the amount of work hours required, improving your information security management posture.

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An optimized security operations model requires the adoption of a security framework that facilitates the integration of security solutions and threat intelligence into daily processes. SOC tools, such as centralized, actionable dashboards, help integrate threat data into dashboards and security monitoring reports to keep operations and event and activity management informed. By linking threat management with other risk and compliance management systems, SOC teams can better manage their overall risk posture. These configurations support continuous visibility across systems and domains and can use exploitable intelligence to improve the accuracy and consistency of security operations. Centralized functions reduce the burden of manual data exchange, auditing and reporting.

Operational threat management must begin with a careful assessment. In addition to defenses, an organization must assess processes and policies. Where is the strong organization? What are the gaps? What is the risky posture? What data is collected and how much of this data is used?

Although every organization is different, some basic resources and best practices in security operations today are getting the attention they need. A reasonable threat management process begins with a plan and includes discovery (including basic calculation to promote detection, normalization and correlation of anomalies), screening (based on risk and asset value) , analysis (including contextualization) and scope (including iterative research) Threat management processes feed into priority and characterized cases in incident response programs. A well-defined response plan is absolutely essential to contain a threat or minimize the damage caused by a data breach.

Figure 1. Threat management plans integrate and structure many processes in IT security and operations.

Effective visibility and threat management will depend on many data sources, but it can be difficult to classify useful and timely information. The most valuable data proved to be event data produced by countermeasures and IT assets, indicators of commitment (IoC) produced internally (through malware analysis) and externally (through the threat intelligence stream) and available system data from sensors (eg host, network, database, etc.).

These data sources are not just an entry in threat management. They add context and make information valuable and actionable for more accurate, precise and rapid assessment in all interactive and interactive threat management efforts. Accessing and effectively using the right data to support plans and procedures is a measure of organizational maturity. A "mature" scenario would include a workflow that conveys the correct information or allows direct action through operational consoles and products. This flow integrates IT operations and security tools and equipment to respond to incidents in the event of a critical event.

All of these assessments will help prioritize where increased investment or reduced friction is needed to ensure that threat management implementation meets objectives. Consultants and penetration testing can help assess organizational maturity and strategy and verify security response against attacks to get a current measure of an organization's ability to detect and contain malicious events . Compared to similar companies, this review examined can help justify and explain the need to redirect or invest in the resources of cybersecurity operations.