The technology and data have reached heights over the years,
and it is not slowing down anytime soon. But along with lots of perks of
technology and data saving capacity, there are several negative aspects as
well. One of the negative aspects is the security attacks which are also
competing with the fast-growing technology.
There have been many famous incidents of a cyber-attack
which has made the security analyst think ahead for the safety and security of
the organisation data and networks. Managing security has become a challenge
because of the hybrid nature of the environment. For that reasons, security
operation centres (SOC)
are built to provide the solution to the business for
the protection of their data and networks.
More and more businesses are inclined towards SOC to protect
their business from any security breaches. London SOC is a skilled and
efficient team with an aim to help the companies and organisation manage the security
of their data and
servers.
The team is skilled and competitive and has a mission which
will help improve organisational data security with a systematic process of
analysing, identifying, preventing and taking action against any issues which
might have attacked the system.
These centres have the efficient team which will respond to
any threat at their earliest time making sure that all the events are being
tracked. It will ensure that the time there is a data breach action against it
is also taken instantly.
It will ensure that even an attack has occurred on the
system the recovery is also possible because of continuous tracking and
efficient team.
Because it is solely a security centre this itself indicates
they will be able to detect all kinds of attacks. Some of the examples are
- Internet attacks
- Insider Threat
- Outsider breaches
- Monitoring compliance
- Security threats
- Malware
- Phishing
There are several roles which the security team plays in
ensuring the safety of the business, but the two primary functions are
It is obvious that monitoring tools will be used to track
the data, so the team has to ensure that tools are operating properly. It
might also involve testing, updating, and maintaining the security tools on a
regular basis.
Because these tools are used in all steps of the security
process so proper working of the tools is a must. The tools are required from
the collection of data or pattern observed in responding to the threat in a
useful way. There can be multiple data sets based on the capacity of the
organisation and security team has the responsibility to take care of all the
data sets.
The process might be the same for the evaluation or
monitoring, but the data sets are going to be different. This means the London SOC
team should have the
capability to deal with different sets and any complications which might arise
in monitoring.
Once the tools are appropriately maintained, the next
responsibility of the team is to monitor and track any questionable activities
entering in the system. This can be any potential malicious activity which
means anything which is harmful to the system or the network should be
detectable by the team.
The team is going to be active in understanding and
detecting alerts, perform triage and understand the scope of the threats. SOC
team is diverse because it has all kind of experts such as analyst, managers,
and engineers. Tasks are divided, and everyone is giving his or her best to
provide the result to the perfection.
The team knows how to use proper tools and the expertise
which will ensure that security breaches are identified and prevented in all
possible ways.
Take Away -
SOC
are operated with a team of skilled and proficient individuals. These experts
are aware of detecting, analysing and preventing any possible threats. The
centres operate at different times and in different regions, but like any other
business, the team is core in these centres as well.
