A Security Operations Center, known as SOC for its acronym in English, is a team to continuously monitor the technological environment of an organization to identify, investigate and respond to possible security threats.<\/p>\n
But what really happens when a tool detects a suspicious activity?<\/p>\n
In cybersecurity, an alert by itself does not solve the problem. The true value appears when there is the ability to analyze, prioritize, investigate, contain, and respond in a timely manner.<\/p>\n
It is at this point where a SOC becomes important, by combining technology, process, and specialists to convert signals of safety actions to contain a threat and reduce its impact on the business.<\/p>\n
What happens after an alert?<\/strong><\/p>\n When you identify a suspicious activity, the process should not end with a simple notification.<\/p>\n An operation of effective security should be able to determine what is happening to you, to measure their impact and to define the appropriate response.<\/p>\n This implies to distinguish between a legitimate and a real threat, and understand what assets can be engaged, to investigate its origin and scope, and, when applicable, activate the mechanisms of containment, escalation and remediation.<\/p>\n The aim is to transform an alert on a particular response and grounded.<\/p>\n The speed of response makes the difference<\/strong><\/p>\n In many incidents, the impact depends not only that there is a vulnerability or a gap, but on the time that elapses before to detect and contain.<\/p>\n While the threat remains active, you can progressively expand its reach within the environment, commit to new accounts or systems, and affect critical services.<\/p>\n Therefore, organizations seeking to reduce key indicators such as:<\/p>\n MTTD (Mean Time to Detect)<\/strong> MTTR (Mean Time to Respond)<\/strong> To reduce these times allows you to limit the window of opportunity for an attacker, and reduce the chances of an event to become an interruption of greater scope.<\/p>\n More visibility to best answer<\/strong><\/p>\n One of the main challenges for security teams is the amount of events that are generated daily from users, identities, devices, emails, applications and cloud services.<\/p>\n To respond effectively, not enough to receive all these signals. It is necessary to relate them to understand which ones are part of the same incident, and which require immediate attention.<\/p>\n Technologies such as Microsoft Sentinel <\/em>and Microsoft Defender XDR <\/em>help centralize information, correlate events, accelerating the processes of investigation, and response. This allows security teams to gain a more complete view of the incident, in order to act more quickly to potential threats.<\/p>\n A SOC needs more than technology<\/strong><\/p>\n An operation of effective security requires the combination of three key elements:<\/p>\n People + Processes + Technology<\/strong><\/p>\n The technology generates information and detect suspicious activities.<\/p>\n The processes set out how it must be managed each incident.<\/p>\n And specialists provide the criteria necessary to interpret the signals, make decisions, and coordinate response actions.<\/p>\n When these three elements work in a coordinated way, the organization can move on to a way of working more structured.<\/p>\n The continuity is also part of the continuity<\/strong><\/p>\n Build and operate a SOC internal means having specialized personnel, constant monitoring, continuous training, and mature processes of incident management.<\/p>\n This may represent a challenge for companies that need to keep these capabilities in a permanent way without having a team of specialized enough to cover all the needs of the operation.<\/p>\n Managed services allow you to supplement internal resources and specialist skills of monitoring and response, without transfer to the company all the complexity of building and maintaining a proper operation.<\/p>\n Detect is important. Respond is critical<\/strong><\/p>\n In cybersecurity, an alert attended evening, you can become an operational disruption, loss of information or an impact reputational significant.<\/p>\n Therefore, the true value of a SOC is to reduce the time between a signal of risk and the actions needed to contain it.<\/p>\n As organizations adopt cloud services, enabling work-in hybrid and manage an ever-increasing volume of information, they also need a capacity of security that may accompany this evolution.<\/p>\n At Inova Solutions we help organizations to strengthen these skills through services and solutions for monitoring, analyzing and responding to incidents, built on leading technologies from Microsoft and complemented with processes, methodologies and technical expertise developed by our team.<\/p>\n Beyond technology, our approach seeks to help companies to strengthen their response capacity, to improve the visibility on risks and act more quickly to threats becoming more sophisticated.<\/p>\n Do you want to know how to strengthen the response capacity of your organization to threats of cyber security? Contact us and talking.<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Un Centro de Operaciones de Seguridad, conocido como SOC por sus siglas en ingl\u00e9s, es un equipo encargado de supervisar continuamente el entorno tecnol\u00f3gico de una organizaci\u00f3n para identificar, investigar y responder ante posibles amenazas de seguridad. Pero \u00bfqu\u00e9 ocurre realmente cuando una herramienta detecta una actividad sospechosa? 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\nAverage time needed to detect a threat.<\/p>\n
\nAverage time needed to investigate, contain, and respond to an incident.<\/p>\n