One Step Ahead of the Latest Cyber Threats
In the modern world, there's a greater threat landscape than ever. Attackers are highly skilled, and financially and geopolitically motivated, bypassing security controls with more stealth than ever before. The Modern SOC operates under the assumption that breaches will occur, with the mission of detecting and responding to those cyber threats faster and in the most effective way to minimize harm and incident cost.
Forces Driving a Modern SOC
Security teams are hard at work, but despite their best efforts, incidents continue to grow for a number of reasons that drive the adoption of a modern SOC
What Makes a Modern SOC Different?
A modern SOC must not only identify threats that slip pass into the environment, but be able to analyze, investigate and respond to them, report the vulnerabilities discovered, and determine how to anticipate similar occurrences in the future.
Hardening and Prevention
Reducing the attack surface and reinforcing prevention methods are always more effective than reaction. By doing so, the SOC team can focus on detecting unknown, sophisticated threats that go under the radar and stop them before any damage.
Threat Hunting
Hunting effectiveness depends on the enriched historical and real-time activity data. The right data with the right security analytics enable a SOC’s hunters to detect, validate hypotheses, and roll them out as automated detections quickly and accurately.
Ingestion and Detection of Indicators
Modern SOCs ingest data collected from the network at scale, normalizing and enriching it with security intelligence. Big data analytics and machine learning analyze the enriched data to identify and prioritize indicators of suspicious activity.
Incident Validation and Investigation
In a modern SOC, analysts leverage correlation rules and analytics to quickly validate being under an attack, and go deeper to determine the nature of a threat, the extent to which it has penetrated the organization, and the different tools and techniques leveraged by the threat actor.
Response, Recovery and Lessons Learned
The SOC team may respond by isolating devices, killing processes, or deleting files, and they may co-work with IT to restore systems and recover any lost data. The lessons-learned stage is a time to question how and why the incident occurred and what can be done to avoid future incidents.
Ready to Build Your Modern SOC?
The requirements for SOCs have evolved in recent years as attack volumes have surged and threats have grown more sophisticated. Modern SOCs automate critical but repetitive tasks while elevating the maturity and efficiency of the security operations team. Be sure to consider the right capability to support your security operation team to succeed.
| Key Capabilities | Traditional SOC | Modern SOC |
|---|---|---|
| Alert-based detection | ✓ | |
| Visibility and activity monitoring | ✓ | |
| Suspicious activity detection | ✓ | |
| Security analytics on activity (telemetry) | ✓ | |
| Proactive hunt | ✓ | |
| Collaborative Incident case management | ✓ | |
| In-depth investigation | ✓ | |
| Incident root cause analysis | ✓ | |
| Incident course of actions | ✓ | |
| Response – manual or automatic | Optional | |
| Lesson learned | Optional |
Know Your Enemy. Be Prepared for a Breach.
While many threats try to access from the outside (mass disruption, financial gain, hacktivism, competitive intelligence, and IP theft motivated), there are many malicious insiders (unprotected endpoints, negligent workers, departing employees, third-party partners) who could open the door to external threats and cause damage or steal data. A proactive approach from a modern SOC ensures that you sniff out a suspicious activity before it becomes a major breach.
90%
of organizations outsourcing to MSSPs will focus on detection and response
By 2024, 90% of buyers looking to outsource to security service providers will focus on detection and response
50%
of organizations will use managed detection and response (MDR) services by 2025
By 2025, 50% of organizations will use MDR services for threat monitoring, detection, and response
70%
of organizations are affected by the lack of cybersecurity talent
Cybersecurity skills crisis worsens year over year, impacting 70% of organizations
27%
is the increase in data breach costs from 2020 to 2021
Organizations are heavily impacted by cyber threats. Breach costs grew from $3.86M in 2020 to $4.24M in 2021
Building a SOC Internally Isn't Easy
It can be hard to build and maintain a modern SOC, or unrealistic. For most businesses, working with a SOC service provider allows them to:
- Improve security strategies
- Stay a step ahead of threats
- Access the latest technology for detection and response
- Improve their overall cybersecurity posture
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