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Introduction..................................................................................................................................................3
Building and taking an SOC to maturity the smart way...............................................................................4
Optimize the three key aspects: people, processes, and technology ........................................................4
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................5
About the Author..........................................................................................................................................6
Introduction
Despite heavy investment in security solutions, data breaches and cyber attacks continue to impact business. This emphasizes the need for improved incident detection and mitigation, to enable enterprises to respond rapidly to an intrusion and
lessen business impact.
The optimal way to address this requirement is to set up a Security Operations Center (SOC) that leverages all the security-related information generated within the enterprise to offer a centralized and holistic view of the security organization. An
SOC aggregates, analyzes, and optimizes the usefulness of all the security data generated by various devices and perimeter-based point solutions (firewalls, IPD systems, etc.) to provide continuous threat detection and response capabilities in
near real time.
SOCs prioritize events, generate automated alerts and detailed forensic reports, and effect rapid remediation to
reduce business risk and downtime. Additionally, they can assist in compliance reporting by facilitating quick access to
threat intelligence and identity and access control data, and by enabling sophisticated analytics.
People
People
Processes
Technology
Well-documented processes
provide a holistic view by
detailing the workflow of the
different security functions.
Documents defining the appropriate procedures to follow in case
of a breach are as critical as the
development of use cases for
threat scenarios.
Optimizing the interaction of people, processes and technology will optimize SOC functioning. Technology, for instance, can
be deployed to manage resource gaps by automating labor-intensive functions that do not require manual overview. Automation frees up human resources to focus on high-priority tasks and on risks that have maximum business impact. Or,
having detailed and well-defined workflows in place can allow for the effective allocation of analysts where they are most
needed.
As mentioned at the beginning, designing and building an SOC is an iterative process that makes incremental efforts to
guide the SOC to maturity. Mature SOCs are capable of leveraging threat intelligence from past events, combining these
with security information from the technical environment and industry trends, to deliver rapid, efficient, seamless and
contin-uous threat detection and remediation capabilities.
Happiest Minds
Happiest Minds enables Digital Transformation for enterprises and technology providers by delivering seamless customer
experience, business efficiency and actionable insights through an integrated set of disruptive technologies: big data
analyt-ics, internet of things, mobility, cloud, security, unified communications, etc. Happiest Minds offers domain centric
solutions applying skills, IPs and functional expertise in IT Services, Product Engineering, Infrastructure Management
and Security. These services have applicability across industry sectors such as retail, consumer packaged goods, ecommerce, banking, insurance, hi-tech, engineering R&D, manufacturing, automotive and travel/transportation/hospitality.
Headquartered in Bangalore, India, Happiest Minds has operations in the US, UK, Singapore, Australia and has secured
$ 52.5 million Series-A funding. Its investors are JPMorgan Private Equity Group, Intel Capital and Ashok Soota.
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