The Future of the SOC is âAs-a-Serviceâ>
Security Boulevard – Joe Partlow
A SOC-as-a-service has all the capabilities and tools that physical SOCs have, including continuous monitoring and threat hunting to improve an organizationâs security posture through prevention, detection, analysis, response and triage techniques. The SOC-as-a-service has myriad additional benefits as wellâone of which is cost. A physical SOC can cost millions of dollars to build and an equally exorbitant yearly maintenance cost. Beyond direct costs, staffing, training and turnover all increase the total expense of managing a physical SOC.

While reducing costs, the SOC-as-a-service model is cloud-native and can help modernize cybersecurity, especially to help with scaling the security program. The SOC-as-a-service also works hand-in-hand with the evolving workforce and works quickly and efficiently to adapt to new changes quickly. A unified workbench is a critical element of a best-in-class SOCâitâs what allows security teams to move away from the exhausting âswivel chairâ approach to proactively managing security. The right SOC-as-a-service will enable new capabilities like threat hunting as well as breach and attack simulation to move to a proactive security posture that gets ahead of threats. Be sure to choose a SOC-as-a-service backed by technology-enabled security expertise to augment in-house teams with coverage, new skillsets and community-based protection based on the latest threats hitting other organizations.

Itâs also important to consider the right layer of XDR technology for a SOC-as-a-service to reduce noise and work with customers to focus on the most impactful threats to their organization.
Link: https://securityboulevard.com/2021/11/the-future-of-the-soc-is-as-a-service/