If you haven’t read our 2021 Cybersecurity predictions blog and whitepaper, I recommend that you do. In it, you’ll find one prediction that might be somewhat controversialâthe death of the Security Operations Center (SOC).>
Intelli Go Blog – Jennifer Mitchell
The concept of the traditional SOC is dying off, and in 2021 we will see the broader acceptance and adoption of the idea of a remote SOC driven by the realities of technological development and the necessities imposed by the pandemic. Last March, overnight, the new reality became widespread work-from-home for countless businesses and their workers. Suddenly, the traditional SOCâthose big, NASA-style control centers full of walls of screensâdisbanded. Out of necessity, SOCs are now run from people’s home offices, a spare bedroom, or their kitchen table. Unlike the pandemic, the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) was a foreseen change that would kill the traditional SOC. With the remote SOC’s success putting the lie to the idea that you need to run a traditional SOC to be successful, it allows you to invest in what your real priority should beâpeople. You need to hire the best security professionals and invest in them, not more screens. Freeing up your best and brightest from responding to low-level alerts by automating it away with AI and ML means your team can spend their time investigating unknown threats, doing R&D, and managing/practicing for incidents. We’ve found that this switch has meant analyst morale is better. IntelliGO was uniquely prepared to embrace and lead the move to a remote SOC, given our unique situation preparing for a geographically distributed SOC. But, as I mentioned at the start of this blog, 2021 will see the idea of the traditional SOC dying off more broadly across the industry. The expanded role of AI and ML in threat response and the conditions imposed by the pandemic are working together to usher in the remote SOC era.
Link: https://mdr.intelligonetworks.com/blog/the-traditional-soc-is-dead-long-live-the-remote-soc