Secure your organization’s critical data and increase your bottom line through Vertex’s Managed Security Operations Centre (SOC) Services

Over the last two years, cybersecurity has seen a tectonic upheaval as digital transformation efforts have been accelerated, the workforce has become more diverse, and threats have continued to evolve. Security teams are under looming pressure to neutralize more threats with the same number of resources as firms across industries face new cybersecurity concerns.

Many security teams are stretched too thin to identify genuine threats quickly due to the never-ending deluge of warnings and vast volumes of log data to comb through daily. As a result, businesses must make updating their Security Operations Centers (SOC) a top priority.

Modernizing the SOC plan involves directing resources into boosting security maturity and cybersecurity, with the goal of lowering the organization’s total risk. The best plan must be scalable enough to handle the changing and broad spectrum of security risks while also being adapted to the company’s specific requirements. As a consequence, threat detection and response across the whole environment has improved, as has visibility and team silos.

Although each company’s route to SOC transformation is unique, there are a few critical aspects that all businesses should keep in mind when getting started. Let us look at a few of those in detail.

Aligning Security Measures with Business Objectives.

Beginning the process by aligning security priorities with corporate objectives. This stage is critical because it stops businesses from simply relying on technology. Budget, industry-specific rules and reporting requirements, and the company’s general risk tolerance are all factors to consider while developing these objectives.

Considering this isn’t a one-and-done procedure, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) must maintain direct contact with the CEO and other top management officials to guarantee ongoing alignment. CISOs must be realistic about the biggest possible dangers to the firm when engaging with leadership about what is needed for SOC modernization and why, without resorting to negative tactics like spreading fear of threats.

Team Vertex can help you align your corporate objectives with necessary security measures required to setup an SOC so your firm is prepared in the event of a cyber threat.

Establishing a Security Readiness Standard

Following the establishment of essential business goals with executive participation, the next stage in improving the overall security measure is to examine the SOC’s strengths and weaknesses. Security operations should be viewed as a crucial business function by companies. The operational efficacy of the SOC must be measured, just like any other critical business component, by examining which key performance indicators (KPIs) and service-level agreements (SLAs) are being satisfied.

This standard offers a clear image of the most critical use cases as well as any gaps in the cybersecurity strategy that need to be addressed. It might be difficult to figure out how to make this list at first. However, security teams will have a clearer view of where opportunities to develop their operations exist if they measure against metrics like mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to respond (MTTR) to cyber-attacks.

Team Vertex’s proficient team of analysts can help you analyze and identify the potential gaps in the system and examine the above-mentioned KPIs and SLAs.

Incorporating a Cybersecurity Framework

Now it is time to map an operating framework to connect your strategy with particular tactics, techniques, and procedures after you have clearly determined the most important gaps and set timescales and personnel needs. By employing these constantly developing libraries of threat actor tactics, security teams may pinpoint the business’s largest possible threats and assess their protection priorities carefully.

Another paradigm to consider is zero trust. Rather than focusing on the corporate perimeter, it stresses an identity-centric paradigm that focuses on safeguarding resources (such as data, identities, and services) regardless of where they are located.

Strengthen your defense by beefing up your SOC.

The SOC is at the heart of a company’s offensive and defensive strategies against possible attackers. Organizations that do not have the capability to allocate a function or form an in-house team to handle SOC must resort to third party outsourced solutions. Vertex can be that third-party SOC solutions provider by providing an outsourced security operations center, or managed SOC.

This permits your security logs to be aggregated into a separate location where our experienced team can examine them and identify the activities necessary to maintain your organization’s security infrastructure and remediate any incidents. Penetration testing, gap analysis, and better compliance are also available. Although no single solution can cure all your security issues, having all of the necessary components in place will help your firm weather the next digital storm, regardless of its source.