Organizations build a SOC – a dedicated, centralized team of security experts – to effectively detect and respond to advanced threats. However, as SOCs deal with evolving threats and an expanding attack surface, advancements in the stack have not kept pace and analysts are feeling the pain.
Security Operations Centers (SOCs) are the nerve centers of enterprise cybersecurity programs. They should serve a critical function by helping businesses improve their security posture by monitoring, detecting, and analyzing potential cyber threats. But for a number of reasons, today’s SOCs are not doing this effectively.
Security Operations Centers (SOCs) are known as the “nerve center” of enterprise cybersecurity programs; others view them as “war rooms” or “situation rooms.” Regardless of the moniker, one thing is clear: their function is viewed as a critical competency.
Digital transformation is creating rapidly growing volumes of data, leading to new vulnerabilities and attack vectors. At the same time, adversaries are growing increasingly more sophisticated – consider the recent Capital One breach, or the Equifax breach. This combination of factors means SOCs are struggling to fulfill their critical mission of identifying and eliminating threats.
Magic seems to be very popular at the moment. Just look at last week’s Britain’s Got Talent, which featured an improbable number of magicians in its line-up. These included ‘X’, the masked magician who was wearing something that looked suspiciously like an anonymous mask and managed to supposedly hack Instagram. A lot of cyber security technology seems to work like magic, so is this a coincidence? Is ‘X’ a reformed hacker turned stage magician? Spoiler alert: no.
