It’s Time for Your SOC to Level Up
With the growing technology, security operations centers (SOCs) need to leverage better tools – namely artificial intelligence (AI) – in order to manage threats. Setting up an effective SOC has been long recognized, when setting up an enterprise security program, either using in-house staff or a managed security service provider (MSSP).
On average, SOC analysts can only investigate between 20 and 25 incidents every day, which means SOCs are not able to even remotely keep up, even when staffed well. To make matters worse, the attack surface is growing exponentially with the adoption of new and greater amounts of technology.
The rate at which alerts are generated by security information and event management systems (SIEMs) is far above what humans can handle. In fact, 27 percent of SOCs are alerted more than 1 million times per day.
SOCs must implement proactive cyber security strategies in order to actively identify and proactively remediate security gaps to keep an organization and its data safe from threat actors before they can attack.
SOC understand the risk of a particular indicator of compromise (IOC) by leveraging context that comes from patch state or the configuration of the systems. AI is helping your people do this complex calculation using specialized algorithms and huge computational power.
