Security Operations Centre - SOC
What is it?
A SOC is a dedicated team and facility responsible for monitoring, detecting, analysing, and responding to cybersecurity incidents. It acts as the nerve centre for an organisation’s cybersecurity efforts.
Here's how it works:
A SOC typically operates 24/7 and uses a combination of technology, processes, and people to protect digital assets.
Here’s how it functions:
- Monitoring & Detection – Uses tools like SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) to collect and analyse data from across the network. Monitors endpoints, servers, firewalls, and other systems for suspicious activity.
- Incident Response – When a threat is detected, the SOC investigates and responds to contain and mitigate the impact. May involve isolating affected systems, removing malware, or blocking malicious IPs.
- Threat Intelligence – Continuously gathers and analyses threat data from internal and external sources. Helps anticipate and prepare for emerging threats.
- Reporting & Compliance – Generates reports for stakeholders and ensures compliance with regulations like GDPR, HIPAA, or ISO standards.
- Forensics & Root Cause Analysis – After an incident, the SOC performs deep analysis to understand how it happened and how to prevent recurrence.
Benefits of Having a SOC:
- Real-Time Threat Detection – Immediate identification and response to threats reduces potential damage.
- Centralised Security Management – Streamlines security operations and improves coordination across departments.
- Improved Incident Response – Faster and more effective handling of security breaches.
- Regulatory Compliance – Helps meet legal and industry standards for data protection.
- Continuous Monitoring – Ensures security coverage around the clock, even during off-hours.
- Enhanced Visibility – Provides a clear view of the organization’s security posture.
- Cost Efficiency – Prevents costly breaches and reduces downtime.
Why do companies outsource the SOC?
For SME’s, having an internal dedicated SOC is an expensive proposition and can strain budgets that are already struggling to plug gaps in technology and provide continuous coverage outside of business hours. This is exacerbated by the scarcity of cyber professionals – not just in the UK but globally – with SMEs competing for resource expertise fuelling soaring remuneration costs.
Kyocera Cyber has invested in cutting edge technology, our AI driven, hyper-automated SOC, automates most Tier 1 alerts and offers significant benefits for SMEs:
- Continuous, round-the-clock threat detection and incident resolution.
- Avoids the significant costs associated with hiring, training, and retaining full-time expert cybersecurity staff.
- Eliminates the need for expensive security infrastructure, tools, applications and software licensing.
- Predictable pricing packages and leading SLAs right sized to fit your risk profile.
- Experienced cybersecurity analysts with diverse skill sets and specialised knowledge.
- Ability to identify and respond to emerging threats faster.
- Our AI hyper-automated SOC manages high volumes of alerts, which frees up our human analysts to focus on proactive threat hunting.
- Easily scale services up or down to match your business’s evolving needs and growth.
- Allows your business to focus on what you do best such as strategic, revenue-generating activities.
- Remain compliant with regulations and privacy laws.